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June Meeting: Wednesday 19th, 6.30-9pm, Madlab

Mike Little — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 23:54:50 +0000

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

The Agenda includes:

General Session (6.30 — 7.30)

WordPress News
Talk: TBD
Questions & Answers
General Discussion

Break for networking, etc.

Technical session (8.00 — 9.00)

Technical news
Talk: The Base Ingredients of Debugging by Jenny Wong
Questions & Answers

Details of Jenny's Talk

As any web developer will know, love it or hate it, we all need to debug at some point. Whether it be an error in HTML syntax or invalid database queries.

There are basic debugging rules and structures which can or do make all of our lives a little easier. This talk is aimed toward beginners, and intends to convey basic debugging skills utilising HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP. Not only will the skill-sets be covered, but also the mindset required in understanding why developing debug-fu is a great asset in any development role.

As a fresh entrant into a development role, all too often you will hear the phrase “”just debug it”", without necessarily owning the knowledge to carry this out in most circumstances, or know why it’s even necessary.

When your role involves work with multiple languages and development environments, it can be very hard to know where to begin. The talk will be based on my own experience, from discovering and evaluating solutions within real life scenarios.

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 (http://groups.google.com/group/manchester-wordpress-user-group), check out our website (http://mwug.info), follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/mwug), join us on Linked In (http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Manchester-Wordpress-User-Group-3125011), like our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/manchester.wordpress.user.group or join our MeetUp group http://www.meetup.com/ManchesterWordPressUserGroup.

See you at MWUG!

Short link: http://z1.tl/11v

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May Meetup Notes

Mike Little — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:43:26 +0000

Simon Owen has again written some notes from the May MWUG meeting, including links to the plugins I mentioned during the evening. Thanks Simon.

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

Short link: http://z1.tl/11s

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WordPress Birthday Party Reminder!

Simon Wheatley — Sat, 18 May 2013 11:12:46 +0000

A quick reminder: if you’d like to come to the WordPress 10th Anniversary Party (Cake! Drinks! WordPress!), please respond on the Meetup page here.

Short link: http://z1.tl/11r

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April Meetup Report

Mike Little — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:05:14 +0000

Simon Owen wrote up some notes from the April MWUG meeting, including links to the code I demonstrated during the technical session. Thanks Simon.

If anyone else has a writeup of this (or any other meetings), please let me know (via he contact form or the comments); I’ll happily link to them from here.

Short link: http://z1.tl/11q

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May Meeting: Wednesday 15th, 6.30-9pm, Madlab

Mike Little — Thu, 02 May 2013 22:13:24 +0000

May’s Manchester WordPress User Group, run by WordPress co-founder Mike Little, takes place at MadLab (http://madlab.org.uk) on Wednesday, May 15th from 6.30pm to 9pm.

The Agenda includes:

General Session (6.30 — 7.30)

WordPress News
Talk: Mike Little – TBD
Questions & Answers
A Chance to show off your WordPress site

Technical session (8.00 — 9.00)

Technical news
Talk: Development Tools and Plugins (Mike Little)
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.

See you at MWUG!

Short link: http://z1.tl/11p

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WordPress 10th Anniversary Party (with cake) – 27th May

Simon Wheatley — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:40:41 +0000

Who likes cake? Who likes WordPress? Who wants to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of WordPress with cake?

My company, Code For The People, and Human Made (from over the hills in Derbyshire), and possibly some others from west of Manchester are putting on a WordPress 10th Anniversary party, with the one, the only, Mike Little, WordPress co-founder, at The Function Room, upstairs in Odder Bar on Oxford Rd, Manchester on Monday 27th May.

We’d love to see as many of the Manchester WordPress User Group members as can come, and other WordPress users of course, so please RSVP on the Meetup page here.

So far our plans involve food, drinks, cake… and we’re working on other activities (suggestions welcome).

Hopefully see you there!

Short link: http://z1.tl/11o

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

Mike Little — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 11:24:48 +0000

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

The Agenda includes:

General Session (6.30 — 7.30)

WordPress News
Talk: The recent BotNet attack and WordPress Security
Questions & Answers
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.

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.

See you at MWUG!

Short link: http://z1.tl/11m

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

Mike Little — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:26:02 +0000

March’s Manchester WordPress User Group, run by WordPress co-founder Mike Little, takes place at MadLab (http://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.

See you at MWUG!

Short link: http://z1.tl/11l

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

Mike Little — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:35:58 +0000

February’s Manchester WordPress User Group, run by WordPress co-founder Mike Little, takes place at MadLab (http://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!

See you at MWUG!

Short link: http://z1.tl/11j

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

Mike Little — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:30:47 +0000

January’s Manchester WordPress User Group, run by WordPress co-founder Mike Little, takes place at MadLab (http://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.

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

See you at MWUG!

Short link: http://z1.tl/11g

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