Membership Plugins S2Member (Free and paid. Very popular. Integrates with bbPress and BuddyPress. Has an API. If you want to build membership sites as part of your business, you should get […]
Past Meetups
September 2012 Slides: Membership Sites on WordPress
Check any of the WordPress job boards and you’ll see requests for membership sites–from people who are expecting to pay, since they plan to make money. That must be why there are so many commercial membership plugins for WordPress.
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August 2012 Slides: What I learned (about running a WordCamp) at WordCamp SF 2012
WordCamp SF 2012 was a dramatic departure from WordCamp SF 2011. While there were some good speakers and topics, the overall effect was unsatisfactory. This presentation addresses some insights on conference planning.
Handout for August 2012: Slides and Videos from WCSF 2012
Slides and videos of presentations from WordCamp San Francisco 2012. Since there were two tracks (with no particular logic to what happened in which room), everyone had to miss at least half of them, and I was worn out and brain-fried by the last session.
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July 2012 Slides: WordPress Multisite Deep Dive
We started with the basics of what Multisite is, how to create a network, server and hosting considerations, subfolders versus subdomains, and domain mapping, before moving on to case studies from Sallie, Cole, and Anca.
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July 2012 Handout: WordPress Multisite Deep Dive
Tutorials and Articles WordPress Multisite: Practical Functions and Methods (Smashing Magazine) Hosting Client Sites on a WordPress Network (Digging into WordPress) Pete Mall: WordPress MultiSite (WordCamp.tv video) Don’t Use WordPress […]
June 2012 Meetup Notes: Choosing Plugins, WordCamp San Leandro, and WordPress Hosting
Announcement: WordCamp San Leandro Judi Clark, who recently moved here from Hawaii, would like to hold a WordCamp in San Leandro on Saturday, September 29th, at the San Leandro Public […]
June 2012 Slides: Choosing WordPress Plugins
There are more than 19,000 plugins in the WordPress Plugin Repository and often dozens of plugins for any given task. How do you know which one to use? Unless you’ve […]
May 2012 Notes: Ratings, Translation, Galleries, and More
Can anyone recommend a better plugin for rating posts than Post Ratings? Suggestion from Michael McColl: GD Star Rating, which uses microformats to display the stars in Google search results. […]
May 2012 Meetup Slides: WordPress 3.4 Feature Tour
WordPress 3.4 is right around the corner. The most notable new feature is the Theme Customizer, but other items of note include post formats as menu items, HTML in image […]
