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 Business Communities with WordPress
http://2014.vegas.wordcamp.org/
December 13, 14, 2014
Tickets go on sale soon. Don’t miss it! Limited seats available.
Events of Possible Interest
- Business & Career Conference: http://prestigeconf.com/
- For developers: LoopConf.io – http://loopconf.io/
Images in WordPress
Presenter: Steve Rypka
- WordPress Codex – Add Image Size – http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_image_size
- Regenerate Thumbnails – https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/
- Force Regenerate Thumbnails – https://wordpress.org/plugins/force-regenerate-thumbnails/
- Imsanity – https://wordpress.org/plugins/imsanity/
- Manual Image Crop – https://wordpress.org/plugins/manual-image-crop/
- My Eyes Are Up Here – https://wordpress.org/plugins/my-eyes-are-up-here/
- Auto Post Thumbnail – https://wordpress.org/plugins/auto-post-thumbnail/
- Default featured image – https://wordpress.org/plugins/default-featured-image/
- Thumbnails for Backend – https://wordpress.org/plugins/thumbnailsforbackend/
- Simple Image Sizes – https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-image-sizes/
Other suggestions from the group:
- Kraken – https://kraken.io/ & https://wordpress.org/plugins/kraken-image-optimizer/
- AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild – https://wordpress.org/plugins/ajax-thumbnail-rebuild/
Make Money With Your WordPress Site
Presenters: Chris & Todd Huish
- Green Pixel Dev – http://greenpixeldev.com/
- LeadPages.net – https://www.leadpages.net/
- MailChimp – http://mailchimp.com/
- Source for good images – http://www.dollarphotoclub.com/
An Introduction to Child Theming
Presenter: John Hawkins
- New starter theme: Flagship – http://flagshipwp.com/introducing-compass/
- Slides – http://www.slideshare.net/vegasgeek/intro-to-wordpress-child-themes
- WP Codex Links:
CSS Pre-processors
Presenter: Robert Gillmer
- SASS/SCSS – http://sass-lang.com/ (SCSS is preferred)
- LESS – http://lesscss.org/
- Stylus – http://learnboost.github.io/stylus/
- http://ronakilmer.com/wordcamp/
- http://thesassway.com/
- http://thesassway.com/editorial
- http://css-tricks.com/sass-vs-less/
One reply on “Link Roundup: October 2014”
This is the second time I listened to the child theme explanation and, by gosh, I think it’s beginning to make some sense!
The WordPress photo information is very helpful right now. Was it coincidence (Chris and Todd) that I was looking at leadpages.com that very afternoon? ………… john