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Tool Time! Showcasing the Tools That Make Us Work

This month we’ll be featuring a series of shorter talks of about five-ten minutes each. We’ll showcase a variety of tools that can help improve your sites and businesses, with the hope that everyone will walk away with something new to try!

Kara Franco – Hemingway Editor

https://hemingwayapp.com/
A web and desktop writing app intended to help improve your writing

Irina Blumenfeld – GTmetrix

https://gtmetrix.com/
GTmetrix gives you insight on how well your site loads and provides actionable recommendations on how to optimize it.

Sandy Edwards – ManageWP

https://managewp.com/
Manage multiple WordPress websites from one dashboard. Schedule backups, migrate WordPress website, automate updates, monitor website traffic and SEO.

Sandy’s Presentation Slides

Lindsey Soucie – Canva

https://www.canva.com/
Use Canva’s drag-and-drop feature and layouts to design, share and print business cards, logos, presentations and more.

Lindsey’s Presentation Slides

Jean Perpillant – Free High Quality Photographs and Graphics

When working on a project, you sometimes need to use graphics and images as placeholders to get a good idea on how your designs and layouts will work. For those who need high quality photographs and graphics the following links will also be great for you as well.

David Wolfpaw – Trello

https://trello.com/
Trello is an easy to use and powerful project management tool. The addition of Butler for Trello earlier this year has made it even more powerful!

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Making Your Website Search Engine Friendly

Irina Blumenfeld – How to make your site more visible in Search Results

What if there was a way that you could communicate directly with search engines? You could help Google understand your content and give them more information to make your website stand out in the search results.

We’ll talk about Structured Data and how it tells search engines exactly what’s on your site. We’ll also discuss on how you can implement it, submit to Google and test the results.

Stand Out In Search Results

Jean Perpillant – What You Should Know about Digital Marketing for 2019

A new year is here and there are more social media applications to help grow your brand awareness, and there are also new features with existing apps that help do the same. As a business though there are many flavors of digital marketing to choose from and each have their benefits and levels of understanding that you’ll need to know before you decide to start using them.

In this presentation I’ll be focusing on some of the bigger and more well known and widely used social media applications and give you some shortcuts to get you going or refine your efforts.

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Starting and Managing your Business with WordPress in 2019

Adam Soucie – You’re Fired, Now What? A Guide to Starting Your Own Business

In this talk, Impossibly Creative’s Adam Soucie walks you through the steps of setting up your own freelancing business after the worst has happened.

Adam Soucie is the founder and CEO of Impossibly Creative, a small business agency focusing on WordPress. He is also a member of the WordPress Orlando organizing team.

David Wolfpaw – Processes for Managing WordPress Support – With WordPress!

Do you run a small business of one or two people? If so you may find that many business management tools are not meant for you. Whether they have team size minimums, enterprise-level tooling, or unaffordable prices, it can be hard to find the right tools to run your business.

I’m going to show you how I run my business, FixUpFox, which offers ongoing WordPress Support and Maintenance. We’ll talk tools and processes, as well as start thinking of ways that you can start automating some of these processes.

We’ll look at ways to create one-off and recurring invoices, estimates, contracts, handle support, and manage leads, all from your WordPress site. I’ll also share some tools, both paid and free, that support other activities of my business.

Start 2019 with a resolution to improve your business and reduce the amount of time and effort spent on routine tasks!

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How to Create a Child Theme, and Why You Shouldn’t Fear Gutenberg

How to Create a Child Theme, and Why You Shouldn’t Fear Gutenberg

Tuesday, Sep 25, 2018, 6:30 PM

Bigeye
3203 Lawton Rd Orlando, fl

66 WordPressers Went

How to Choose the Right Theme & Customize It the Right Way (Using a Child Theme) Geoff Myers, Digital Marketing Consultant & CEO of SimDex LLC This presentation and subsequent group discussion is meant for both beginners of WordPress (“choosing the right theme”) and intermediate users of WordPress (“creating a child theme”). Geoff will be covering …

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How to Choose the Right Theme & Customize It the Right Way (Using a Child Theme)

Geoff Myers, Digital Marketing Consultant & CEO of SimDex LLC

This presentation and subsequent group discussion is meant for both beginners of WordPress (“choosing the right theme”) and intermediate users of WordPress (“creating a child theme”).

Geoff will be covering the following subtopics:

  • Where do I start when searching for a WordPress theme for my site?What are the best places to look for high-quality themes?
  • What do I look for in a WordPress theme to determine whether it meets the highest technical quality standards? (hint: use Theme Check)
  • Effective strategies and best practices for choosing a WordPress theme that will work for you in the short term and long run (i.e. how to save yourself frustration later on)
  • Free themes versus paid themes: What’s the difference? Is it worth paying? Where should I go?
  • How to create a Child Theme and add customizations without overwriting the original theme’s code (e.g. copying and editing CSS stylesheets and PHP templates from the original theme)
Geoff Myers: How to Choose the Right Theme & Customize It the Right Way (By Using a Child Theme)

Don’t Be Afraid of Gutenberg

David Wolfpaw, Owner of FixUpFox WordPress Maintenance

A new editor is coming in WordPress v5.0, and the reviews on it have been mixed, to say the least. While there will definitely be challenges and growing pains, I think that it’s an overall good move for WordPress, which as the dominant web publishing platform will make it a good move for the web overall.

There are a lot of new things to learn about how Gutenberg will be part of WordPress, and a lot of questions that still don’t have answers. I’m going to walk through where Gutenberg is coming from, what it does, and what is planned for the future. We’ll do a demo of some features, I’ll show some cool things that could spur you to try something new with it, and hopefully allay fears around the new feature.

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Self Employed Thanks to WordPress & An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Contracts

Elizabeth Pampalone – How to Stay Self Employed During the Appocolypse

Pricing/Contracts/Proposals for Design/Development

Whether you have just started, or if you have been around a while, pricing, contracts and proposals can be a pain in your … brain? Thing is, they are WAY less complicated than in the past. Elizabeth will take you into her pricing evolution over the past decade and share some of her stories of staying self employed through the most recent economic downturn. She will share her contract and proposal and the tools she uses to get it to the client within 30 min of a consult.

Rian Kinney – Can I Use A Template? – An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Contracts

Have you ever wondered if you can use a contract template for your business? Tired of Contracts talks that start with “I’m not an attorney, but…”

Rian Kinney is a Florida attorney here to answer your entrepreneurial questions., such as: Can I use a Template? If so, what should I look for?

In this talk you will discover what clauses are “boilerplate” and you should have in your contracts which will also help you better discern which templates are well drafted.

Can I Use a Template? – Rian Kinney’s Presentation

Rian Kinney Presenting at WordPress Orlando

https://www.meetup.com/WordPress-Orlando/events/251241010/

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Notes From the May 2018 WordPress QA Meetup

Thank you to Marcus Burnette for taking notes of URLs and resources that we mentioned at the WordPress Orlando QA last night! Check out Marcus’ post and website here: https://mburnette.com/blog/wordpress-orlando-qa-may-2018/

Here are some of the resources that we discussed while asked about choosing themes, page builders, optimizing sites, and dealing with GDPR and ADA compliance.

Site/Image Optimization & Security

Theming

Site Builders

Front-end Posting

Hosting & DNS

Support Desk Solutions

GDPR

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