WordPress Meetup in United States

Come and meet other WordPressers in Durango and the Four Corners area! We welcome beginners and seasoned professionals alike. At each meetup we share our projects, learn about specific WordPress topics, and become familiar with other related technologies.

For this meetup please bring:
1. A computer if you have one to work along or do some research.
2. Things you would like to talk about. We usually don't run out of ideas.
3. Desire to learn and share!

This is an officially registered WordPress meetup. It is completely free and non-discriminatory. We thank Jasper and DurangoSpace for letting us use their awesome coworking space!

>> ATTENTION: THIS MEETUP IS ON A SATURDAY AT NOON! <<

This is our advanced topics (developer) meetup. You should come on out but be prepared to participate as we go round-table style to get you all the best knowledge and developer tricks out there.

The WordPress Pasadena Developer Meetup is distinct from the General WordPress Pasadena Meetup in that we'll be pursuing more developer-oriented topics for discussion and presentation. Presentations and feedback are awesome and highly encouraged! Feel free to post in the comments if you already have a topic in mind you'd like to share. We're still experimenting with the exact format and would love to hear your feedback in this next meeting!

This meetup is for a discussion of topics pertaining to WordPress development. See our guidelines below.

< What's it about? >

We're definitely talking about WordPress, but we'll be discussing developer-specific topics. If you would like to attend, we strongly encourage you to enrich the discussion by briefly sharing on a topic of your choice surrounding WordPress development. Discussion on your topic should last anywhere from 5-10 minutes and can include sharing your screen although sharing your screen is not a requirement.

< Who's it for? >

Our meetup is inclusive first and foremost. HOWEVER, it is not for everybody and it's not intended to be. Both experienced and new-coming developers are encouraged to share their expertise and experiences in the form of code samples or some type of demo.

What if I'm a beginner? Please attend, you're welcome here! We do expect you to follow and respect our rules below.

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* If you want an interactive guide, see the Advanced WordPress Contribution Wizard. (Link (http://www.advancedwp.org/awp-contribution-wizard/))

The Developer Meetup is an inclusive group. BUT this meetup is NOT for everybody and it's not supposed to be. We will abide by the following rules:

• If you have a question, please research it before you bring it to the meetup. Google it, check it on Stack Exchange, do YOUR homework. This isn't a general tech support group. There are great places for that sort of stuff, this group isn't one of them.

• DO NOT sell your products or services to the group. It's not welcome. There are other meetups for just that sort of thing. This is not one of them.

• EVERYONE WILL PRESENT A TOPIC—as time permits, of course (be concise). We do expect everyone to participate if you show up.

• Acceptable topics to present on—

• Any type of web/WordPress development tool you're working with or having problems with. If sharing a problem, share what you've done to troubleshoot, please. Sharing your code is encouraged.

• A walk-thru of a theme or plugin you have personal experience with using. Share your experiences with us; the good, the bad, and the ewwww.

• A problem or bug you're dealing with. Again, share what you've done.

• Well-researched questions about general WordPress usage and strategy. I will ask you what you've done in your research thus far. If you haven't researched it, your question will be skipped.

Reference: Advanced WordPress Contribution Wizard (http://www.advancedwp.org/awp-contribution-wizard/)

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What makes for a good topic in this Meetup? I don't know. Ten different people will have ten different answers. We're not into policing what is and isn't strictly appropriate; however, if it involves code on the screen or larger discussion about DevOps or front-end solutions, it will almost certainly be a win!

Also, let's have fun!

Pop-ups allow you to engage with your website visitors to share your content with them in exchange for them sharing their email address with you. During this Meetup, we will do a deep dive into pop-ups and how you can use them to increase your website engagement and mailing lists.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Kim Beasley is a FANatic about WordPress along with being the Founder of Agape3 Business Service (A3BS). The focus of A3BS is to develop WordPress websites and integrate social media into websites. Kim and her team specialize in developing engaging websites that help your business grow your visibility online. She has been developing and customizing WordPress business websites since 2004. With an MBA in eBusiness, Kim has created a company that assists corporations to build and customize their WordPress website with clients like Steelcase, RedHat, and many more. She and her team also administer WordPress support desk for corporations and entrepreneurs. New to A3BS is the launch of GrowVisibility which is an all-in-one social media management tool.

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CONNECT WITH KIM
Website: https://agape3.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/kimbeasley
Facebook: https://facebook.com/kimbeasleyconsulting
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kbeasley
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kimbeasley

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ABOUT THE VENUE:
Thank you to WordPress KC member Kim Beasley & Community America for being our location sponsor for this Meetup!

CommunityAmerica – Tiffany Springs Branch
9060 NW Skyview Avenue, Kansas City, MO 64154

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MEETUP SCHEDULE:
• Networking - Chat with other group members: 1pm
• Member introductions: 1:15pm
• Presentation: 1:30pm
• Q&A: Immediately following presentation
• Chat and talk shop: Following Q&A, up until 3pm

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CONNECT WITH WORDPRESS KC:
• Website - http://wordpresskc.com
• Newsletter - http://wordpresskc.com/newsletter
• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/WordPressKC/
• Twitter - https://twitter.com/wordpresskc
• Instagram - http://instagram.com/wordpresskc

Agenda

• 6:30: Networking & Pizza

• 7:00: Presentations

Presentation 1: SEO tips for WordPress websites.
Tips on how to increase your WordPress website traffic through SEO.

My name is Greg Kristan, and I'm the owner of TM Blast. I offer SEO and PPC consulting services to clients and have over nine years of work experience. In addition to consulting, I also provide SEO coaching for freelancers, affiliate advertisers, bloggers, and more!

Greg is sharing a 14 day free trial for SEMRush that attendees can use before, during, or after the SEO presentation. The majority of his talk will use SEMRush, and this will be helpful to replicate what you learn from the presentation.

https://www.semrush.com/partner/tmblast/

Presentation 2: TBA

TBA

Bio

Bostonwp is Sponsored by:

A2 Hosting - https://www.a2hosting.com/

Hult International Business School - https://www.hult.edu/en/locations/boston/

We haven't done this since last fall, so it's about time we do it again!

This month we will not have an official topic or formal presentation. This meetup is an opportunity to ask questions or get help with your WordPress or website-related issues, or a chance to help someone out or provide advice. We also can discuss any news or other items related to the WordPress world.

No WordPress-related question or issue is too "simple" or trivial! If you're an intermediate or advanced user, join us and provide advice/answers to those who have questions.

Doors open at 6:30PM. Join us for an evening of co-working, conversation and/or support. Hope to see you there!

We'll be going over how to debug WordPress sites. We'll take a look at inspecting sites, reading error messages, recovering from errors, and setting up xDebug for local development with Local and VS Code.

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This WordPress meetup digs into how WordPress works and different tips and tools you can use to get the most out of your WordPress site. We tend to delve into developer topics so a bit of PHP and HTML experience is a plus, but not necessary.

Each month we offer a standard Q&A as an easy icebreaker. Come out and meet other like-minded individuals looking to do amazing things on the web. All user levels are welcome and encouraged to come out with your questions!

We average around 20 to 25 attendees per month. We typically have 2-3 developers, 2-3 designers, 2-3 content writers and a handful of first timers all looking to connect.

Our Sponsor - Nossi (http://nossi.edu/)

Nossi College of Art (http://nossi.edu/) is a professional art college focused on bachelor and associate degrees as well as certificate programs to continue your education. Our programs consist of commercial photography, video & film, web & interactive, illustration and graphic design media.

Community Sponsor - A2 Hosting (https://www.a2hosting.com/)

Fast, reliable hosting.

Is Nashville too far?
If Nashville is to far you should consider scheduling a meet up in your city or town. If you are within 40 mi of Nashville and are looking to connect with your local community please contact the organizing team. We would love to help you schedule a meet and greet!

Giving a presentation
If you would like to give a presentation please use the contact button in the sidebar to get ahold of the planning team.

Other places to find WordPress in Nashville
• Community site: wpnashville.com
• Slack: http://wpnashville.com/slack
• Twitter: @wpnashville
• Email: [masked]
• WordCamp: wpnashville.com/wordcamp
• WordPress TV: wordpress.tv/nashville (http://wordpress.tv/?s=nashville)

In a multilingual eCommerce environment we all understand that if we present our goods and services in the language of our customers, we will increase our sales.

This month Toyin Akinmusuru will demonstrate how WooCommerce gives store owners the ability to add multilingual content, localized for target markets. WordPress websites aren’t multilingual by default so Toyin will review and demo the WordPress plugins that offer an innovative way to introduce multilingualism to your site without requiring a lot of extra work or hassle.

Toyin will close the class with a discussion of what it takes to build and maintain an online store along with how much budget should you allocate for a multilingual store build, maintenance, and upgrades.

2020 Real World eCommerce Session Format

7 pm — Refreshments & Networking — Liquid Web https://www.liquidweb.com is our 2020 Refreshment Sponsor for our ‘eCommerce Meet and Greet’
7:15 pm Theory — Each month we will examine a different aspect of the building, maintaining and managing an eCommerce site.
8 pm Practice — Each month we will demonstrate/discuss the best applications for the tool or process described in the “Theory” section
8:30 pm Q & A — The session will close with member questions

It is our hope that this structure will help our members not only to learn more about the awesome power and flexibility WooCommerce but also support building more personal and professional relationships within the Austin WordPress eCommerce community.

Thank you to Liquid Web for feeding the hungry WPATX eCommerce store owners and developers. You can visit https://www.liquidweb.com for special eComm hosting deals.

Thank you to Capital Factory for sponsoring the event space in 2020 for WordPress Austin. Capital Factory is the center of gravity for entrepreneurs in Texas. They meet the best entrepreneurs in Texas and introduce them to their first investors, employees, mentors, and customers. For more information, visit their website: https://www.capitalfactory.com/

Join us at the Eastside Branch Library for the November WordPress Meetup meeting - upstairs in the small conference room - Monday 24 February 7-9 PM

With WordPress you can create and maintain your own websites - WordPress Meetups are a place to learn how to use WordPress - all levels of experience are welcome.

Monday 24 February - adding images, pdfs, videos, audios, to your Gutenberg WordPress site. Looking at various uploads - and getting them to display they way you want on your WordPress Posts and Pages

We have started a new way to communicate with each other - we now have our own Slack group. The link below will take you to Slack - if you already use Slack just login and add the group. If you do not have Slack it is free - sign up for a free account and add the WordPress Group - the link makes this easy. Slack also has apps for Windows10 - iPad and Andriod - the Slack link has been updated - if you have had a problem in the past joining the Slack group try it with this link
https://join.slack.com/t/kywpgeeks/shared_invite/enQtNDIzODk4MjM1NzYzLTUyMmVhODIzNTRkNTk1MzRkYzRkYmE3ZTZiZThlNDg5NGJiMDMwZGUwNmZhODE3NzM3MjQ5YzExMTZmMDk0N2Y

A reminder - we meet the 2nd Thursday of every month at 3rd Street Stuff for what we call "Happiness Bar" - WordPress Happiness is solving or finding a solution to something that has confused or alluded us. This is the pace to find answers to problems with your WordPress Site

WordCamp US 2020 will again return to St. Louis - and will be October 27-29 --- they are changing from the traditional weekend to Tuesday thru Thursday. The site will be up soon - http://2020.us.worcamp.org

Remember Lynda has WordPress and other useful classes and is free for anyone with a Lexington Library card. If you look at the Lynda classes there are some classes available now for WordPress with Gutenberg - and of course remember to search Lynda for classes in other things
Obviously there is a lot of help on You Tube - quality does vary - and always remember the Google is your friend when it comes to tech solutions.

