Speaker: Tim Nash
So you’ve been to the security, that other security talk and that really scary one. You followed the advice, and you are feeling confident. Perhaps you have never been to a security talk let alone scary one but feel its time to at least find out how you stand. In this talk, Tim is going to go through how to run a basic penetration test of a WordPress website. From start to finish, looking at scope, research, execution, and remediation. He will be demonstrating tools to use and processes to follow, so you can see how secure your site is or isn’t.
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Testing the fortifications – Hack Yourself
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Remote Working – Ask me anything
COVID has made many of us remote workers. Some of us have already been remote working, and for ...
Marketing your WordPress product or service
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Tips on how to reduce the carbon emissions of your WordPress website
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Introduction To BigCommerce for WordPress
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Nine ways to make WordPress better with AI
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How I improved my sleep patterns with WordPress
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Migrating a site to and from WordPress
When should you move a site from one platform to another? If you do, how should you go ...
The future of WordPress (might be) headless
For a long while WordPress has been perceived by developers as an unexciting, legacy platform. But things are ...
Productivity In Copy Creation: Blogs, Social Media & More
Ever find yourself struggling to write your own copy, or getting it from your clients? Have you been ...
Being your best self under pressure
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Scaling Effectively with WordPress
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4.5 ways to sell more with WooCommerce
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Top ten tips to boost website rankings in Google
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Small achievable actions lead to big change
How can you grow your business and achieve your dreams? You may have a range of failed projects ...
Visual perception and memory: how to win on the web with better visual communication
We all know that 3 seconds is all it takes to lose the attention of visitors to our ...
Butterfly Niche to Sell More
In this talk, Mike is going to outline the 3 step process for defining a niche, raising your ...
Scale your agency by selling a product, not a service
Services business are difficult to scale. There are a lot of meetings with clients, learning about their business, ...
How I Built My WordPress Business with (Almost) Zero Investment
Now that WordPress is maturing and the ecosystem is thriving, it may seem overwhelming to start a new ...
Let’s personalise your website user experience with WordPress
User experience personalisation is the process of presenting a unique and tailored experience to a website visitor, based ...
What have the new HTML5 elements ever done for accessibility?
Ten years ago the HTML5 proposition saw the light for the first time. HTML5 introduced new and extended ...
Taking WooCommerce to the next level with Laravel
Louise will show you how her her team built a packing application for a warehouse, the challenges they ...
Code is Poetry, but your poetry is s**t
Code is Poetry is a dive in to good and bad programming principles, and how we can apply ...
Managing multiple clients while scaling big
The importance of building processes for scaling the agency. From lead generating processes to client management when hiring ...
WordPress, the Community and Your Mental Health
Back in 2009 I discovered the power of WordPress. In 2012 I met the WordPress community. In 2016 ...
AMP at the speed of live
For years, the Liveblog plugin has been the go-to solution for WordPress sites looking for a live coverage ...
Gatsby and WordPress: Keeping it Cheap and Staying in Touch
This will be a live demo, where we use a free WordPress.com blog and use it to create ...
Promote Your Business Through Public Speaking
With the likes of WordCamp London 2019 and many other open-source events currently looking for speakers, developing your ...
Transitioning to a block-based editor in a pre-Gutenberg world
How do we move towards a block-based admin UI in a pre-Gutenberg WordPress? With the rise of page ...
Marketing channels, and how to think about marketing your WordPress business
Having the right marketing channels for your WordPress business is the difference between having a thriving WordPress business, ...
Developing for WordPress with WooCommerce
Introducing ways to use WooCommerce as a platform to build user experiences and business solutions that go beyond ...
Why a greener web is good for everyone
The internet has huge potential to move us towards a sustainable future through dematerialising products and streamlining industries. ...
What I do when I don’t know what I’m doing
Many projects I do require knowledge that I don't have. Yet. With a standard technical approach and the ...
Tales from 10 years in the WordPress community
It's been 10 years since Keith pressed the big red 'Start this meetup' button and WordPress London was ...
Why I’m going to stop selling WordPress websites
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Introduction to Using Coding Standards in Your WordPress Project
Aimed at those who have never really looked into coding standards, Gary will give a broad overview to ...
Supercharging WordPress Development in 2018
Towards the end of 2015, Rareloop launched their WordPress starter theme Lumberjack, which built on open source tools ...
Open Q&A Session
This is an opportunity for you to bring those unanswered questions you may have about WordPress, whether that's ...
Designing the Content Creation Experience
WordPress is being used in increasingly complex settings, powering everything from websites, to apps to content distribution services. ...
SSR using WordPress API with VueJS and Nuxt
Alessandro will talk of his experience building production ready websites using Nuxt (a VueJS SSR framework) interfacing with ...
All-in-one GDPR
We'll be looking at the development process and the problems solved by our compliance toolkit to help your ...
An Open Q&A with the WordCamp London Team Lead
Ever wondered what goes into organising a WordCamp? In this interview Ana Silva, the lead organiser for WordCamp ...
WP-CLI: An Intro and Interesting Use Cases
WP-CLI is the command line interface for WordPress. In this talk, John will introduce the core concepts of ...
What to Expect at WCLDN
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NatWest 6 Nations Match Centre on WordPress
Following on from our work with the British & Irish Lions tour of 2017, Sotic were engaged to ...
