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Sallie Goetsch wrote a new post, Jan 2012 Meetup Slides: Themes for Developers 1 month ago

Anca Mosoiu of Tech Liminal gave us an overview of how WordPress themes work, including the wp_posts table, the template hierarchy, the functions.php file, and the principles of creating a child theme. It was a […]
Sallie Goetsch wrote a new post, December 2011 Meetup Slides: Securing WordPress 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Bill Davis led us through the basics of protecting WordPress sites from malware and other attacks.
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Sallie Goetsch wrote a new post, Dec 2011 Slides: How to Save Your Hacked WordPress Site 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Adria Richards gave a great presentation on what to do if your site has already been hacked. I’m embedding the slides here, but you should read her complete post, because it contains links to other resources […]
Sallie Goetsch wrote a new post, November 2011 – WordPress 3.3 Feature Tour 2 months, 2 weeks ago

At the time of this meetup, WordPress 3.3 was in Beta 2. As I upload the slides, it’s reached RC1, so it may well be available by the end of the year.

For some features I missed in the slideshow, see Aaron […]
Sallie Goetsch wrote a new post, October 2011 Meetup Handout: Themes & Plugins for Slideshows, Galleries, and Photoblogging 4 months, 1 week ago

Gallery Plugins
jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries

Makes the native WordPress galleries use a lightbox script called ColorBox to display the fullsize images.

Extremely simple, but this plus the built-in […]
Sallie Goetsch wrote a new post, September 2011 Meetup Slides: Connecting WordPress to Social Networks 4 months, 1 week ago

Here are some screenshots of plugins for connecting WordPress to social networks, or embedding content from Facebook, Twitter, etc. in your WordPress site. For links to the plugins, see the Handout […]
Sallie Goetsch wrote a new post, October 2011 Meetup Slides: Galleries, Slideshows & Photoblogging 4 months, 1 week ago

Links to these posts are in the Handout.

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Sallie Goetsch wrote a new blog post: September Meetup Handout: Connecting WordPress to Social Networks 5 months, 1 week ago

A brief overview of social media plugins for WordPress. Twitter Twitter Widget Pro (Displays your latest tweets in a widget, with lots of options.) Tweet Old Posts (Posts links to your older blog posts to Twitter, with optional prefix or suffix. Can be used to post recent posts, too.) WP to Twitter (Occasionally problematic with the newest…[Read more]
Sallie Goetsch wrote a new blog post: WordPress 3.2 Feature Tour 7 months ago

The East Bay WordPress Meetup Group WordPress 3.2 is due out at the end of June. (We’re at RC 1 as I write this on June 20th.) Based on past performance, it ought to be ready about in time for WordCamp SF in August. As usual when there’s a new release of WordPress, we’ll walk through all [...]
Sallie Goetsch wrote a new blog post: July 2011 Meetup Slides: From a Fireworks Comp to a Genesis Child Theme 7 months ago

It’s always hard to read code projected on a screen, so you’ll want to take a look at these to get a better idea of where we got hung up with this design and how to put background images behind dynamic content. If you want the actual theme files to look at, just contact me [...]
Diana Thompson posted on the forum topic Can you style a template page differently from the main site pages? in the group Themes: 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Another means y’all might consider is adding conditional tags to your standard template(s). http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags. For instance, with “if (is_category())” you can add code for only a specific category or categories. Same deal for “if (is_page())” and a specific page or pages.
Sallie Goetsch wrote a new blog post: WordPress Gallery Tutorial 8 months, 1 week ago

Mentioned during the June Meetup. Created for a client and offered here for those who might find it useful.

WordPress Gallery tutorial
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Sallie Goetsch wrote a new blog post: June 2011 Meetup Slides: WordPress SEO Revisited 8 months, 1 week ago

WordPress SEO Revisited by Lou Anne McKeefery of Be Found
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techliminal commented on the blog post May 2011 Meetup Notes 9 months ago

This is an epic post! Wow.
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techliminal posted an update: 9 months ago

I’m showing off the meetup site to people in my WordPress class
Sallie Goetsch wrote a new blog post: May 2011 Meetup Notes 9 months, 1 week ago

Here are a few of the things we discussed in the Q&A at the May 15 th East Bay WordPress Meetup. Backup Plugins Bob H (who would like to start a North Bay/Marin WordPress Meetup—contact him through our Meetup.com site ) asked about backup plugins. My favorite is BackupBuddy by PluginBuddy (the iThemes people).…[Read more]
Sallie Goetsch wrote a new blog post: May 2011 – Appointments, Calendars, Events 9 months, 1 week ago

WP Plugins: Appointments, Bookings, Events, Scheduling
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Diana Thompson and techliminal are now friends 9 months, 1 week ago
Sallie Goetsch wrote a new blog post: Event Registration, Appointment Scheduling, and WordPress 9 months, 3 weeks ago

The East Bay WordPress Meetup Group I’ll be happy to discuss Event Espresso Lite and GigPress, and I know Anca uses Eventbrite. Anyone else have a favorite plugin to pitch? Some possibilities are Appointy, Events Manager Extended , WordTour, Booking Calendar , and Stout Google Calendar . The recently updated Event Calendar/Scheduler looks…[Read more]
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