March 2020 -Meetup Resources and Notes

Links and More related to our Feb Meetup

General Notices

COVID-19 response

At this stage it is unlikely that we will go ahead with the April meetup in the normal format, and the current health crisis may affect future meetups as well.

New recommendations for event organizers in light of COVID-19
The official response from the WordPress Project’s community team.

Some members have suggested exploring an online format – We will look into this option, however it presents some significantly different requirements than hosting a traditional meetup (decent bandwidth for streaming, microphones etc) so this may not be suitable.

Call for Speakers / Volunteers

As we mentioned at the meetup, we’ve got some of the pieces in place to make 2020 a great year for WordPress Adelaide, but we need your help.

If you’d like to give back to the community via a donation of your time, then please check out the Get Involved page for more information.

Call for Sponsors

Unfortunately things cost money – as a result of increased venue costs and our desire to do more events throughout the year, we’re putting out the call for sponsors.

If you know a business that might be interested, then please ask them to get in touch via our Sponsoring WP Adelaide page.

Photo by WordPress Adelaide member Shannon Taheny

User Presentation – WordCamp Sydney Recap by Shannon Taheny

Shannon gave a great presentation about her experiences at WordCamp Sydney 2019. Take a look at her slides, which include links to many of the presentations she discussed.

Link to Slides.com presentation deck

You can find more great resources, including previous presentations at the following places.

Developer Presentation – scripts and create-block by Alex Bishop

The developer presentation was more interactive, without a slideshow, and covered the @wordpress/scripts and @wordpress/create-block NPM packages.

@wordpress/scripts is designed to be added to existing projects and offers reusable components, libraries and a build process to get you up and running quickly. If you already have a plugin, or a custom theme, and want add your own custom blocks, this is probably the best way to go.

@wordpress/create-block creates a custom plugin for your block. It’s target market is people who want to make their own custom-block plugin, and is geared to do single-block plugins out of the box. It’s pretty easy to scale this up to multiple blocks within the plugin.

Some other helpful links on this topic…

Thanks to everyone who came down, our speakers and the Duke of Brunswick Staff for being so accomodation. We’ll keep you update about next month’s meetup, but at this stage it’s unlikely to go ahead in a physical form.