Tag: hamilton

  • February 2021 Meetup – Need for Speed

    Alas, Keanu was not at our February meetup. But Richard (Rick) Rudy was, and he led us through WordPress performance improvements including caching, image and asset optimization, and CDNs. Starting in May, Google will be using Core Web Vitals as a (small) ranking factor. Many of our meetup participants have been wondering how to improve…

  • January 2021 Meetup – 3 Pages in 30 Minutes: Using the WordPress Block Editor

    Our first meetup of 2021 had the highest attendance of any Hamilton WordPress meetup to date. Our speaker was Shanta Nathwani who shared how to create your home, about and contact pages in 30 minutes using Gutenberg blocks. Special thanks to Kiera Howe from Samurai WP who hosts this site and who also provided us…

  • Want To Speak at Our Meetup?

    We’re looking at doing this for a while virtually, and we’d love to get you on our roster! You don’t even have to be from Hamilton, Ontario, but we’d love to hear from you! We might even team up with other meetup groups to get a bigger attendance. If you’re interested, please submit your details…

  • August 2020 Meetup – SEO for Blogging 1010

    Looking back to our August 2020 Meetup, Natasha Burtenshaw-deVries (@natasha_bd) joined us as our guest speaker to talk about ‘SEO 101 for Blogging’. Covering everything from why websites should have a blog to WordPress plugins that can give them an SEO boost, she shared plenty of information and anecdotes for people who are both new…

  • Welcome to WordPress Hamilton!

    Welcome to WordPress Hamilton!

    We hope you’ll enjoy your time here and we encourage everyone to participate. We’re just working on getting all the pieces together, but hope that in the meantime you’ll join us. Here’s how: Join our Meetup Group: WordPress Canada Slack Team If you’re looking to connect with us outside of our meetups and connect with…