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 and Business Communities with WordPress
http://2014.vegas.wordcamp.org/
December 13, 14, 2014
Tickets are now on sale. Don’t miss it! Limited seats available.
Events of Possible Interest
- Business & Career Conference: http://prestigeconf.com/
- For developers: LoopConf.io – http://loopconf.io/
Using Menus and Widgets in WordPress
How menus and widgets work.
Presenter: John Hawkins
- WordPress Menu User Guide – http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Menu_User_Guide
- Font Awesome – http://fontawesome.io/
- Font Awesome 4 Menus – https://wordpress.org/plugins/font-awesome-4-menus/
- Jetpack by WordPress.com – Style Editor Feature – https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/
- Jetpack Development Mode (for developers to use JP on local machine) – http://jetpack.me/support/development-mode/
- Beginner’s Guide for WordPress – http://www.wpbeginner.com/
Using Parameters with Gravity Forms
Use the URL to pass parameters in Gravity Forms.
Presenter: Russell Aaron
- Registered Users Only – https://wordpress.org/plugins/registered-users-only/
- Gravity Forms – http://www.gravityforms.com/
- Gravity Forms – Using Dynamic Population – http://gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Using_Dynamic_Population
- Bootstrap – http://getbootstrap.com/
- Twitter Bootstrap 3 for WordPress – https://github.com/eyoosuf/wp-bootstrap3
Lots of cool programs and websites
A review of some of the sites and resources that I use on a regular basis which others may not be aware of.
Presenter: Robert Gillmer
- Copy Paste Character – http://copypastecharacter.com/
- Morge File (free images) – http://www.morguefile.com/archive
- Dollar Photo Club – http://www.dollarphotoclub.com/
- Lorem Pixel – http://lorempixel.com/
- Place Kitten – http://placekitten.com
- Place Pinball – http://placepinball.com
- Da Button Factory – https://dabuttonfactory.com/
- Colorzilla Gradient Editor – http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/
- CSS Tricks – http://css-tricks.com/
- Can I Use? – http://caniuse.com/
- CSS3 Please – http://css3please.com/
- Should I Prefix? – http://shouldiprefix.com/
- JS Beautifier – http://jsbeautifier.org/
- Font Squirrel – http://www.fontsquirrel.com/
- What the Font? – http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
- Hookr (WordPress hooks) – http://hookr.io/#
- Generate WP – http://generatewp.com/
- Genesis Removes List (thanks John) – http://wpvegas.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/genesis-removes.txt
- Animate CSS – http://daneden.github.io/animate.css/
WordPress Security
A look at WordFence and iThemes Security plugins plus a few other security tweaks.
Presenter: Steve Rypka
- Wordfence Security – https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/
- iThemes Security – https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/
- Sucuri Security – https://wordpress.org/plugins/sucuri-scanner/
- WP Security Audit Log – https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/
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