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December 21, 2015 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

Dec 2015 Meetup Notes: Page Builders and Pet Peeves

Beaver Builder website screenshot

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 The content in this post is more than a year old and may no longer represent best practices.To lay the groundwork for the main presentation about making WordPress easier to use, we asked attendees to share their WordPress pet peeves.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, […]

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December 21, 2015 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

Dec 2015: Making WordPress Easier to Use

Download page for the new WordPress.com app, Calypso

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 The content in this post is more than a year old and may no longer represent best practices.This is an expanded version of the “Not Everyone Is a WordPress Expert” talk that I gave at WordCamp Sacramento in November.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 […]

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November 19, 2015 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

Nov 2015: Getting Readers Engaged: WordPress Comments & Commenting Systems

screenshot of Akismet home page

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 The content in this post is more than a year old and may no longer represent best practices.At the November 2015 East Bay WordPress Meetup, we discussed comments on WordPress blogs, including when to enable comments, plugins to blog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 […]

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October 19, 2015 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

Oct 2015: Top Developer Tips on Good WordPress Code

13 WordPress developers interviewed for the Up and Running with WordPress book/video

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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September 21, 2015 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

Sept 2015: Installing & Configuring Security Plugins

iThemes Security logo

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 24, 2015 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

August 2015: Contributor Day

East Bay WP Meetup Contributor Day 2015

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.

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July 19, 2015 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

July 2015 Slides and Notes: Making the Events Calendar Sit Up and Beg

screenshot: equal-heights grid layout for TEC photo view

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 22, 2015 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

June 2015: Never-Never Land: The WordPress Database

The 11 database tables WordPress Creates

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 20, 2015 by Sallie Goetsch 2 Comments

April 2015 Slides: Advanced Custom Fields

ACF Pro Home Page

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 20, 2015 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

April 2015 Meetup Handout: ACF and ACF Pro Links

Checkerboard layout page built with ACF Pro

Here are the links I found while preparing for the April 2015 Meetup on Advanced Custom Fields and ACF Pro.

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