Bob Dunn, a WordPress designer and trainer since 2008, recently launched his third membership site, BobWP.com. Through the first and second ones, he refined his model and strategies, and experienced some valuable lessons. He is going to tell you what he learned through that: what worked—and what bombed, so you can avoid making the same … Continue reading User: Membership Site Lessons – Challenges and Insights
Meetings
Is WordPress Getting Too Complex?
Maria Erb, M.Ed. is an instructional designer at the University of Portland and she will talk about how they install WordPress, and how to keep life simple by using JetPack as the only plugin. She will also share her experience with the Genesis frameworkand using custom themes. There is also a minimalist platform called Ghost that will be discussed. Bio I’m … Continue reading Is WordPress Getting Too Complex?
How to Optimize Your WordPress Site for Content Marketing Conversions
One of the biggest marketing topics of the past year has been content marketing. Regardless of how you feel about the concept, it's no secret that customers - and search engines - love a website with fresh, engaging content. But how to you keep your site frequently updated without overwhelming customers, not to overlook that … Continue reading How to Optimize Your WordPress Site for Content Marketing Conversions
Planning a Successful WordPress Site
It always saddens me when people come to me near the end of a project, deadline looming, with a site that has clearly gone off the rails and ask if it can be fixed. The answer is usually 'not without starting over'. In this session, I'll provide a blueprint for investing your … Continue reading Planning a Successful WordPress Site
Developing a non-profit web site
I'm a member of the Veteran's of Foreign Wars, Men's Auxiliary in Tualatin, Oregon and volunteered to migrate their hand-coded web site over to WordPress. In the process I chose a 3 column theme called Revolution Code Blue to help display the info-rich web site: The site is at: http://www.tualatinvfw.com Plugins They needed to have … Continue reading Developing a non-profit web site
Two Meetups for July: XML-RPC and RESTful APIs and Expert Q&A
We have two awesome meetups scheduled for July. But first, an important announcement! We're running a member survey and want to hear your voice. It's short and sweet, and will help us as we plan for the upcoming year. Take the member survey. And now, back to our regularly scheduled content... Developer: XML-RPC and RESTful APIs - … Continue reading Two Meetups for July: XML-RPC and RESTful APIs and Expert Q&A
Plugin Ignite Talks Recap
On Monday night, we invited several Portland-area developers, designers, and bloggers to share their favorite WordPress plugins. Here's a recap of the plugins presented: Plugin Presenter Presentation (PDF file) File Gallery Lorelle VanFossen pdf Job Agency Daniel Bachhuber pdf Force Strong Passwords Fitz pdf Widgitize Pages Jenny Stoffel pdf Pagebuilder Jenny Stoffel pdf The Events … Continue reading Plugin Ignite Talks Recap
Two Meetups for June: WordPress Loves Backbone JS and Plugin Ignite Talks
We have two awesome meetups scheduled for June. Developer: WordPress Loves Backbone JS Date & Time: Monday, June 10th at 6:30 pm WordPress 3.5 is the first version of WordPress to include Backbone.js - a powerful and popular Javascript framework for taming your Javascript. With Backbone.js, your data can be encapsulated into models and collections that are … Continue reading Two Meetups for June: WordPress Loves Backbone JS and Plugin Ignite Talks
What’s Coming in WordPress 3.6 Recap
Last week, Michael Fields, a Theme Wrangler for Automattic, walked about 50 of us through what's coming in WordPress 3.6: http://www.slideshare.net/MichaelFields/portland-wordpress-meetup-36-preview Your quick summary of what should be coming: Post formats are front and center of the publishing experience, and you'll have a new theme to test them out. A login modal window appears if your login session … Continue reading What’s Coming in WordPress 3.6 Recap
Two Meetups for May: Code Review Takes Two and WordPress’ 10th Anniversary Party
This coming month we have two great meetups scheduled. Developer: Code Review Takes Two Date & Time: Monday, May 13th at 6:30 pm Ever wanted to become a better developer? One sure way: have your code reviewed. Code review can offer valuable perspective on how to write concisely, solve challenging problems, or make your architecture abstracted. For … Continue reading Two Meetups for May: Code Review Takes Two and WordPress’ 10th Anniversary Party
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