WordPress London Meetup – Nov. 2018

29th November 2018

18:30

Join us for the last formal WordPress London meetup of 2018. We’ll be looking at marketing our WordPress focused businesses, as well as how we transition into a life in a Gutenberg world.

Speakers

Alex Denning

Alex Denning is the Founder of Ellipsis Marketing, a marketing agency for WordPress businesses. He’s also the co-author of MasterWP.co, a weekly newsletter for WordPress professionals. Alex lives in Oxford and is a keen runner, photographer, and traveler.

Mark Wilkinson

Mark is a freelance WordPress developer working from home in Lancashire and a former secondary school teacher of Computing. He builds both large and small WordPress sites for clients and agencies across the UK and blogs about WordPress at markwilkinson.me. Mark is particularly interested in using WordPress in different ways, getting away from a CMS or blog.

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.