Events

A look at jQuery in action – the kinds of stuff you can do with it and more. To jQuery and Beyond… If you are going to build a large application, jQuery alone is not enough. Far Jangtrakool will present on some examples of frameworks that utilize jQuery and explore concept of MVVM (Model View [...]

May meetup – RSVP’s will open about a month before the event A look at how to move from WordPress.com to a self-hosted site – presented by Bryan Villarin, Happiness Engineer at Automattic How to move a WordPress site from one server to another – presented by Suzette Franck, WordPress Evangelist for MediaTemple How to [...]

More info coming soon, but here’s what we’ll be doing: Sharon will present a project she’s worked on recently and demo her work and how it was put together. Natalie will continue her jQuery for beginners series. We’ll talk about on, bind, live, and delegate and what the heck they mean and when you should [...]

My Favorite Plugin Members of our community will present their favorite WP plugin. Glenn Weikert: Backup Buddy Lisa Bittan: Easing Slider Susie K: FitVids Who is this for? These presentations will be useful to anyone who knows how to install plugins in WordPress. The presenters will demo using the plugins, so you’ll get a good [...]

Do you want to get started working on your own website or blog and you’re not sure where to start? WordPress is the answer! WordPress is a highly customizable and accessible tool for building and maintaining your own website or blog, but it can be challenging to figure out where to get started and get [...]

Beginner’s Intro to jQuery, Part 2 by Natalie MacLees This will be the second part of a beginner’s introduction to jQuery aimed at absolute beginners. This series will continue throughout 2013. In the first part, we learned how to get set up to use jQuery in a project and learned about jQuery’s ready() method. Now [...]

Social Media and WordPress Leveraging social media to get people to your site is more than installing a Social Media share button. It is important to know how to generate traffic from social media and have people come back to your site. Social media and Search Engine Optimization are blending together; we will discuss what [...]

In this talk we will explore ways to turn your mobile website into an iPhone or Android app. We begin by taking a look at the most well known cross platform framework, PhoneGap. We will learn what it is and isn’t and see what it is like to set it up and the challenges it [...]

Getting multiple WordPress sites set up is deceptively easy, but you soon find yourself mired in a mess of WordPress, theme, and plugin updates. At this meetup, we’ll take a look at four different tools for keeping all of your WordPress sites updated, fresh, and secure. Belsien Thomas will present WP Multisite, the WordPress team’s own [...]

Our WordPress for Non-Profits meetup will include a quick review of solutions for non-profits to best take advantage of WordPress. Some of the subjects covered include: Why you should use WordPress in the first place Using WP to build a landing page (using QuickLaunch.me theme) Membership and e-commerce plugins to collect donations Optimization tips for [...]