Things change rapidly in the WordPress world. The content in this post is more than a year old and may no longer represent best practices.To lay the groundwork for the main presentation about making WordPress easier to use, we asked attendees to share their WordPress pet peeves. Several people mentioned the need to learn JavaScript, […]
Past Meetups
Dec 2015: Making WordPress Easier to Use
Things change rapidly in the WordPress world. The content in this post is more than a year old and may no longer represent best practices.This is an expanded version of the “Not Everyone Is a WordPress Expert” talk that I gave at WordCamp Sacramento in November. In it, I cover the developer-client disconnect about the […]
Nov 2015: Getting Readers Engaged: WordPress Comments & Commenting Systems
Things change rapidly in the WordPress world. The content in this post is more than a year old and may no longer represent best practices.At the November 2015 East Bay WordPress Meetup, we discussed comments on WordPress blogs, including when to enable comments, plugins to blog spam, third-party comment management systems, and plugins like Wheepl […]
Oct 2015: Top Developer Tips on Good WordPress Code
Fred Meyer of WP Shout joined us remotely to give his presentation “What I Learned about WordPress Development by Interviewing 15 of the Best WordPress Developers.
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Sept 2015: Installing & Configuring Security Plugins
At the September 2015 East Bay WP Meetup, we discussed three popular WordPress Security plugins: iThemes Security, Wordfence, and All in One WordPress Security and Firewall.
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August 2015: Contributor Day
The East Bay WordPress Meetup held its first WordPress Contributor Day on August 23, 2015. It was a great success and we plan to do it again every year.
July 2015 Slides and Notes: Making the Events Calendar Sit Up and Beg
The focus of the July 2015 meetup was Modern Tribe’s plugin The Events Calendar and its companions, Events Calendar Pro, Community Events, Facebook Events, and Tickets/Eventbrite Tickets.
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June 2015: Never-Never Land: The WordPress Database
Database expert Sonja London walked us through the WordPress database–and some tools to help you work with it–in June 2015.
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April 2015 Slides: Advanced Custom Fields
What can you do with Advanced Custom Fields Pro? Some pretty amazing things. It’s a tool for developers that makes content entry easier for users.
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April 2015 Meetup Handout: ACF and ACF Pro Links
Here are the links I found while preparing for the April 2015 Meetup on Advanced Custom Fields and ACF Pro.
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