As a developer specializing in WordPress websites, a WordCamp multi-time presenter and WP Toronto Meetup organizer., you would think I would be proud to acknowledge being a WordPress developer. Five years ago, yes. But at the start of 2018, not so much. What? Not aligning yourself with the CMS system that has 29.3% of the … Read more
On this snowy Monday afternoon we had 9 people show up for our Fix Your Site #4 meeting. We had 3 new members attend, one returning member and 5 of us from our core group including Alex and Dan who provided the lion’s share of expertise when fixing people’s site. We were happy to … Read more
We had eight people turn-out on this last week before the holidays and with resident experts on vacation, we turned to Jeremy Choi from WPUP.CO to provide answers to our group. Thanks Jeremy for your support and offers to follow-up on the more complicated issues. In attendance on Monday was Todd, who runs the sports … Read more
We had a great roundtable with many new members. Jeremy Choi of wpup.co joined us as the sponsor of the meet-up so we had lots of drinks and goodies to enjoy. Thank you Jeremy for sponsoring our North meetup. If you need small WordPress fixes, backups, security & performance at a low monthly cost – wpup.co … Read more
Gutenberg continues to create ripples and reactions among the WordPress community. And this session lead by Andy McIlwain at Kobayashi Online with a full turnout was no exception. Here is the current rating of the Gutenberg plugin at WordPress.org as of Nov 19th 2017: I suspect if a rating were taken of Gutenberg among the 20+ … Read more
In early June of this year, WP’s Gutenberg became available as a beta plugin for WordPress users to try out which we faithfully did. This review gives some samples of editing in Gutenberg. Our tests found this first beta to fall well short of not only popular PageBuilders like BeaverBuilder, Divi and Elementor but also … Read more
It’s been a while since we’ve done a group-wide survey. With the year coming to a close and WordCamp Toronto 2017 behind us, now seems like the perfect time to do one. 🙂 We’re hoping to get a feel for where everyone’s at. This includes understanding your level of WordPress experience and identifying your needs … Read more
WP Themes Trends Andy McIlwain at WPMeetup East had a host of speakers on the topic of most useful WordPress themes. And the common element among all the speakers was the use of various strong Pagebuilders combined with savvy Multipurpose themes. This is the state of the art for Frontend Development in WordPress. The MultiPurpose … Read more
Over the last year, the WPToronto North meetup has experimented with various types of meetings. We’ve done site reviews, plugin presentations and even walked through Lynda.com sessions. We assembled a nice core of 5-8 people who’d come out every third Wednesday of each month from 3-5pm to share in some WordPress camaraderie. But over the … Read more
Our WPToronto East meetup for September 2017 was a roundtable show n’ tell about some of our favourite plugins. Thanks to everyone who submitted plugins to share! This makes an excellent starting point for our Plugins resource page. Working with content Wonder Portfolio Grid (Freemium) Peg was looking for a portfolio gallery plugin that allowed … Read more