WordPress Glasgow Meetup

By the Community, For the Community.

Talks

Useful Accessibility Tools

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Graham Armfield

When you are building a site there are lots (and lots) of things you have to consider. One area that often gets left behind is that of accessibility. In which case, how useful would be to have some useful accessibility tools at your disposal?

Join us online on Wednesday 7 June (18:30) for our next WP Glasgow MeetUp.

Sign up for the MeetUp

Graham Armfield is an acknowledged authority on making websites accessibility to everyone.
So we are fortunate to have him available to us as a speaker for this MeetUp.

Graham will be identifying some of the useful accessibility tools available to you which will help you make your site accessible to all. Some of these are plug-ins but a lot of these are behaviours and processes that you can adopt to increase your audience size, simply by making it easier to read and navigate.
Join us for an online, Zoom-based MeetUp.

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Hosted once again by 34SP, the UK-based hosting company.

Core Web Vitals

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“Core Web Vitals” are definitely going to be a ‘thing’ in 2021.
In May 2021 Google will be adding extra metrics to how it evaluates websites in the future. The last I heard was that there may be a (short) delay before it is deployed but that is no excuse for you not to have prepared for it.

You can register to attend this presentation here. Those who have registered will see the Zoom link to enable your access.

If you are interested in how you can help nudge your site up the Google rankings then this talk will be of great help to you.

An online presentation by Kayleigh Thorpe of 34SP.


Our thanks to 34SP for hosting this MeetUp.

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Block Editor — hints & tips

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The next WP Glasgow MeetUp is scheduled for

6 April 2021
from 6:30pm

It’s an online meetup and the link to the Zoom call is available if you RSVP to the MeetUp at the link above.

This month’s MeetUp is a talk from Jeremy Davis on the WordPress Block Editor ⚊ known as ‘Gutenberg’ — with some hints and tips on how to use it.

Access to this talk is via the WP Glasgow MeetUp. Please register there so we know who to send the Zoom link to.

The WP Glasgow MeetUp

During the pandemic, the WP Glasgow MeetUp — like most MeetUp groups — has gone online. Over 100 individuals taking part during lockdown. A combination of talks and workshops helps spread the word on how WordPress can simplify the process of getting a website up and running.

We start gathering after 6:15pm and any talk we do will begin at 6:30. Talks are usually 30 to 40 minutes long and there is plenty of time to ask questions at the end.

WordPress powers over one-third of all the websites on the internet. It’s a free tool that allows you to create great looking websites without compromising your content. You can even change your site’s ‘look’ without having to re-do all your content again.

Supported by…

The WP Glasgow online MeetUps are hosted by 34SP who have provided us with the means to hold Zoom Meetups that last more than 40 minutes (!)

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We appreciate their support.

Starting Strong with WordPress

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Kayleigh Thorpe is Starting Strong with WordPress
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This is a talk about about setting up a website. As a WordPress Specialist at 34SP, Kayleigh Thorpe has been asked ALL the questions about starting a WordPress website… even some sensible ones!! If you follow her guidelines you are starting strong with WordPress.

In this 30-40 minute talk, Kayleigh will describe how she goes about setting up a website — the Plugins she instals first, what she looks for in a Theme, the security steps she takes first.

This could be just be the nudge you need to finally get your website up and running. See you online.

Access to this talk is via the WP Glasgow MeetUp. Please register there so we know who to send the Zoom link to.

The WP Glasgow MeetUp

During the pandemic, the WP Glasgow MeetUp — like most MeetUp groups — has gone online. Over 100 individuals taking part during lockdown. A combination of talks and workshops helps spread the word on how WordPress can simplify the process of getting a website up and running.

Generally we meet on the fourth Tuesday of every month. It can vary but that is what we aim for. We start gathering at 6pm and any talk we do will begin at 6:30. Talks are usually 30 to 40 minutes long and there is plenty of time to ask questions at the end.

And this month (July) it’s aimed at people who are relatively new to the WordPress experience. ‘Starting Strong with WordPress’ is intended to provide a path through the jargon and patter that inevitably accompanies such a venture.

WordPress powers over one-third of all the websites on the internet. It’s a free tool that allows you to create great looking websites without compromising your content. You can even change your site’s ‘look’ without having to re-do all your content again.

Supported by…

The WP Glasgow online MeetUps are hosted by 34SP who have provided us with the means to hold Zoom Meetups that last more than 40 minutes (!)

34SP logo

We appreciate their support.

WP Glasgow MeetUp — online

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24 March 6:30pm sharp.
WP Glasgow has its first online MeetUp and, as it’s just been pulled together at the last minute, it should be interesting! Derek York will provide an introduction to CSS — what it is and how to make use of it on your WordPress website.

It turns out that “May you live in interesting times” is not an ancient curse at all but, instead, a bit of 19th Century fiction. But hey, what are these times if not ‘interesting’? So as I am writing this, we are putting together a MeetUp, using Zoom and it might just be a little bit rough around the edges.

I guess we are all going to have to get used to more online events in the immediate future. One-to-ones are OK and so, too, are the ‘chalk and talk’ presentation type. How one chairs a virtual meeting, however, particularly one in which many people might want to speak, is a new experience for me. So you are more than welcome to join the WP Glasgow MeetUp… just don’t build up your expectations too high for tonight as I bumble around the tech. and try and ensure that everyone gets a say!

Elementor Pro and me

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A designer’s perspective

Next up is a WordPress Talk about the
Elementor Pro page builder
featuring Angela Wassell on
Tuesday, 26th November 2019 from 18:00 until 20:30

Scottish Youth Theatre
The Old Sheriff Court, 105 Brunswick Street,
Glasgow, G1 1TF

Elementor Pro is one of the main players in the Page Builder market. If you came to our Beaver Builder presentation back in September, here is a chance to make a comparison. If you didn’t, then it’s an opportunity to see how Elementor is being used in the real world and ask Angela Wassell some questions about it.

Angela Wassell is a freelance graphic designer who has been using Elementor professionally for a while and will talk us through her experiences with it.

Register now on the WP Glasgow MeetUp page. Nothing formal but at least it gives us an idea of how many sandwiches to order!

We look forward to seeing you here.

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