The Dayton WordCamp has been cancelled - there is a WordCamp coming up in Kent Ohio (Near Akron) I have not attended this one so I don't know much about it - only that attendees from both the Dayton and the Columbus WordCamps often attend the one at Kent
https://2020.kent.wordcamp.org/
WordCamp Asheville NC does not have a date scheduled yet - this one is always excellent and Asheville is not far from Central Kentucky

The next Meetup will be Monday March 30 and will again be at the Eastside Branch

This group has a website at https://kywpgeeks.com -- I had hoped to have gotten some needed updates done but due do malware on a server that I had several sites a lot of time had to be devoted to fixing this mess. If you happen to be using Infinite WP a way to remotely manage multiple sites you probably have this same malware - it is extremely invasive and will contaminate EVERY web site you have on a server is any of the website use IWP Client to access the sites using Infinite WP.

Do you have a topic or presentation that you would like to present at one of our meetups? Do you know of anyone that would like to come and do a presentation? What are some things that you would like to learn more about? Please join out Slack group and present your ideas and thoughts

One of the things that other WordPress meetups do is after their normal meetup they go out to a late night restaurant or bar - does anyone have any ideas of anyplace fairly near the Eastside Branch (Hamburg Area) where we might go after 9PM that is open to at least 11PM serving food or snacks? I know absolutely nothing about bars or breweries and very little about restaurants so your suggestions would be a help. Again reply through the Slack group

Self Care & The Lie of a Work/Life Balance

Self care is critical to your success, yet it is often ignored. Samantha Zehngut will be leading a discussion about what self care is and why it needs to be personalized. She will talk about the role your friends and family play in your self care and why saying "no" is a form of self care. Come out to learn the ROI of taking care of you.

DETAILS COMING SOON

Connect with Mary-Catherine
• Website - https://bpcreativegroup.com/
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-catherine-reinert-34006b8b/
• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BPCreativeGroup/
• Instagram - http://instagram.com/bpcg_brandboutique

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JCCC REGNIER CENTER ROOM 270
Follow the map above. Enter the Regnier Center garage for parking. Take the elevator to the 2nd floor. Room 270 is to the left as you exit the elevator.

Thank you to Johnson County Community College Continuing Education program for being our venue sponsor! Get more information about continuing education classes at JCCC - https://www.jccc.edu/academics/ce/

• 7pm - Doors open & networking
• ~7:15pm - Member introductions
• ~7:30pm - Presentation starts
• After presentation, up to 9pm - Q&A and discussion
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CONNECT WITH WORDPRESS KC:
• Website - http://wordpresskc.com
• Newsletter - http://wordpresskc.com/newsletter
• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/WordPressKC/
• Twitter - https://twitter.com/wordpresskc
• Instagram - http://instagram.com/wordpresskc

Don't bury your head in the sand when it comes to protecting your web site from bad stuff!

Keeping your web site safe and sound is a shared responsibility. In this presentation Bud Kraus will give you a common sense approach to actionable things you can can do to make your site harder to compromise.

He'll be discussing...

- What risks can any WordPress site face?
- Does the choice of your web host matter?
- Should you be updating your WordPress software?
- What are solid plugins to use to protect your site?
- What if you've been hacked and what to do if that happens?

and more.

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Bud Kraus brings over 20 years of experience teaching best practices with WordPress (in New York City and beyond) to every project he gets involved with. From startup sites to site re-designs, it is his experience and professionalism that clients have come to depend on.

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We order pizza and have beers in the fridge. If you'd like to partake, bring a few bucks to help offset the cost and to put in the kitty towards Meetup space upkeep and rent.

You know security is important and want your site to be secure, but what will actually help? Join us as Sara Graybill with Graybill Creative walks you through simple steps on how to secure your website for you and your customers.

Meetup Schedule
10:00am - 10:30am - networking/website help
10:30am - 11:30am - Presentation and Q&A

Come join us for WordPress tips and tricks for business owners running their own WordPress website.

Things we will cover:

Q&A on running a WordPress website - come prepared with your questions.

Please bring a laptop if you have one, your website URL, and any questions that you may want to discuss with the group. See you there!

Refreshments Supplied by A2 Hosting!
Please meet in the conference room.

Opinions differ widely about the power, value, and impact WordPress can have in a business. In this session, we’ll cover what the great features of WordPress are, when it’s definitely the wrong tool for the job, and when there are important and hard-to-weigh trade-offs between WordPress and other options. We’re not selling WordPress here, just sharing a clearer sense of when you should (and shouldn’t) use it :)

Panelists will include:
- Angela Bowman (AskWPGirl, Women in WP)
- Megan Jonas (CodeGeek)
- Caitlin Cera (Developer/Marketing Specialist @ Radial Development Group)
- you? (email [masked] about why you'd be a good panelist 🤓)

This Meetup event is being cross-promote as part of Fort Collins Startup Week. This listing for it there is at https://sched.co/ZrtT

This meetup is free and open to anyone interested in learning WordPress but will focus on getting GiveCamp Memphis 2020 volunteers the knowledge they need to hit the ground running on the weekend of the event.

To learn more about GiveCamp: https://www.givecampmemphis.org/

Presentation Agenda
- What is WordPress?
- Intro to WordPress vocabulary
- Brief Intro to managing content with WordPress (pages, posts, navigation, categories, tags)
- Brief Intro to Plugins and Themes

We will have test sites to work with during the workshop and will be available for help and questions after the presentation.

We'll be sharing this spot with the CodeConnector Code Together meetup https://www.meetup.com/memphis-technology-user-groups/events/wmcxmrybcdbhc/

Join us as we cover the basics of building a website that looks great, functions properly, and can be found by your ideal audience. Our two speakers each have a wealth of experience and information to share.

This meetup is for people of all skill levels. Feel free to bring your laptop and your appetite! Refreshments will be provided by our sponsor, Atlantic.net.

We hope to see you there!

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Creating a Successful Starter Website for Your Business
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From design elements to the way your site functions, your website is an important part of your business and how it is displayed to the world. You want to make sure it is reponsive and legible on all devices. This talk will cover the dos and don'ts of website design as well as SEO basics to ensure that your website can be found online.

About the Speaker
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Reginald Parks is the Creative Director at Reality Marketing Group. He has served as the lead designer and creative at this Orlando-based marketing firm for 5 years and loves to share his knowledge with others. From WordPress to overall marketing strategy, Reginald has helped tons of businesses find their voice online and off.

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Using Video and YouTube to Super-Charge Your WordPress Site!
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Did you know that YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world? These days, video is everywhere! In this presentation, a veteran web designer and video producer will explain step-by-step how you can produce videos, start a YouTube channel, get views & subscribers, build your brand, and increase traffic to your website. The speaker will give several real-world examples of WordPress websites that have used videos and YouTube successfully. When done right, online videos can create leads, boost your search engine performance, create multiple income streams, and super-charge your website.

About the Speaker
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Navin Kulshreshtha is a communication professional with a diverse background in web design, filmmaking, and multimedia production. He resides in Orlando, FL and has over 12 years of professional experience in web development, graphic design, and film/video production and is the founder of Devi Studios. He is passionate about helping his clients find an audience and grow their businesses online! He has a Masters in Public Communication and Master of Fine Arts (in Film & Digital Media) from American University, where he deepened his understanding of art, design, and communication. He also maintains a YouTube channel under the name Web Guru where he regularly posts tutorial videos.

==Meetup Info==
WordPress Pasadena is back in beautiful Old-Town Pasadena at one of the first (and finest) Co-Workin' spaces in town, CrossCampus (http://www.crosscamp.us/).

Bring your curiosity, your questions, your swell attitude and lots of potatoes. J/k, just bring your smiling faces. Please read the info below as it pertains to our meetup format and FAQs.

About the Pasadena WordPress Meetup

We've been around for 7+ years! Yeah. Believe the hype! Your hosts are Alex Vasquez, a website developer who runs DigiSavvy (https://digisavvy.com/), a boutique digital creative agency in LA.

Who can attend?

We welcome attendees from all backgrounds and experiences to come and participate. If you want to learn about WordPress and have questions; please attend. If you know all there is to know about WordPress you are welcome to attend because you are cooler than cool!

Format

For the first segment, we usually have a brief presentation (15+/- minutes) then we do a roundtable format of Q and A about WordPress, so please bring your questions. This is also a great opportunity to share your knowledge with others. Everyone that attends is expected to ask a question or answer a question. You're taking time to show up, so please, please, please get involved!!! I mean that! Your participation keeps this community going and growing.

The second part we network and it's also a time to assist one another with in-depth help regarding questions they may have.

FAQs

• Is this a place to talk about my services and products I sell?
No. There are networking groups specifically for that. We're not one of them.

• Is there a charge to attend?
NO! The only thing we ask is that you participate and be welcoming toward one another. It's a safe space to learn from one another.

• Can I talk about my business and things I sell?
Sure, but DON'T sell to the Meetup Group. There are other communities for that sort of stuff and it's not welcome here.

• Will there be food and/or drink?
No. Make sure you eat and hydrate yourself. Do you know how hard it is to learn on an empty stomach?

• Is this group right for me?
Personally, I think this group is for everyone. Some people feel overwhelmed by the sometimes (and sometimes often) technical/advanced nature of the questions posed. That's okay. There's a lot of that. But everyone of any skill level is encouraged to ask a question, no matter how "beginner" the question may seem.Don't be discouraged if you don't know the material discussed. Feel free to ask questions. The group is meant to empower and encourage.

• What if I know the answers to all the questions? Can I answer all of them?
There are a lot of smart people in this group who show up ready to help and answer beginner and advanced topics alike. Please encourage and allow everyone to lend their voice to the conversation, too.

Come hang out with us for a morning of WordPress Coworking. Bring your laptops, your questions and any ideas that you would like to bounce off of other local WordPress users. Come for the entire two hours or just pop in for a bit. Get feedback. Provide feedback. Find inspiration. Or, just bring your work and get it done in the company of others. This event is completely casual, and all levels of experience are welcome.

In collaboration with Nashville PHP, come out and stimulate your mind, mouth and stomach with some finely-crafted BBQ and good ol' WordPress talk. Look for the PHP Elephpants and you'll find us!

WordPress Wednesday @ Keller Street CoWork!

Want to get started with WordPress, or get BETTER at using WordPress? Thinking about building your own WordPress Website for the first time?
Maybe you're a WordPress Website owner wanting to learn the latest best practices for WordPress Security, Performance and SEO?

And if you're a WordPress Professional, you might be looking for a new forum to share your knowledge & skills less experienced WordPress users..

WordPress Wednesday is the Meetup event for YOU!!!

Local WordPress Professionals will be on-site at the meetup to assist you
with no-cost WordPress Consulting, Training & Design help in the form of a friendly, group learning styled Q & A session.

*** ALL SKILL LEVELS WELCOME ***

Everyone is welcome to attend this 100% Free Community Meetup!

Note: Be sure to bring a laptop or tablet, your WordPress login credentials, your questions about WordPress -- and most importantly, the willingness to help each other learn!

P.S. -Tell a Friend about WP Petaluma! @ www.WPPetaluma.org
P.P.S. - Enjoyed the meetup? Leave a review! @ www.WPPetaluma.org/reviews
P.P.P.S. - Check out our awesome Sponsors! @ www.WPPetaluma.org/sponsors

Are you frustrated with your WordPress Website? Get your questions answered over lunch! Stop in and chat with other WordPress users. Share your successes and your woes! We usually have a salad and some pizza.

Join us for a Casual Conversation for all things WordPress!

