WordPress Melbourne July 2011 Meetup

Our regular monthly meetup, including free pizza (provided by Envato (http://www.envato.com/)).

6:30pm for a 6:45pm start.

The agenda is as follows:

WordPress News
A new monthly feature where the group openly discusses what's new in the WordPress arena in the last month.

WordPress Job Opportunities

An opportunity for attendees to let the group know about any job vacancies/opportunities in the WordPress industry.

WordPress Job Seekers

An opportunity for attendees to let the group know if they are looking for work in the WordPress industry.

Creating a More Flexible WordPress Petition Plugin - Chris Chinchilla & Tim Norton
Whilst creating petition sites for not-for-profit campaign organisations, both Chris & Tim found the existing petition type plugins were limiting and didn't tick all the boxes, so over time they both tweaked a plugin to create something flexible, more interactive and robust. They will talk us through things such as what were the problems/limitations with the existing plugins, what changes they introduced, how long it took, and their plans to open source the new plugin.

About Chris Chinchilla
Ex Indie Rockstar, into sharing what he's passionate about: technology, the web, the environment, inspiring ideas and the democratisation of them all.

About Tim Norton
The Online Campaigns Co-ordinator for Oxfam Australia. He is also the Creative Director for A New Leaf Media, and was previously media adviser to the Australian Greens Senators.

Managed WordPress Hosting Solutions - Andrew Davis
Reliable hosting your WordPress website is very important. Andrew investigates the leading WordPress hosting solutions, including http://page.ly/ and http://wpengine.com/ .

He describes why they can be much better than shared web hosting solution, and even virtual server or dedicated server solutions.

Andrew will take us through his experience with using Page.ly for hosting a WordPress website.

About Andrew Davis
Andrew is passionate about technology and making it useful for non-techies. Andrew provides small-medium businesses with solutions based on WordPress and Google Apps.

Open Discussion and Socialising

At the nearby Sherlock Holmes pub.