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 […]

Bill Davis led us through the basics of protecting WordPress sites from malware and other attacks.
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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Links to these posts are in the Handout.

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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]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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]

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]

The East Bay WordPress Meetup Group Lou Anne gave us an SEO presentation back in 2009. We all know Google keeps adjusting its algorithms, and WordPress keeps adding features, so it’s time to talk about this subject again. From permalinks to plugins, keyword research to categories, why not to overdo tags, and the built-in SEO features in [...]

The East Bay WordPress Meetup Group Linda Shum and I collaborated on this–she created the design in Fireworks for her employer, but then had to leave town, so asked me to work on it while she was gone. My job was to get as far as I could in turning the design into a Genesis child theme, preserving [...]

Presentation by Diana Thompson of Like the Goddess on how she created her WordPress User’s Guide. (You can buy the guide for $6 on Diana’s site.)

WP e-Commerce Premium (gold cart) version is $40 for a single user, $195 for developers. There are a number of other commercial add-ons to add more functions. Download the free version from the WordPress plugin repository . Shopp Commercial plugin: single license $55; developer license $299. DukaPress Or download from the  WordPress plugin…[Read more]