SCHEDULE
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* Every other Wednesday is Casual Conversations at Downtown Spokane (No Limit)

MORE INFO
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Bring your laptop, bring your questions, bring any tips and tricks you might have. This meetup is more of a pop-in and hang out style. Completely new to WordPress? There will always be a professional around to ask questions.

So whether you're an absolute beginner learning the ropes or a power user building a business, you are welcome to come out to exchange ideas, network with each other, and have a good time!

LOCATION
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Where: Spark Central

SPARK CENTRAL, 1214 WEST SUMMIT PARKWAY, SPOKANE, WA, 99201

When: Pop in anytime between 12:15-2pm in Spark Central in Kendal Yards (near downtown Spokane).

Who should join: Anyone interested in WordPress, from new users to professional developers.

Cost: Free. This is an open event. Everyone is welcome.

Parking: Street parking is free. Paid parking in lots. Free parking around the neighborhood.

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Typical structure:

• Pop in during[masked]pm.

• Work on your WordPress site. Blogging, setting up a new plugin, or solve a problem.

• Make small talk and share WordPress news, tips or teach new things to your fellow members.

• Wrap up at any time when you're finished!

Have something of value to share? Make a suggestion here: http://www.meetup.com/Spokane-WordPress-Meetup/suggestion/

Bring your laptop and your site! We'll have a workalong session and, as a group, work through problems you may have. Think your site needs a little bit of extra attention? Message our organizations at least 24 hours before so they can pull up some materials related to your problem.

PLEASE NOTICE NEW DATES!
We now meet officially on the 4th Wednesday of each month at 6 PM at Reno Collective. Our meetup will be held in Studio A - the large conference room towards the rear of the building.

The Reno WordPress Meetup usually starts with introductions, some news in the WordPress world and questions/comments about the previous month's topic.

Following the introductory session one of the meetup organizers or a guest speaker will present information on a topic for the month - which is usually determined by the questions and requests of the previous month's meetup attendees.

When you enter the Meetup you will be able to submit topics for the AMA (Ask Me Anything) session held after the short program presentation.

We will do our best to update this meetup information page to reflect the upcoming meetup topic.

WordPress is a very powerful Content Management System (CMS) that can be addressed at many levels. Some people just want to use it to accomplish their business or personal goals, some want to add/modify themes or add plugins to make their website more useful to them and others want to develop their own themes and plugins to customize WordPress to do exactly what they want or to be able to market their WordPress services to others.

The Reno WordPress Meetup is here to help you accomplish your goals but we can't give you the information you need if we don't know what you want. Tell us what you would like to learn and we will do our best to help you.

Join other members of the WordPress community for an evening of learning and networking.

AGENDA:
*6:30pm - 7pm Networking
*7pm - 8pm Presentation: How to Protect Your WordPress Site from Botnet Attacks
*8pm - 8:30pm Help Desk: Bring your laptop, get help with your challenges, and share your WordPress knowledge.

Benjamin Wilson is our featured speaker this month. He is a principal at Deliverypath (deliverypath.com), a technology partner specializing in WordPress hosting and concierge-level customer service. In his presentation, Ben will show two common botnet attacks that are probably attacking your WP site right now and give you several ways to minimize the impact to your site's security and performance.

Free parking is available in the lot or on the street in front of the building, with overflow parking in the gravel lot behind the building. We're in the event room this month. Please enter through the event entrance facing Louise Avenue. Signs will be posted.

Space is limited. Register early to reserve a space, but please be courteous of others and update your registration if you're unable to attend.

Special thanks to www.deliverypath.com for sponsoring this Meetup.

Interested in speaking on a WordPress-related topic at a later Meetup? Complete the speaker sign-up here: https://forms.gle/XmJiHkJa5eiRnb6B8

Look for us at www.facebook.com/groups/wpclt. This is a great place to ask questions in between Meetups!

The University Park chapter of the LA WordPress Meetup meets once a month at the University of Southern California.

Parking around campus might be tough, please read below for suggestions.

ABOUT THIS MEETUP

This is a meetup for all experience levels of programmers, front-end developers, and end-users of WordPress. This is a good meetup group for small business owners looking to optimize and build their online presence, freelancers designers & developers, students just starting out in web development, USC faculty & staff who work with the popular CMS, or community members thinking about building a website.

This meetup will be all about Video! Our friend JOEY DAOUD who is giving a talk at SMX West in Feb, will be sharing with us all you need to know about video SEO and using video with WordPress. He is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and CEO of New Territory Media.

AGENDA
6:30-7:00 – Networking & snacking
7:00-7:30 – Introductions and News
7:30-8:15 – Everything You Want to Know About Video & WordPress
8:15-9:00 – Q&A and open discussion

LOCATION
University of Southern California
Von KleinSmid Center (VKC), Room 155
Directions: https://goo.gl/maps/Jan9ZwhntajWjGV9A

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT LOCATION
Because we are scheduling the meetup in a classroom at USC, the location may change at anytime. Please return to this event page regularly for updates on location.

DIRECTIONS
Located next to one of the city’s major cultural centers, Exposition Park, USC’s 226-acre University Park campus (UPC) is just minutes from downtown Los Angeles and is easily accessible by major freeways, and by the new Metro Expo line (with stops at Expo/Vermont station, Expo Park/USC station, and Jefferson/USC station.)

The Metro Expo Line connects the Westside by rail to Downtown LA, Hollywood, the South Bay, Long Beach, Pasadena and dozens of points in between. It runs until 2AM on Fridays and Saturdays. For your best route or more info, check the Metro Trip Planner or call (323) Go Metro [masked]).

View the University Park Campus Interactive Map:
https://web-app.usc.edu/maps/

PARKING
On-campus
Parking in a structure on campus is $12. Locate an on-campus structure: https://visit.usc.edu/maps-directions/university-park-campus/public-parking/

Grand Avenue Structure
Located 3401 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90007. Enter on 35th St., East of Grand Ave. Metered parking is available for $2.00 per hour.
https://goo.gl/maps/c1T4msWD3vtdEfjTA

Off-campus
For free parking, circle the surrounding neighborhoods.

FAQ
Who should attend?
Anyone who is interested in WordPress, just starting out with their WordPress site or experienced WordPress users and developers. This meetup is open to everyone and anyone who is interested in working with WordPress the Content Management System for building and maintaining websites. No experience is required. Topics vary every month.

Is this a place to promote my services and products I sell?
NO. There are networking groups specifically for that. We're not one of them.

Is there a cover charge?
Absolutely Not! Our sponsor, WP-Engine, has put up the funds so you don't have to. The only thing we ask is that you participate and be welcoming toward one another. This is a safe meetup to learn from one another.

The only cost to you is if you decide to pay for parking.

Will there be food and/or drink?
Yes! We will have snacks.

Thank you to our sponsor WP-Engine.

JOIN US ON FACEBOOK
Los Angeles WordPress Meetup (our parent umbrella)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/747169868780222/

The February 2020 Tallahassee Wordpress meetup will be on Tuesday January 28, 2020 at 6:30 pm at the Collins Library "Room B" downtown. Topic and speaker will be announced shortly. Hope you can join us!

Get ready for WordPress Wednesday & Workshop! Bring your laptop fully charged and don’t forget to watch all the awesome WordPress video tutorials for this month by WebTegrity (http://webtegrity.com/) on their YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/webtegrity). Let us come together and discuss these topics further.

Following the Q&A session regarding the videos, we will have an open workshop portion - bring your laptop and let's open up your WordPress website and get to work! The WebTegrity (https://www.facebook.com/Webtegrity) team will be on site to help with any questions or needs.

Videos will be uploaded to this thread here in the comments box. Come get nerdy with us!

(NOTE: Please only RSVP if you are going to show up. Thanks!)

Hello WordPress Geeks!

Are you working on a project, your own or a client's, and you're having some challenges? Do you have an idea for your WordPress site and you don't even know where to begin to implement it? Well, this Meetup is for you! Bring your project and we'll look at your sticky parts or help you strategize how to move forward with your ideas.

Gain Clarity

Sometimes knowing where to begin is just too overwhelming. When you gain more clarity and focus on what you want to achieve, it's easier to look for options. Bring your big WordPress Dreams and let's see if we can help you find the first step to implementing them.

Squash the Bugs

Are you stuck? Something isn't working the way everyone else says it should. You've spent days and lost hair trying to figure it out. Maybe a few more pairs of eyes and extra brain power can help you. Bring you're buggy situations and let's see if we can fumigate your issue!

The Meetup is 2 hours long. Depending on number of participants and issues not everyone may get help for their specific issue. So, I will go in the order of RSVP's. Isn't that incentive for you to grab your spot now?

NOTE: Fishbon is a non-profit and the use of the space is only $15 per hour (with any surplus going to rent/upkeep of the space. There will be a request for a VOLUNTARY donation. You are under NO OBLIGATION to donate. Thank you!

We’ll have pizza and drinks available for a small contribution (or feel free to bring you own lunch).

We welcome WordPress users, developers, and enthusiasts of all levels!

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TOPIC: The Seven Deadly Sins of Marketing.

Description:
Today, Marketing has access to over 7,000 digital tools and invests more in IT than Chief Information Officers. This investment has come with significant performance expectations and often falls short in many companies. Marketing has spent so much money on new tech tools to get reams of data analytics, often devoting more time mired in data than on getting new customers and keeping them satisfied. Avoid the pitfalls of digital marketing (and analog too!) and learn about a sticky-note simple way to manage all customer interactions and metrics in one place.

Lessons Learned:
Review the current state of marketing and how it has fallen short with people and technology
Recognize and avoid the flaws of digital marketing
Gain an understanding of a simple sales funnel method centered around the customer journey

Jessica Kelley, CEO of HPZ Marketing is a seasoned leader with more than two decades of marketing and finance experience in B2B and B2C channels. She has worked extensively within healthcare, consumer, commercial, and software industries in diverse environments ranging in size from a $100 billion corporation to a startup firm.

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Learn more at: http://mspwp.com/

If you are interested in speaking in the future please let us know:
https://mspwp.com/speakers/

This meetup is a social event designed for WordPress users to help each other use WordPress better and improve their knowledge.

The meeting is free and open to users of all levels. We are here to learn from each other, so bring your questions and answers to share.

We'll be in the upstairs in the Market of Choice Conference room, from the front door, take a right up the stairs, through the "Staff" door at the back left, through the second doors, then conference room on the right.

The Portland WordPress Community has a Slack group for general WordPress discussion. You can join here: https://join.slack.com/t/wpportland/shared_invite/enQtNDIwMDY4MTQzODYyLTI4ZTcyMzVjOWRhNjI0YTNmNDg2NGI1N2I3Yzc2ZGI1NDg3NjQ1N2ExMzlkZDIzNDQxM2FmY2E0NWQwZGQ3YzM

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a very important topic and one we get asked a lot about. The first half of this meetup, we will have a speaker discuss SEO best practices and discuss some popular SEO Plugins.

The second half will include time for Q/A.
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This meetup is for people who have questions about WordPress and who need help with their websites. During our time together we answer questions and troubleshoot.

Please bring your laptop and any login information you need to access your website if you would like help.

We usually meet at the Jamestown Library but it can change so please check the Meetup Event to be sure.

Hope you can join us!

At our happiness bar we discuss projects that we're working on, ask questions of one another about any difficulties that we may be having, or simply catch up. This is a low pressure environment, and we're all here to share with one another.

We will be at Port City Java starting at 5:30pm. Just because you cannot get to the coffee shop at 5:30pm still come we will be there until 7:30pm to answer any questions.

