wp-hooked is a forum/meetup for WordPress theme and/or plugin developers in London to get together and share issues, ideas and tips about WordPress. Our aim to create a developer led meet-up that helps encourage ideas and facilitate problem solving.
The format will be a developer surgery, where people can bring ideas and problems for the group to talk about and/or work through.
To take part in the sessions you should join the meetup group.
You can use this website to submit an intro to your idea/problem, other members of the group will then be able to vote up their favourites so there is a democratic process to deciding what we cover.
The member who proposed the top ideas/problems will then be invited to do a short (5-10min) intro to it and then we will open it up to the group.
We are excited about the new group and hope you are too :)
August wp-hooked
Photos by Emily Webber
This month we looked at: Todd Halfpenny’s idea Improving Widget Admin Area and ways that as a group we might put forward suggestions to core, and Scott Cariss’ Custom Post Type Structuring, both now in the archive section. Updates from Todd and Scott on those soon.
We also discussed other wp-hooked related things:
Updates to the wp-hooked website
- Add a section for developers to invite others to work on plugins / projects with each other, we’ll get onto this shortly.
- General tweaks: there are a few bits of the site that aren’t quite where they could be, if anyone wants to get involved in updating it, let Emily or Ross know and we’ll get you access to the github project.
Managing the meetups
- If anyone wants to get more involved in organising the surgery sessions or has ideas for other sessions under the wp-hooked banner let Emily know.
Ideas for future surgery sessions
- To keep these monthly surgery meetups going, don’t forget to add ideas for sessions. They can be very specific or general conversation starters. You can submit ideas over here.
wp-hooked: the second meetup
Photos by Emily Webber
Thanks to everyone who journeyed to the Dachis Group offices in Shad thames for our second meetup (full list of attendees are over here: http://www.meetup.com/wp-hooked/events/69785892). It’s already shaping up to be a great regular meetup which some great WordPress discussions.
We followed the same format as last time, where we picked the top 2 ideas as voted by the wp-hooked website members, which were introduced by the people who submitted them, then the group split into 2 so smaller groups could discuss them further. We then met up again to chat through our findings.
This month we had Paul Gibbs’ session on Rewrite rules, rewrite tags, and endpoints and Steve Taylor’s session on Integrating a GitHub plugin with the WP SVN repo. They are both planning some write up which they will share on the comments of the respective posts.
I look forward to seeing you all again next month 
wp-hooked the first meetup
Photos by Emily Webber
Thanks to everyone that made it to the first meetup. It was fantastic to get such great WordPress heads together in a room.
The session started with some introductions round the table (the full list of attendees are on the meetup page http://www.meetup.com/wp-hooked/events/66133762 locked to members of the meetup group), then Ken Snyder and Ross Tweedie took the floor to explain their issues, which were the top voted on this site for the session.
The group then split into two, one group discussing Ken’s issue Extending WP’s Data Model and the other Ross’ Find it difficult to see what is happening in plugins, everyone then regrouped to talk about findings and add to each others’ thoughts.
Ken and Ross are due to write up some notes so conversations on each topic can continue on the relevant ideas page.
We also had the chance to have a look at dxw‘s project Whippet, which I will ask them to write up about soon.
