Andy

Andy McIlwain has been a WordPress advocate since 2007, co-organizing WPToronto since 2011. He wrangles content and community projects at GoDaddy. Connect with Andy on his blog, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

Gutenberg for developers: WordPress Weekend for March 2018

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We shifted gears this month by taking a developer-centric look at the new Gutenberg editor. Half of the session was spent watching clips of Morten Rand-Hendriksen’s talk from WordCamp US 2017 and Zac Gordon’s intro to Gutenberg development course. The other half of the session was group discussion. Here are some of the major takeaways … Read more

WordPress Weekend: January 2018

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Longtime WPToronto members may recall that we used to host afternoon meetups on the second or third Saturday of every month.

Our first regular venue was at the back of Pauper’s Pub near Bloor & Bathurst. As the group grew, we migrated to other venues like the Toronto Public Library.

In the years since then our group has continued to grow. We have more organizers, more members, and more events than ever before. And now that we’re officially part of the global WordPress Meetup chapter program, we expect there to be more new faces showing up.

With that in mind, we’ve rebooted the weekend WordPress series, creatively dubbed “WordPress Weekend”. (Original, right?)

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2017 Members Survey

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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

WPToronto East: Plugin Showcase

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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

WPToronto East: Building Landing Pages in WordPress

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July’s WPToronto East meetup followed up on June’s conversation about social media advertising. We discussed the purpose of landing pages, the features of landing pages, and plugins + tools that help us create landing pages in WordPress. These are the takeaways from our conversation: What’s the purpose of a landing page? People make the mistake … Read more

WPToronto East: Social Media Advertising

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This month the WPToronto East crew got together to discuss social media advertising. Facebook was (unsurprisingly) a big focus of the conversation, though we did touch on Pinterest and LinkedIn as well. Here’s a look at what we discussed. Next month we’ll be talking about using WordPress to build landing pages, the destination of the … Read more

WordPress News Headlines: March 8, 2017

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In years gone by we’d send out an email via Meetup.com with a roundup of recent WordPress news headlines worth checking out. We’re rebooting that series on the blog. Headlines below! This week in the news: We’ve got a WordPress security release; improvements for WordPress.com and Jetpack users; Clef shuts down; Ninja Forms adds Recurly; … Read more