As we prepare for our annual holiday party, we are thankful for the many speakers, sponsors, and attendees that have helped enrich WordPress Orlando over the past five years. It has been our privilege to be able to serve our community, and we look forward to continuing forward with all of
Creating WP Content on the Go in Rio
Creating content on the go can be a challenge, but fortunately, tech tools and apps are making it easier to create compelling content from remote locations. Bess Auer will be sharing the tools and tactics she used in Rio de Janeiro when covering the Olympics Games. Live streaming and pre-recorded
Accessibility and Security on the Web
Helena Zubkow - Including Everyone: Web Accessibility 101 https://youtu.be/jb_sRERr5b8 If your website wouldn't work for anyone living in the state of New York, would that be a launch-blocker? Of course! So why are we ignoring the even larger population of people with disabilities? Designed
WordPress Local Development Environments
If you missed the meetup on local development environments or need links to the software that we used, we've compiled a list of links to download all of the tools. Demian Seiler - XAMPP (and MAMP and
How to Handle Hosting and Site Migration
Do you have questions about hosting? How about moving your site from one host to another? This month's meetup is all about hosting and migration, and we've got two presentations and a general QA planned. As always, we'll be serving food and drinks, so don't worry about missing dinner after
Branding Yourself and Your Business as a WordPress Practitioner
David Yarde led the February meetup with a talk on personal branding. A bit of what was covered: Personal Branding How to set yourself apart in a growing marketplace. The importance of contracts and project transparency. Business Branding The importance of search meta-data and social
We’re getting an update!
This site has gone quite a while without some love, something about the cobbler's children and shoes. One of our members is working on an updated design, which we're going to work on bringing to life over the next week. We think that this will give us more incentive to regularly update with
WordPress Site Performance Optimization
Site speed is important, considering your users can quickly get tired of having to wait and will move on. Search engines recognize this user behavior, and use site speed as part of their ranking algorithms. Learn a bit about how you can speed up your website, and why it matters. Irina
Meetup – WordPress SEO
Chris Edwards - Optimizing Your Website and Identifying Quality Content for SEO SEO is a broad topic with many pieces and parts. I will dive into some of the secret tricks I have used on over 450 different websites that help them out rank their competition. I will focus on WordPress and one page