Below is a list of previous WordPress Melbourne User Group presentations, and links to their slides/notes.
WordPress Melbourne User Group YouTube Video Channel
October 2015 Meetup
Dev Meetup
- WordPress Issues Tracking with Trac – Stephen Edgar
- Setting up WordPress so you can contribute to WordPress core – Aaron Rutley
- Contriobuting Code to WP Core – Peter Wilson
- Video (45 mins)
September 2015 Meetup
Dev Meetup
- How I Learned to be Ignorant (Video – 46 mins) – Josh Kinal
User Meetup
- Setting up a newsletter using Mailchimp – Fiona Brand
- Optin/Lead Capture Forms – Chris La Nauze
Warrandyte Meetup
- 40 of the Most Popular WordPress Plugins – Chris Burgess
August 2015 Meetup
Developer Meetup
- Imposter Syndrome is Costing you Money – Dee Teal
- Recovering imposter – I’m smarter than you – Gary Pendergast
- Video (34 mins)
User Meetup
- Building a Membership Site with WooCommerce Memberships – Anthony Hortin
- Video (37 mins)
July 2015 Meetup
Developer Meetup
- Workflow Tips For WordPress Theme Developers – Aaron Rutley
- WordPress Themes using TIMBER – Sam Brook
Warrandyte Meetup
- Web Hosting – Renato Luminati
May 2015 Meetup
User Meetup
- Getting to Grips with Firebug – Anthony Hortin
- CSS Basics Guide – Amelia Briscoe
April 2015 Meetup
Developer Meetup
- Responsive Images in WordPress – Joel Eade
- Seamless Updates for Premium WordPress Plugins – Elliot Condon
- Plugin code for Seamless Updates Presentation – Elliot Condon
User Meetup
- How to Choose A Theme For Your Site – Warren Denley
- Setting up and Managing Your Menus – Chris Burgess
- Video (50 mins)
March 2015 Meetup
Developer Meetup
- Writing Good (and Friendly) Code – Joey Kudish
- Plugin Auto-Updates Q&A – Gary Pendergast
- Video (43 mins)
Warrandyte Meetup
- 25 WordPress Plugins to Complement Your Site – Anthony Hortin
——- 2014 ——————————————
November 2014 Meetup
Developer Meetup
- WordCamp San Francisco & WooCommerce Conference Recap – Anthony Hortin
- Introduction to Vagrant & using it for WordPress development – James Bundey
- Introducing SportsPress with a Story Video – A Free League Management Plugin for WordPress – Brian Miyaji
September 2014 Meetup
User Meetup
- WordPress 4.0 – What’s New – Chris Burgess
- Getting Social with WordPress – James Bundey
- Video (53 mins)
August 2014 Meetup
User Meetup
- The Webmaster Tools Action Plan: The Top 5 Actions for Website Owners – Carol Poole, Swoop Digital
- Video (1 hr 21 mins)
Developer Meetup
- Theme & Plugin Localisation – Brian Miyaji, Themeboy
- Introduction to using Grunt & Bower with WordPress theme development – James Bundey, Creative Approach
- Grunt & Bower Demo Files – James Bundey, Creative Approach
- Creating a multilingual site with WPML – Anthony Hortin, Maddison Designs
- Video (1 hr 17 mins)
July 2014 Meetup
User Meetup
Developer Meetup
- Dev Meetup: Designing Delight – Ben Tollady and Ben Rowe, Thirst Studios
- Meetup Video (33 mins)
June 2014 Meetup
- User Meetup: Hardening WordPress – Chris Burgess
- User Meetup: Troubleshooting Your Site – Dee Teal & Anthony Hortin
- User Meetup: Meetup Video (1 hr 33 mins)
May 2014 Meetup
Developer Meetup
User Meetup
- User Meetup: WordPress Visual Editor Mastery – Anthony Hortin
- User Meetup: Preparing and Using Images in WordPress – Helena & Warren Denley
April 2014 Meetup
Developer Meetup
- Dev Meetup: Learning from Web Project Mistakes – a Case Study – Dee Teal
- Dev Meetup: Deciding to be wrong
- Dev Meetup: Grunt js and WordPress
User Meetup
- User Meetup: The Role Content Has In The Overall Objectives Of Your WordPress Website – Amelia Briscoe
- User Meetup: Mapping Out And Organizing Your Content – Andrew Renaut
- User Meetup: Meetup video (1 hr 14 mins)
March 2014 Meetup
Developer Meetup
- Dev Meetup: Collaborative Workflow for WordPress Development
– Ben Pearson and Joel Eade - Dev Meetup: Meetup Video (20 mins)
User Meetup
- User Meetup: Installing WordPress The Right Way – Chris Burgess
- User Meetup: WordPress Dashboard. The First Ten Minutes – Amelia Briscoe
- User Meetup: Meetup Video (1 hr 13 mins)
February 2014 Meetup
Developer Meetup
- Dev Meetup: Migrating a Site Quickly with SSH and WP-CLI – Japh Thomsom
- WordChicks: Google Webmaster Tools – Carol Poole
User Meetup
——- 2013 ——————————————
November 2013 Developers Meetup
- Meetup Video (91 mins)
- Introduction to SEO and SEO for WordPress – Chris Burgess, Peter Mead, Michael Jones
September 2013 Developers Meetup
- Meetup Video (131 mins)
- Meetup Slides – James Collins
- Do’s & dont’s for WordPress theme development – Anthony Hortin
- Client-friendly WordPress websites – Aaron Rutley
- Command Line WordPress with WP-CLI – James Collins
July 2013 Developers/Business Meetup
- Meetup Video (131 mins)
- Meetup Slides – James Collins
- Building Scalable WordPress Applications using Google’s App Engine – Amy Unruh and Stuart Langley, Google Sydney
- CSS Specificity, SMACSS and WordPress – Peter Wilson
- 101 Ways to Elevate Yourself and Demand Higher Fees – Troy Dean
- Meetup Video (56 mins)
- Creating a startup business site on WordPress for close to no-cost by a complete novice – Dihan Wijewickrama
- WordPress Memberships Websites – a twist on email marketing – Amelia Briscoe
- Meetup Video (85 mins)
- Meetup Slides – James Collins
- The Advanced Custom Fields Story – Elliot Condon
- Development Workflows, a narrative – Anthony Cole
- Meetup Slides – James Collins
- Pimp Your Site – An Introduction To Themes and Plugins – Warren Denley
- WordPress for Applications – Mat Michalik
- Submitting to the WordPress theme directory – Anthony Hortin
February 2013 Beginners Meetup
——- 2012 ——————————————
November 2012 Developers (Advanced/Tech) Meetup
- WordPress Queries the right way – Anthony Hortin
- Developing Custom WordPress Themes – Aaron Rutley
- Trust No One – A Guide To Plugin Security – Gary Pendergast
September 2012 Meetup: Lightning Talks
- Git for folk who like GUIs – Tim Osborn
- Project Show & Tell (showing some applications of responsive design, mapping, custom fields and posts) – Glenn Todd
- Using Adobe Shadow with WordPress on localhost – Joel Eade
- CiviCRM and WordPress – Chris Chinchilla
- Project Show & Tell (showing some applications of responsive design, mapping, custom fields and posts) – Glenn Todd
July 2012 Meetup: Lightning Talks
- Using a CDN with WordPress – Joel Eade
- Tips for handing over a wp site to a client – Sam Brook
- Securing WordPress – Chris Burgess
- Getting to grips with firebug – Anthony Hortin
——- 2011 ——————————————
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