Agenda for the WordPress Portsmouth Meetup in September 2018. Run as a clinic. Includes items addressed in the previous clinic in July.

1. Welcome to
WordUp Pompey!
20th
September 2018
Agenda
19:00 Networking – disclose your problems
19:30 Clinic
? Pizza
20:45 Wrap up
21:00 Social at Sovereigns
@wppompey
#wp-pompey
Www.wp-pompey.org.uk
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2. Sponsors
All year - Venue sponsor
RedIT @reditcouk
UK based shared Web Hosting and
Domain registration
Scott McKeown
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)
September - Pizza sponsor
WordPress plugins @oikplugins
Herb Miller
@herb_miller
@bobbingwide
@sharedbigram

3. Clinic
Did you remember to bring your laptop / tablet and your problems for some
hands on problem solving?
Lightning talks and show and tells invited from participants,
particularly for solved problems.
Last time...
Problems Who Resolved?
Using menus as sub menus Herb Yes. Menu-in-menu plugin
In checkout 301 redirects - where is it done? ?
Google PageSpeed Insights says
“Eliminate Render Blocking JS”
How?
Adrian https://www.wpbeginner.com/w
p-tutorials/how-to-fix-render-
blocking-javascript-and-css-in-
wordpress/
Style html with CSS and tablepress Andrew ?
Is WordPress slow? Andrew Not according to GTMetrix
Use WP Rocket
Migrating hand built HTML to WordPress Paul Steps: split, sanitize, structure,
sample.

4. Clinic
In case you can't think of any problems to solve.
Problems Who?
When's pizza. Who wants what? Herb & Drew
What happens if I use both Autoptimize and W3 Total Cache?
Do I need both?
Herb & Stephen
WooCommerce Product Search – can someone relate experiences /
demo?
Herb
Google Analytics – what's the easiest solution? Herb

5. Coming up
Other news
● Still no plan for WordPress 5.0...
https://make.wordpress.org/core/5-0
●Thanks again to our venue sponsor redIT
18 Oct – Switching from Canvas to Storefront
with @herb_miller
15 Nov - tbc
20 Dec – Social and/or security clinic
Follow up from Feb & May