We had a great meetup Monday night with three short sessions and a new user workshop. Kallen Dewey Kentner went slide-free and spoke about breeding blog posts. Taylor Dewey spoke about typography in web design and posted his slides from that talk. Judy Unrein, who spoke about her WordPress workflow, also posted slides over on … Continue reading Byte-Size Workshops Recap
Lesson Plan for Tomorrow Night’s Byte-Sized Workshops
We'll be holding Byte-Sized WordPress Workshops tomorrow night, Monday the 24th, in the conference rooms of the Big Pink. Things will kick off at 6:30 pm and run until 8:30 or 9. After news and announcements, we'll split into two tracks. The first will have three segments of thirty minutes a piece: How to Breed Blog … Continue reading Lesson Plan for Tomorrow Night’s Byte-Sized Workshops
Travel Portland Seeks WordPress-Savvy Agencies, Freelancers…
This is a guest post from Richard Tammar, Director of Online Strategy for Travel Portland. If you’d like to make an announcement to the group, let us know. Travel Portland is the (independent, non-profit) marketing organization for our (wonderful) city. It's our job to encourage business and leisure travel to the Portland area, the economic … Continue reading Travel Portland Seeks WordPress-Savvy Agencies, Freelancers…
First Developer Meetup Recap
Monday night marked our first ever Developer Meetup! Just under thirty people spent a couple hours meeting one another, drinking beer, and sharing their favorite "I learned this the hard way" stories: Anonymous functions were introduced in PHP 5.3. wp_cache functions can be used to reduced page load time. Ensure your new public theme uses … Continue reading First Developer Meetup Recap
New meetup: Byte-size Workshops
Teaching is the best way to develop mastery, as they say. For this coming month's meetup on September 24th, we want to give you the opportunity to showcase your knowledge and hone your teaching skills. Behold: Byte-size Workshops. We'd like to see 45 minute workshops ranging everywhere from how to configure WordPress multisite, to the … Continue reading New meetup: Byte-size Workshops
July 2012 Meetup Recap
First off, a big thanks to Melissa Lion for taking time out of her schedule to speak with us. It was great to mix up the topics a bit — I think the non-developer WordPress users got a lot of value out of working with a professional writer. We had 38 people show up to … Continue reading July 2012 Meetup Recap
New meetup: Press Your Best Words with Novelist and Blogger Melissa Lion
Extra-excited for the meetup we've scheduled this month: You've built a blog and the coding works like a dream. But look at those pesky, empty, nagging squares for text. How do you fill them? With words, of course. But which words? Novelist and longtime blogger, Melissa Lion, will present on finding a story, writing the … Continue reading New meetup: Press Your Best Words with Novelist and Blogger Melissa Lion
WordPress Portland – 10up Needs WordPress Theme Layout Designers!
This is a guest post from Jeremy Felt, a local developer and active member of the meetup group. If you'd like to make an announcement to the group, let us know. At 10up, we enjoy spending our time working on creative solutions for all of the crazy things that we run into throughout a project's … Continue reading WordPress Portland – 10up Needs WordPress Theme Layout Designers!
Sign up now for WordCamp Portland!
WordCamp Portland is right around the corner and would love to have you attend. This year, it's happening on Saturday, August 18th, at Norse Hall in Northeast Portland. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased now. Sign up to volunteer and receive a $10 discount. It'll be a day filled with speakers and networking for … Continue reading Sign up now for WordCamp Portland!
No December Meeting (but we’re still here!)
Hi all! We've still been meeting, even though I haven't been posting here (Meetup.com really is great for, well, organizing meetups!). However, we have decided NOT to hold a December meeting, as our normal meeting night would have been December 26. Enjoy the holiday season, and the newly released WordPress 3.3! We'll see you on … Continue reading No December Meeting (but we’re still here!)
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