News Archives - WordUp Pompey!

February 16, 2023

CMS percentage statistics

As WordPress approaches 20 years of age ( 27th May ) it may be interesting to see some charts of how popular WordPress is Content Management System (CMS) wise. Here are two to get started. These show the absolute usage of WordPress websites. The market share – percentage of websites which implement a CMS – […]
July 21, 2021

WebP

WordPress 5.8 now supports WebP files.
July 10, 2021

WordFest 2021
23 July 2021

We are pleased to be a community partner for #WordFestLive – the festival of WordPress. Lots of great activities for the 2nd edition at the event starting on 23 July 2021. Join us there by registering at WordFest. Tickets are free! There is an optional $10 donation that can be made when registering. WordFest Live […]
January 18, 2021

Calling all local WordPress agencies in 2021

Towards the end of 2019, we published this blog post “Calling all local WordPress agencies”. In this post we outlined our objective to double the number of WordPress Portsmouth Meetup members from 130 to 260. Well, We didn’t quite achieve the target – membership on Jan 18th is 242. Our growth was not in response […]
July 16, 2020

#OnlineWPMeetup
the next 6 months

For the remaining 6 months of 2020, the WordPress Portsmouth Meetup will remain online. I ( Herb ) will be creating the Events on Meetup.com and the website in due course. The proposed events are as follows. DateTitleSpeakers / Notes22 July 2020How to build a WordPress website – Part TwoPaul Tansom and Scott McKeown19 August […]
January 14, 2019

Third Wednesday
7pm
Technopole Portsmouth

From Jan 2019 the WordPress Portsmouth Meetup will now be held on the third Wednesday of the month. Same time – 19:00 to 21:00 and same place – The Technopole, Portsmouth
April 19, 2018

Belated report from WordUp Pompey! March 2018

The WordPress Portsmouth Meetup in March 2018 took the form of a clinic where people briefly described their immediate problems then we teamed up to help solve them. In case there were no problems I prepared 4 problems associated with our Meetup group’s websites. https://www.slideshare.net/bobbingwide/wordup-pompey-march-2018 Suffice it to say We didn’t need them. I have […]
October 20, 2017

WordUp Pompey!
6 years old today

WordUp Pompey!’s first meeting was held 6 years ago today in Old Portsmouth. The WordPress meetups themselves lasted just under a year, but the website has remained. I’d like to restart a WordPress meetup for Portsmouth, South Hampshire, West Sussex or wherever. Somewhere nearer than Brighton, Bournemouth and London But I don’t really want to […]
December 2, 2015

WordUp Pompey! may be back in 2016

OK, so we didn’t make it back in 2015 but we’re still thinking about reforming for 2016.
October 30, 2014

WordUp Pompey! may be back in 2015

It’s been a long time since the last WordUp Pompey! We’re thinking of restarting in 2015. In the mean time, if you’re based in Portsmouth and are keen on PHP then why not take a look at PHPHants.