November 14, 2019 — How to start and effectively run an event for youths. This interactive workshop will cover outreach, child care, possible formats dedicated to youths (both younger and older age groups), and legal considerations (wavers, insurance). We will work through a fast-paced taste of what a youth event can entail.

June 26, 2019 — A regular staple at the WordPress Halifax Meetup is ‘Plugin Roundups’: a fun, interactive way to to shout out your favourite plugin, what it does, and any tips. Lead by Crystal Picard and Shawn Hooper.

May 29, 2018 — Hello! Hola! Bonjour! Does your institution serve students that speak different languages? If so, maybe your website should too! In this session we’ll compare different solutions for publishing content in multiple languages using WordPress, and what impact having a multilingual site could have on your site’s content and design.
In this session, we’ll cover:
* Terminology used when working in multiple languages
* Popular plugins for supporting multilingual content
* Creating PO files to add your own language to your plugins and themes
* Contributing to WordPress’ Polyglot team

December 10, 2017

December 1, 2017 — Hello! Hola! Bonjour! Does your institution serve students that speak different languages? If so, maybe your website should too! In this session we’ll compare different solutions for publishing content in multiple languages using WordPress, and what impact having a multilingual site could have on your site’s content and design.
In this session, we’ll cover:
– Terminology used when working in multiple languages
– Popular plugins for supporting multilingual content
– Creating PO files to add your own language to your plugins and themes
– Contributing to WordPress’ Polyglot team
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August 6, 2017 — The REST API can be used for so much more than front-end theme work, which is what many early demos used it for. Having used the API for lots of back-end work lately, Shawn will show you some of the things that he’s implemented at Actionable.co in hopes that you’ll start using the REST API in your next project.

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April 12, 2017 — WP-CLI is a set of command line tools for managing your WordPress site. It allows you to perform many tasks much quicker than you would be able to by other means. In this session, I will teach you how to get WP-CLI running, and show some of my favourite time saving features. Once you’ve started using WP-CLI, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it! This talk is appropriate for developers, designers and server administrators of all skill levels.

June 24, 2016 — WP-CLI is a set of command line tools for managing your WordPress site. It allows you to perform many tasks much quicker than you would be able to by other means. In this session, I will teach you how to get WP-CLI running, and show some of my favourite time saving features. Once you’ve started using WP-CLI, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it! This talk is appropriate for developers, designers and server administrators of all skill levels.

April 14, 2016 — Hello! Hola! Bonjour! Does your business serve customers that speak different languages? If so, your website should too! This session will teach you how to make your website multilingual. We’ll compare some of the plugins that add multilingual support to WordPress, talk about making themes & plugins multilingual ready, and anything else you may need to know to present your business to a global, multilingual community.

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December 22, 2015 — WP-CLI is a set of command line tools for managing your WordPress site. It allows you to perform many tasks much quicker than you would be able to by other means. In this session, I will teach you how to get WP-CLI running, and show some of my favorite time saving features. Once you’ve started using WP-CLI, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it! This talk is appropriate for developers, designers and server administrators of all skill levels.

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