Date: Monday - February 7, 2022Time: 6 PM - 8 PM GenerateBlocks is a versatile plugin that adds important components to extend the WordPress Block Editor. Using just four blocks, you can build your website with desktop, tablet, and mobile controls for your responsive designs, including padding, margins, borders, and more. Doug Rider will demonstrate … Continue reading [Online] Build better WordPress sites with GenerateBlocks

Date: Monday - January 10, 2022Time: 6 PM - 8 PM Back again by popular demand, the Favorite Plugins and Themes MeetUp gives us all a chance to share our knowledge and experience while learning something new about WordPress. Mary Ann Aschenbrenner from Waterlink Web will organize this group presentation. If you have a plugin … Continue reading [Online] What’s Your Favorite? Show and Tell Your Favorite Plugins and Themes

Monday, December 6, 20216:00 PM to 8:00 PM We'll go over what Dart Sass is, why you should be aware of it and hopefully show you just how powerful your CSS can become. There are so many cool features that make maintaining components and/or styles guides more effective and hopefully at the end of this, … Continue reading [Online] Taking your CSS to the limit with Dart Sass

Monday, October 4, 20216:00 PM to 8:00 PM WordCamp US is coming up on Friday, October 1! It’s online and free, but you do need to register in advance. If you haven’t already registered, you can do so here: https://us.wordcamp.org/2021/. You can see the schedule here: https://us.wordcamp.org/2021/schedule/. If you haven’t been to a WordCamp before, … Continue reading [Online] Recap and Discussion of WordCamp US 2021

Monday, September 13, 20216:00 PM to 8:00 PM WordPress 5.8 was released on July 20th. This release contained many updates; such as new Blocks, Block patterns, migrating Widgets to Blocks, changes in the Admin area, and a number of extras. In addition; new Block Templates and Full Site Editing (FSE) features (still in beta) are … Continue reading [Online] What’s new in WordPress 5.8 “Tatum”

Monday, August 2, 20216:00 PM to 8:00 PM We'll go over what a Headless CMS is and how it can be implemented with WordPress, how it works, the pros and cons and much much more ( Advanced Custom Fields, Gravity Forms and APIs oh my! ). Ideally at the end of this you'll have a … Continue reading [Online] WordPress as a Headless CMS: Static VS SSR

Monday, June 7, 20216:00 PM to 8:00 PM You may have heard about PPC (Pay Per Click) but have never tried it. If you've ever considered running search or display ads through Google or Microsoft, this is your chance to learn more about the platforms and how they work, as well as what kinds of … Continue reading [Online] Is PPC Right for Me? Setup and Money Saving Tips for Google Search Ads

Monday, April 12, 20216:00 PM to 8:00 PM Susan Langenes of Collage Creative will explain how she solved several usability and accessibility issues on rop.org using Gutenberg and a custom theme based on _s or Underscores, from Automattic. --- Note: This will not be at our usual location, it will be an online event using … Continue reading [Online] Improving UX and Accessibility with Gutenberg and Underscores

Monday, January 4, 20216:00 PM to 8:00 PM For our first presentation of the new year, Doug Yuen will explain the basics of DNS. It's what points your domain to your web host and your email provider, among other things. I'll cover the concepts of nameservers and DNS records, as well as the main types … Continue reading [Online] Demystifying DNS: Understanding Records, Migrating Safely, and More