The Joys and Hardships of Adding Cloud Services to WordPress
In this talk Nic will step through both the product and engineering challenges of tightly integrating a complex ...
How Blockchain is going to disrupt Digital Marketing
David will take a look at how blockchain is starting to disrupt the digital marketing sector and show ...
Useful Accessibility Tools
A look at a selection of some useful free tools that help ensure accessibility of websites. The tools ...
Test quick, Build smart, Be awesome
A lot of the time businesses are so focused on the big shiny thing at the end of ...
Production Ready WordPress
It is common practice to move code through a series of servers in a multi-tiered development workflow. This ...
No one said it would be _this_ hard…
The challenges of running a one-person business are many and varied. The impact on my mental health caused ...
Scaling WordPress with containers
With the REST API in full swing, SPAs (Single Page Apps) are popping up all over the place, ...
Plugins Uncovered – Nov. 2017
We all have our favourite go-to plugins, often using them repeatedly on our client projects. We may have ...
Winning at Discovery
That phase of any project that, if not pinned down and given the attention it needs, can trip ...
Why You Should Give Great Support
So you’ve created a plugin or a theme for WordPress? Awesome! It doesn’t stop there. Find out why ...
The Night of the Living Style Guides
The line between design and development is getting blurrier, and our approach to web design is becoming more ...
What you didn’t know you need to know about WordPress and databases
There are a number of ways to speed up sites. Caching is one of them. However caching can't ...
The Move to Modern PHP in WordPress
A look at the initiatives to improve the PHP landscape of the WordPress ecosystem.
Why are we writing all these blog posts?
Are you a growth-hacking marketing guru, creating compelling content that resonates with your target audience and drives value? ...
Fun and Games with Regex
Think ‘regex’ and ‘fun’ can’t exist in the same sentence? I’ll teach you how to win at computer ...
Page Builder Panel – The Pros & Cons Of Them In Your Workflow
Featuring Doug Belchamber, Keith Devon and Mike Pead; this will be an open panel discussion around the use ...
Splitting Shipping based on shipping class in WooCommerce
Up until WooCommerce 2.1, each order had to be shipped via a single method with a single price. ...
Don’t lose your steam! How to deal with unhappy customers
No matter if your product, business plans or plugin is functional and well crafted: there comes a time ...
WP_Model, synthetic ORM for WordPress (Part 1)
I have made an ORM for WordPress, before you roll your eyes at that statement I have built ...
The Role of Page Builders for Developers
Are custom page templates and shortcodes offering our clients and users the best content publishing experience? In this ...
Journey from Freelancer to Agency
Who has helped us along the way. What tools we now use to manage the business.
Tech support and community management
Communities — from close knit bands of commenters to busy international forums — are fun and engaging but ...
Intro to GlotPress and Translating into British English (en_GB)
In this bite-sized talk, we'll be going over GlotPress, the plugin used to translate WordPress, exploring what it ...
WordPress at the United Nations
“WordPress at the United Nations” is about my experience doing WordPress consulting at the United Nations Head Quarters ...
Let’s do an accessibility audit of wpldn.uk together!
Following on from last month’s talks regarding why accessible websites are a must, it’s worth knowing how to ...
The Themers Guide to WP-CLI
WP-CLI is a useful tool for automating tasks and optimising developer workflow in WordPress. WP-CLI is commonly used ...
#A11Y and How to Sell it to a Client
We have all heard the term #A11Y and know we should be doing something about it, but how ...
Plugins Uncovered – March 2017
We all have our favourite go-to plugins, often using them repeatedly on our client projects. We may have ...
Leveraging the Customizer for Big Media
The Customizer is one of the most powerful parts of WordPress, its a great tool for users, and ...
Privacy by Design: 7 things you can’t afford to ignore
Even in a post Brexit UK, the new law on data protection is going to change things for ...
Building Single-page Sites With WordPress
Single page applications (SPA) are big part of the future of web design. Using a JS library like ...
log($this), $monitor->that()
Logging and monitoring is an important, but usually overlooked aspect of web application design. We debug them for ...
Word after word: my writing workflow
From blog posts to internal reports, reviews, documentations, business proposals or social statuses, there is a wide range ...
Why switching to WordPress Coding Standards will make you a better developer
WordPress Coding Standards have been around for a while, yet many developers don’t write code that conforms to ...
WordPress DevOps for Beginners
A run through of dev ops for beginners covering some basics to get your started Git & Version ...
You Can Do It – The Tools for Entrepreneurial Success
Anything is possible, if you put your mind to it. Determination, tenacity and personality are the tools for ...
Modern PHP toolset for WordPress
Many WordPress projects quickly outgrow their humble beginnings as blogs or websites and are now highly customised web ...
Ethical Outsourcing for Web Developers / Designers
We all live in a ‘gig’ economy. But how should you work with freelancers to make sure you ...
How to grow from a one-man-band into an agency
Taking the leap and loving it. Building a team, how, who and what to look out for Attracting ...
Docker Deep Dive for WordPress Admins
Following on from his recent lightning talk. Mark will be taking a deeper dive into Docker for WordPress ...
Why we built our SaaS startup on WordPress and why you should too
Elliot will share lessons learnt and decisions taken in development. Why we chose WordPress and how it enabled ...
