User talk:Herb

After over 30 years at IBM, I retired in Oct 2009 and formed my own web development company ( Bobbing Wide ). I bought my first WordPress book while on vacation in Australia in Dec 2009 - the Visual Quickstart Guide to WordPress 2. However the first CMS that I used to build a real website was Drupal. During the first half of 2010 I mostly developed static sites (with hand cranked PHP) or Drupal. I started using WordPress for customer sites in August of that year. I still maintain Drupal 6 sites but am spending more time with WordPress.

In July 2011 I attended WordCamp UK as a delegate, in my home town of Portsmouth - the Dolphin pub being 4 doors away from where I spent my childhood. I also attended the WP-Brighton event in September. Since the nearest WordPress Meetups (London and Brighton) are both over 50 miles away I've decided it's high time we had another WordPress local group in the South. So I have created [1]. I'm planning to organise WordUp Pompey regular meetings and a WordPressgang event in the Spring of 2012, along the lines of the WP-Brighton event.

I'm looking for assistance in all departments; people to help organise and run WordUps, setting up BuddyPress and bbPress, creating events, making contacts with WP designers, developers AND business users.

Name: Herb Miller - Bobbing Wide

From: Born and bred in Portsmouth - Pompey - Hampshire

Business: web design - my WordPress blog

Business: oik-plugins - Often Included Key information plugin site - smart shortcodes

Community: WP-pompey - WordPress Portsmouth local user group

Miscellaneous: cwiccer - for when the internet runs out of T's - just one of my "test" sites where I try plugins