WordPress London Meetup – May 2018

31st May 2018

18:30

We’re talking GDPR, VueJS, Nuxt, REST API and of course the 15th anniversary of WordPress! It’s a busy month again at WPLDN.

**SAY HELLO**
We’re very pleased to welcome two new co-organisers to the WPLDN team: Diane Wallace and Paul Smart. Both are long-time attendees and bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the events!

**NEW(ish) VENUE**
We’re in our new(ish) venue again this month (our 3rd month here). 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

Anthony Budd

Anthony Budd is a WordPress expert with 6 years of experience, 1 premium plugin and 5 open source projects built to give WordPress application-like functionality: WP_Model, WP_AJAX, WP_Route, WP_Mail and WP_Cron. He has 3 years of experience with Laravel building MVPs, Applications and APIs. He is a certified AWS Practitioner, with 3 years of experience working with AWS.

Anthony is a self-employed IT / Business Consultant and PHP developer. Currently available for hire.

Alessandro Giordo

Alessandro is a passionate Frontend Web Developer and Videomaker with experience in Vuejs, AI and WordPress.

He works for creative agencies and digital and across a wide variety of industries.

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.

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.

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.