Obscure WordPress Functions That Are Actually Quite Useful
A lightning talk given by Graham Armfield titled "Obscure WordPress Functions That Are Actually Quite Useful"
A Design Process for our Community Project #wpldnBuild
Learn about our suggested design process and how you can get involved in the #wpldnBuild.
Good Migrations – Moving a WordPress Site to Docker
Following on from his recent lightning talk. Mark will be taking a deeper dive into Docker for WordPress ...
Making a simple quiz plugin using React and the WP REST API
If you’ve ever wanted to build something, anything, with the WordPress REST API but were not sure where ...
Tidy Up Your WordPress Site for the New Year
With the start of the new year, now is the time to ensure that your content is up-to-date.
Preparing Your Plugin for a .org Release
How do you get a plugin onto the WordPress.org repository? What steps do you need to take? Are ...
10 Step Guide To Doing Your Own Thing (With WordPress)
I'll share the 10 most important things I've learned since I started to use WordPress and the experiences ...
Building Themes With The WordPress Customiser API
If you’re not already using the customizer to add custom ‘options’ into your themes, then this talk will ...
Happiness Bar – Dec. 2015
Looking for advise regarding WordPress? Want to chat with the community about a concept you have? Have an ...
Fired Up For Business
Your energy and productivity are crucial for business success. Health is fundamental to your energy and productivity. • ...
WordPress for SEO Haters
SEO is a dirty word, tarnished by years of bad practice and self-defined 'gurus'. But should it be ...
Websockets + WordPress = Magic
WordPress and Websockets what type of dark magic is this? The darkest, with the power of WordPress and ...
Is the wp-admin interface dead?
With the rise of WP-API and WP-CLI plugin developers can no longer assume that a user is interacting ...
How we created Google Docs-style editing for WordPress posts and pages
Poetica is a beta WordPress plugin that inserts Google Docs-style collaboration into your WordPress posts and pages. Co-founder and ...
Adding Composer to your WordPress development toolbox
Neil be looking at how to use Composer as a tool to manage and maintain WordPress based sites ...
Crossing the bridge from corporate comfort to start-up solitude
Corporate life does not prepare you for the day you set out on your own. For many creating ...
Learn more than the average Web Developer
Steve is going to teach the 10 things that people MUST know BEFORE they Build a Website. It’s ...
Using AWS to super charge your WordPress site and scale to 100,000s of users
The talk will be about how to scale WordPress in Amazon web services and which plugins help you ...
Catering for WordPress
Building an online integrated information and support system for the catering / hospitality sector. The catering industry has ...
Accessibility Panel – June 2015
A LeanCoffee style panel discussion covering accessibility and vulnerability within WordPress.
BuddyPress; an overview of recent updates, and what to expect in the year ahead
If you’re not familiar with BuddyPress, it helps you run any kind of social network on your WordPress, ...
Version Control For WordPress Sites
The way WordPress was created is very "forward-centric" – you click in the admin area and the changes ...
Creating Localised User Experiences with GeoIP
The Internet has made the world a much smaller place. Your website can reach practically anywhere on Earth. ...
Improvisation – A Vital Tool for Business Success
The ability to 'think on your feet' is not only valuable but vital to your business’ success. Without ...
My WordPress Theme Structure
Using template wrappers, pre-processors, and more, for efficient WordPress theme development. Keith will talk you through how he ...
Is WordPress always the right tool for the Job?
A case study of how we have used WordPress in creative ways and a few of the bumps ...
Building Products using WordPress
In his session, Noel will talk about how WordPress can be used to build web applications. He’ll draw ...
Building a WordPress Github Plugin Updater
Lets take a look at how we can get WordPress to look for plugin updates from private Github ...
Running Multiple WordPress sites under NGINX
Some details of how I run multiple separate WordPress installations under NGINX on one VPS or dedicated server.
Smart tips and tricks for managing freelancers
Freelancer is the ‘new employment’. Most organisations use freelancers for some tasks but some even build an entire ...
Front End Workflow Automation for Theme and Plugin Development
The emergence of preprocessors, front-end frameworks, HTML5 and CSS3 has made front-end a far richer and more complex ...
Change is inevitable, growth is intentional
15 years in the Hosting industry. Rackspace from 100x growth in 10 years. Why I believe in WordPress. ...
3 Years of WordPress London
It's WordPress London's 3rd birthday!
Should You Be Using Vagrant?
A lightning talk answering the question: "Should You Be Using Vagrant?"
Cacheing WordPress with .htaccess
A lightning talk discussing WordPress cacheing using the .htaccess file.
SEO for WordPress
A lightning talk covering SEO for WordPress.
Artisteer
A lightning talk discussing Artisteer.
8 Design Tips for WordPress Websites
Ngaire covers 8 design tips for WordPress websites in this lightning talk at the WordPress London Meetup.
Theme LOL
Theme LOL - a hilarious (ahem) look at the state of the premium theme marketplace.
Cleaner Themes
Persil may say “Dirt is Good”, but when it comes to WordPress themes you want to make sure ...
Use WordPress to Find Clients
Rob Cubbon discusses how he uses WordPress to find clients.
Handling User Generated Content in WordPress
Getting lots of content into a site can increase the scope of the site, user engagement, and maybe ...
