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Countdown: just 2 weeks until WordCamp Bristol

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We are just a fortnight away from the inaugural WordCamp Bristol!

Join us on 13-14 May 2017 at the Watershed on Bristol Harbourside to enjoy a weekend of insightful talks and networking with friendly WordPress users, developers and designers from across the UK and all over the world.

Tickets are selling fast and we only have a handful left. We recommend you reserve yours today to avoid disappointment – we expect to sell out! Find out who else will be attending here.

Our speakers are listed online and the schedule is now available. Talks cover practical and technical advice, business insight, content writing, and valuable experience from the WordPress community. On each day of the two day event, there are two parallel streams of topics for you to choose between. You can learn more about the talks by visiting our sessions page.

During the event, you can also visit the exhibition to meet our generous sponsors. Their support has helped to make WordCamp Bristol a reality because we were able to keep the ticket price low and ensure the event remained inclusive and accessible for all.

Thanks to our awesome volunteer team, we are setting up a Happiness Bar. This is a place for any WordPress related questions or queries, however simple or complex. Attendees are also welcome to join in and provide support, review code and give back to the community.

In addition to a packed schedule, we’re hosting an after-party on Saturday evening. This will take place at the Watershed – i.e. the same location as the event, so you’re not wandering round a strange city trying to find a different venue.

Key information about travel and accommodation can be found on our Visiting Bristol page, and our team of volunteers will be able to give a helping hand for anyone unfamiliar with the city. Get in touch for more information.

We’ll be posting regular news and updates on our Twitter account. Follow us: @wordcampbristol and join the conversation: #WCBRS 

Schedule for WordCamp Bristol

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The organisers of WordCamp Bristol are delighted to announce that the schedule has just been published.

We have a fantastic range of speakers presenting a diverse selection of talks over two tracks and two days.

WordCamp Bristol will be held over the weekend of 13/14 May 2017.

Check out the schedule: https://2017.bristol.wordcamp.org/schedule/

Tickets are still available: https://2017.bristol.wordcamp.org/tickets/

We hope to see you there!

WordPress Bristol – Beginners Night: How to install WordPress and How to create your own theme

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This month is a beginner’s themed night and will cover two introductory topics – how to set your first WordPress website up and an introduction to creating bespoke WordPress themes. As always there will be plenty of chance to ask questions, discuss solutions and network with a wide range of WordPress users, from beginner to expert.

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Getting Started with WordPress
Martin Vines – Self Employed Web Developer and IT Support at Martin’s HelpDesk

For complete beginners, Martin will explain the steps involved in getting your first WordPress site up and running, based on his own experience. He will cover:

* hosting

* installing the WordPress files

* tools (and skills) needed to get a web site up and running

Level: Beginner

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Creating bespoke themes – a beginners guide
David James – Designer and WordPress developer

If you’re fed up of tweaking off the shelf themes to make them fit your design and want to start creating your own, David will cover the basics of what’s needed to turn your HTML and CSS files into a working WordPress theme

Level: Beginner/Intermediate (be prepared to talk about code – HTML and CSS)

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You’ll be welcomed on arrival by our friendly and knowledgable volunteers where you can grab your name badge and get settled in. We aim to get started at around 7pm so give yourself plenty of time to get a drink as the bar downstairs can get busy.

We usually start the night off with some updates about what’s happening in the local and national WordPress community and members are welcome to add their own update. Just speak to one of the organisers before we start if you’d like to say or ask something.

After the first talk we take a break before our second talk. Following that if you want to stick around a few of us usually hang around for another drink and chat.

We will be upstairs in the function room, here is a handy video showing you how to get there…

https://www.instagram.com/p/BGy9lM_wC_w/

WordPress Bristol – WooCommerce and Building complex layouts using CSS’s flexbox – April 4th

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This month we have arranged two speakers to cover two very different topics to do with WordPress. First up we’ll be talking about WooCommerce, one of WordPress’s most popular e-commerce plug-ins. Following that we’ll cover how to use the flexbox features in CSS to build more complex layouts for your pages.