What to bring if you are coming specifically for WordPress help:

• Bring your charged laptop with you
• Bring whatever logins needed to get into your site
• Be ready to take notes
• Be respectful of the time of everyone else attending
• Be willing to accept that some problems can't be solved in 15 minutes and may require more help than we can offer here
• Buy a drink or snack from Port City Java. They let us use the space for free!

Important to know:
We use the same Code of Conduct for our Meetup that we use for WordCamp Greenville, and it can be found here: https://2019.greenville.wordcamp.org/code-of-conduct/

Please be kind and courteous to all attendees and employees!

We will be discussing topics surrounding WordPress including how you (the end user or developer) use WordPress, design techniques, techniques, tools and of course simply how to use your WordPress website.

Join two of Twilio SendGrid's content marketers to learn about how the SendGrid blog evolved into one of the primary channels for top-of-funnel customer acquisition–contributing to millions of dollars in monthly reoccurring revenue. The interactive discussion will cover everything from content strategy and ideation to SEO tips, growth experiments, and reporting. Bring your questions about all things content!
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About Our Speakers

Kelsey Bernius - Sr. Content Marketing Manager.

Kelsey has over 8 years of content and WordPress publishing experience across software, engineering, and healthcare industries. She's been with SendGrid for 3.5 years and is responsible for planning, writing, editing, and managing SendGrid's blog, The Full Send. She loves creating educational content that solves tough business challenges for her audiences.

Julie Griffin - Content Marketing Associate

Julie Griffin is a writer, word nerd, and marketer, and finds a balance of the three in her role as Content Marketing Associate at Twilio SendGrid. She spends most of her time “fueling the funnel.” In other words, she writes a lot of blog posts (and publishes them in WordPress) with the goal of driving visitors to the website.
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Meetup Schedule

- 6:00 - 6:15 Arrive
- 6:15 - 6:30 Meetup Updates
- 6:30 - 7:15 Session
- 7:15 - 7:30 Session Q&A
- 7:30 - 8:00 General Questions / Open Discussion

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The venue is located on Platte between 16th, and 17th. If you are driving, you should be able to get some street parking, or there is a public indoor garage next door that you can park at for about $5.

This presentation will be in the atrium. Go into the front door, up to the 4th floor and take a right. Then just follow the path down passed the front desk and you run right into it!

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If you have any suggestions for what you would like to see at future meetups, or would like to give a talk about a particular topic, leave a comment on the meetup, or feel free to DM me!

Let's meet to chat and work on WordPress projects! If you're running into problems, bring them and we'll look for solutions together. All are welcome.

We're meeting at Serendipity Market & More. They have a cafe at the entrance and a gallery in the back. Both are nice, quiet areas to sit and chat.
https://www.serendipitymm.com/visit

Street parking is free after 5. The Carroll Creek Garage, which is on the same block, costs just $1 per hour.
https://goo.gl/maps/xrYjM9QRGe1WfCHV9

I'll be there at 5:45 so if you'd like to show up early, please do.

WP Omaha: Admin
Speaker: Eric Swanson
Flywheel Tech: WP Admin

Whether you are just getting started with a new WP site, or you are an experienced WordPress admin, it is, Despite all of its technological advances over the years, WordPress is still limited (and hindered) by the “human element.”

What is this “human element” I am referring to? It’s US. YOU and ME.
Let's talk about it! The following are some of the most common mistakes well-intentioned humans/clients/agencies are making with their WordPress sites.

This month's WordPress Divi Meetup will be split into two part:

The first half will be a "deep dive" into the powerful Divi Theme Builder and how it can change the way you use Divi to build sites. We will work with Custom Post Types, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), and building templates in the Theme Builder (including creating a funny 404 page.)

The second half of the meeting will be an "Ask Anything" session where we can support each other as a group to solve WordPress/Divi problems. Also a great time to share ideas with others. So ask away!

LOCATION
We meet in North Hampton at CoWerc in North Hampton. Pizza will be available starting at 6pm and we'll get rolling around 6:15 or so.

OUR SPONSORS
CoWerc in North Hampton is providing us the use of their great location (with parking!). Check out https://bookme.name/cowerc/ to learn more. They sell 5 or 10 day passes in addition to memberships.

A2 Hosting provides fast, reliable hosting for WordPress. Use "SEACOSTWP" for a 51% discount on your first payment (even if it's for a full year!). As a result of their sponsorship, we now have pizza and drinks at our meetup each month.

ABOUT US
WordPress users and developers of all levels are welcome at all of our meetups. Sometimes our topics are more advanced and aimed for developers, but we offer more general introductory topics as well.

In preparation for WordCamp Miami 2020, we would like to invite everyone arriving in town to a special WordPress meetup and social event. This event is open to EVERYONE (although we hope if you are there, you are also attending WordCamp Miami!)

Come and enjoy the party with:

○ Billiards
○ Table Tennis
○ Game Consoles (Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS4, PS3, Wii)
○ Board Games (chess, backgammon, checkers, dominoes, etc.)

LOCATION

FIU Main Campus in the Graham Center next to Chili's

Graham University Center
11200 SW 8th ST
Miami, Florida 33199

AGENDA

○ 6.00pm - Introductions & Networking
○ 6.30pm - Brief Announcements
○ 7.00pm - Food, Fun & Games
○ 9.30pm - Ending / After party

*** We will be serving food and drinks during the event. If you have a special diet, please reach out to us by 2/10. Will try to provide vegan and other options, but our catering might be limited. No alcohol is being served. ***

Support your group by tweeting and sharing pictures and hashtag them with:

#WCMIA2020 #WCMIA

More information is coming soon!

We are very excited for the first official WPSGF meetup. We'll be starting things off with a kickoff meeting to get to know local fellow WordPressers, share the plan and goal for WPSGF and gather info about what you would like to learn at future our meetups.

Things you need to bring: Yourself, maybe a laptop, and some ideas for what you'd like to learn about.

We are very thankful to Campaignium for allowing us to use their conference room. The doors will be locked for safety, but someone will be there to let you in at the main entrance.

If you have any questions feel free to post them here in the discussion.

Setting up a website with WordPress.com

Presenter: Karen Arnold

Karen will explain the basic differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org as well as talk about what's new with WordPress.com and how to leverage the many features.

This is the local ADVANCED WordPress Developer meetup. Join us at the CO+HOOTS coworking offices at 6 PM on the last Thursday of every month for food, networking, and learning!

6:00 - Doors open, Networking, Food

6:30 - Introductions

We like to ask a few questions to introduce yourself. Your name, who you work for and any new development skills you have learned recently.

6:45 - Developer Roundtable

We will talk about the future of this meetup and our new concept - Nine helpful skills to become a better Advanced WordPress Developer. We will also talk about other Advanced Developer concepts and keep it open to the group.

7:30 - TBD

8:30 - Soft close, Networking

9:00 - You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here

We are here to help! No one was BORN with a WordPress skill set! Everyone starts from the beginning in the learning path. No matter where you are in your journey with WordPress, your questions are valuable to us! Bring your Website or just bring your questions! Look for us at the long counter in the middle with the WordPress sign! Outlets and WiFi available!

This is our regularly scheduled monthly meeting of the Conyers WordPress Meetup.

10 Web design trends for 2020 and why you should implement on your designs now.

Format:
7:00 - 7:15 - Networking
7:15 - 7:25 - Intro & News
7:25 - 8:30 - Presentation
8:30 - 8:45 - WordPress 101
8:45 - 9:00 - Q&A

Presentation:
Let's take a trip to memory lane to revisit some of the trends that dominated the web this last decade. Then let's step into the future to learn about the top 10 web design trends for 2020 but NOT only the visual aspect of it, but the functional aspect as well, and what you should implement with your designs now.

What We'll Discuss:
- Trends that dominated the web this last decade
- Visual trends to incorporate in your designs
- Important functional trends you should be thinking about while designing websites.

About The Speaker:

Omar D’Elia is a certified digital business consultant, web designer and frontend developer with a focus on WordPress.
With experience in business and digital design, he enjoys helping organizations address their online marketing challenges. As well as educating others on how to use WordPress as a marketing business solution and how to be more visible on the web.
Previously, Omar worked as a Frontend Developer and Designer for Cornerstone Home Lending a nationwide mortgage company. Before that, he spent several years working for talent agencies in the Houston area whose clients include brands such as Nike, Under Armour, Oakley, Adidas and more.

Website: https://www.eamsolutionsonline.com/
Twitter: @eamsolutions

**Community Sponsors**
https://theblacksheepagency.com/
https://fortbendchamber.com/
https://globalspex.com/
https://www.develare.com/

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for checking out South Gate WordPress Meetup!

JOIN OUR SLACK
Make sure to sign-up to our slack channel to stay up-to-date with news and events.
Invite link: bit.ly/2ULFnLV

JOIN OUR FACEBOOK GROUPS
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[South Gate] WordPress Meetup (LAWP - South Gate):
https://www.facebook.com/SouthGateWordPressMeetup/

South Gate WordPress meetup is a community of like-minded WordPress enthusiasts. This meetup is geared for those interested in graphic design, UI/UX, branding and all aspects front-end related. We are beginner-friendly so please feel free to join and learn. Each month we will go over new topics in an effort to expand and grow our professional skill-set.

South Gate WordPress meetup believes our community should be truly open for everyone. As such, we are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, ethnicity, religion, preferred operating system, programming language, or text editor.

This code of conduct outlines our expectations for participant behavior as well as the consequences for unacceptable behavior.

https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/wordcamp-organizer/planning-details/code-of-conduct/

Glad to have you onboard!

See you soon.

Best,
-Edward

A beginner workshop on how to build a website using self-hosted WordPress (WordPress.org). A step-by-step (hands-on) session. You will learn how to install free themes, create pages, create blog posts, create a menu, widgets, and much more.

Before you attend this workshop, make sure of the following items:

1- Domain name registered with a domain registrar.
2- Wen hosting service.
3- Content for your web pages such as "About Us," " Services," "Testimonials," "Contact Us," "Blog," "Terms of Service," " Privacy Policy," "Legal Disclaimer." etc.
4- Laptop (fully charged)
5- Have a Gmail account.

If you have any questions or need any assistance before attending this workshop, contact me at[masked] (text me)

Are you a blogger and/or DIY (do-it-yourselfers) looking to connect with others who are interested in building WordPress websites and blogs? Then this group may be for you!

We meet once a month to discuss what we're working on, help each other on any problems we're having, and share tips on steps that can make life easier.

This group is primarily bloggers with some experience with WordPress and blogging. If you are BRAND NEW to WordPress, we'd love to see you. We also recommend attending the WordPress Fundamentals MeetUp (meets on the third Saturday of most months), which will introduce you to this great platform and get you started on your path to blogging/website management.

The DIY User Group meets on the last Saturday of each month. We hope you can join us and will spread the word. There's plenty of free parking at the Wallingford Senior Center.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

It says that the Senior is Closed, will you still have the meetup?
Yep! I have a key and will be there setting up when you arrive. Please note that there is only one host for this meetup, so if I'm sick, I will send an email through MeetUp.com if I have to cancel.

Do I have to bring a computer?
Only if you want to show examples to the group to help facilitate the discussion or better explain an issue you're having.

The map shows downtown Seattle, where is the location?
Please join us at the Wallingford Senior Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N, #140 (lowest level), Seattle, WA. To make sure you end up at the right location, put "Wallingford Senior Center" in your search browser and Google Maps will direct you to the right place. Folks have been hit or miss when trying to navigate with the 4649 address.

I'm brand new to WordPress, is this the right MeetUp for me?
If you are new to WordPress, check out the WordPress Fundamentals Meetup. This is a great place to get an introduction to WordPress. Of course, we'd love to have you too.

