On Saturday, April 11, the second Women Talking WordPress event was held. Eight women and four facilitators gathered at BCIT for the workshop on how to develop a talk for WordPress Meetup, WordCamp or any tech event. Women Talking WordPress started last year as a way to encourage more women to speak at talk events. […]
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Developer Meetup: Grunt and WordPress
This week we had Curtis McHale talk about Grunt and some of his favourite Grunt tools. Here are his slides. His last slide has some excellent resources for learning more about Grunt. Here is the github repo from his presentation. If you missed the presentation check out his commit history in the dev branch to […]
WPYVR Meta Meetup
Happy Friday the 13th! On January 29, a group of WordPress Meetup enthusiasts had a Meetup about the Vancouver WordPress Meetup: A Meta Meetup if you will. The Meta Meetup was called to talk about the future of the WPYVR Meetup and where we’d all like to see it go. Meeting Summary We agreed that […]
Get More Out of Gravity Forms with Mandi Wise: General Meetup May 15
If you’ve worked with WordPress for a while you likely know Gravity Forms. But do you really know Gravity Forms? Mandi Wise sure does, and in the May edition of the Vancouver WordPress Meetup Group’s General Meetup she shared her insight gained from working on a nomination and voting website for Small Business BC. Custom post […]
Backbone Themin’ with Zack Tollman: Developer Meetup April 17th
The first Developer meetup has come and gone and it was a great way to launch the developer centric track of the meetup. Zack Tollman from The Theme Foundry came up from Portland Oregon to give an amazing lab style presentation about using Backbone.js in WordPress theming. Backbone.js has been included in WordPress since 3.5 but […]
Roundtable Roundup: General Meetup April 10
The first Roundtable of the year was a conglomeration of a WordPress 3.9 walk-through and following group Q&A. Here is an incomplete synopsis: WordPress 3.9: What’s New WordPress 3.9 is scheduled for release in 4 days and Morten showed off some of the highlights of what is to come including Widget selection and customization from […]