Welcome to WordUp Pompey! 17th April 2019 @wppompey #wppompey – no hyphen! Www.wp-pompey.org.uk /About-wordpress-meetups/code-of-conduct/ Welcome to WordUp Pompey! for April 2019 Please conform to our code of conduct, which you can find on our website. This applies during the meeting and the social afterwards. Agenda 19:00 Meet, greet and eat 19:30 Useful Accessibility Tools with Graham Armfield @coolfields 20:30 Wrap Up – incl. more 2019 plans 20:45 Social at Sovereigns

Sponsors Venue sponsor Pizza / refreshment sponsor RedIT @reditcouk Scott McKeown says I'll offer a 25% discount on Web Hosting or Virtual Servers to WordUp Pompey! members entering wordup at checkout (that's for life by the way, not once) Pizza / refreshment sponsor 34SP @34sp Manchester, UK based website hosting. Free 3 month trial of WordPress hosting. Use code: WPPOMPEY Red IT have sponsored the Meetup ever since January 2018. https://redit.co.uk/aboutus 34SP have been sponsors since December 2018. https://www.34sp.com/wordpress-sponsorship

Useful Accessibility Tools With Graham Armfield @coolfields Coolfields Consulting - effective and accessible websites. Accessibility testing, consultancy and training. An introduction to Graham’s talk. Discover a selection of browser tools you can use for testing particular aspects of your website’s accessibility. He will include examples of how you can help make your sites easier for users who only have keyboard navigation access. He will also demonstrate to attendees WordPress plugins which can be used to fix some common accessibility problems found in a number of themes. Did you know that the word accessible was invented by William Shakespeare?

WordCamp London ( 6-7 April 2019 ) was Live Streamed. WordCamp London was Live Streamed over both days. Catch up today. https://2019.london.wordcamp.org/livestream/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNe-OTHwoVe10hGN8Ucvu4g

Complete the Mental Health & Well-being Survey 2019 If you haven’t already, and are part of the WordPress community please take a moment to complete the Mental Health & Well-being Survey 2019 Complete the Mental Health & Well-being Survey 2019 https://wpandup.org/go

Know your Wapuus For a bit of amusement try to identify some Wapuus. https://wapwho.com Know your Wapuus

Egg who? Ways to contribute to WordPress. Can you guess what the icons represent? Each one is associated with a particular team of WordPress contributors. https://make.wordpress.org Find these icons in the Contributions section of a user’s profile. https://profiles.wordpress.org/bobbingwide https://profiles.wordpress.org/drewwestcott https://profiles.wordpress.org/webcommsat

110 meetup members Some WordPress Meetup statistics. Key Now Last month Feb Countries 99 97 Groups 723 715 706 Members 359,828 352,975 345,416 Portsmouth 110 104 102 Brighton 558 554 546 Bournemouth 473 466 447 Exeter 226 220 201 Bristol 875 871 857 Tunbridge Wells 321 306 291 Some WordPress Meetup statistics. Could also include average attendees…according to meetup’s RSVPs.

WordPress plans for 2019 17 Apr 5.2 Release Candidate 25 Apr WordPress Bournemouth 26 Apr WordPress Brighton – Accessibility 30 Apr 5.2 2 May WordPress Tunbridge Wells 7 May WordPress Bristol – Problem Solving & Visual Site Map & Tasks 11 May 4th WordPress Translation Day https://wptranslationday.org 17-19 May WordCamp Bristol 20-22 Jun WordCamp Europe - Berlin 17-19 Aug WordCamp Brighton 1-3 Nov WordCamp US – St. Louis https://central.wordcamp.org/schedule/ https://make.wordpress.org/core/2019/02/19/wordpress-5-2-schedule-and-scope/ https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/12/08/9-priorities-for-2019/ WordPress releases, local WordPress meetups, some WordCamps and the priorities for 2019.

#wppompey plans for 2019 Date Agenda Notes May 15 Lightning Talks Part Two Two Factor Authentication, by Drew Westcott British Pteridological Society, by Andrew Leonard My Favourite Block, by Herb Miller Issues with the Duplication plugin, by Steve Wood Issues with Fasthosts and Namesco shared hosting, by Steve Wood Jun 19 Tbc Jul 17 Aug Summer Holiday Future speakers Gary Jones, Todd Halfpenny, Babs Saul, Dan Maby – by Hangouts ? Talks Copywriting with Lesley Hussell Editing Edge 3rd Wednesday of every month. Speakers to be confirmed for Jun to Sep Date: 3rd Wednesday of every month Start: 19:00 End: 21:00 At: Technopole, Kingston Crescent, Portsmouth, PO2 8FA

Thanks to our sponsors Thanks again to everyone for coming. Thanks again to our venue sponsor @reditcouk Thanks again to everyone for coming. To our organisers: Herb, Drew and Abha. To Scott and redIT for the venue and backup laptop. To 34SP for their sponsorship To oik-plugins / bobbing wide for previous sponsorship To the attendees. To the dormant WordPressers who have joined the meetup but not yet attended one. And to our new sponsor @34SP