Our August meetup was focused on the topic of blogging. We had three amazing speakers come out to share their knowledge with us! First up was Bess Auer of FlBlogCon, who taught us a bit about creating offline opportunities for online success: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F6p-LwMXrI Next
2014 Hosting Survey
We're looking to find the best hosts for WordPress! After so many users asking for suggestions, with so many solutions being offered, we realized that a lot of decisions are made purely on opinion. Now we're crowdsourcing those opinions to get the best host for an average WordPress website. If your
Andrew Norcross – The Business of Plugins
Norcross came over from Tampa to talk plugins, and how he views the ecosystem surrounding them. Check out the video for a freeform talk, without slides or guides, as he shares a lot of great advice for prospective plugin developers. After his solo talk, Norcross joins Adam Soucie and David
Lisa Melegari – Clean Content
For our second talk at the Spring Cleaning Meetup, Lisa Melegari taught us a bit about cleaning up content on your site, as well as reviewing past content to make sure that it complies with best SEO practices. Strip away SEO tricks and the core principal of ranking on Google is quality content.
Gregory Pearcey – Sparkling Structures
At the Spring Cleaning Meetup, Gregory Pearcey taught us a bit about making site structures and sitemaps to determine what pages we need, as well as investigating the template structure of a theme. Most of us choose our WordPress themes based on the way it looks and we end up doing zero research
Adam Soucie – Dirtless Databases
At the Spring Cleaning meetup on 3 May, Adam Soucie discussed methods for cleaning up your WordPress database and why you should do it. He offers several suggestions, including optimizing and repairing tables, as well as shows some code snippets to help and suggests plugins to use. Check out his
Adam Soucie – XML-RPC Vulnerability
Adam walked through the XML-RPC exploit, what it means and how it can affect your site. He then gave three easy ways that you can fix this problem on your site if it hasn't been done already. The XMLRPC exploit is one of the biggest security issues facing WordPress today. I'll show you some
Russ Sanderlin – Securing your WordPress Site
The final talk of the evening was some sage advice on methods of securing your WordPress site. Russ went through several plugins that can be used, both free and paid, as well as the functions of each. Other good tips were shared as well. In the world of information technology, security is a
David Yarde – Breaking WordPress
The first talk of our security meetup was on methods to secure your site, and why certain types of security are vital to the safety of your data. Fixing upgrade bugs and keeping things secure. Because no one likes an insecure site. Breaking WordPress from David Yarde