Portland WordPress User Group and WordCamp Portland are actually two separate entities, but we do encourage anyone and everyone to attend WordCamp Portland (September 18-19) if you can! At this meeting, we’ll take a look at what to expect at WordCamp Portland this year. By the way, WordCamp registration is now open.

We’ll also have open time for questions and answers about WordPress.

Hope to see you there! RSVP on Upcoming.

PLEASE NOTE: There will be NO September meeting due to WordCamp Portland.

For anyone interested in a short jaunt away from Portland this
weekend, I am hosting a last-minute WordPress unconference/meeting/
camp/chat, at 2pm on Sunday, at this location:

Ground Coffee
12 Oak Street
Hood River, OR

Hood River is family-friendly, and full of shopping and restaurants,
so bring your non-WP-loving family and set them loose. Street parking
is free on the weekends.

Wifi is available, and coffee, beer, and sandwiches are sold on the
premises at Ground. The shop can be very busy, so we will move to the
semi-private office at the end of the hall if that’s more appropriate,
and a sign will be posted to direct you. I don’t have a projector, but
bring your laptop and a VNC client!

RSVP to me privately via email, phone, SMS, or Tweet (@cusability), so
I can get an idea of the size of the group, and plan on having enough
chairs and tables.

cbc

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// Callie B. Carroll, MS-HCI //
// User Experience Design //
// http://www.cUsability.com //

Let’s talk content, shall we? We talked about SEO a little bit last month, with several people strongly asserting that good content is more important than any other SEO technique. Be prepared to tell us what you write about, or what you want to write about, and how you keep coming up with content on a regular basis. I always learn something new from someone else on this subject.

See you on Thursday, 6:00 p.m. at Webtrends, 851 SW 6th Avenue, Suite 1600. RSVP on Upcoming.

Or maybe you want to add a Paypal button to your site, or a user ratings system?

My bugaboo is Facebook integration. I tried to install a plugin, but it didn’t quite work for me.

If you want to know more, have specific questions, or would like to share your knowledge with others, please come to our next meeting on Thursday, June 17, 6:00 p.m. at Webtrends (851 SW 6th Avenue, Suite 1600).

RSVP on Upcoming

As usual, 6:00 p.m. at Webtrends, 851 SW 6th Avenue, Suite 1600.

How do you enter to win? Easy. Just join our Google Group anytime between now and midnight on April 30, and you’ll receive one entry into the drawing. If you’re already a member, just post your favorite WordPress tip to the group, and you’re entered. ONE ENTRY PER PERSON. Winner will be chosen by a random drawing. Entry deadline is Friday, April 30 at midnight Pacific time, and we’ll announce the winner on Saturday, May 1.

Open Source Bridge is a conference for developers working with open source technologies and for people interested in learning the open source way. Find out more at http://opensourcebridge.org.

PS: Members can also register for Open Source Bridge at a special discounted rate. I’ll post the discount code on the Google Group.

You want to know what a taxonomy is NOW? Well, they’re sort of like tags and sort of like categories. Custom taxonomies allow you to set up alternate ways of categorizing posts, photos, etc. I grabbed this use case scenario from Justin Tadlock:

Imagine you ran a website that reviewed books, movies, and music. When writing posts in WordPress, you want to label something as a book, yet you also want to further label it by genre or by author.

Yeah. The rest of that post kind of confuses me. So I’m looking forward to seeing MIchael’s talk and demonstration.

We’ll have time for networking, too. Come on down! We’ll be at Webtrends, 851 SW 6th Avenue, Suite 1600, 6:00 p.m. RSVP on Upcoming.

Update 4/11 – Mike adds: “Please bear in mind that there will be absolutely no code to learn. All
examples can be reproduced by a beginner with the aid of freely available,
open-source plugins.”

• What the multisite features mean to both users and developers
• How to enable Multisite once you’ve upgraded
• How to add and customize custom menus on your site
• How to add a custom post type

This talk will be aimed at both users and developers. Even if you don’t know a thing about coding, Aaron will show you the basics to help you understand these three changes. If a beta version of 3.0 is released before the meeting, we will work off of that. Otherwise Aaron will use the latest trunk version of WordPress. As this will be a development version, things can and will change before 3.0 is released, but this should give you an idea of what to expect. If you have any questions or suggestions on specifics that you would like to see covered, please comment on this post. See you on the 18th!

http://aaron.jorb.in
twitter: twitter.com/aaronjorbin

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As always, we’ll meet at Webtrends (851 SW 6th Avenue) from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
RSVP on Upcoming.

Chris O’Rourke will join us to talk about Mint. We’ll also look at the WP-Stats plugin, Google Analytics and Woopra. Do you use any of these, or something else entirely? Bring your expertise and/or your questions, and let’s talk!

As always, 6:00 p.m. at Webtrends, 951 SW Sixth Avenue, Suite 600. You may need to have the security guard enter an elevator code if you arrive after 6:00. RSVP on Upcoming.