August 2019: WordCamp Lehigh Valley

This week we welcomed Joe Casabona author of Responsive Web Design with WordPress. The slides for the night can be found on slideshare.net (it’s the 4th presentation on the side menu) Joe gave this talk at WordCamp Philly in 2014 Ah bummer, looks like the video isn’t being embedded. It’s cool. you can Watch it…

Here are the topics we’ll hit at tonight’s meetup. WordPress 4.9 updates http://www.wpbeginner.com/news/whats-new-in-wordpress-4-9/ What is WordPress.org Creating a Profile on WordPress.org / joining WordPress.org slack https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/2017/10/03/slack-101-connecting-with-other-wordcampers-on-slack/ Gutenburg https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ Morten Rand-Hendriksen: Gutenberg and the WordPress of Tomorrow State of the Word from WCUS 2017 Recap articles https://wptavern.com/wpweekly-episode-297-wordcamp-us-2017-recap https://poststatus.com/matt-mullenweg-state-word-2017/?mc_cid=3aa12e0657&mc_eid=290a23d1c3

Last nights meetup was great. Good conversations about mishaps with WordPress and computers in general! Lessons learned, accepting payments on your site can have many caveats, it’s always ok, and sometime necessary to hire someone better then you to fix something and avoid too much overhead! Here are some links we shared last night.https://restrictwithstripe.com/https://www.make.com/enhttps://ifttt.com/https://gravitywiz.com/https://anchor.host/https://www.netlify.com/https://www.godaddy.com/help/invite-a-delegate-to-access-my-godaddy-account-12376

Our meetup was happy to have Jonathan Desrosiers, Co-Release Coordinator for the next release of WordPress. WP 5.8 is scheduled for release July 20, 2021.

Many thanks to our speaker and host Ken Unangst.  Ken’s Allentown company,  Digital Feast, is doing some awesome work in the area of video on the web and digital storytelling!   This was a wonderful presentation not only of what is being done now with video and the web but what the future may look like!

Many thanks to Liam Dempsey for sharing his method of working with Bitbucket and the GitHub desktop application. For reference you can find Liam’s slides here.