WordPress Security
The recent HeartBleed vulnerability has brought web security into the mainstream news recently. This talk will cover some ...
Let’s move it!
Migrating WordPress sites, from server to server, or from domain to domain, is a remarkably fraught experience. There ...
The Business of WordPress
My business uses Wordpress a lot to help meet client's website needs. This talk is not techy but, ...
Tips and tricks for using WordPress as an application platform
Dan Westall (http://www.dan-westall.co.uk/) will share tips and tricks for using WordPress for application prototyping, covering recommended plugins and ...
Google Publisher Plugin
Michael Smith will be discussing the Google Publish WordPress Plugin.
WordPress Sites for Academics
WordPress sites for Academics - how us geeks can help and assist non-geeks to use WordPress
Writing blogs and articles – lessons from writing for newspapers
Peter Curtain gives a talk on writing blogs and articles, his lessons from writing for newspapers.
Intro + WP Contributor Day
Welcome to the WordPress London Meetup. Keith will discuss the upcoming WordPress Contributor Day.
The Heartbeat API
With the launch of WordPress 3.6 comes the Heartbeat API, a simple yet powerful way of implementing a ...
My First Plugin
A guide to playing with content using a filter.
Content Discovery Re-imagined
Understanding reader's interests and appropriately tailoring your WordPress homepage for them.
Towards an Alternate Theme Structure?
In theory, child themes save you a lot of work. But not if you have to change lots ...
I feel the need, the need for speed
Darren Grant gives a lightning talk on optimising WordPress.
Tips, tools & techniques for making a living from WordPress
Code for the People co-founder Simon Dickson will talk a bit about the development of the UK ecosystem, ...
“It’s not me, it’s you!” – finding new love with the WordPress Double-O framework
Dave Stewart will introduce and demo the Wordpress "Double-O" framework, a new MVC theme architecture that runs on ...
WordPress UK Weekend
A short lighting talk on the upcoming WordPress UK Weekend.
Team Genes
Nathan Roberts will discuss team genes at the WordPress London Meetup.
WordPress Attacks
Rob will give a short talk covering some areas of WordPress vulnerabilities and how to avoid them.
Object Caching
Scott Cariss provides a brief overview of object caching within WordPress.
Scaling WordPress
Scaling WordPress; Luke Williams discusses some of the challenges at the WordPress London Meetup.
Custom URL Rewrites
Darren Grant gives a 5 min. lighting talk on WordPress custom URL rewrites at the WordPress London Meetup.
Moving Fluid
The responsive custom design. Ngaire Ackerley discusses fluid design within WordPress themes.
NDEP Case Study
Keith Devon gives a 5 min. lightning talk covering a case study of NDEP.org at the WordPress London ...
Simple Usability Tweaks for WordPress Themes
So you've got your WordPress site up and running and visitors are finding it through search engines. But ...
Designing WordPress Admins Icons
The 'Customizer' was introduced in Wordpress 3.4, allowing users to toggle settings on their site with a live ...
Tailoring WordPress to suit your client needs
WordPress is designed to make website administration simple. This talk covers how StudioA2 deliver projects that allow flexibility ...
Getting started with WordPress web apps
This talk will give you an introduction to using WordPress to build web apps. It will include: the ...
Build a mobile theme to use with your WordPress site
Mobile website development is a hot topic at the moment. More and more users are accessing websites via ...
How not to give appalling user support
More and more developers are using WordPress to build and sell online products (web apps, SaaS, etc.), and ...
Sharing knowledge
Jenny will be speaking about the importance of sharing knowledge and how to generate topic ideas to share ...
WP-API
Access your WordPress site's data through an easy-to-use HTTP REST API
Speaking at a WordCamp
WordCamp London will be 20th - 22nd March. We're about to open the call for speakers and we'd ...
Contributing to WordPress
Open source projects like WordPress thrive on the community that surrounds it. This month, Jenny will be talking ...
Themes, Plugins and Accessibility
One of the recent WordPress accessibility initiatives has been the introduction of the 'accessibility-ready' tag for theme authors ...
From Local to Staging to Live Using Version Control and Deployment Tools
FTP is a great tool for transferring files from computer to server. Or is it? Perhaps it is ...
Using WordPress for eSports
A few months ago Dan and a few others started http://exodusesports.com. They used WordPress, which allowed us to ...
Introduction to WooCommerce
In this presentation I’ll show you how easy it is to set up an online store with WooCommerce. ...
Where’s The One Click Install?
Lot's of web hosts now offer one-click installation of WordPress, but what if your chosen host doesn't, or ...
A Question of Deliverables
Before responsive design, there was "standard" design. Keeping the client in the loop with standard design was easy, ...
Those who don’t jump will never fly
Changing what you don't like in the WordPress core, a plugin or a framework is not an easy ...
Review of WordCamp Bournemouth
If you haven't yet got your tickets for Bournemouth on July 12-13th get you tickets here: http://2014.bournemouth.wordcamp.org/tickets/ . It's always ...
Developing and selling WordPress plugins
Dan will talk about the journey from finding a problem to solve, building a solution and submitting to ...
Security for Mid/Advanced Hosting
Manuel will be presenting his talk from WordPress Milan/Italy to share his insight into WordPress Security.
Ask the Experts!
