We talked about Building a Portfolio in WordPress at our June 18, 2015 meetup. Below are the notes. What are clients looking for in your portfolio? Presented by Andrea Napierkowski What are clients looking for in your portfolio from CurlyHost LLC Clients want to see themselves in your portfolio Less is more: don’t overwhelm people Make it easy to…
We talked about Booking Reservations and Appointments at our April 16, 2015 meetup. Below are the notes. BirchPress Scheduler and PTA Volunteer Sign Up Sheets Presented by Matthew Patulski BirchPress Scheduler BirchPress Scheduler (free version) PTA Volunteer Sign Up Sheets Other reservation, appointment, and event plugins Presented by Chad Warner Event Espresso add-ons Event Espresso 4 Decaf (free) Event…
We talked about WordPress Network (Multisite) at our March 19, 2015 meetup. Chad Warner introduced WordPress Network (Multisite). Then, Mika Epstein from DreamHost joined us via Google Hangout to talk about the dos and don’ts and answer our questions. Below are the notes. Intro to WordPress Network (Multisite) Presented by Chad Warner Before You Create A Network (Codex) Create A Network (Codex)…
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 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 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…
