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/ – create custom website templates
http://www.billionthemler.com/ – beta product for custom themes
https://beta2.createer.com/ – beta drag & drop wysiwyg design tool
http://www.billionphotos.com/ – image subscription service
Steve Rypka
Topic: Faceted Navigation and Search for WordPress
Use the power of faceted search / navigation to help users find content using checkboxes, dropdowns, date ranges and sliders.
Plugin: FacetWP
https://facetwp.com/ – Create powerful custom search tools to efficiently drill-down through lots of content.
Kenny Eliason
Topic: SEO – Social Tools
Kenny shared a few cool plugins to help with the social thang, along with some tools to help increase your social activity.
http://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-share-buttons-adder/ – Simple Share Buttons Adder
http://wordpress.org/plugins/digg-digg/
http://filament.io/ – http://filament.io/flare
http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-social-login/
http://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-my-login/
http://www.nextscripts.com/
http://www.nextscripts.com/social-networks-auto-poster-for-wp-multiple-accounts/
Please use this link if you plan to purchase NextScripts since Kenny was kind enough to share it with us!
John Hawkins
Topic: General Q & A plus a cool gallery plugin…
http://wordpress.org/plugins/foogallery/
WordPress 4.0 is coming. http://wordpress.org/news/2014/07/wordpress-4-0-beta-2/
Try the beta on a local site: (not your live site!)
http://serverpress.com/products/desktopserver/ – Use Desktop Server for local site development.
One reply on “Link Roundup: July 2014”
Great information, seriously. So many cool tips and tricks every time I go to one of these meetups! Already pitched FooGallery to one of my clients… heh.