Is this MeetUp only for Bloggers?
Nope! If you are a professional creating sites for clients, we'd love to have you join us to share your expertise and advice. Also, please be sure to join our Freelancer Meetup on the first Thursday of each month 10-12 AM.

DIY BLOGGER RESOURCES

If you're interested in building a big blog and/or monetization, I've found these resources to be useful:

1. Income School YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCytOqtKYpACcWMD14UjhSeQ

2. ProBlogger Community on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/probloggercom/

3. BackLinko YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/backlinko

4. Neil Patel YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/neilvkpatel

5. Seattle WordPress Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/WPSeattle/

-- NOTE: Special preview for new, upcoming WordPress Meetup here in the northern valleys; not affiliated with WordPress Santa Clarita Valley Meetup --

This group is for everyone who wants to learn how to create or remediate their WordPress websites to be Accessible as measured by the Web Accessibility Content Guidelines (WCAG 2.1)

What is Web Accessibility?

Web accessibility means that websites, tools, and technologies are designed and developed so that people with disabilities can use them. More specifically, people can:

-- perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web
-- contribute to the Web

Web accessibility encompasses all disabilities that affect access to the Web, including:

-- auditory
-- cognitive
-- neurological
-- physical
-- speech
-- visual

Web accessibility also benefits people without disabilities.
(source: https://www.w3.org/WAI/fundamentals/accessibility-intro/)

WordPress core is Accessible. What you add to it (themes, plugins, content) makes a difference in its Accessibility.

What’s this Group About?

We're definitely talking about WordPress, and we'll be discussing Accessibility guidelines and actions that make your WordPress website Accessible.

You should join us and be prepared to participate as we look at the most common errors, why they are a problem and how to remediate them. Bring your laptop and work hands-on your own sites so you can learn the steps you can apply to all the sites you build with WordPress.

Who should attend?

Our meetup is inclusive. This group is for people who love WordPress and Accessibility and want to share their knowledge, experience, and to meet other WordPress users in the area. Both experienced and beginner WordPress designers are encouraged to attend and participate.

We do have a few rules.

In line with the mission of WordPress, our meetup was established in keeping with the 5 Good Faith Rules on Make WordPress (https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/meetup-organizer/meetup-program-basics/#the-five-good-faith-rules). We’re a friendly bunch, creating a friendly, nurturing and encouraging environment to talk WordPress.

NO Sales pitches of your products or services to the group. NO pitches of any product that you receive a kickback or commission.

No legal discussion or advice, unless you are a civil rights or disability rights attorney.

What we want to discuss

Questions related to any Web Accessibility problem you are facing.

Discussions about Web Accessibility solutions that have been tested and PASSED Accessibility success criteria as set by Web Accessibility Content Guidelines (WCAG 2.1)

• What we'll do
At our coffee meetups we discuss projects that we're working on, ask questions of one another about any difficulties that we may be having, or simply catch up. This is a low pressure environment, and we're all here to share with one another.

• What to bring
If you are coming specifically for WordPress help:

- Bring your charged laptop with you
- Bring whatever logins needed to get into your site
- Be ready to take notes
- Be respectful of the time of everyone else attending
- Be willing to accept that some problems can't be solved in 15 minutes and may require more help than we can offer here
- Buy a drink or snack from Bikes Beans & Bordeaux. They let us use the space for free!

• Important to know
We use the same Code of Conduct for our Meetup that we use for WordCamp Orlando, and it can be found here: https://2019.orlando.wordcamp.org/code-of-conduct/

Please be kind and courteous to all attendees and employees!

How do you best create a multilingual website using WordPress? What are some of the tools and plugins that are available? What are some of the things to think about before you get started? In this session, Dan York speak about his experience publishing several sites in in multiple languages and the many lessons he has learned (and the many scars he has!). He'll discuss using plugins such as WordPress Multilingual (WPML) plugin and Polylang, and dive into many other aspects of making content available in multiple languages. Please come with your questions - and if you have built multilingual sites yourself, share your experiences would be welcome, too!

Best way to be ADA compliant, or to show a level of compliance? Do it from the start. If you're trying to be compliant after the fact, you could be in for a world of hurt.

In this discussion, we'll go through a framework, active development, and how many things you could easily be doing during workflow from the start to make your website more accessible!

This doesn't have to be hard! We are an open-source community, so let's get everyone up to speed on how we can make our sites even more accessible.

Rory Heaney has led and created successful, tailored application and website solutions for top brands, including Betsy Farms and PetAction Plus as well as for celebrity personalities such as Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Emily Henderson.

As the Senior Front End Developer for Cie Digital Labs, Rory steers the ideation/execution of web applications as well as mobile and portal development for clients across industries, including Pilot Flying J and Nitto Tire.

He's proficient in CSS, CSS3, HTML, HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, Vue, and PHP languages, and has successfully built more than 500 websites over the past eight years.

Schedule:

6:00 - 6:15: Introductions. What you do, are you looking to hire, are you looking for work, what do you need help with?
6:15 - 7:15: Presentation and Q and A.
7:15 - 8:00: Network and get help with WordPress. Bring your laptop for this part. There's a wide range of experience levels, and we're all here to help each other.
8:00: Soft close. You may hang out a bit longer to talk or finish up a project, but the official Meetup will end.
8:30: Socialize at Bailey's Taproom (213 SW Broadway). They have a big selection of beers and a few non-alcoholic drinks. You can order food at Santeria next door and they will bring it to your table at Bailey's. A bunch of us walk over as a group right after we close up the room, but you're welcome to head over earlier too.

How to find us:

We'll be in the Training Room on the ground floor. From the lobby, go to the right of the elevators and through the glass doors.

Thanks to Digital Trends for providing the venue!

Stay connected:

The Portland WordPress Community has a Slack group for general WordPress discussion. You can join here: https://join.slack.com/t/wpportland/shared_invite/enQtNDIwMDY4MTQzODYyLTI4ZTcyMzVjOWRhNjI0YTNmNDg2NGI1N2I3Yzc2ZGI1NDg3NjQ1N2ExMzlkZDIzNDQxM2FmY2E0NWQwZGQ3YzM

We meet the first Monday of each month to discuss design and process-releated topics. Come with questions! All user levels are welcome to attend.

NOTE: This is not a regular Meetup. This meeting is specifically for planning a future WordCamp in 2020.

WordCamps: https://central.wordcamp.org/
WordCamp Montclair 2019: https://2019.montclair.wordcamp.org/

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For the past few years, several people in the NJ area who are leaders in the WordPress Community have discussed the desire for an official WordCamp Montclair. It's time to start planning this for 2020.

If you would like to be involved in this planning, please come to our WordCamp Montclair Planning Meeting that will be held every 1st Monday of the month.

This month's presenter for our Building a Site Together project is our very own Manny Pitta! In addition to being our 'client' for the project, Manny's taken on the task of hunting down the best ways to have users record attendance and time on task – a vital part of most volunteer management systems. He'll share with us the tools we can use to give our users the ability to accurately track their volunteer activities.

A FREE monthly WordPress meetup for beginner to intermediate users, who get together to share our knowledge and experience, and to meet other local fans and aficionados of WordPress. The Milwaukee WordPress Meetup is for individuals, entrepreneurs and small business owners wanting to learn what, why and how WordPress is a powerful content publishing platform, marketing tool, social media hub, CMS and complete website solution. This WordPress Meetup is open to all who are interested in or love WordPress --- join us!

There is absolutely no agenda! Come with your questions, issues, or concerns. This will be an open conversation every month, so that we are able to help one another with answers, suggestions, our favorite tools or plugins, etc.

Bring your laptops! Free wifi. We have a projector/screen so we can demonstrate or dive into our conversations!

Plenty of personal opportunities to network before and after the meeting!

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Near hwy100 & Oklahoma Ave. Located in the building in-between Klemmers Banquet Center and Remax Realty. Please park towards the back of the building, enter through the rear entrance and head down the stairs near the entry. The conference room is the second door on the left.

Building an ecommerce can be a daunting experience. Suddenly you're not just working with content anymore, now it's taxes and shipping and customers that need to be kept happy.

Fortunately it doesn't have to be scary. We'll look at a number of steps you can take to remove the uncertainty from building ecommerce websites, so that you can move forward with confidence.

Our speaker will be Topher DeRosia. Follow him on Twitter @topher1kenobe.

This will be an online meetup to allow more people to attend. We will post the link in the event description and in the comments on the day of the meetup.

WordPress Cape Cod is a passionate group of WordPress enthusiasts.

The focus of our meetup is WordPress. Anyone who uses, works with or wants to understand WordPress is invited!

What to Expect: When we meet, we'll have food, time for networking, an opportunity to share knowledge or learn about a WordPress topic, and some Q&A.

We meet on the 1st Tuesday of every month at CapeSpace in Hyannis. Our schedule may occasionally change to account for holidays or scheduling conflicts at our venue.

If you have any questions, just ask!

Agenda:
• 6:30pm - 7:00pm: Networking & Pizza
• 7:00pm - 8:00pm: Presentation or Open Forum
• 8:00pm - 8:30pm: Happiness Bar & Open Discussion

PLEASE be sure to update your RSVP so we make sure to order the appropriate amount of food.

John Tully is going to lead the group in a "live" install of the PODS Framework and then create and style Custom Post Types on an actual WordPress website. Pods enable an user to create their own CPT's within an environment where minimal coding is required.

We'll use Beaver Builder to style the CPT's and show the power of Pod Field Connections.

NEW LOCATION!

Thanks to our very generous venue sponsor, Centenary University, our upcoming meetings will be held at #theVIBE at the Centenary campus in Parsippany!

Click here to learn more about Centenary's Adult Degree Programs:
https://sps.centenaryuniversity.edu

Address:
Centenary University - School of Professional Studies (SPS)
7 Campus Drive, Second Floor
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ 07054

Doors open at 6:30pm, presentation starts at 7pm.

We'll be using what is essentially a classroom at the University - as such NO FOOD or DRINK (other than light snacks or water) are allowed within the classroom. This means NO PIZZA so please plan to eat before you come.

Passcodes may be required to enter the building and the classroom areas. These passcodes will be made available to REGISTERED attendees ONLY before the event so please, please register in advance.

NEW NO-SHOW POLICY: Due to limited space at our new venue we DESPERATELY need everyone to RSVP and, more importantly, UPDATE your RSVP if you can no longer make it or change your mind. We will be taking attendance at each meeting. If you leave your RSVP as "attending" but do not show up, your Meetup account will be flagged for "no show." Repeat no-show offenders will be subject to removal from the group.

VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: This meetup sticks very closely to the guidelines set out by WordPress for such Meetups. To that end we'll be adhering specifically to this statement: WordPress Meetups are welcoming places where everyone works to foster an accepting environment which is free of discrimination, incitement to violence, promotion of hate, and general jerk-like behavior.

This is a Workshop style meetup: Feel free to bring in your issues you're having with your current web projects and problems and we'll handle them using the 'Ask Us Anything' style: You can talk about the problem and we can try to give you guidance or point you in the right direction on your web project. Come prepared with some questions and also get to know the other people in WordPress St. Petersburg!

Speaker: Micah Wood

WordPress is awesome, but everyone runs into issues now and then. Whether you contribute to, own, maintain or build WordPress sites, troubleshooting is a skill set that will save you time and money.

In this session, you will:
- Learn about the types of WordPress issues you may encounter and how to diagnose them.
- Discover the step-by-step processes that will help you find the root cause of an issue.
- Learn what your next steps are once you know the source of an issue.
- Learn what information you should be providing when interacting with developers or your web host to help speed up the problem resolution process.

