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WordPress Toronto Community Picnic on May 27 #wp15

May 8, 2018April 29, 2018 by Alex Sirota

WordPress will be 15th years old this May 27th, 2018! #wp15 On Sunday, May 27th, we’re planning a global event celebrating the WordPress 15th Anniversary with WordPress community groups around the world. In Toronto we will have a family picnic in High Park, downtown and accessible. You are invited! We’ll meet at the location on … Read more

WordPress Toronto North – Let’s Fix Your Site #7

September 14, 2018April 22, 2018 by Alex Sirota

On the tail end of the worst mid-April snowstorm the GTA had ever seen, 20 of us gathered at the North York Civic Centre for our monthly WordPress meetup: Let’s fix your site #7! We had 50 people who RSVP’d with several on the wait-list, but the weather won out over some attendee’s plans. The … Read more

Gutenberg for developers: WordPress Weekend for March 2018

March 24, 2018 by Andy

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 Toronto North – Let’s Fix Your Site #6

September 14, 2018March 21, 2018 by Alex Sirota

We met on Monday March 19, 2018 at the North York Civic Centre. It was our largest “Let’s Fix Your Site” meetup yet with 25 people in attendance, over 80% who RSVPd showed up at the door! We skipped the introductions to conserve time for attendees fixes. We began with discussion on WP’s growth in … Read more

WordPress Toronto North – Let’s Fix Your Site #5

February 23, 2018 by Alex Sirota

On Tuesday February 20, the WordPress Toronto North York meetup moved our location to the North York Civic Centre off the North York Centre subway stop. We had a record number of attendees: 24 people attended the meet-up; 8 of our core group and 16 new members. That’s 80% of the RSVPs on the meetup! … Read more

On-Site SEO: WordPress Weekend for February 2018

February 17, 2018 by Andy

This month’s WordPress Weekend meetup covered on-site SEO. Many thanks to David Michaels for presenting and to Eric Ayache of Guaranteed SEO for dropping in to share some expertise.

Here’s a quick recap of what we covered during the meetup.

WordPress Weekend: January 2018

February 2, 2018January 29, 2018 by Andy

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?)

WordPress MultiPurpose Themes + PageBuilders: A WP Visual Development Revolution

September 14, 2018January 19, 2018 by Jacques Surveyer

Like many of my fellow WordPress Developers, I do not use the WP Visual Editor but rather employ one of the top 6 WP PageBuilders. There are five primary reasons for this. First,the Tiny MCE WP editor no longer delivers WYSIWYG development. Many shortcodes and full width pages defeat the tool; Second, PageBuilder carry along … Read more

Admitting To Being A WordPress Developer Reluctantly

January 19, 2018January 18, 2018 by Jacques Surveyer

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 #4

January 17, 2018 by Alex Sirota

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