Monthly gathering of WordPress junkies in the East San Francisco Bay
Sallie Goetsch, Sonja London, Amanda McCoy, and Carol Hatcher reviewed the pros and cons of several different event management plugins for WordPress.
Read the Post about Event Management Plugins: October 2017 Slides
Sallie Goetsch presents about her experience migrating a very large site from a custom flat-file CMS to WordPress, using HTML Import 2 and WP All Import/Export.
Read the Post about Slides: HTML to WordPress Migration Tips & Tools
Our small but mighty Contributor Day 2017 team decided to put the Gutenberg Test Site to use and test the new Gutenberg editor. (Special thanks to SiteDistrict for hosting the test site. If you missed Contributor Day, you can still use the test site.)
If you haven’t contributed to WordPress before, take a look at this great slide deck from Petya and follow these directions to get set up with your WordPress.org and WordPress Slack accounts.
Here’s a way to contribute on Contributor Day and beyond: go to the new Gutenberg Test Site, create an account, and try out the Gutenberg Editor. If you test the site, I’ll give you a Gutenberg Tester sticker at the Contributor Day meetup.
Laura Steiner shows off a demo store she built using Formidable Pro, illustrating the power of Formidable’s built-in views and advanced calculations. These cool features are in all pro versions of Formidable Forms, but not available in Formidable Lite.
Read the Post about Favorite Features of Formidable Pro (July 2017 Slides)
Sallie Goetsch compares Gravity Forms, Ninja Forms, Caldera Forms, WPForms Lite, and Formidable Lite, reviewing user interface, available features, field types, pricing, and pros and cons.
Read the Post about Beyond Gravity Forms: Form Plugins for WordPress (July 2017 Slides)
Pieter Hartsook chose Beaver Builder as the best-in-class page builder, and Genesis as the best-in-class framework. Beaver Builder has come a long way in the past few years, and meetup members were very favorably impressed.
Read the Post about June 2017 Slides: Beaver Builder + Genesis
Our May 2017 meetup discussion ranged from choosing a theme to WooCommerce marketplaces to why a high PageSpeed Insights score may not be worth pursuing.
Read the Post about May 2017 Meetup Notes: Databases, Marketplaces, and More
Want to learn more about WordPress Multisite? This list of how-to articles and useful plugins will get you going.
Read the Post about WordPress Multisite Resources (May 2017)
