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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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Help Support the Zebra Coalition with WordPress Orlando this Holiday Season

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 you.

Our ability as a community to come together is powerful, and one that we don’t take lightly. At WordCamp every year we select one or two charity partners to focus on, to expose our network to a worthy cause. In the past, we’ve collected toys for Toys for Tots, video games for Nemours Children’s Hospital, registered members for the bone marrow registry Be the Match, and more.

This year, we focus on a vulnerable population: at-risk LGBTQ Youth in Orlando. The Zebra Coalition is a full service organization devoted to helping LGBTQ teens and young adults with services including medical and mental health resources, drug and alcohol counseling, ongoing education, transportation, peer support, and more. They also provide short term housing, food, and clothing to teens and young adults who otherwise have few resources to turn to.

Zebra Youth Christmas Fund

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We ask that you help with a drive to raise funds to provide necessities, food gift cards, and a bit of holiday cheer for these young people at a time of year that many of us can celebrate how much we have rather than how little. We are raising funds before and during our holiday party to present at the Zebra Youth holiday party a few days later.

If you are willing and able, please consider supporting. Our minimum goal is to raise $450 before our party to provide one $15 gift card for food to each of 30 current residents of the housing program, but we welcome gifts above and beyond.

Thank you for being an active member of WordPress Orlando, and please let us know how we can serve you through 2017!

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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 recaps of meetups, notes from them, and more information about what we’re doing.

See you soon with a new look!

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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 favorite host wasn’t listed, I apologize, but add it to the form and we’ll include it in results.

Please share the link to this survey around. The more responses that we get, the more accurate the results are when we present them. The survey runs until 31 July 2014.

 

 

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26 October Meetup – WordPress Tricks and Treats

This month we’re going to give you some neat tricks to improve your site and skills. Will is going to be giving an intro developer talk (some coding required!), while Jean will be sharing some content creation and business skills that he’s learned at Florida Bloggers Conference this year. We’ve also got treats! Expect some seasonal baked goodies, as well as some other fun. Want to dress up in a fun costume? There may just be some prizes for the best ones!

9:00 – 9:30 – Networking

9:30 – 10:15 – Will Johnson – I am planning on giving a demo on how to create custom page types and how to set a custom page type as a static home page.

Altogether, I hope to give a demo that will teach some of the core concepts of theme development and display how you can use meta boxes and custom renderers to create custom pages.

10:15 – 11:30 – Networking, group discussion, flash talk

11:30 – 12:15 – Jean Perpillant – Last month I attended the Florida Bloggers Conference hosted at Full Sail University. This conference was an all day event on a Saturday and this was the third consecutive year that Bess Auer put it together. Being my first time in attendance I wasn’t sure what all to expect, but I was eager to go. The sessions were plenty, about 4 to choose from each hour. They ranged from talks about social media, media kits, making money as a blogger, SEO, and more.

I think one of the better parts of this conference was that most of the speakers were all local or at least working in Florida. Not to say that they weren’t hugely successful in their own rights, but to say that it was inspiring to see how humble they were and from a market that seems less tech being Florida.

Please note: There will be another race downtown on the 26th. Keep that in mind when driving over, and take Colonial to Orange to get to IDEAS, as opposed to trying to drive up North through downtown.