WordPress London Meetup – June 2017

29th June 2017

18:30

We’re talking workflows with Page Builders and ORM frameworks at the June WordPress London Meetup!

The WordPress London Meetup is an opportunity to meet friendly, like-minded WordPress developers, designers, users and business owners.

We are currently looking for people to join the team that bring the WordPress London meetup together.  If you’re interested in learning more about what we do and how you can help, then contact us for a chat.

Speakers

Doug Belchamber

Doug is a WordPress developer based in South London, who’s terrible at talking about himself in the 3rd person. He runs Smarter Digital, a small WordPress development company, Fuelled as a freelance technical marketer and blogs infrequently at WP Developers.

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.

Sponsors

SiteGround
WP Engine

Organisers

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.

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.