Everyone has questions about WordPress at some time or other. Maybe your site is doing a strange thing with a margin and need a little CSS help. Maybe you're having trouble setting up a child theme. Getting security warnings because you have insecure content? Have a "what if I wanted to do X on my site?" question, and you'd like some suggestions about where to start?

Developers from our group will be available for free limited assistance and suggestions. (If your issue is super-complex, we may not be able to fix it on the spot, but we can at least point you in some good directions.)

While it's fine to come to watch while other people's issues & questions get dealt with, it would be great if everyone came with either a question/issue, or a recent "how I did it" to share.

If we don't have a large turnout, or not a lot of people need help, we'll have an example video from a WordCamp that we can all watch. If you've never been to WordCamp it would be a mini taste of what WordCamp sessions are like.

As usual, parking permits are not enforced after 5pm on OSU-Cascades campus parking. After the formal meetup time, we will migrate over to Cascade Lakes Brewing for a more informal social time -- everyone is welcome to join!

This is our OFFICIAL "General Users" Monthly WordPress meetup. The skill levels vary & conversation on every level is welcomed.

We do not go into extreme depth with this meetup but offer it as an induction into the "WorldWide" WordPress community and more general WordPress questions. On some months we will have a topic specific night with guest presenters.

All are welcome to present & if you would like to do this then fill out the SPEAKER REQUEST (https://inlandempirewp.com/speaker-request/) ( https://inlandempirewp.com/speaker-request/ ) form at our meetup website.

*** OUR LOCATION: RIVERSIDE EXCITE BUILDING (https://www.google.com/maps?q=3499+10th+Street,+Riverside,+CA) ***

PARKING: There is a parking structure near the building and several spots around the building that are free after 6PM.

BUILDING: We are now closer to downtown Riverside in the EXCITE building. If you have trouble finding the place feel free to call: (951)[masked]

DINNER: Sometimes we meet beforehand for dinner it will be from 5:15 PM till 6:15. We will head to the Venue at 6:30 PM & OUR Meetup Starts at 7PM. To be updated on a real time basis join our Facebook group: IEWP Facebook Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/453550238017836/)

SCHEDULE:

7:00 PM - 7:30 PM Network & Announcements
7:30 PM - 7:55 PM Presentation
7:55 PM - 8:10 PM Presentation Questions
8:10 PM - 8:45 PM Open Floor Questions
8:45 PM - 9:00 PM Networking & End

This session will be focused on showcasing and sharing all the recent projects everyone has been working on. Everyone is encouraged to share and anything can be shared.

Have you made a new website?
Added something new to a website?
Discovered a new plugin?
Created a new plugin?
Learned some new PHP or JS or CSS?
Written a great blog post?
Attended a conference?
Learned a valuable lesson on client projects?
Participated in a podcast?
Learned something new about hosting?
Found a cool new theme?
Had an idea you want to bounce off others?
Encountered a challenge and want to share with a group?

Everyone will get 10 - 15 minutes depending on # of attendees and you must notify us in advance if you want to share something. Feel free to message Kyle if you're unsure or need suggestions/encouragement.

Topics to be determined and announced prior to each Meetup!

Please keep an eye on the day of the week as we may change to accommodate speakers' schedules. :)

How to find them install them and use them.

Join us during your lunch break for a more intimate WordPress meetup session during the day! Every month a guest will share a tidbit of knowledge followed by Q&A and discussion.

Tidbit of the Month: Beaver Themer. Learn about the Beaver Builder world as Scott Anderson demonstrates Beaver Themer and how this tool can quickly help you build out your website.

What to bring: An open mind to learning and sharing everything WordPress. If you have a specific issue you need help with or something you want to share, you can bring your laptop. There will be WiFi.

Location: Pollo Tropical is located in the Walmart parking lot just south of 295 on San Jose Blvd in Mandarin.

We're are an enthusiastic group of WordPress users, designers, developers, and marketers from beginners to advanced. We hope you will get involved with us and help make WordPress Jacksonville really awesome! See you soon!

WordPress Wednesday @ Keller Street CoWork!

Want to get started with WordPress, or get BETTER at using WordPress? Thinking about building your own WordPress Website for the first time?
Maybe you're a WordPress Website owner wanting to learn the latest best practices for WordPress Security, Performance and SEO?

And if you're a WordPress Professional, you might be looking for a new forum to share your knowledge & skills less experienced WordPress users..

WordPress Wednesday is the Meetup event for YOU!!!

Local WordPress Professionals will be on-site at the meetup to assist you
with no-cost WordPress Consulting, Training & Design help in the form of a friendly, group learning styled Q & A session.

*** ALL SKILL LEVELS WELCOME ***

Everyone is welcome to attend this 100% Free Community Meetup!

Note: Be sure to bring a laptop or tablet, your WordPress login credentials, your questions about WordPress -- and most importantly, the willingness to help each other learn!

P.S. -Tell a Friend about WP Petaluma! @ www.WPPetaluma.org
P.P.S. - Enjoyed the meetup? Leave a review! @ www.WPPetaluma.org/reviews
P.P.P.S. - Check out our awesome Sponsors! @ www.WPPetaluma.org/sponsors

We only ask that each person purchase something small from the coffee shop. They have items as reasonable as $0.75 and great fruit smoothies.
Agenda:
• 11 am Meetup Organizer’s welcome and general housekeeping
• Introductions - State your name and 30-Second introduction.
• Primary Topic
• Discussion about primary topic.
• General questions and troubleshooting individual issues as a group - we all want to know how to solve the same issue should it arrive for us.

We are trying our best to start our meetings on time because we know everyone's time is valuable. Please arrive on time as we don't want to run over our allotted time. Also, please don't arrive too early as we don't want the clock to start ticking on our meeting room before the Meetup actually starts.

Organizer: Ani C. @AniRealRecipes (https://twitter.com/AniRealRecipes)

A big thank you to The Grind Coffee House and Roaster https://thegrindfl.com for the use of their private meeting room. Seating is limited to approximately 10 guests. Please RSVP and update if your situation changes since seating is limited.

I've never eaten here before but the reviews are great and I love greek salads. Let's have some conversation and share a meal together. Come prepared to talk about your WordPress business or how you use WordPress. I think these conversations should inspire us to do our best work in the coming month.

No laptops, no tech time. I'll set something up at The Hatchery for that.

WordPress is a Content Management System and a popular tool used to create websites. This talk is for beginners who don't know anything about WordPress and would like to build a website that connects to its visitor and serves its intended purpose. It covers the key questions we should ask before we physically start to build. Attendees can also expect to learn the following; the main items needed for a website to be live on the internet, a way to create content that considers getting website visitors to your website, how to setup a professional email address, website marketing and tracking. Attendees will walk away with a roadmap that will help any motivated novice build a successful website.

Online courses are becoming increasingly popular with more people looking to add them to their websites. Many find online courses attractive as they represent an additional revenue channel for their business. Today the tools exist to build and sell courses quickly and affordably with little or no custom code. We'll discuss a project and how support for courses can was built with WordPress, WooCommerce and LearnDash. Kent Smith from Byte Outfitters will present this topic. He will cover:

What is an LMS?
- hosted vs self-hosted options

Researching LMS options
- who are the major players

Client Example
- requirements & why I chose LearnDash
- test drive (Let the customer play with LearnDash determine if they like it)
- crawl (launch courses online, manage users manually)
- walk (add ecommerce, self-enrollment, sell to assessors and individuals)
- run (take orders via a 3rd party site)

For each phase (test drive, crawl, walk, run) discuss:
- which tools were used and why
- obstacles, what to expect or think about

SCHEDULE

5:30 - 6:00 - For those who are interested, we will be meeting at 5:30 for a Mini Happiness Bar to talk about any questions anyone has about a problem they've recently had and provide help/guidance.

6:00 - 6:30 - Socializing

6:30 - 8:30 - Presentation/Discussion

Cost is $10 for those who would like to participate in the pizza order. Drinks are your responsibility. Looking forward to seeing all of you there!

Presentation by Steven Ayers, author of the WP Security Safe plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/security-safe/.

WordPress users and even developers can unintentionally make their plugin, theme, or website in general vulnerable to getting hacked. Learn what to look for so that you can protect your website.

Steven will cover some code, but all users could benefit from this talk.

Sponsored by Postmark, so we will have Pizza (come early)!
https://postmarkapp.com/asheville-word-press

The Athens WordPress Meetup group meets the first Wednesday of each month. We'll be talking about all things WordPress. The agenda is set by our members, so if you want to have something discussed, let us know!

Whether you've just learned how to spell WordPress or are an expert, we'd love to have you!

If you'd like to be a part of the organizing team or would like to speak/teach at one of our meetings, please contact Mike (https://www.meetup.com/members/9692936/) or Brandon (https://www.meetup.com/Athens-WordPress/members/236970121/)

Have a specific question about how to get your menus to work, install a plugin, tweak a theme? Now is your opportunity to get your questions answered. Please try and keep the request to 45 minutes or less, we'd like to make sure everyone gets a chance. If you are a developer or designer for WordPress, please join us and help other folks out. (I know who you are, please come and help.) It will be a blast.

If you have a cool project/site/plugin/resource you'd like to demo or have an issue that we can all help solve, we'll fire up the projector so we can all share. Come on down.

Plugs and wifi are very limited at the Holiday Club. If you can bring a fully charged machine and a hot spot to share - that would be awesome. While you're here, order a burger or beer from our great host at the Holiday Club and network to your heart's content.

The Beaverton WordPress Social Meetup will be at the Beaverton Library, Meeting Room A, from 6:00-8:00PM on Wednesday, March 4th. The Beaverton Library closes at 8PM and we must be out by then.

This meetup is a social event designed for WordPress users to help each other use WordPress better and improve their knowledge.

The meeting is free and open to users of all levels. We are here to learn from each other, so bring your questions and answers to share.

Please bring your laptop, mouse, power cords, extra batteries, water bottle, and any passwords and usernames you may require for access to your site, email, server, FTP, etc. The Beaverton Library offers free and open wifi, so be familiar with how to connect to wifi with your laptop. It is highly recommended that you backup your site before attending to ensure the safety and security of your site's content and design.

Assistance in setting up take down will be needed. If you can help, please arrive a few minutes before the event or stay after to help clean.

After the event we will be walking to AVA Roasteria across the street from the Library. Feel free to join us and continue the conversation.

How Merchant Processors Integrate Software for Credit Card
Processing and making sure your business or clients are getting
the best processing rates. Presented by: Terrence Smith

Don't forget:

Please come armed with questions as we will begin our session with an "ask us anything" segment. We encourage you to bring your laptop. Time permitting, we will work with you on a crowdsourcing solution for challenges that you may be facing within your own organization.

If you are having any problems with your WordPress website or are interested in growing your understanding of the platform, this is the meetup for you.

The doors open at 6 p.m. and the meeting will start at 6:30 p.m. There will be plenty of time to network with fellow WordPress users and individuals in the higher education industry. Please be sure to come early and bring business cards.

AGENDA

• 7:00 PM - 7:15 PM: Networking

• 7:15 PM - 7:30 PM: Announcements & Introductions

• 7:30 PM - 8:15 PM: Monthly Topic

• 8:15 PM - 9:00 PM: Extended Networking

OUR GROUP

So who are we? We are The Houston WordPress Meetup Group. We're here for the benefit of the WordPress community as a whole, not specific businesses, or individuals. Come on out early, stay late, enjoy a drink and network with your fellow Houstonians!

VENUE AND RSVP INFO

No meeting fee! Free refreshments!