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WooCommerce – from idea to sale in 30 mins
Ronald Gijsel – Web Designer at Webbees

Ronald has several years of experience with WooCommerce, with around 25 WooCommerce stores created/managed/customised plus many clients trained in managing their WooCommerce site.

In this talk, Ronald will touch on the basics of WooCommerce from installation to making the most of the standard settings, plus some extra tips on setting up WooCommerce including:

• Ideas, Planning and Installation

• What are Product types, Attributes and Variations?

• Postage and Shipping Classes

• Checkout and Payment Status’  Customisation, shortcodes, UX improvements, tracking settings on Analytics

• Q&A

Level: Beginner +

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Building complex layouts using CSS’s flexbox
Hannah Smith – Multi-skilled tech freelancer in Bristol

Ever wondered how to go about making beautiful multi-columned theme templates? In years gone by, this was really hard to achieve – you needed to be a CSS ninja to get great results across all browsers. These days, us mere mortals can use the power of CSS’s flexbox to make great layouts that work in all supported browsers.

In this talk, Hannah will cover:

• The basics of how to use CSS flexbox

• Different ways of using it in your WordPress site

• How to change your layout according to the size of device it’s being viewed on (responsive layouts)

Level: Intermediate + (we will be talking about code)

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You’ll be welcomed on arrival by our friendly and knowledgable volunteers where you can grab your name badge and get settled in. We aim to get started at around 7pm so give yourself plenty of time to get a drink as the bar downstairs can get busy.

We usually start the night off with some updates about what’s happening in the local and national WordPress community and members are welcome to add their own update. Just speak to one of the organisers before we start if you’d like to say something.

After the first talk we take a break before our second talk. Following that if you want to stick around a few of us usually hang around for another drink and chat.

We will be upstairs in the function room, here is a handy video showing you how to get there…

https://www.instagram.com/p/BGy9lM_wC_w/

WordPress Bristol – Building a plugin as a business and speeding up WordPress – 7th March

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This month we have two talks: Building a plugin as a business by Jack McConnell and Speeding up WordPress by our very own Simon Pollard. They should be two interesting topics in which you’re sure to learn a lot about WordPress.

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Running a WordPress Plugin as a Side Business
Jack McConnell – Web Designer & Front-end Developer at Made with Fuel

In my talk I’ll cover the following subjects:

• Giving Back to WordPress
• Plugin Idea, Research, Roadmap
• Providing Excellent Support (and dealing with cross people)
• Creating a Website for the Plugin
• Documentation
• Automation
• Revising Readme / Website Wording
• Releasing & Pricing Add-ons
• Transparency Reports

Level: Intermediate

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Speeding up WordPress
Simon Pollard – Lead Web Developer at SHIFT Active Media

I’ll be looking at ways to speed up your WordPress site and reduce load times for pages. I’ll cover things like minification of css and javascript, caching and CDNs (Content Delivery Networks). Believe it or not I will actually recommend some plugins as well!

Level: Beginner / Intermediate

Building a plugin as a business and speeding up WordPress

Tuesday, Mar 7, 2017, 6:30 PM

Famous Royal Navy Volunteer
17-18 King Street Bristol BS1 4EF, GB

32 WordPeople Went

This month we have two talks: Building a plugin as a business by Jack McConnell and Speeding up WordPress by our very own Simon Pollard. They should be two interesting topics in which you’re sure to learn a lot about WordPress.————————————Running a WordPress Plugin as a Side Business Jack McConnell – Web Designer & Front-e…

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WordCamp Bristol 2017

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The WordPress Bristol ship

Ahoy there me hearties! We would love to welcome you aboard the good ship WordCamp Bristol as we set off on our maiden voyage.

Don’t be a landlubber, splice the mainbrace and come join us in sailing the seas of WordPress for an entire weekend.

We’re all gathering harbourside in the Watershed Media Centre over the weekend of 13/14 May 2017.

Keep a weatherly eye on our news feed, or follow us on Twitter @wordcampbristol for a crows nest view of all the developments leading up to launch.

See you there!

Bournemouth WordPress meetup – Thurs. 23rd Feb. 2017

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The next WordPress Bournemouth Meetup is on Thursday 23rd February at our usual venue, Box44 in Bournemouth.