Have a nagging question about WordPress? Not sure who to ask? No question is a stupid question, so ...
WordPress By Subscription
The recurring business model that saved my business (and my sanity). A profitable ‘micro’ 13-year-old web development business ...
Filter Talks
Testing the fortifications – Hack Yourself
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Remote Working – Ask me anything
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Marketing your WordPress product or service
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Tips on how to reduce the carbon emissions of your WordPress website
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Introduction To BigCommerce for WordPress
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Nine ways to make WordPress better with AI
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How I improved my sleep patterns with WordPress
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Migrating a site to and from WordPress
When should you move a site from one platform to another? If you do, how should you go ...
The future of WordPress (might be) headless
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Productivity In Copy Creation: Blogs, Social Media & More
Ever find yourself struggling to write your own copy, or getting it from your clients? Have you been ...
Being your best self under pressure
In this talk, Andrew will give examples of extreme pressure whether self-inflicted or customer-centric or even with colleagues. ...
Scaling Effectively with WordPress
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4.5 ways to sell more with WooCommerce
With a few simple steps and spreadsheets, you will get the idea of how you can increase your ...
Top ten tips to boost website rankings in Google
There are many Search Engine Optimisation tips that are considered to be great Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) practice ...
Small achievable actions lead to big change
How can you grow your business and achieve your dreams? You may have a range of failed projects ...
Visual perception and memory: how to win on the web with better visual communication
We all know that 3 seconds is all it takes to lose the attention of visitors to our ...
Butterfly Niche to Sell More
In this talk, Mike is going to outline the 3 step process for defining a niche, raising your ...
Scale your agency by selling a product, not a service
Services business are difficult to scale. There are a lot of meetings with clients, learning about their business, ...
How I Built My WordPress Business with (Almost) Zero Investment
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Let’s personalise your website user experience with WordPress
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What have the new HTML5 elements ever done for accessibility?
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Taking WooCommerce to the next level with Laravel
Louise will show you how her her team built a packing application for a warehouse, the challenges they ...
Code is Poetry, but your poetry is s**t
Code is Poetry is a dive in to good and bad programming principles, and how we can apply ...
Managing multiple clients while scaling big
The importance of building processes for scaling the agency. From lead generating processes to client management when hiring ...
WordPress, the Community and Your Mental Health
Back in 2009 I discovered the power of WordPress. In 2012 I met the WordPress community. In 2016 ...
AMP at the speed of live
For years, the Liveblog plugin has been the go-to solution for WordPress sites looking for a live coverage ...
Gatsby and WordPress: Keeping it Cheap and Staying in Touch
This will be a live demo, where we use a free WordPress.com blog and use it to create ...
Promote Your Business Through Public Speaking
With the likes of WordCamp London 2019 and many other open-source events currently looking for speakers, developing your ...
Transitioning to a block-based editor in a pre-Gutenberg world
How do we move towards a block-based admin UI in a pre-Gutenberg WordPress? With the rise of page ...
Marketing channels, and how to think about marketing your WordPress business
Having the right marketing channels for your WordPress business is the difference between having a thriving WordPress business, ...
Developing for WordPress with WooCommerce
Introducing ways to use WooCommerce as a platform to build user experiences and business solutions that go beyond ...
Why a greener web is good for everyone
The internet has huge potential to move us towards a sustainable future through dematerialising products and streamlining industries. ...
What I do when I don’t know what I’m doing
Many projects I do require knowledge that I don't have. Yet. With a standard technical approach and the ...
Tales from 10 years in the WordPress community
It's been 10 years since Keith pressed the big red 'Start this meetup' button and WordPress London was ...
Why I’m going to stop selling WordPress websites
This will be about my journey and reluctance to go into building client website with WordPress. About the ...
Introduction to Using Coding Standards in Your WordPress Project
Aimed at those who have never really looked into coding standards, Gary will give a broad overview to ...
Supercharging WordPress Development in 2018
Towards the end of 2015, Rareloop launched their WordPress starter theme Lumberjack, which built on open source tools ...
Open Q&A Session
This is an opportunity for you to bring those unanswered questions you may have about WordPress, whether that's ...
Designing the Content Creation Experience
WordPress is being used in increasingly complex settings, powering everything from websites, to apps to content distribution services. ...
SSR using WordPress API with VueJS and Nuxt
Alessandro will talk of his experience building production ready websites using Nuxt (a VueJS SSR framework) interfacing with ...
All-in-one GDPR
We'll be looking at the development process and the problems solved by our compliance toolkit to help your ...
An Open Q&A with the WordCamp London Team Lead
Ever wondered what goes into organising a WordCamp? In this interview Ana Silva, the lead organiser for WordCamp ...
WP-CLI: An Intro and Interesting Use Cases
WP-CLI is the command line interface for WordPress. In this talk, John will introduce the core concepts of ...
What to Expect at WCLDN
A run through of what attendees can expect to find going on at WordCamp London 2018, which happens ...
NatWest 6 Nations Match Centre on WordPress
Following on from our work with the British & Irish Lions tour of 2017, Sotic were engaged to ...
The Joys and Hardships of Adding Cloud Services to WordPress
In this talk Nic will step through both the product and engineering challenges of tightly integrating a complex ...
