We talked about Building Web Apps with WordPress at our Jan 15, 2015 meetup. Below are the notes. WordPress as a Web App Presented by Brian Richards Components Custom post types Custom taxonomies Custom meta: post meta, user meta, comment meta User roles & restrictions Post relationships (via Posts 2 Posts) Methods WP_Query pre_get_posts: can be more specific…
We talked about Development Environments and Version Control at our Dec 18, 2014 meetup. We talked about ServerPress, Git, and developing locally. Below are the notes. DesktopServer Gregg Franklin gave a demo of DesktopServer, a local server package which runs on Mac and Windows. He showed how to create and manage local development sites. He also showed…
We talked about backing up WordPress sites at our Oct 16, 2014 meetup. We covered a few backup plugins and management services. Below are the notes. BackupBuddy & Amazon S3, etc. Presented by Chad Warner BackupBuddy BackupBuddy is a premium plugin. Instructions: How to use BackupBuddy with Amazon S3. BackWPup BackWPup is a free backup plugin. These instructions are several…
We talked about what we learned at WordCamp Grand Rapids 2014. We took turns sharing specific things we learned and actions we took as a result of WordCamp. Chad Warner and Topher DeRosia summarized a few points from talks. Others added their thoughts or asked questions. We also had plenty of discussion about other WordPress topics….
We talked about WordPress Marketing Automation at our July 2014 meetup. Dan Kaufman, marketing consultant at Empowered Marketing and co-organizer of I Love Marketing GR spoke about how to automate a sales funnel and must-have plugins. Get ready for WordCamp Grand Rapids 2014, August 15-17! You can buy a ticket, volunteer, and/or sponsor. Remember, you can also find us on Meetup, Twitter (@wpgrandrapids and #wpgr), and Google…
This last Thursday we had a presentation by Topher on Vagrant and Varying Vagrant Vagrants ( VVV ). Voice and a screen capture were recorded, and are presented here for you.
