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. […]
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/ […]
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/ […]
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
For the February meetup, we decided to try recording the sessions. I think we’re going to need to get a little more creative with the camera placement and lighting. But, hopefully you’ll still get some use out of them. First, Russ gave a presentation where he talked about the Yoast SEO plugin. https://vimeo.com/album/2749832/video/87588094 Russ’s links: […]
I’m really excited to finally be doing a session dedicated to the Genesis framework. For those who want to follow along at home, here are the items we’ll be talking about. plugins http://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-simple-hooks/ http://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-visual-hook-guide/ http://wordpress.org/plugins/what-template-file-am-i-viewing/ http://wordpress.org/plugins/ajax-thumbnail-rebuild/ resources http://my.studiopress.com/docs/hook-reference/ https://github.com/billerickson/Core-Functionality https://github.com/billerickson/BE-Genesis-Child http://wpvegas.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/genesis-removes.txt http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy http://genesissnippets.com/ Tonight’s session will be recorded and this post will be updated with […]
Sorry I missed the meetup this week. Stupid flu! Here are the links that have been sent to me so far: (free) plugins http://wordpress.org/plugins/if-menu/ http://wordpress.org/plugins/baw-login-logout-menu/ http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-bouncer/ http://wordpress.org/plugins/limit-login-attempts/ http://wordpress.org/plugins/dw-admin-block/ (paid) plugins https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/login-redirect/ https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/logout-redirect/ If you have more links that were talked about at the meetup, please send them over.
This month we talked about editing CSS, using contact forms, custom post types and the importance of using child themes. Here’s the outline of the meeting and some links for further reading. WordPress Q&A – John Genesis Framework Child Themes Dynamik Website Builder Aaron Jorbin: Building Child Themes (an oldy, but goody!) Developer Tools Desktop Server […]
This month we talked about building galleries, Bootstrap, Paypal buttons, adding mp3s, google fonts, affiliate plugins and the importance of backups!! Here’s some links for further reading. How to create an image gallery WordPress theme Bootstrap 2.0 Bootstrap 3.0 for WordPress Bootstrap snips for 2.0 Version of Bootstrap Another WP theme base off Bootstrap Current […]
Another great set of presentations this month! Here’s some links to what was talked about: Chris Rogers WordPress for Babies – Configuring a theme http://vegasmeetup.wpengine.com/ Don Cramer Choosing a Slider Download the PDF of Don’s slides Portfolio Slideshow WP Slideshow Gallery uBillboard AllInOne Banner Rotator Soliloquy Meteor Slides Michael Cremean WordPress concepts for noobs Download […]