How Blockchain is going to disrupt Digital Marketing
David will take a look at how blockchain is starting to disrupt the digital marketing sector and show ...
Useful Accessibility Tools
A look at a selection of some useful free tools that help ensure accessibility of websites. The tools ...
Test quick, Build smart, Be awesome
A lot of the time businesses are so focused on the big shiny thing at the end of ...
Production Ready WordPress
It is common practice to move code through a series of servers in a multi-tiered development workflow. This ...
No one said it would be _this_ hard…
The challenges of running a one-person business are many and varied. The impact on my mental health caused ...
Scaling WordPress with containers
With the REST API in full swing, SPAs (Single Page Apps) are popping up all over the place, ...
Plugins Uncovered – Nov. 2017
We all have our favourite go-to plugins, often using them repeatedly on our client projects. We may have ...
Winning at Discovery
That phase of any project that, if not pinned down and given the attention it needs, can trip ...
Why You Should Give Great Support
So you’ve created a plugin or a theme for WordPress? Awesome! It doesn’t stop there. Find out why ...
The Night of the Living Style Guides
The line between design and development is getting blurrier, and our approach to web design is becoming more ...
What you didn’t know you need to know about WordPress and databases
There are a number of ways to speed up sites. Caching is one of them. However caching can't ...
The Move to Modern PHP in WordPress
A look at the initiatives to improve the PHP landscape of the WordPress ecosystem.
Why are we writing all these blog posts?
Are you a growth-hacking marketing guru, creating compelling content that resonates with your target audience and drives value? ...
Fun and Games with Regex
Think ‘regex’ and ‘fun’ can’t exist in the same sentence? I’ll teach you how to win at computer ...
Page Builder Panel – The Pros & Cons Of Them In Your Workflow
Featuring Doug Belchamber, Keith Devon and Mike Pead; this will be an open panel discussion around the use ...
Splitting Shipping based on shipping class in WooCommerce
Up until WooCommerce 2.1, each order had to be shipped via a single method with a single price. ...
Don’t lose your steam! How to deal with unhappy customers
No matter if your product, business plans or plugin is functional and well crafted: there comes a time ...
WP_Model, synthetic ORM for WordPress (Part 1)
I have made an ORM for WordPress, before you roll your eyes at that statement I have built ...
The Role of Page Builders for Developers
Are custom page templates and shortcodes offering our clients and users the best content publishing experience? In this ...
Journey from Freelancer to Agency
Who has helped us along the way. What tools we now use to manage the business.
Tech support and community management
Communities — from close knit bands of commenters to busy international forums — are fun and engaging but ...
Intro to GlotPress and Translating into British English (en_GB)
In this bite-sized talk, we'll be going over GlotPress, the plugin used to translate WordPress, exploring what it ...
WordPress at the United Nations
“WordPress at the United Nations” is about my experience doing WordPress consulting at the United Nations Head Quarters ...
Let’s do an accessibility audit of wpldn.uk together!
Following on from last month’s talks regarding why accessible websites are a must, it’s worth knowing how to ...
The Themers Guide to WP-CLI
WP-CLI is a useful tool for automating tasks and optimising developer workflow in WordPress. WP-CLI is commonly used ...
#A11Y and How to Sell it to a Client
We have all heard the term #A11Y and know we should be doing something about it, but how ...
Plugins Uncovered – March 2017
We all have our favourite go-to plugins, often using them repeatedly on our client projects. We may have ...
Leveraging the Customizer for Big Media
The Customizer is one of the most powerful parts of WordPress, its a great tool for users, and ...
Privacy by Design: 7 things you can’t afford to ignore
Even in a post Brexit UK, the new law on data protection is going to change things for ...
Building Single-page Sites With WordPress
Single page applications (SPA) are big part of the future of web design. Using a JS library like ...
log($this), $monitor->that()
Logging and monitoring is an important, but usually overlooked aspect of web application design. We debug them for ...
Word after word: my writing workflow
From blog posts to internal reports, reviews, documentations, business proposals or social statuses, there is a wide range ...
Why switching to WordPress Coding Standards will make you a better developer
WordPress Coding Standards have been around for a while, yet many developers don’t write code that conforms to ...
WordPress DevOps for Beginners
A run through of dev ops for beginners covering some basics to get your started Git & Version ...
You Can Do It – The Tools for Entrepreneurial Success
Anything is possible, if you put your mind to it. Determination, tenacity and personality are the tools for ...
Modern PHP toolset for WordPress
Many WordPress projects quickly outgrow their humble beginnings as blogs or websites and are now highly customised web ...
Ethical Outsourcing for Web Developers / Designers
We all live in a ‘gig’ economy. But how should you work with freelancers to make sure you ...
How to grow from a one-man-band into an agency
Taking the leap and loving it. Building a team, how, who and what to look out for Attracting ...
Docker Deep Dive for WordPress Admins
Following on from his recent lightning talk. Mark will be taking a deeper dive into Docker for WordPress ...
Why we built our SaaS startup on WordPress and why you should too
Elliot will share lessons learnt and decisions taken in development. Why we chose WordPress and how it enabled ...
Obscure WordPress Functions That Are Actually Quite Useful
A lightning talk given by Graham Armfield titled "Obscure WordPress Functions That Are Actually Quite Useful"
A Design Process for our Community Project #wpldnBuild
Learn about our suggested design process and how you can get involved in the #wpldnBuild.
