Yes, we are meeting this month! I know several of our regulars will be at the WebVisions conference, but if you're not going to be there Thursday night, please come on over! It'll just be a general networking and Q & A meeting, rather than being focused on a specific topic. If you have any … Continue reading Meeting May 20 6:00p.m.
Win a Free Pass to Open Source Bridge
The folks in charge of the Open Source Bridge conference, which will be in Portland June 1-4, 2010, were kind enough to give us one free pass (a $300 value) for one lucky member of the Portland WordPress User Group. How do you enter to win? Easy. Just join our Google Group anytime between now … Continue reading Win a Free Pass to Open Source Bridge
April 15: Taxonomies Are a Wonderful Thing
At our April 15 meeting, Michael Fields will present "Taxonomies Are a Wonderful Thing." He'll tell us what taxonomies are, why we should use them, and how to set up and use your own custom taxonomies. You want to know what a taxonomy is NOW? Well, they're sort of like tags and sort of like … Continue reading April 15: Taxonomies Are a Wonderful Thing
March 18: Multisite features and more in WordPress 3.0
Join us March 18th at 6:00 p.m. as Aaron Jorbin demonstrates the new multisite, custom post type and menu management features coming in WordPress 3.0. This will be an opportunity to see some of the biggest changes to WordPress in quite some time. Some of the things Aaron will go through include: What the multisite … Continue reading March 18: Multisite features and more in WordPress 3.0
If you missed Aaron Hockley’s talk on h…
If you missed Aaron Hockley's talk on how to launch a new blog, you can find an outline at http://bit.ly/bloglaunch.
February 18: WordPress and Statistics
Join us Thursday, February 18 to talk about statistics: what programs can you use, what are the benefits and drawbacks of each, and what can they tell you that's really useful? 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 … Continue reading February 18: WordPress and Statistics
PDXWP Site Backed by Network Redux!
I used the Network Redux-hosted gathering at Beer & Blog a few months ago to secure a free lifetime account for the Portland WordPress user group so I could move it off of my own paid hosting plan. While it took me a while to get the site actually migrated, we've been running smoothly here … Continue reading PDXWP Site Backed by Network Redux!
January 21: Aaron Hockley On How To Launch a Blog
UPDATE: If you missed the meeting, or if you'd like to review an outline of Aaron's talk, you can find it at Another Blogger. Thank you, Aaron! Actually, the name of Aaron's talk is "After Launching a Couple Dozen Blogs, I Figured Out how to Do it Right." Aaron presented this talk at WordCamp Seattle, … Continue reading January 21: Aaron Hockley On How To Launch a Blog
Site’s Been Moved to a New Host
Our thanks to the people at Network Redux for providing free lifetime hosted service for the Portland WordPress User Group! (I'm especially grateful 'cause that's one less thing for yours truly to have to cough up...) Speaking of - the domain names (.com, .net and .org) for the site are set to expire in mid-January. … Continue reading Site’s Been Moved to a New Host
Using Child Themes – November 12, 2009
Sites we mentioned or looked at in our discussion of WordPress child themes. On ThemeShaper: How To Protect Your WordPress Theme Against Upgrades How I Used a WordPress Child Theme To Redesign My Blog How to Modify WordPress Themes the Smart Way Devin Price's website: WordPress Theming Michael Fields is working child theme support into … Continue reading Using Child Themes – November 12, 2009
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