WordPress London Meetup – July 2018

26th July 2018

18:30

This months #WPLDN will feature an Open Q&A session during which you’ll be able to bring your WordPress related questions for the team to work through. We’ll also be hearing about how to improve our development workflow with a starter theme.

Speakers

Dan Maby

Dan is a director at Blue 37 – a WordPress specialist agency. He’s also the founder & trustee of WP&UP – a charity that supports & promotes positive mental health within the WordPress community.

You’ll find him organising WordCamps and Meetups throughout the UK. He thrives on business development and project management, as well as having a passion for seeing success within others.

Adam Tomat

Lead developer at Rareloop – The Digital Product Studio. Advocate for progressive enhancement, accessibility, collaboration, open-source and making code easy to change.

I’m Full-Stack and have used WordPress for several years, and always been frustrated at how difficult some WP sites are to change. So we’ve spent a lot of time bringing Laravel-esk features to WP.

Sponsors

Bibblio
Plesk
SiteGround
Weglot
WP Engine
Yoti

Organisers

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.

Diane Wallace

Diane is a freelance WordPress Theme and plugin developer. She specialises in bespoke WordPress themes and is passionate about creating beautiful, responsive, user friendly designs.

Diane loves developing with WordPress and being part of the amazing, inclusive and friendly WordPress community.

Within the WordCamp London organisation, Diane is responsible for speakers.

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.

Paul Smart

I am a freelance website designer, developer and consultant with strong marketing skills; I work with individuals and businesses to develop your online presence.