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.

March Meeting: Wednesday 20th, 6.30-9pm, Madlab

March’s Manchester WordPress User Group, run by WordPress co-founder Mike Little, takes place at MadLab (https://madlab.org.uk) on Wednesday, March 20th from 6.30pm to 9pm.

The Agenda includes:

General Session (6.30 — 7.30)

  • WordPress News
  • Talk or Presentation (TBD)
  • Questions & Answers
  • A Chance to show off your WordPress site

Technical session (8.00 — 9.00)

  • Technical news
  • A talk or presentation: Adding Scripts and Stylesheets to a WordPress Page
  • Questions & Answers

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, please let us know at our Meetup page.

MWUG is run by Mike Little (http://zed1.com), co-founder of WordPress, 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 page https://www.facebook.com/manchester.wordpress.user.group or join our MeetUp group https://www.meetup.com/ManchesterWordPressUserGroup.

See you at MWUG!

February Meeting: Wednesday 20th, 6.30-9pm, Madlab

February’s Manchester WordPress User Group, run by WordPress co-founder Mike Little, takes place at MadLab (https://madlab.org.uk) on Wednesday, February 20th from 6.30pm to 9pm.

The Agenda includes:

General Session (6.30 — 7.30)

  • WordPress News
  • Questions & Answers
  • Update on the WordPress 35-day challenge with Saz Bailey
  • The WPUK Meetup Tour (see below)
  • Troubleshooting session
  • A Chance to show off your WordPress site

Technical session (8.00 — 9.00)

  • Technical news
  • The WPUK Meetup Tour recap
  • A talk or presentation (TBD)
  • Questions & Answers

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

The WPUK Meetup Tour

The WPUK Meetup Tour is bringing the UK WordPress community closer together by touring different WordPress-based events around the country to share ideas, talks and a few beers.

Organised by Kimb Jones a Creative Web Developer and WordPress Consultant who works in the NHS. The first leg of the tour was Liverpool’s SWiG event in January and they are arriving at MWUG in February. If you’d like to join in another leg of the tour then come along to MadLab to learn more!

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, let us know at our Meetup page.

 

MWUG is run by Mike Little (http://zed1.com), co-founder of WordPress, 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 page https://www.facebook.com/manchester.wordpress.user.group or join our MeetUp group https://www.meetup.com/ManchesterWordPressUserGroup.

See you at MWUG!

January Meeting: Wednesday 16th, 6.30-9pm, Madlab

January’s Manchester WordPress User Group, run by WordPress co-founder Mike Little, takes place at MadLab (https://madlab.org.uk) on Wednesday, January 16th from 6.30pm to 9pm.

The Agenda includes:

General Session (6.30 — 7.30)

  • WordPress News
  • Questions & Answers
  • The WordPress 35-day challenge with Saz Bailey
  • Troubleshooting session
  • A Chance to show off your WordPress site

Technical session (8.00 — 9.00)

  • Technical news
  • A talk or presentation (TBD)
  • Questions & Answers

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

35 Day Challenge:

Are you looking to gain some impetus for your WordPress project?  Why not join our challenge taking place between the January and February Meetups?

If there is something specific that you want to focus on achieving or you just want to take the action you keep saying you will, or you want push through a block that’s been holding your project up, or perhaps identify 3 simple things that if you complete will push your project forward significantly, this is the challenge for you:

  • Decide by the January Meetup what you want to achieve in 35 days
  • Declare what that is in MWUG’s Google group HERE
  • Ask for the help or advice you need and offer it where you can
  • Attend the January Meetup to get more support
  • Work on your project challenge for 35 days
  • Update the group with your progress!
  • Finally, attend the February Meetup to celebrate your progress.

 

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, let us know at our Meetup page.

 

MWUG is run by Mike Little (http://zed1.com), co-founder of WordPress, 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 page https://www.facebook.com/manchester.wordpress.user.group or join our MeetUp group https://www.meetup.com/ManchesterWordPressUserGroup.

See you at MWUG!

December Meeting: Wednesday 19th, 6.30-9pm, Madlab — Drinks and Mince Pies

December’s Manchester WordPress User Group, run by WordPress co-founder Mike Little, takes place at MadLab (https://madlab.org.uk) on Wednesday, December 19th from 6.30pm to 9pm.

Decembers agenda will be slightly different with a shorter presentation by Mike followed by a chance to mingle and chat:

  • WordPress 3.5 update
  • Questions & Answers
  • Drinks and mince pies

So if you’ve not come to meet us yet then maybe this is the one to try!

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, 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 page https://www.facebook.com/manchester.wordpress.user.group or join our MeetUp group https://www.meetup.com/ManchesterWordPressUserGroup.

See you at MWUG!

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

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

The Agenda includes: NOTE: We will be continuing with the split session idea. The evening will be split into two sessions with a general session from 6.30 through to 7.30 and a development/technical session from 8pm through to 9.

General Session

  • WordPress News
  • A report from the WordPress Community Summit by Simon Wheatley
  • Questions & Answers
  • Troubleshooting session
  • A Chance to show off your WordPress site

Technical session

  • Technical news
  • A report from the WordPress Community Summit by Simon Wheatley
  • A talk or presentation (TBD)
  • Questions & Answers

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, let us know at our Meetup page.

 

MWUG is run by Mike Little (http://zed1.com), co-founder of WordPress with Matt Mullenweg (http://ma.tt/about), 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 page https://www.facebook.com/manchester.wordpress.user.group or join our MeetUp group https://www.meetup.com/ManchesterWordPressUserGroup.

See you at MWUG!

October Meeting: Wednesday 17th, 6.30-9pm, Madlab

October’s Manchester WordPress User Group, run by WordPress co-founder Mike Little, takes place at MadLab (https://madlab.org.uk) on Wednesday, October 17th from 6.30pm to 9pm.

The Agenda includes: NOTE: We will be continuing with the split session idea. The evening will be split into two sessions with a general session from 6.30 through to 7.30 and a development/technical session from 8pm through to 9.

General Session

  • WordPress News
  • A talk or presentation (TBD)
  • Questions & Answers
  • Troubleshooting session
  • A Chance to show off your WordPress site

Technical session

  • Technical news
  • A talk or presentation (TBD)
  • Questions & Answers

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, let us know at our Meetup page.

 

MWUG is run by Mike Little (http://zed1.com), co-founder of WordPress with Matt Mullenweg (http://ma.tt/about), 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 page https://www.facebook.com/manchester.wordpress.user.group or join our MeetUp group https://www.meetup.com/ManchesterWordPressUserGroup.

See you at MWUG!