I read and post a lot of helpful links to articles that can make or break your WordPress Website. What most people do not realize is that a lot of tutorials are cleverly written to attract a certain breed of people to help solve an issue. It’s really smart if you think about it. People […]
Another Google Page Speed Tools Post About Minifying JavaScripts
This post is intended for users who are a little advanced and know how to use a a text editor like Sublime Text 2, Dream Weaver or Netbeans. So back to the topic of making your website load faster and faster. So let’s dive into this.. Ready? Lets say that you are in fact using […]
March meetup follow-up
Great Meet Up Tonight. If you missed this months Meet Up, Dont Worry, I we have you covered. 7:00pm – 7:30pm – Introductions and Hello’s from the Group Admins (John and Russ, But Mostly John). 7:30pm – 9:30pm – The Group Admin’s Answered questions from all who attended the meet up, Mostly about Multiple Site […]
Page Speed and Google Developer Tools Good vs Evil
In the quest for the Holy Grail that is know as Search Engine Optimization it is important to know that Google “Ranks and Rewards” a website for being coded properly, among many other things. Now Google is not the only Search Engine that practices these methods, but if you ask any american if they care […]
Understanding Your Clients Mindset and expectations
Recently there has been this high demand for blogs. From small time site blogs to big time blogs like Station Casion’s. Needless to say that there has been more than enough work to go around for all WordPress Developers. But what do you do when you have a client who knows what a website is […]
WP ENGINE has a black list of WordPress Plugins
Recently I have been watching a lot of WordPress TV. I came across this interesting video about Optimization of WordPress. Ben Metcalfe is one of the founders of WP ENGINE and gave an amazing talk at the WordPress Philly 2011. Here is a short list of the Blacklist of WordPress Plugins from the Ben Metcalfe […]
The February WordPress Meet Up – Notes and Timeline
Please Note: The first part of this post is to show what exactly was discussed in the meet up period and the second part is a more detailed description of each time line. Timeline of events 7:00 pm – 7:30 pm | Introduction by John Hawkins and Russell Aaron. The intro was basically explaining what […]
Using a new framework is not a bad idea
If you have attended any of our Las Vegas WordPress Meet Ups inside the Usr/Lib, you know that John Hawkins and the entire team (WPVEGAS.COM) that puts the meet ups together, are huge fans of the Genesis Framework. For many reasons besides the obvious, it’s amazing! It’s taken over as a top framework to use, […]
WordPress Security and You
This article will focus on the basic steps you should take to secure WordPress. WordPress is the most popular Content Management System by far these days, and it’s only growing. WPVEGAS will be featuring more articles and groups set up around specific topics that, in more ways than one, help new and experienced WordPress users […]
New home!
So here we are. The new home of the Las Vegas WordPress user group. Feel free to sign up, fill out a little information about yourself and get involved with the local WordPress community. Obviously we are just getting started with the site, so if there’s anything specific you think should be added, definitely let […]
