Monday, March 4, 2019 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM U.S. Bancorp Tower Conference Rooms 111 SW 5th Avenue, Portland, OR There's a fast-growing collection of exciting new Gutenberg block plugins in the WordPress Repository. We'll explore their capabilities and how you can use them to enhance the way you work and help design your websites. … Continue reading User: What’s new with Gutenberg: Ways to make it work for you.

Monday, February 4, 2019 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM U.S. Bancorp Tower Conference Rooms 111 SW 5th Avenue, Portland, OR Have basic design needs and no budget to outsource or buy expensive software? Canva might be the answer! Free templates for everything you can imagine and a simple drag-and-drop format make Canva a graphic-design tool … Continue reading User: Anyone Can Be a Designer with Canva: A Beginner’s Guide

Monday, January 7, 2019 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM U.S. Bancorp Tower Conference Rooms 111 SW 5th Avenue, Portland, OR Are you confused by Gutenberg, the new WordPress block editor? Are you afraid that it might break your website? Do you have questions about how to use Gutenberg? Come to the January 7th WordPress MeetUp … Continue reading User: WordPress 5.0: Gutenberg Revealed!

Monday, December 3, 2018 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM U.S. Bancorp Tower Conference Rooms 111 SW 5th Avenue, Portland, OR Do you struggle to do everything you need to do to run your business? Wondering how to take back your weekends and stop the hustle and grind? Lack of time and feeling overwhelmed are some … Continue reading User: Turn Your Website into a Time Machine

Monday, October 15, 2018 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM U.S. Bancorp Tower Conference Rooms 111 SW 5th Avenue, Portland, OR In this meetup, Doug Yuen will be discussing membership plugins and some of their common features, such as payment gateways, recurring subscriptions, membership levels, and content restrictions. There are a lot of membership plugins out … Continue reading User: Membership Plugins: A Look at Paid Memberships Pro

Monday, October 1, 2018 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM U.S. Bancorp Tower Conference Rooms 111 SW 5th Avenue, Portland, OR In this meetup, Mary Ann Aschenbrenner will go over Schema Markup, explain what it is, and how it is used to improve your website's SEO. She will also demonstrate how to implement this type of … Continue reading User: Schema Markup: Structured Data & Technical SEO Implementation

Monday, September 10, 2018 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM U.S. Bancorp Tower Conference Rooms 111 SW 5th Avenue, Portland, OR In this meetup, Doug Rider will be discussing website optimization and performance with an emphasis on verification tests. Getting your website faster involves more than just optimizing your images and adding a caching plugin. Before … Continue reading User: How to Test and Optimize your Website’s Speed

Monday, August 6, 2018 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM U.S. Bancorp Tower Conference Rooms 111 SW 5th Avenue, Portland, OR Does the European Union's new General Data Protection Regulation affect my WordPress site? In May the European Union enacted a sweeping internet privacy law that affects any website that collects data from EU web users. … Continue reading User: GDPR and WordPress

Monday, July 9, 2018 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM U.S. Bancorp Tower Conference Rooms 111 SW 5th Avenue, Portland, OR In this Meetup, David Greenwald will be speaking on WordPress database optimization. Is your website running slowly? If you've had a WordPress site for a few years, it could be the MySQL database—the silent killer … Continue reading User: How To Clean Up the WordPress Database

Monday, June 4, 2018 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM U.S. Bancorp Tower Conference Rooms 111 SW 5th Avenue, Portland, OR There’s nothing worse that having an “SEO Person” get hired behind you, and having them criticize the hard work you’ve done. In this presentation Scott Hendison will cover an assortment of “SEO best practices” for … Continue reading User: On-Site Search Optimization with WordPress