Good Migrations – Moving a WordPress Site to Docker
Following on from his recent lightning talk. Mark will be taking a deeper dive into Docker for WordPress ...
Making a simple quiz plugin using React and the WP REST API
If you’ve ever wanted to build something, anything, with the WordPress REST API but were not sure where ...
Tidy Up Your WordPress Site for the New Year
With the start of the new year, now is the time to ensure that your content is up-to-date.
Preparing Your Plugin for a .org Release
How do you get a plugin onto the WordPress.org repository? What steps do you need to take? Are ...
10 Step Guide To Doing Your Own Thing (With WordPress)
I'll share the 10 most important things I've learned since I started to use WordPress and the experiences ...
Building Themes With The WordPress Customiser API
If you’re not already using the customizer to add custom ‘options’ into your themes, then this talk will ...
Happiness Bar – Dec. 2015
Looking for advise regarding WordPress? Want to chat with the community about a concept you have? Have an ...
Fired Up For Business
Your energy and productivity are crucial for business success. Health is fundamental to your energy and productivity. • ...
WordPress for SEO Haters
SEO is a dirty word, tarnished by years of bad practice and self-defined 'gurus'. But should it be ...
Websockets + WordPress = Magic
WordPress and Websockets what type of dark magic is this? The darkest, with the power of WordPress and ...
Is the wp-admin interface dead?
With the rise of WP-API and WP-CLI plugin developers can no longer assume that a user is interacting ...
How we created Google Docs-style editing for WordPress posts and pages
Poetica is a beta WordPress plugin that inserts Google Docs-style collaboration into your WordPress posts and pages. Co-founder and ...
Adding Composer to your WordPress development toolbox
Neil be looking at how to use Composer as a tool to manage and maintain WordPress based sites ...
Crossing the bridge from corporate comfort to start-up solitude
Corporate life does not prepare you for the day you set out on your own. For many creating ...
Learn more than the average Web Developer
Steve is going to teach the 10 things that people MUST know BEFORE they Build a Website. It’s ...
Using AWS to super charge your WordPress site and scale to 100,000s of users
The talk will be about how to scale WordPress in Amazon web services and which plugins help you ...
Catering for WordPress
Building an online integrated information and support system for the catering / hospitality sector. The catering industry has ...
Accessibility Panel – June 2015
A LeanCoffee style panel discussion covering accessibility and vulnerability within WordPress.
BuddyPress; an overview of recent updates, and what to expect in the year ahead
If you’re not familiar with BuddyPress, it helps you run any kind of social network on your WordPress, ...
Version Control For WordPress Sites
The way WordPress was created is very "forward-centric" – you click in the admin area and the changes ...
Creating Localised User Experiences with GeoIP
The Internet has made the world a much smaller place. Your website can reach practically anywhere on Earth. ...
Improvisation – A Vital Tool for Business Success
The ability to 'think on your feet' is not only valuable but vital to your business’ success. Without ...
My WordPress Theme Structure
Using template wrappers, pre-processors, and more, for efficient WordPress theme development. Keith will talk you through how he ...
Is WordPress always the right tool for the Job?
A case study of how we have used WordPress in creative ways and a few of the bumps ...
Building Products using WordPress
In his session, Noel will talk about how WordPress can be used to build web applications. He’ll draw ...
Building a WordPress Github Plugin Updater
Lets take a look at how we can get WordPress to look for plugin updates from private Github ...
Running Multiple WordPress sites under NGINX
Some details of how I run multiple separate WordPress installations under NGINX on one VPS or dedicated server.
Smart tips and tricks for managing freelancers
Freelancer is the ‘new employment’. Most organisations use freelancers for some tasks but some even build an entire ...
Front End Workflow Automation for Theme and Plugin Development
The emergence of preprocessors, front-end frameworks, HTML5 and CSS3 has made front-end a far richer and more complex ...
Change is inevitable, growth is intentional
15 years in the Hosting industry. Rackspace from 100x growth in 10 years. Why I believe in WordPress. ...
3 Years of WordPress London
It's WordPress London's 3rd birthday!
Should You Be Using Vagrant?
A lightning talk answering the question: "Should You Be Using Vagrant?"
Cacheing WordPress with .htaccess
A lightning talk discussing WordPress cacheing using the .htaccess file.
SEO for WordPress
A lightning talk covering SEO for WordPress.
Artisteer
A lightning talk discussing Artisteer.
8 Design Tips for WordPress Websites
Ngaire covers 8 design tips for WordPress websites in this lightning talk at the WordPress London Meetup.
Theme LOL
Theme LOL - a hilarious (ahem) look at the state of the premium theme marketplace.
Cleaner Themes
Persil may say “Dirt is Good”, but when it comes to WordPress themes you want to make sure ...
Use WordPress to Find Clients
Rob Cubbon discusses how he uses WordPress to find clients.
Handling User Generated Content in WordPress
Getting lots of content into a site can increase the scope of the site, user engagement, and maybe ...
WordPress Security
The recent HeartBleed vulnerability has brought web security into the mainstream news recently. This talk will cover some ...
Let’s move it!
Migrating WordPress sites, from server to server, or from domain to domain, is a remarkably fraught experience. There ...
