Nathan Wrigley

Category: WordPress

  • #WPLDN – December 2025

    Join the fun at #WPLDN’s latest event featuring a unique AI contest, pub quiz, and quirky prizes for participants!

  • #WPLDN – November 2025

    #WPLDN is a meetup for WordPress enthusiasts where attendees enjoy pizza and drinks while learning from experts. Recent speakers Graham Armfield and Rhys Wynne discussed HTML accessibility advancements and Rhys’ freelancing experiences. We’re seeking 2026 sponsors and invite you all to a festive special on December 11, 2025, featuring an AI contest.

  • Have your own presence on the web

    A couple of years ago a friend of mine had his Facebook account suspended. No warning or reason given. Repeated attempts to contact their support were ignored. In the end he gave up and just decided not to use that platform any more. A little while later, I had a similar experience. My account was banned, but I was able to get it back in a couple of days. None of this really matters unless Facebook is important to you. Perhaps your business has a page over there which gets lots of hits. Perhaps you run a community which is…

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  • WPLDN, 30th October 2025

    Another month goes by and another #WPLDN happened. We had Tim Nash speaking this time around and, as is always the case, he did a remarkable job of keeping the presentation engaging, energetic and fun.

  • It’s all about the Blocks

    Until now, my website was using a Classic WordPress theme. That was all lovely, and the one that I’ve used for years never let me down. But times have been a changin’ in the WordPress theme space, and now all the interesting things are happening with Full Site Editing themes. These are themes which use Blocks to create all-the-things. It’s been fun getting to grips with all this, and I think that you should too!

  • WPLDN Festive Event – what a blast!

    The festive WPLDN event took place yesterday, and what fun it was. A speed build with Jamie Marsland v Dan Maby. A pub quiz with lots of nerdy WordPress facts and figures. And someone walked away with a brand new MacBook Air! I really had a great time, truly. The technical challenges from a AV point of view were many and difficult to overcome, but we got there in the nick of time!

  • WordPress in crisis, continued

    I’m writing this on 9th October 2024 at a time when I think that the WordPress community is facing as big of a crisis as I can remember. Things happened on this day. The purpose of writing this is so that, in the future, I can look back and ponder about whether it got better or worse. I’m hoping that it got better!

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  • WordPress crisis

    To say that the past 10 or so days in the WordPress space has been unprecedented, would be to be an enormous understatement. All that said, I’m listening and thinking about all the arguments from both sides. I suggest that you do too. I’m also not adding my voice to the social media storms, as I think that there’s quite enough to read already.

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  • WordPress London Meetup, September 2024

    Was lovely to attend my third #WPLDN (WordPress London Meetup) yesterday. Two great presentations, and no technical gremlins. This was a blessing, because in the hour before the attendees started to arrive, almost everything that could go wrong, did go wrong, and we had almost no expectation that things would work perfectly – but they did! If you’re in the London area and would like to connect with other WordPress folk, head to the WPLDN website to find out about future events.

  • WordCamp US 2024

    I went to WordCamp US in Portland Oregon last week. I met up with some great people and ate some food at some iconic places! The WordCamp was the best that I’ve ever attended, and a huge thanks to anyone who was involved in any way with the organisation. The end was interesting and I’ll be mulling that over in the days to come.

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  • Page Builder Summit 7.0

    So we just wound up the 7th edition of the Page Builder Summit, an online event for WordPress folk who enjoy working with tools like page builders, and want some help with various aspects of growing their businesses. It was a real success, and it’s a wonderful feeling interacting with the community there who seem to get so much out of the event. Thanks to Anchen and Dan for their roles in making it all happen, as well as the speakers, sponsors and attendees, without whom, ic could not happen. Should we do a v8? I hope so.

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  • I made this site static

    This site is using WordPress to create and manage the content, but I decided to experiment with exporting the entire site as a static site. This means that WordPress is ‘switched off’ and only the HTML, CSS, Javascript, and other required assets (images etc.) are available in the site. This means that it’s faster to load and there’s less chance of security related problems. It’s also more sustainable (less resources consumed to create the page – better for the environment), and I think it’ll be really inexpensive to host as well. This static site approach is useful for sites that…

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