WordPress Toronto Community Picnic on May 27 #wp15

WordPress tuns 15!

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

Gutenberg for developers: WordPress Weekend for March 2018

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

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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WordPress MultiPurpose Themes + PageBuilders: A WP Visual Development Revolution

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

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