The Business of WordPress
My business uses Wordpress a lot to help meet client's website needs. This talk is not techy but, ...
Tips and tricks for using WordPress as an application platform
Dan Westall (http://www.dan-westall.co.uk/) will share tips and tricks for using WordPress for application prototyping, covering recommended plugins and ...
Google Publisher Plugin
Michael Smith will be discussing the Google Publish WordPress Plugin.
WordPress Sites for Academics
WordPress sites for Academics - how us geeks can help and assist non-geeks to use WordPress
Writing blogs and articles – lessons from writing for newspapers
Peter Curtain gives a talk on writing blogs and articles, his lessons from writing for newspapers.
Intro + WP Contributor Day
Welcome to the WordPress London Meetup. Keith will discuss the upcoming WordPress Contributor Day.
The Heartbeat API
With the launch of WordPress 3.6 comes the Heartbeat API, a simple yet powerful way of implementing a ...
My First Plugin
A guide to playing with content using a filter.
Content Discovery Re-imagined
Understanding reader's interests and appropriately tailoring your WordPress homepage for them.
Towards an Alternate Theme Structure?
In theory, child themes save you a lot of work. But not if you have to change lots ...
I feel the need, the need for speed
Darren Grant gives a lightning talk on optimising WordPress.
Tips, tools & techniques for making a living from WordPress
Code for the People co-founder Simon Dickson will talk a bit about the development of the UK ecosystem, ...
“It’s not me, it’s you!” – finding new love with the WordPress Double-O framework
Dave Stewart will introduce and demo the Wordpress "Double-O" framework, a new MVC theme architecture that runs on ...
WordPress UK Weekend
A short lighting talk on the upcoming WordPress UK Weekend.
Team Genes
Nathan Roberts will discuss team genes at the WordPress London Meetup.
WordPress Attacks
Rob will give a short talk covering some areas of WordPress vulnerabilities and how to avoid them.
Object Caching
Scott Cariss provides a brief overview of object caching within WordPress.
Scaling WordPress
Scaling WordPress; Luke Williams discusses some of the challenges at the WordPress London Meetup.
Custom URL Rewrites
Darren Grant gives a 5 min. lighting talk on WordPress custom URL rewrites at the WordPress London Meetup.
Moving Fluid
The responsive custom design. Ngaire Ackerley discusses fluid design within WordPress themes.
NDEP Case Study
Keith Devon gives a 5 min. lightning talk covering a case study of NDEP.org at the WordPress London ...
Simple Usability Tweaks for WordPress Themes
So you've got your WordPress site up and running and visitors are finding it through search engines. But ...
Designing WordPress Admins Icons
The 'Customizer' was introduced in Wordpress 3.4, allowing users to toggle settings on their site with a live ...
Tailoring WordPress to suit your client needs
WordPress is designed to make website administration simple. This talk covers how StudioA2 deliver projects that allow flexibility ...
Getting started with WordPress web apps
This talk will give you an introduction to using WordPress to build web apps. It will include: the ...
Build a mobile theme to use with your WordPress site
Mobile website development is a hot topic at the moment. More and more users are accessing websites via ...
How not to give appalling user support
More and more developers are using WordPress to build and sell online products (web apps, SaaS, etc.), and ...
Sharing knowledge
Jenny will be speaking about the importance of sharing knowledge and how to generate topic ideas to share ...
WP-API
Access your WordPress site's data through an easy-to-use HTTP REST API
Speaking at a WordCamp
WordCamp London will be 20th - 22nd March. We're about to open the call for speakers and we'd ...
Contributing to WordPress
Open source projects like WordPress thrive on the community that surrounds it. This month, Jenny will be talking ...
Themes, Plugins and Accessibility
One of the recent WordPress accessibility initiatives has been the introduction of the 'accessibility-ready' tag for theme authors ...
From Local to Staging to Live Using Version Control and Deployment Tools
FTP is a great tool for transferring files from computer to server. Or is it? Perhaps it is ...
Using WordPress for eSports
A few months ago Dan and a few others started http://exodusesports.com. They used WordPress, which allowed us to ...
Introduction to WooCommerce
In this presentation I’ll show you how easy it is to set up an online store with WooCommerce. ...
Where’s The One Click Install?
Lot's of web hosts now offer one-click installation of WordPress, but what if your chosen host doesn't, or ...
A Question of Deliverables
Before responsive design, there was "standard" design. Keeping the client in the loop with standard design was easy, ...
Those who don’t jump will never fly
Changing what you don't like in the WordPress core, a plugin or a framework is not an easy ...
Review of WordCamp Bournemouth
If you haven't yet got your tickets for Bournemouth on July 12-13th get you tickets here: http://2014.bournemouth.wordcamp.org/tickets/ . It's always ...
Developing and selling WordPress plugins
Dan will talk about the journey from finding a problem to solve, building a solution and submitting to ...
Security for Mid/Advanced Hosting
Manuel will be presenting his talk from WordPress Milan/Italy to share his insight into WordPress Security.
Ask the Experts!
Have a nagging question about WordPress? Not sure who to ask? No question is a stupid question, so ...
WordPress By Subscription
The recurring business model that saved my business (and my sanity). A profitable ‘micro’ 13-year-old web development business ...