Please keep your RSVPs current, that way we can bring enough refreshments for everyone :)

As a way of saying thank you, we'll be giving priority to those who keep up with their RSVPs, and help build the community.

Questions? Please review our No Show Policy (http://www.meetup.com/houston-wordpress/pages/No_Show_Policy/).

COMMUNITY SPONSORS

Thank you to the many community sponsors who have helped the #HouWP community grow. With their support we have an awesome venue, free refreshments and more!

• ROOM SPONSOR: Black Sheep Agency is a full-service agency that amplifies messages & accelerates impact (@shearcreativity).

• EVENT SPONSOR: Develare is a process-driven digital marketing agency built for SMBs and nonprofits (@develare).

• EVENT SPONSOR: GlobalSpex helps businesses accelerate their digital marketing (@globalspex).

How about we give them a #HouWP shout out on Twitter?

March's topic is starting a business - Marketing and Lead Generation

Do you make your living using WordPress to create websites for other people’s businesses? This new Meetup is for you! We are not about themes or plugins, rather we'll talk about aspects of having a freelance business based in WP. We’ll discuss the successes and challenges of running a small business, share stories, ask questions, share tools & resources, brainstorm ideas and generally create a community for those of us who typically work in isolation.

We meet on the first Thursday of each month from 10-noon at the Wallingford Good Shepherd Center, Room 221. It’s not far from the freeway and has free parking.

PS – Please note that this Meetup is specifically for those with a freelance business that relies on WordPress and not intended for those who have their business website made in WordPress. There are many other Meetups for WordPress users.

Use this link to join the Seattle WP Slack Group (https://wpseattleslack.wordpress.com/) and then you can interact with the group on the Business Channel. We post all our Freelancer minutes on our website at https://wpseattle.org/category/freelancers-meetup/

Please join our new FaceBook Group as well: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wpseattle

Who's updating your client's website when store hours change or they upload a new video for the home page?

If it's always you because you can do it more quickly and without breaking anything - there's a great alternative.

We'll show you how to build a simple interface that makes it easy for anyone who can fill in a form to change site content.

Come learn how to simplify your life and make your clients happy at the same time!

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We’re a group of local WordPress developers, designers, and publishers who get together to share our knowledge, our experience, and to meet other WordPress users in the area. This WordPress Meetup is open to all who love WordPress — join us!

Learn more about WordPress Meetups at https://make.wordpress.org/community/meetups/

IMPORTANT: ARRIVE EARLY. PARKING IS LIMITED
Priority parking is for the Marietta Daily Journal and members of IgniteHQ. There is a public lot a block away at the intersection of Waddell and Anderson that charges $5.

AGENDA:

*Happiness Bar = This is a great way to get any questions answered, or simply network with other 'Pressers. Topics include: Coding/Dev; SEO/Marketing/Blogging; New to WP/basic use (Dashboard).

*Presentation = TBA

BRING:
1. Yourself, your questions, and your expertise. Please come!
2. Laptop or tablet (optional).
3. Business cards to share.
4. Friends, co-workers, etc. Anyone interested in WP!

LOCATION: The November Meridian Meetup will be meeting at the Meridian Library District, 1326 W Cherry Lane, Meridian 83642.

ABOUT:
We are a group of WordPress developers, designers and publishers who get together to share knowledge and experience, and to meet other WordPress users in the area. This WordPress meetup is open to all who love WordPress. Join us! We will talk about hosting, installing WP, the WP admin interface, themes, plugins, making money with WP, business practices, support, teaching and learning WP, e-commerce, and lots more. Different subjects each month.

NOTE: Food is provided, either a snack or light lunch, on a rotating schedule.

RELEASE FROM LIABILITY: In consideration of the risk to injury while participating in our events and online communities, and as consideration for the right to participate, each participant agrees to abide by the WordPress Code of Conduct and organizer instructions. By attending events or participating online, each participant agrees and recognizes they’re participating entirely at their own risk, which may include but are not limited to physical or psychological injury, pain, suffering, illness, disfigurement, disability, economic or emotional loss and death. Each participant agrees to waive any right to bring legal action against organizers, venues, community sponsors and volunteers or hold them financially responsible for personal injury or property damage.

The Auburn WordPress Meetup Group is for any WordPress user – new or experienced – who wants to learn more about WordPress, network with other users and developers, and discuss all things WordPress.

The meetup will be structured into two parts. The first part will a presentation on a WordPress topic. The second part will be a help desk collaboration. We will break up into small groups to help and answers people questions on WordPress. Wireless will be available for laptops.

Accessibility is a hot topic, isn't it? Developers, designers, and users all need to think about how to make sure their work is as usable by as many people as possible. Depending on your role on a website, your accessibility focus will mean different requirements and tasks. This month, we'll talk about how you as a user, content creator, or webmaster, can make sure you are providing accessible content and following best practices.

Parking is available on the side of the building of on the street. 

Setting up a WordPress site with WordPress.org

Presenter: Jamii Corley

Jamii will give a talk on how to create a basic 5 page WordPress website.

The meetup is early this month because WordCamp is on March 20th 2020 - March 21st 2020. Join us!

https://2020.albuquerque.wordcamp.org/

The topic of this meetup has not yet been announced.

We'll be in the conference room which is upstairs. There is an elevator too. Please bring your own screw-top drinks. Hopefully we'll have some snacks. Join us for the fun!

We'll talk about beginner topics and even some expert tips for managing your WordPress site!

Join us! Anyone interested in WordPress or even just websites are welcome. No charge, of course.

This Monthly Meetup is for who are using (or looking to learn about) WordPress for blogging, content management, web development, running a business, e-commerce, and more.

Topics include blogging with WordPress, using WordPress to power your site, security tips, themes and plugins, and fixing and optimizing your site. Visit wpbuffalo.com for more information.

Tbd

Update 12:05 - EVENT POSTPONED UNTIL March 5th! Same Bat Cave. As a precautionary measure we are just going delay the event until next month.

WEATHER WATCH: We are currently monitoring the weather. Currently, weather models indicate snow starting 5-9 PM tonight. We will post an update on the issue at noon today.

WordPress tech night at RocketGenius! Pizza will be served.

Agenda: How to Troubleshoot WordPress / How are you using WordPress?

Bring your curiosity and questions!

This is a morning meeting on the first Friday of each month for collaboration and help with WordPress. We can ask questions of each other, discuss projects, or follow up from a prior meeting. This is meant to be a helpful and low key way to share knowledge and experiences.

Here’s what you’ll need for an optimal experience:
1. Charge up and bring your laptop, logins, and notebook
2. Know that there are some WordPress issues that need more time to resolve. So, we may run out of time before your problem is fixed.
3. Money for a drink or food from Axum Coffee in return for letting us use their space to collaborate.

There is plenty of free public parking in the parking garage at 160 S Boyd St, and it's just a one minute walk from parking to Axum Coffee. If there are a lot of attendees and the weather is good, we sometimes move our group to the patio seating behind Axum. Otherwise, just look for us inside. We'll be the ones talking loudly and wildly gesticulating as we discuss WordPress plugins, blogging, site management, online business, you name it.

If there is lots of interest, we will be limiting the attendee and invited guest counts for RSVP so as to not overwhelm Axum’s space with too many people from just our group. A waiting list will be established once we reach the limit. If you RSVP but change your plans, please cancel your RSVP so we have an accurate count and so any waitlisted people can join.

Thanks! See you all there!

Are you ready to grow your WordPress knowledge? Join us Saturday, March 7, for WordCamp Greenville 2020.

Our annual spring event is a full-day, immersive conference focused on everything you need to know to keep your WordPress site(s) humming along smoothly.

Whether you’re a beginner, intermediate or advanced WordPress user, you will find sessions tailored to your level of expertise.

This weekend event is only $25 and includes:
* Full day of speakers and sessions
* Access to our Greenville South Carolina WordPress Group
* One-on-one advice at our Happiness Bar
* Networking opportunities
* Lunch and coffee
* Sweet swag bag

Buy Your Ticket Today!: https://2020.greenville.wordcamp.org/tickets/
Learn more: https://2020.greenville.wordcamp.org/

Join us for a cup of coffee, hot chocolate, or tea while we discuss your WordPress questions.

Things to bring to this meetup:
- questions about WordPress (or websites in general)
- a laptop or notebook computer
- notepad for taking notes (optional)
- address of your website
- a good attitude :)

These meetings will repeat on the first Saturday of every month, indefinitely.

Our WordPress MeetUp community is mostly comprised of beginners and DIY'ers. We try to cover topics that will benefit beginner and intermediate users. We mostly function as a roundtable, where all community members can contribute from their experience and learn from each other. More advanced users are encouraged to join us to share from their knowledge.

For our 6th edition: TBD

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Do you build plugins or want to learn more about the process? Do you want to learn about WordPress development in general? If so, we've got some exciting news for you!

In addition to our standard monthly WordPress meetup, we are adding a second meetup specifically for WordPress developers.

The Advanced WordPress Developers meetup will take place on the 2nd Monday of every month, from 6:30pm until 8:30pm at Work In Progress in Downtown Las Vegas.

We are currently brainstorming what "advanced" topics we are going to talk about. We have four advanced categories in mind:

1) Advanced WP Round-Ups -- A listicle about things folks shared in the AWP sites, slack and groups/forums.
2) What's Advanced about WP? -- Deep dive into Core functions that allow you to do more advanced things.
3) Advancing WP -- Things happening in the broader WP Community that push the project forward in more developer-friendly ways and how others can contribute to it.
4) How are we Advancing WP -- Case Studies on doing something advanced and awesome with WP.

Bring your ideas, knowledge, experience and let's start helping each other be better developers by evolving our WP developer's community.

Please note that space is limited. 28 is the full capacity so please keep your RSVP updated. Thanks and see you all at Work In Progress!

Our Help Desk Meetups are going smashingly well. We can accommodate up about 40-50 people and we're full almost every time.

Going forward we will be we will be having Meetups especially designed for those who need help with their web sites. If you are running a WordPress site and are having issues and would like some help, then this Meetup is specifically for you. If you are a WordPress expert, by all means come and help us help out as many people as possible. Please message the admins if you want to be identified as a WordPress expert and are willing to help.

We will have 4-6 WordPress experts on hand to assist you with solving as many of your WordPress problems as possible, on-site and in real-time.

There is free wifi at the space, so all you need to bring is yourself, your laptop and your problems.

Note: There is no formal presentation planned. This Meetup is designed for people who need help and who want to connect to a WordPress expert who can solve their issues or steer them in the right direction to solve the problems they're experiencing with WordPress.

Note: Please only RSVP if you plan to attend. You don't necessarily need to have an issue that needs resolving to be able to attend. We understand that people will pick up tips and tricks by watching how issues are solved even if they don't directly apply to their own WordPress site.

As always, we‘ll order a few pizzas, bring some beers, kick on the fans (A/C being planned) and have a good time. Donations towards pizza, beer and acquiring an A/C unit are encouraged and highly appreciated.

It's OK if you want to attend but only want to observe. We recognize this is how people learn. Given our time limit of two hours, we may not be able to solve all of everyone's issues. We will try, though. If you are seeking help, please come prepared! Please have your web site loaded in a browser (there is free wifi at the space), have your WordPress admin ready, along with a short list of issues you are trying to solve.

This is a Repeating Meetup. It happens every 2nd Monday of every month unless a holiday intervenes in which it will typically pushed to 1st Monday of the month.

This meetup is intended for developers of all skill levels. Whether you’re a hobbyist or a professional, just starting out or a have multiple plugins under your belt, we have room for you.

