Events

You never know when you’re going to have to rescue your blog or website from a failing server or a hacker attack. Be prepared!

Ever been stumped trying to figure out which of those files in your theme folder you need to edit? Ever wondered why on earth child themes are the talk of the town and if you should be using them? Having trouble understand exactly what a template tag is and where you should use one? In [...]

Save the date WordPress fans! You won’t want to miss our next meetup – WordPress Expert Panel! If you have a WordPress site or are thinking about building one, no doubt you’ve got piles of questions: What’s the best plugin for…? How do I…? How come my site won’t…? What’s the best way to…? Where [...]

Purple Pen Productions is proud to sponsor Typesetting for the Web by Zeke Franco Zeke will cover the fundamentals of the art of typography and then will cover some ways to implement beautiful typography on your WordPress blog. Typography is important because presentation is important. Good typography can reinforce the meaning of your text, can [...]

It seems simple enough – install WordPress, install a theme and you’re good to go – instant web site. But wait…you don’t really like the color of that box over there and the text size of the headings is way too big – and you’d really like them to be blue. How do you fix [...]

WordPress 3.0 is expected to be released to the public in the next 4-8 weeks. We’ll quickly go over some of the new features so that we’re all ready to upgrade – it’s looking really great, and there are some wonderful features that make WordPress even more flexible and extendable than ever. Then we’ll dive [...]

We’ll have the members who attended SXSW talk about who they met and what they learned at one of the largest interactive conferences around. More details coming soon…

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 but we’ll be [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]