Events

Find some friendly faces in the crowd and enjoy some yummy food and a Shiner Bock.
It’s impossible to find a time that doesn’t conflict with some other SXSW event – but Saturday night seems like a pretty light night for events – there’s a couple of big events later that night [...]

The Southern California Meetup Group announces our February meetup:
Templates and Template Tags Demystified: A WordPress Workshop presented by Austin Passey
Austin Passy is a freelance web designer and WordPress developer. You can find his work at Frosty Web Designs, and follow him on Twitter.
This workshop is open to all, but is particularly intended for our web [...]

If you’ve ever had a mysterious problem with the formatting of a WordPress post or were unable to update a complex page in your CMS because you didn’t understand the HTML used to markup the page, then this workshop will be a big help. We’ll go over the basics of HTML including:

What HTML is and [...]

Join us for a relaxing evening of WordPress chitchat and delicious food. Bring your business cards, ideas, and questions to talk over with the group. We’ve got people at all levels with WordPress, so you’re sure to find someone to help you get unstuck or to point you in the right direction to realize your [...]

Lucy Beer of WebTrainingWheels is an online marketing professional of 8 years. She has a background in constructing and executing online marketing campaigns for small business, entertainment and art clients.
She loves to share her knowledge with small businesses, entrepreneurs & non-profits so that they can take a hands-on approach to their own online marketing efforts. [...]

I know that many of us are attending WordCamp LA this weekend at Loyola Marymount University. It’s not too late to sign up if you haven’t yet at http://wordcamp.la.
Lunch break is 12:00-1:30. Anyone interested can join me for an informal gathering over lunch, maybe get help with some WP questions, help upgrading, adding a new feature, [...]

Where do you turn when you need a web site for your business? What should you expect? And maybe most importantly, how much will it cost?
In this free workshop sponsored by Purple Pen Productions, you’ll learn everything you need to know about the web design process. We’ll answer the following questions:

How much will it cost?
Can [...]

A fun and informal get together.
We’ll have pizza, soft drinks, and networking in a private room, then the option to bowl from 9pm-11pm. The meetup/pizza/soda is free of charge thanks to our sponsor, Purple Pen Productions. If you would like to stay and bowl, it will be $16/person for two hours of bowling, including shoe [...]

In this workshop, we’ll be going step by step through the process of downloading, installing, and setting up a brand new WordPress installation, including recommended settings, and plugins to make your blog or web site easier to update and maintain.
Bring a wi-fi enabled laptop to follow along (not required to attend, but it will be [...]