We invite you to join us as we continue our exploration of building plugins for WordPress. If you'd like to share what you know, leave a comment and we'll give you the floor.

Note: If you have questions or topics outside of the main topic, don’t worry, you won’t leave without the chance to talk about them.

This session describes how to build a simple website using Elegant Themes' Divi Theme to create a responsive website in minutes using prefined layouts from the Elegant library. There are approximately 150 layouts to choose from that each contains several pages.

The class will show step by step (with little or no coding) on how to customize the layout and change the design. This session is gear to an audience that wants quick results without laboring with HTML, CCS or PHP. The required skill is from beginner to Intermediate.

This session will use Divi 4.0 to make easy changes to the website with the visual builder. I will demonstrate how several design changes will be implemented and rendered properly on the Laptop, Tablet or Smartphone views of the website.

Our approach will be an ad hoc session with class participation to select the design changes and to demonstrate their implementation while having an interactive class discussion.

Conference Room #1 has been reserved from 7:30 PM to 9 PM

WP Meetup - Second Tuesdays
8:15 - 9:30am (Coffee Will Be Ready!)
@ Stateview Commons, 532 W College Ave, Appleton
Parking meters start 9am and can be paid via app.

Agenda:
8:15 - Welcome, intros, news
8:30 - Round Table/Presentation/Q&A
9:15 - Networking
9:30 - Out the door

Bring your list of topics you want to cover over the coming months, we'll get things scheduled.

Join us for a walkthrough of how to set up a 'dropship' site and connect it to a vendor using WooCommerce. Graham Tucker will go over the why, what and how for dropshipping using ecommerce and a niche business plan. No prior knowledge is needed to fully grasp the concept and WordPress walkthrough.

Feel free to explore these topics beforehand:
-- Printify [https://printify.com/]
-- Dropship.me [https://dropship.me/]
-- Storefront theme from WooCommerce [https://woocommerce.com/storefront/].

We’re a group of local WordPress developers, designers, and publishers who get together to share our knowledge, our experience, and to meet other WordPress users in the area. This WordPress Meetup is open to all who love WordPress — join us!

Learn more about WordPress Meetups at https://make.wordpress.org/community/meetups/

IMPORTANT: ARRIVE EARLY. PARKING IS LIMITED
If there aren't any spots left, there is a public lot for $5 a block away at the intersection of Waddell and Anderson.

You're welcome to bring your lunch!

If you are a front-end designer, intense developer, writer, or a person that likes to poke around on the Dashboard, then come on by. Bring your WordPress work and questions.

The meetup will be in the Rockwell Room. It is in the Community Technology Center at the Central Library, on the southeast end of Floor 4. Take the elevators up and walk into the computer lab. Turn right, and it's at the very end of the space on the right.

Join us Tuesday the 8th from 6:00-8:00pm. We'll be planning out our Meetup Group's topics for the next year. If you would like to suggest any ideas, volunteer to lead a discussion, or just want to brainstorm with everybody, come on out!

A FREE monthly WordPress meetup for beginner to intermediate users, who get together to share our knowledge and experience, and to meet other local fans and aficionados of WordPress.

We will be covering anything and everything about what we consider the easiest and best WordPress website/page designer or builder. Going over how to use the tool as well as showing some easy and powerful tips. We think once you have experienced Divi – you’ll love it as much as we do!

The Milwaukee WordPress Meetup for DIVI THEME is for individuals, entrepreneurs and small business owners wanting to learn what, why and how WordPress DIVI THEME is a powerful content publishing platform, marketing tool, social media hub, CMS and complete website solution. This WordPress Meetup is open to all who are interested in or love WordPress --- join us!

There is absolutely no agenda! Come with your questions, issues, or concerns. This will be an open conversation every month, so that we are able to help one another with answers, suggestions, our favorite tools or plugins, etc.

Bring your laptops! Free wifi. We have a projector/screen so we can demonstrate or dive into our conversations!

Plenty of personal opportunities to network before and after the meeting!

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Near hwy100 & Oklahoma Ave. Located in the building in-between Klemmers Banquet Center and Remax Realty. Please park towards the back of the building, enter through the rear entrance and head down the stairs near the entry. The conference room is the second door on the left.

This month's Meetup will address topics for adult educators using WordPress hosted at CCRI (Providence location)! Check back for updates coming soon.

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WordPress RI Meetups are held consistently on the 2nd Tuesday of every month. Keep up with the latest on Twitter - @WordPressRI (https://twitter.com/wordpressri)

We look forward to seeing you!

Hey Springfield-area WordPressers, let’s hang out and discuss all things WP! Bring your experience, questions, and intriguing topics to our informal coffee shop chats. See you soon :)

Every second Tuesday of the Month, the WordPress Louisville community meets up at the Louisville Free Public Library's main branch.

To be good stewards of this free community space, please note these rules from LFPL:
* This meeting is free and open to the public
* Food is not permitted
* The Library does not provide technical, maintenance, or custodial staff for our event.
* No products, services, or memberships may be advertised, solicited or sold, and no fees or donations may be collected

Open discussion around the WordPress including FTP/STFP, Git for version control, advanced deployment and overall best practices for making changes to a codebase (hopefully) without breaking anything!

Note: Tuesday 3/10 is also Free CoWorking Day - feel free to join us for a day of collaborative work during the day!

For our next online meetup, Ray will be demonstrating how to use Google Cloud hosting for your WordPress site.

This will be an online meetup to allow more people to attend. We will post the link in the event description and in the comments on the day of the meetup.

The Inland Empire Dev Meetup is intended for intermediate to advanced developers. At this meetup we talk about WordPress-relevant-code-level things.

Technologies:
- PHP & Javascript
- HTML5 / CSS
- Javascript Frameworks
- Modern Web Development Workflows

We are web developers first, then WordPress developers. We have an [in progress] skills ladder that gets updated regularly.

SKILLS LADDER: https://github.com/Inland-Empire-WordPress-Meetup/

We also welcome any developer presentations that are relevant to developing websites for WordPress. We look for unique workflows. Submit your talks below:

SUBMIT TALK: https://inlandempirewp.com/speaker-request/

Everyone is welcome to come share & grow in their skills!

An introduction to using Gutenberg blocks to create WordPress pages and blog posts.

Lisa Savoie is a freelance web designer & developer. She started LS Codes about a year ago to help small business create or improve their websites. She has used Gutenberg blocks on NPO projects in which the client will need to maintain the site themselves. Creating reusable blocks allows them to create and update pages while keeping within the style guide set for the site.

CONNECT WITH LISA
Website: https://lscodes.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/twosavoie
Github: https://github.com/twosavoie
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisasavoie/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lscodes/
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ABOUT THE VENUE:
Thank you to WordPress KC member Kyle Johnson & Evoke Insurers for being our location sponsor for this Meetup!

Website - https://www.evokeinsures.com/

Keller Williams Key Partners, LLC
4200 Somerset Dr SUITE 101 · Prairie Village, KS

• Park on the east side of the building
• When you enter the front doors of the building, go to the right
• Enter the Keller Williams office, then go to the left of the front desk

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MEETUP SCHEDULE:
• Networking - Chat with other group members: 7pm
• Member introductions: 7:15pm
• Presentation: ~7:30pm
• Q&A: Immediately following presentation
• Chat and talk shop: Following Q&A, up until 9pm

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CONNECT WITH WORDPRESS KC:
• Website - http://wordpresskc.com
• Newsletter - http://wordpresskc.com/newsletter
• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/WordPressKC/
• Twitter - https://twitter.com/wordpresskc
• Instagram - http://instagram.com/wordpresskc

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The WordPress Palm Beach monthly Meetup
RSVP's open two weeks prior to meetup.

»»»»»»»» Sponsors «««««««
Organizing Sponsor:
DellMark LLC
Marketing, Digital Media
dellmark.com
Organizer of this Meetup Group

Meeting Space Sponsor:
Real Estate Education and Community Housing
8409 N Military Trl Suite 112 · Palm Beach Gardens, FL

Refreshments Sponsor:
A2 Hosting - a2hosting.com
A2 Hosting is providing refreshments

Group Sponsor:
WordPress.org - wordpress.org
Sponsor of this Meetup Group

»»»»»»»» Welcome to the Wapuu Bar ::: Help Desk! «««««««
Description: Member to Member WordPress Help.
The Wapuu Bar/Help Desk is basically FREE help for your website.

If you would like to ask a question(s) at this Meetup it is preferred that you ask your question ahead of time so we can prepare and give you the best possible answer. You can enter your question(s):
•• when you complete your RSVP.
•• in the comments section below
•• in writing at the meetup

Suggested topics:
͏•• WordPress, General
•• Themes, Plugins
•• Theme Customization
•• HTML, CSS, PHP, SQL
•• Hosting, Performance Optimization
•• SEO & Digital Marketing
•• General Site Critiques

What to bring for WordPress help:
•• Bring your charged laptop with you
•• Bring whatever logins needed to get into your site
•• Be ready to take notes
•• Be respectful of the time of everyone else attending
•• Be willing to accept that some problems can't be solved in 15 minutes and may require more help than we can offer here

»»»»»»»» Event Organizer «««««««
Bobby DeLisio
DellMark LLC Digital Media Marketing
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Bobby DeLisio is the organizer of the WordPress Users of the Palm Beaches Meetup Group and host of this event. He has been designing and developing websites since the early 90's. When commercial use restrictions were lifted from the Internet in 1995 he started his own company which developed websites for businesses. Bobby's first commercial website was written in HTML 2.0 (or was it 1.1 ???) using notepad with a liberal use of tables and single pixel gifs to create structure. A far cry from creating website layouts with CSS Grid.

Evolution of Web Layouts:
Tables > Frames > Layers > Floats/Clears > Flexbox > CSS Grid
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Coworking events are for all levels of WordPress users. Work on your projects with other WordPress users. Enjoy spending time with other WordPressers! Get help from others...give help to others...and build community. This event is free to attend. Come all day or for a couple of hours. Bring your laptop and an extension cord or power strip.

Please join our Facebook group for the most updated information and to ask and answer questions. https://www.facebook.com/groups/rocwp/announcements/

**Due to Williamsburg/Peninsula attendees being higher in number than Southside attendees, this monthly Meetup location is now in Hampton.
Thank you for understanding the fairness of attendance.**

Join us during monthly Meetups on the 2nd Wednesdays. This Meetup will be a "Come on in and ask/talk about Wordpress" session. Here folks who have basic questions can get advice with each other on various topics.

Optional tools : Wireless-equipment that you use for working on Wordpress

WordPress Wednesday @ Keller Street CoWork!

Want to get started with WordPress, or get BETTER at using WordPress? Thinking about building your own WordPress Website for the first time?
Maybe you're a WordPress Website owner wanting to learn the latest best practices for WordPress Security, Performance and SEO?

And if you're a WordPress Professional, you might be looking for a new forum to share your knowledge & skills less experienced WordPress users..

WordPress Wednesday is the Meetup event for YOU!!!

Local WordPress Professionals will be on-site at the meetup to assist you
with no-cost WordPress Consulting, Training & Design help in the form of a friendly, group learning styled Q & A session.

*** ALL SKILL LEVELS WELCOME ***

Everyone is welcome to attend this 100% Free Community Meetup!

Note: Be sure to bring a laptop or tablet, your WordPress login credentials, your questions about WordPress -- and most importantly, the willingness to help each other learn!

P.S. -Tell a Friend about WP Petaluma! @ www.WPPetaluma.org
P.P.S. - Enjoyed the meetup? Leave a review! @ www.WPPetaluma.org/reviews
P.P.P.S. - Check out our awesome Sponsors! @ www.WPPetaluma.org/sponsors