The final ‘formal’ WordPress London Meetup for 2017. We’ll be looking at the discovery stage, our favourite plugins & scaling WordPress.
Speakers
Babs (or Barbara – whatever suits…) discovered WordPress in 2008 and has helped small business owners and organisations make the most of WP for their blogs and websites ever since.
Also known as The Blogmistress, she loves enabling people to work with WordPress themselves and to get blogging!
Within the WordCamp London 2018 team, Babs is Ana’s deputy and again lead organiser for the wonderful Volunteers.
Mike runs Primary Image, based in Westcliff-on-Sea in Essex, and designs, supports, and hosts WordPress websites for clients. Primary Image specialises in the transport sector, with Mike creating websites for Transport for London, National Express, and Network Rail, amongst many others.
Craig is a Full-Stack Developer working on internal and external products for Ayima, Digital Marketing Agency in London. He is also the co-organiser of PHP London. https://www.meetup.com/phplondon/
Sponsors
Organisers
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.
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 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.
