The following is a synopsis of the discussions and fixes we had at our last North York Meetup at the North York Civic Centre in February: Due to many bookings during the short week of Family Day holiday we were only able to reserve a boardroom on the Thursday at 6pm which brought out a … Read more
You may know I have been organizing the North York WP Meetup for WP Toronto for three years but what you may not know is that I commute from Brampton to do it! I realized pretty quickly when people from as far away as Hamilton and Burlington were in attendance in a North York Meetup … Read more
This September’s North York ‘fix-your-site’ Meetup had a great turn out of new and old faces with over 35 people RSVPing and over 20 WP’ers participating. Apologies for these notes being late; Our WPToronto.com organizing team has our experts review all posts for accuracy before they get to you and I have been busy trying to … Read more
We had a good turn-out of over 20 people at our monthly August Meetup. Drew Mathers led the session and our group, that was now full of new faces, really stepped up to help answer questions and offer suggestions. It’s great to see that when our resident experts are away that our community comes through … Read more
The West End Meetup was moved into a new room instead of the palatial City Council Chambers at Etobicoke Civic Centre. Unfortunately, your organizer was so busy figuring out how to work the electronics in the Main Lounge, he neglected to post a notice that the meeting had been moved to the front of the … Read more
Last Monday 20 of us met at the NYCC (North York Civic Centre) for our monthly Meetup even though the rain knocked out traffic lights and reduced Yonge street to one lane in each direction. But with the word spreading that we offer free expert advice and fixes plus the underground entrances from the subway, … Read more
Okay what is a WordPress SiteBuilder? Shhh don’t tell anyone but this is the potent combo of a Multilayout Theme [think free Astra, Generate Press, OceanWP] with a top-end PageBuilder [like the free BeaverBuilder lite, Elementor or VisualComposer.io]. These combo tools have created a new category of WordPress Frontend UI development- the WordPress SiteBuilder. This … Read more
This past Monday we held another “Let’s Fix Your Site” clinic at our North York meetup. The meetup is held on the 3rd Monday afternoon of every month at the North York Civic Centre. The exact time and room is announced on our Meetup page 3 weeks prior as per City scheduling requirements. I lost … Read more
Full disclosure: None of the following is legal advice. This is meant to prompt conversation within our community about the implications of GDPR. What is GDPR? GDPR (“General Data Protection Regulation”) kicked in on May 25th in the European Union. It’s a law intended to protect EU citizens by regulating the processing, transfer, and storage … Read more
The long weekend pushed our regular 3rd Monday of each month Meetup to Tuesday the 22nd and we had 18 people show up at North York Civic Centre for the 5-7pm Fix your Site clinic. Dan started off with a presentation on where to get free stock images for use on your site. The slide … Read more