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
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
August was All About Blogging!
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
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