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  • verso 12:57 pm on April 13, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    WordPress Tips And Tricks on April 16th 

    When you first started with WordPress, did you learn something that made your life a lot easier? Have you discovered a quicker way to make something happen? Wrangle your best tips and tricks together for the April WordPress User Group Meeting, 6:00-7:30pm on April 16th at Cubespace.

    Group Founder Aaron Hockley will be kicking things off with a short list of things that can make your WordPress life generally more efficient and enjoyable, and from there we will be opening it up for discussion with everyone.

    So please come by, meet some other WordPress fans, and bring your favorite workarounds and shortcuts. If you can’t make the meeting (or yours are just too good to wait), feel free to post them in the comments and we’ll be sure to bring them up during the meeting.

     

    • Laura 9:21 am on April 27, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      does the user group have a google group as well? I need help with some customization and can’t wait for the next meeting – thanks!!

    • Betsy Richter 1:06 pm on May 8, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Laura – We did have a google group which promptly got overrun with spam. I’m looking at resuscitating it & will share news shortly. In the meantime – feel free to email me & I’ll see who I can connect you to…

  • verso 10:02 pm on March 8, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Bending CSS To Your Will On March 19th 

    Our March meeting will be held on the traditional “Third Thursday”, March 19th at CubeSpace from 6pm until 7:30pm. This month’s meeting is going to feature a talk by Nathan Bergey, aka @natronics on CSS and how you can take a theme and really make it your own. From his description:

    So you’ve got a blog, and after browsing through hundreds of free WordPress themes online you’ve found one that you like. But it’s not quite perfect. You don’t like that orange color. Or the titles are too big. Or it’s typeset in the wrong font. It’s okay, but it’s not yours. If only you knew just a little about Cascading Style Sheets, then you could tweak things to your hearts desire.

    Good news! It’s not that hard. I’ll show you how to get started tweaking an existing WordPress theme. I’ll start simple and explain the basics of CSS selectors and properties. Then I’ll show off some some tools that make it easy to figure out what part of the code you need to change. I’ll go through several real world examples looking at how to change fonts, colors and spacing. Then I’ll show how to add icons or background images to an element. I’ll also try to highlight some common pitfalls and things to look out for. I’ll also be around to try to answer specific questions about how to fix something on your site. Already know some CSS-fu? You should come too and help people out and correct anything I might say that’s wrong.

    I personally have come up against this in a few different ways so I am pleased to get more knowledge on this subject. It seems like it could go both ways though: Once I know even more about customizing my site will I ever blog or will I just continually monkey around with the layout? I can’t wait to find out! I want to reiterate Nathan’s invitation to anyone with strong CSS-fu to show up and help out. See you then!

     

    • Ingvill 4:21 pm on March 9, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Sounds great. What time is it on? Do I have to tell anyone that I would like to come, or do I just show up?

    • Kelly 5:23 pm on March 16, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Ingvill:

      It's from 6PM to 7:30PM. You can just show up, and if you want to bring some interested friends, by all means feel free!

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