Author: Mike Little

Mike Little is the co-founding developer of WordPress and a director at zed1.com Limited, a web development and consultancy firm specialising in WordPress. You can find his blog at mikelittle.org and follow him on twitter @mikelittlezed1 He has been running MWUG since June 2009, and thinks having a pool of WordPress-savvy people; for learning, community, networking, sharing and so on; in the Manchester area is a really good thing.

June Meeting: Wednesday 18th, 6.30-9pm, Madlab

June’s Manchester WordPress User Group, run by WordPress co-founder Mike Little, takes place at MadLab (https://madlab.org.uk) on Wednesday, the 18th from 6.30pm to 9pm.

This month we are running a couple of special talks for those coming along to the WordPress Contributor Day on the Sunday after WordCamp Manchester. Come along and get ready for the day or if you are just interested in hearing about contributing to WordPress in any way. Remember: it’s not all about coding.

The Agenda includes:

General Session (6.30 — 7.30)

  • WordPress News
  • Talk: Contributor Day – It’s not all about coding
  • Questions & Answers session – bring your questions
  • General Discussion

Break for networking, etc.

Technical session (8.00 — 9.00)

  • Technical news
  • Talk: Contributor Day – Setting up for code/testing
  • Questions & Answers session – bring your questions

If you have other suggestions for items to go on the agenda, please comment here or on the mailing list.

Anyone with any experience of WordPress is welcome, whether you’ve heard about it and want to know more, you’re an experienced WordPress user or developer, or anything in between; you are welcome to our meetings.

If you fancy coming along, pleaseĀ let us know at our Meetup page.

Mike Little (http://zed1.com), co-founder of WordPress, runs MWUG so come along to discover how WordPress can benefit you or your organisation, and get specific advice on any WordPress questions you have.

Subscribe to our Mailing list (https://groups.google.com/group/manchester-wordpress-user-group), check out our website (https://mwug.uk), follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/mwug), join us on Linked In (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Manchester-Wordpress-User-Group-3125011), like our Facebook pageĀ https://www.facebook.com/manchester.wordpress.user.groupĀ or join our MeetUp groupĀ https://www.meetup.com/ManchesterWordPressUserGroup.

See you at MWUG!

WordCamp Manchester – Call for Speakers Submission Date Change

With only a few weeks before WordCamp Manchester, the team has decided to move theĀ Call for SpeakersĀ submission date forward to the 31st May.

This is to ensure that we have enough time to contact all the speakers and publicise the talks ahead of the camp.

Apologies to anyone who wasĀ planning to submit in June but hopefully weā€™ve given you enough notice to get your talks submitted!

Remember we are interesting in all topics and if you are not sure of what talk to give, there are some ideas on ourĀ Call for SpeakersĀ page!

May 2014 Meeting Notes

Once again, Simon Owen sterling note-taking has provided greatĀ notes from the May MWUG meeting, including links to the things Ā mentioned during the evening.Ā Thanks Simon.

You can also follow comments and follow-up information from various people onĀ our Meetup page.

If anyone else has a writeup of this (or any other meetings), please let me know (via theĀ contact formĀ or the comments) and Iā€™ll happily link to them from here.

Cheers, see you all next month!

WordCamp Manchester – Call for Speakers

We are looking for speakers and presentations from areas both local and further a field.

Please see theĀ Call for Speakers pageĀ for full information and submission form.

Submissions will be open till the 7th June. Update: Last date is now 31st May

We look forward to reading your submissions!

May Meeting: Wednesday 21st, 6.30-9pm, Madlab

May’s Manchester WordPress User Group, run by WordPress co-founder Mike Little, takes place at MadLab (https://madlab.org.uk) on Wednesday, the 21st from 6.30pm to 9pm.

The Agenda includes:

General Session (6.30 — 7.30)

  • WordPress News
  • Talk: Mike Little – TBD
  • Questions & Answers session – bring your questions
  • General Discussion

Break for networking, etc.

Technical session (8.00 — 9.00)

  • Technical news
  • Talk: Tim NashĀ – “Going beyond LAMP”
  • Questions & Answers session – bring your questions

If you have other suggestions for items to go on the agenda, please comment here or on the mailing list.

Anyone with any experience of WordPress is welcome, whether you’ve heard about it and want to know more, you’re an experienced WordPress user or developer, or anything in between; you are welcome to our meetings.

If you fancy coming along, pleaseĀ let us know at our Meetup page.

Mike Little (http://zed1.com), co-founder of WordPress, runs MWUG so come along to discover how WordPress can benefit you or your organisation, and get specific advice on any WordPress questions you have.

Subscribe to our Mailing list (https://groups.google.com/group/manchester-wordpress-user-group), check out our website (https://mwug.uk), follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/mwug), join us on Linked In (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Manchester-Wordpress-User-Group-3125011), like our Facebook pageĀ https://www.facebook.com/manchester.wordpress.user.groupĀ or join our MeetUp groupĀ https://www.meetup.com/ManchesterWordPressUserGroup.

See you at MWUG!