WordPress London Meetup – April 2018

26th April 2018

18:30

This month we’re looking at what it takes to organise a WordCamp, events that are held by and for the WordPress community. We’ll also be taking a look at the WP-CLI and how you can manage sites, plugins and themes via the command line.

**NEW PODCAST & VENUE**

#WPLDN has a new Podcast. Hear from this month’s speakers and find out more about what to expect at the event: https://www.wpldn.uk/podcast/1-organising-a-wordcamp-an-intro-to-wp-cli

We’re in our new venue again this month. Yes, the WordPress London Meetup has moved to a new home. We’re pleased to be partnering with Cloudflare and using their meeting space for #WPLDN events. This is the building you’ll be looking for: https://goo.gl/maps/tjttZSvgnKt There will be a slightly lower number of space available for attendees, so if for whatever reason you can’t join us, please do free up your space.

Speakers

Ana Silva

Ana is a Communications Manager at Human Made where she works on marketing, brand management, publicity and events. Born in Lisbon, raised in London and often found in coffee shop corners reading old poetry books.

John Blackbourn

John Blackbourn is one of the core developers of WordPress, and he’s been building on and working with the platform for over twelve years. He’s a member of the WordPress security team, and was the release lead for WordPress 4.1.

John enjoys sharing his knowledge with others at WordCamps, meetups, and other tech events.

Sponsors

Bibblio
Plesk
SiteGround
Weglot
WP Engine
Yoti

Organisers

Annabelle Woodger

Annabelle is a relative newcomer to the WordPress community, but since discovering how welcoming it is, she hasn’t looked back!  She originally began translating WordPress into en_GB back in September 2016, quickly demonstrating her abilities and impressing the existing GTE team, becoming a General Translation Editor that same month.

A huge language nerd, she is currently learning Japanese (having passed the JLPT N5 in Dec 2016, now working towards N4 for Dec 2017), and reading as much as she can on linguistics and poetry. When not doing language-based activities, you can find her doing photography, being passionate about disability rights, and babbling excitedly about unicorns on Twitter.

Dan Maby

Dan is a director at blue 37. He thrives on business development and project management, as well as having a passion for productivity & marketing.  He’s the founder of WP&UP, a charity supporting the WordPress community’s mental, physical, business and code health.   You’ll also find him organising WordPress focused events including #wpldn#wpEssex & #wpSuffolk.

Gary Jones

Gary Jones is a UK-based WordPress Engineer, educator, code consultant, and proud father of twins. Driven by a passion for excellence, he creates elegant WordPress plugins and theme solutions for clients, and provides services, including code audits, for other designers and developers. He has worked on projects for SiteGround, Yoast, StudioPress, Web Savvy Marketing, Daniels Trading, Rolls-Royce and many smaller design and development agencies and individuals.

Gary is a key contributor to the Genesis Framework and has contributed to most major branches of WordPress Core since 3.3. He has contributed to many open source projects in the community, and is a co-host on the UK Genesis podcast.

A former teacher in schools and prisons, Gary’s goal is to educate WordPress professionals on how they can improve their code. His motto is knowledge is power.