Admitting To Being A WordPress Developer Reluctantly

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

RECAP: WP Toronto North – Let’s Fix Your Site #2

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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

WP East Meetup About Gutenberg

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

Gutenberg Posts At November 1st

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

2017 Members Survey

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

An Informative WP East Session on Themes

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

WPToronto North: Let’s Fix Your WordPress Site!

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

WPToronto East: Plugin Showcase

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