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2020 Events Meetup Notes

General & Advanced Meetup: April 2020

This was our second month having the meetup take place online. I’d say it went better than the first. We made the decision to combine the General & Advanced meetup this month (and we’ll do it again next month) due to the sheer amount of online events going on right now. We didn’t want to […]

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2020 Events Meetup Notes

General Meetup: March 2020

This month we had to cancel the in-person meetup and take it online thanks to the COVID-19 outbreak. The entire thing was recorded and you can watch it below. The sessions this month were: Jodie Riccelli presented “How to Sell WordPress as a Solution” John Hawkins gave a demo of the Slick Slider plugin Next […]

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2015 Events

Link Roundup: February 2015

Here’s the link roundup for the February 2015 meetup: Announcements Where to find the group: Facebook: Las Vegas WordPress Users Group (Great for Q&A between meetups!) Website: WPVegas.com (Link roundups and video of previous meetups.) Meetup: Las Vegas WordPress Meetup Group (View event program descriptions and RSVP for upcoming meetups.) WordPress 101 Feeling confused about […]

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2014 Events General

Link Roundup: November 2014

  Here’s the link roundup for the November 2014 meetup: Announcements Where to find the group: Facebook: Las Vegas WordPress Users Group (Great for Q&A between meetups!) Website: WPVegas.com (Link roundups and video of previous meetups.) Meetup: Las Vegas WordPress Meetup Group (Schedules and RSVP for upcoming meetups.) WordCamp Las Vegas 2014 Uniting the Developer […]

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2014 Events General

Link Roundup: October 2014

Here’s the link roundup for the October 2014 meetup: Announcements Where to find the group: Facebook: Las Vegas WordPress Users Group (Great for Q&A between meetups!) Website: WPVegas.com (Link roundups and video of previous meetups.) Meetup: Las Vegas WordPress Meetup Group (Schedules and RSVP for upcoming meetups.) WordCamp Las Vegas 2014 Uniting the Developer and […]

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2014 Events General

Link Roundup: September 2014

Here’s the summary from the September meetup: Theme Bloat and Some Solutions Presenter: Robert Gilmer Galleries: WordPress’ built in galleries FooGallery  http://fooplugins.com/wordpress-gallery-plugin/ Envira Gallery  ($)  http://enviragallery.com/ Advanced Custom Fields  http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/ with paid Gallery add-on  http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/add-ons/gallery-field/ Not considered: NextGen Gallery (does play by the rules) Sliders: Meteor Slides  https://wordpress.org/plugins/meteor-slides/ Soliloquy Lite  https://wordpress.org/plugins/soliloquy-lite/ Soliloquy ($)   http://soliloquywp.com/pricing/ Revolution […]

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2014 Events

Link Roundup: August 2014

Here’s the summary from the August meetup: Custom Post Types and Other Big Words Presenter: Russell Aaron Custom Post types, taxonomies and how to use them in your next project. http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types WP Basics: Pages, Posts, Categories, and Tags Presenter: Steve Rypka Reviewed some of the basic elements of WordPress: Pages vs. Posts, Categories vs. Tags. […]

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2014 Events

Link Roundup: July 2014

Here are a few notes and links from our July meetup… Robert Gillmer Topic: CSS Hierarchy Description: Four case studies to illustrate the order WordPress reads CSS files. Specifics on CSS Specificity http://css-tricks.com/specifics-on-css-specificity/ CSS Specificity: Things You Should Know http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/07/27/css-specificity-things-you-should-know/ Konrad Musial Topic:  New products from the Artisteer team http://www.guruinc.com/ – links to products http://www.artisteer.com/ […]

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2014 Events

Link Roundup: June 2014

This month’s presentations covered picking an SEO friendly theme, getting started with CSS editing using Firebug, a collection of handy plugins and Advanced Custom Fields. Here are some links from each presentation. Kenny Eliason http://ThemesKingdom.com http://tools.pingdom.com http://wordpress.org/plugins/p3-profiler/ Steve Rypka https://getfirebug.com/ https://filezilla-project.org/ http://colorzilla.com/ http://lynda.com Russ Aaron http://wordpress.org/plugins/clean-login/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-social-login/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/visual-website-editor/ http://wordpress.org/plugins/skt-skill-bar/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/what-template-file-am-i-viewing/ http://wordpress.org/plugins/nrelate-flyout/ John Hawkins http://seanbutze.com/safely-using-advanced-custom-fields-via-wrapper-functions/ http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/ […]

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2014 Events

WordPress Meetup, March 2014

Steve Rypka https://vimeo.com/90370833 Responsive Lightbox Layer Slider Charlie Bass https://vimeo.com/90370830 BlogBookMaker.com http://wptavern.com/how-to-self-publish-a-book-with-wordpress Kenny Eliason https://vimeo.com/90370831 Ultimate Guide to Setting up WordPress SEO by Yoast Plugin Russell Aaron https://vimeo.com/90370832 Custom Shipping Plugin Shipping Method API John Hawkins Advanced Custom Fields Core Functionality Plugin WP User Frontend plugin WP Help plugin