February 2017 Meeting: Wednesday 15th, 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, the 15th from 6.30pm to 9pm.

Note: this month we are continuing with the successful clinic format to try to help more of you in the ways you’ve asked us.

Timings and Agenda:

  • 18:30 — Prompt start – WordPress news – Kayleigh Thorpe  – Galleries and Image Optimisation
  • 18:45 — Q&A – for topic covered and Mike’s WP update
  • 19:00 — WP clinic – bring your laptop and get the hands on help you need
  • 20:15 — In Depth Talk – John Cooper  – Real World Clients
  • 21:00 — End
Anyone with any experience of WordPress is welcome, whether you’ve only 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.

Mike Little (https://mikelittle.org), 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.

See you at MWUG!

January 2017 Meeting: Wednesday 18th, 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, the 18th from 6.30pm to 9pm.

Note: this month we are continuing with the successful clinic format to try to help more of you in the ways you’ve asked us.

Timings and Agenda:

  • 18:30 — Prompt start –  Talk: John Cooper  – Podcasting with WordPress
  • 18:45 — Q&A – for topic covered and Mike’s WP update
  • 19:00 — WP clinic – bring your laptop and get the hands on help you need
  • 20:15 — In Depth Talk: Jonny A – Making WordPress Menus Smarter
  • 21:00 — End
Anyone with any experience of WordPress is welcome, whether you’ve only 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.

Mike Little (https://mikelittle.org), 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.

See you at MWUG!

December 2016 Xmas party: Wednesday 21st, 6.30-9pm, Madlab

December’s Manchester WordPress User Group Christmas Meetup, run by WordPress co-founder Mike Little and this year is being hosted be Siobhan Hancock and Tom J Nowell. Come and join us! It will be taking place at MadLab (https://madlab.org.uk) on Wednesday, the 21st from 6.30pm to 9pm.

Agenda:

As it’s our Christmas Doo, the agenda will be a little different this year. We will be having a quick talon’t have any talks but will be using this chance to socialise and meet your fellow attendees, over pizza, beer and mince pies, kindly provided by local hosting company 34SP.com

We will still be holding our WordPress clinic. Feel free to bring your laptops and share your problems and we will be happy to help. All WordPress enthusiasts are welcome. Come and join us whether it’s your first time or you are a regular, we look forward to celebrating a great year in WordPress together!

Graphic of Snowflakes and the WordPress logo

2017 Call for speakers

Ever thought about speaking at an event? Perhaps you’d like to gain experience talking at MWUG in 2017? MWUG Manchester WordPress User Group is a small friendly crowd of around 40/50 people and we are always looking for new contributors and fresh ideas. We are based at Madlab in Manchester’s Northern Quarter and meet every third Wednesday of the month

You don’t have to be a WordPress developer or a designer! Everyone is welcome. If you are a WordPress user and have a favourite plugin that you’d like to tell the world about or a theme that you like, we would love to hear about it!

If you know you would like to speak but are stuck for ideas we have some ideas Non WordPress based talks are welcomed too. Apply to speak at MWUG 2017

Photograph of MWUG Attendees

November 2016 Meeting: Wednesday 16th, 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, the 16th from 6.30pm to 9pm.

Note: this month we are continuing with the successful clinic format to try to help more of you in the ways you’ve asked us.

Timings and Agenda:

  • 18:30 — Prompt start –  WordPress news – Review of Upcoming WordPress 4.7
  • 18:45 — Q&A – for topic covered and Mike’s WP update
  • 19:00 — WP clinic – bring your laptop and get the hands on help you need
  • 20:15 — In Depth Talk – Tim Nash – Something technical
  • 21:00 — End
Anyone with any experience of WordPress is welcome, whether you’ve only 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.

Mike Little (https://mikelittle.org), 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.

See you at MWUG!

October MWUG Meetup highlights – Thanks for coming!

Another great month of talks at our October MWUG Meetup! This month we saw Sue Fernandes and Rob Blake take the stage to talk Woocommerce and roots.io. We’ve already received great feedback from some of our attendees on the talks so a big thank you to Sue and Rob, we really enjoyed it!

Latest WordPress announcements

The start of the evening saw Mike announce the latest WordPress news. WPTavern is a great resource for anyone looking to keep up to date with WordPress.

WordPress Translation Day

After the success of the first ever WordPress Translation Day which MWUG members took part in and arranged earlier this year, Polyglots team have a announced a second Global WordPress Translation Day to take place in November 

REST API updates

The WordPress REST API team announced a proposal to merge the API endpoints into the WordPress 4.7 release. To see more about this visit WordPress.org

WordCamp Manchester

Well done to the organisers! WordCamp Manchester 2016, held on Saturday 22nd October at MMU went to plan. It was executed brilliantly so thank you to the organisers. A great place for the community to meet and enjoy talks from WordPress users and experts around the globe and also provides a chance to give back with contributor day. Thanks to Claire and her fellow organisers for a very memorable event. We look forward to next year.

…and onto the rest of the evening

Headshot of Sue Fernandes

Sue Fernandes kicked off with the first talk of the night ‘How to set up a Woocommerce site in 20 mins’. Sue is a WordPress Specialist, specialising in custom themes, training, WordPress maintenance and rebranding. She often gets involved with us at MWUG and is very easy to talk to. A perfect example of the type of person you will meet by joining us and another great reason to come along and get that help you’ve been after!

Finally Rob Blake gave a presentation on Roots.io, and how you can use it’s open-source tools for WordPress development. He used Trellis to create a WordPress LEMP stack, along with Bedrock (WordPress project boilerplate) and the Sage WordPress theme that comes with Roots.

Rob demonstrated the power of using Bedrock to set up his three areas – development, staging and production. He also gave a live demonstration of Ansible – a deployment tool for creating and managing servers using his own pre-set configuration. Rob used this powerful tool to set his server up at the click of a button and coupled with the site he developed in roots he had created a server with WordPress in a very short session.

Our next meeting is on Wednesday 16th November 2016 at Madlab Manchester