Upcoming Meetups

We'll talk about why you (or your client) would want an event management plugin and how to figure out which one to use based on your needs. Sometimes you only need a simple list of events or a way to display your Google calendar; other times, you need multi-day events, recurring events, and the ability to sell tickets. We'll look at The Events Calendar, Events Manager Pro, and Event Espresso in detail.

The WordPress REST API makes it easier than ever to use WordPress in new and exciting ways, such as creating Single Page Applications on top of WordPress. You could create a plugin to provide an entirely new admin experiences for WordPress, or create a brand new interactive front-end experience. Adam LaBarge offered to present on this topic and is working with a few other interested members. If you have worked with the WP REST API, or would like to, please contact Adam or comment here.

It's that time of year again: we want to know what you built with WordPress in 2017. In order to see more sites than we did last year, what we need is for the volunteers to choose ONE (1) feature of a recent site to demonstrate. We'll distribute the URLs of all the sites so people can check them out in more detail after the meeting.

Speed matters. People are impatient. If your website or a client's website doesn't load quickly - within a just a couple of seconds - many visitors will abandon it completely. […]

Bay Area programmer Karla Leibowitz is a full stack developer working on WordPress sites to add custom front and back end features using PHP, SQL, and HTML, CSS, Javascript and […]