This month we have not one, not two but three talks! All shortish lightning talks with a varied set of topics.

Accessibility presented by Rich Senior.

Talk on talks presented by Chris Sherry.

This is a short talk about the tips and advice Chris has picked up over the last couple of years about speaking, and specifically creating slidedecks for talks.

Chris is a Web Application Engineer at 3 SIDED CUBE in Bournemouth and regular contributor to PHPDorset.

WordPress with Docker and Bedrock presented by Michael Craddock.

A quick run through on how Michael set up a Docker development environment using the Bedrock boilerplate for WordPress and some of the pros and cons.

Michael is a Front End Developer at Redweb working mostly with Drupal (gasp!) but loves learning new things and sharing those things with others.

Pizza and drinks supplied by our sponsors.

  • 6.30pm – Doors Open
  • 6.45pm – Pizza
  • 7.15pm – Talks

WordPress Bournemouth is an informal and friendly meet up for WordPress users, enthusiasts, and professionals. An opportunity to share and learn with WordPressers from in and around the Bournemouth area.

This event is open to all. From people who are wanting to learn more about the world’s most popular content management system, to people who make their living with WordPress.

Follow #wpbournemouth and @WPBournemouth on Twitter for all the latest. Have a talk you’d like to present? We’d love to hear from you.

WordPress Bournemouth February Meetup

Thursday, Feb 23, 2017, 6:30 PM

Location details are available to members only.

19 Members Went

This month we have not one, not two but three talks! All shortish lightning talks with a varied set of topics.The low hanging fruit of accessibility presented by Rich Senior.Talk on talks presented by Chris Sherry.This is a short talk about the tips and advice Chris has picked up over the last couple of years about speaking, and specifically cre…

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Bournemouth WordPress meetup – Thurs. 26th Jan. 2017

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The next WordPress Bournemouth Meetup is on Thursday 26th January at our usual venue, Box44 in Bournemouth.

Happy New Year everyone! December’s meetup was a great insight into how Chris runs his WordPress sites, and we had crackers! 🎉

This month we are back to having a lightning talk and a main talk, as well as pizza and drinks supplied by our sponsors. Our main talk is a change to the previously advertised talk on freelancing.

WP-CLI – Managing WordPress on the Command Line

WP-CLI’s goal is to provide a command-line interface for any action you might want to perform in the WordPress admin. This short talk will show you the power of WP-CLI and some of the things you can do with it.

Lightning Talk presented by Iain Poulson. Iain is a developer working with Delicious Brains, building WordPress plugins and applications.

Are WordPress Developers Doing Enough Marketing?

It is common that experts in one field, such as WordPress, aren’t doing enough to market their products or themselves. Marketing your product can have some huge benefits, besides the obvious hope that more people will buy it.

For example, marketing your product can:

  • Make you look like an expert in the field.
  • Make your product look more credible.
  • Give you a larger audience for the next product you release.

Presented by Ben Levy. Ben teaches smaller businesses how to maximise their marketing efforts, using focused physical seminars and managed marketing services.

Pizza and drinks supplied by our sponsors. 

  • 6.30pm – Doors Open
  • 6.45pm – Pizza
  • 7.15pm – Talks

WordPress Bournemouth is an informal and friendly meet up for WordPress users, enthusiasts, and professionals. An opportunity to share and learn with WordPressers from in and around the Bournemouth area.

This event is open to all. From people who are wanting to learn more about the world’s most popular content management system, to people who make their living with WordPress.

Follow #wpbournemouth and @WPBournemouth on Twitter for all the latest.  Have a talk you’d like to present?  We’d love to hear from you.

 

WordPress Bournemouth January Meetup

Thursday, Jan 26, 2017, 6:30 PM

Location details are available to members only.

20 Members Went

Happy New Year everyone! December’s meetup was a great insight into how Chris runs his WordPress sites, and we had crackers! 🎉This month we are back to having a lightning talk and a main talk, as well as pizza and drinks supplied by our sponsors. Our main talk is a change to the previously advertised talk on freelancing.WP-CLI – Managing WordPres…

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