The WordPress Portsmouth Meetup in December 2018 was mostly about lean coffee and lightning talks.

1. Welcome to
WordUp Pompey!
20th December 2018
Agenda
19:00 Meet and greet
19:15 Introduction to…
19:30 Lean Coffee and Lightning Talks
20:15 Wrap Up – incl. 2019 plans
20:30 Social at Sovereigns
@wppompey
#wppompey – no hyphen!
Www.wp-pompey.org.uk
/About-wordpress-meetups/code-of-conduct/

2. Sponsors
Venue sponsor
RedIT
@reditcouk
Scott McKeown says
I'll offer a 25% discount on Web Hosting or
Virtual Servers to WordUp Pompey!
members entering wordup and 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

3. Lean Coffee and Lightning Talks
Lean Coffee - structured but
agenda less meetings
• Suggest topics
• Vote
• Discuss
Lightning Talks – to articulate
a topic in a quick, insightful
and clear manner
• 5-10 min talks
• Multiple speakers
• With/without slides

4. Meetups 2018
Date Attendees Joined Members Subject
Dec 11 1 93 Lean Coffee and Lightning Talks
Nov 15 6 92 Practical Security Workshop
Oct 12 2 86 Switching from Canvas to Storefront
Sep 14 5 84 Clinic
Aug 1 5 79 Summer break
Jul 10 4 74 Clinic
Jun 15 4 70 Introduction to Web Accessibility ( a11y )
May 10 7 66 Hacked Off - website security
Apr 19 11 59 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Mar 14 20 48 Clinic
Feb 13 9 28 Security: protecting your data and Gutenberg
Jan 10 19 19 Reboot

5. WordPress 5.0
Date WordPress
Classic
Editor Gutenberg
Twenty
Nineteen Other notable
5 v4.9.8 v0.5 v4.6.1
6 v5.0 v1.0 v1.0
7 v1.1
8 v1.2
9
10
11
12 v4.7
13
v5.0.1
v4.9.9 v1.3
14
15
16
17
18 v4.7.1 Yoast SEO 9.3
19 v1.1
20 v5.0.2 WooCommerce 3.5.3

6. WordPress plans for 2019
9 projects for 2019
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/12/08/9-priorities-for-2019/
2018 State of the word - Slides only:
https://www.slideshare.net/photomatt/wordpress-state-of-the-word-2018
2018 SOTW - Blog and video ( 52 mins):
https://ma.tt/2018/12/state-of-the-word-2018/
9 Jan 5.0.3
10 Jan 5.1 beta
7 Feb 5.1-RC1
21 Feb 5.1
6-7 Apr WordCamp London
17-19 Aug WordCamp Brighton

7. #wppompey plans for 2019
Date: 4th Tuesday of every month
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
At: Technopole, Kingston Crescent,
Portsmouth, PO2 8FA
Date Agenda Notes
Jan 22 Tbc
Feb 26 Tbc
Mar 26 Tbc

8. Merry Christmas
and a
Happy New Year
Thanks again to our venue sponsor @redIT
And to our new sponsor @34SP