Meetup: Dashboard and Post Formats

This week's Focus on Content WordPress features a discussion of your WordPress Dashboard and what Post Formats are (and why you should care!), led by Corey Ellis and Bobbie Wilson. To start out, Corey explained the features of the Dashboard itself. He showed the Google Analytics Dashboard plugin, which shows a snapshot of Google Analytics on the Dashboard home page. He explained the Quick … [Continue reading]

SSL Deep Dive

Presentation by Jason Cohen, @asmartbear, WPEngine.com co-founder.   Theme: Security - requires trust Privacy: trust in a shared secret. Enigma machines used in WWII by the Germans to send coded messages. One machine sent out a machine, and another with the same configuration could decode it. Algorithms are ways to encode things, and keys are the configuration. The algorithm … [Continue reading]

Photos from 2013 Austin WordCamp

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There were too many pictures to fit on the WordCamp site, so here they all are, with special thanks to photographer Harrison Funk for all his great work! If you have any pictures of your own to add to the gallery, please upload them through our … [Continue reading]

Meeting Notes: Make WordPress your Career!

Make WordPress your Career! April 23, 2013· 7:00 PM Build a Sign LLC Are you a passionate WordPress user or developer? Wondering how to successfully turn your hobby or part-time gig into your full-time job? Wanting to change careers? Or maybe … [Continue reading]

Notes: 4/17/13 WordPress Content Meetup “15 Minutes of Fame”

4/17/13 WordPress Content Meetup "15 Minutes of Fame" Quick Summary Each presenter will be given  2 minutes to present their site (both built or are just beginning to build) and their mission statement (a 1-2 -3 sentence stating the site's … [Continue reading]

1500 and growing

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FYI, y'all - we passed 1500 members in the Austin WordPress Meetup yesterday. :-D Big thanks to our co-organizers & sponsors  for helping out with the meetup, WordCamp Austin, everything. It's you guys stepping up to the plate and helping out … [Continue reading]

Additional WordPress Plugins for Business Sites

In a lively Q &A at last night’s WordPress for Business some additional plugins were discussed as possible solutions for specific issues raised by attendees. As promised, we have noted the names and urls of those WordPress Plugins … [Continue reading]

Business Plugins for WordPress

Class Notes For: WordPress for Business —  Central Location 03.11.13 and WordPress for Business — West Location 03.18.13 Business Plugins for WordPress Business websites are tools for building relationships with clients, they are stores, … [Continue reading]

WordPress Classes at Posh Co-Working Lounge

The Hands On WordPress classes are back Nick Batik and  Sandra Chevalier-Batik have at last been able to reschedule their Hands-On Word Press class that were canceled when CoSpace closed down over the holidays. We have a new training venue for … [Continue reading]

Exploring the Universe of WordPress & Automattic

We'll have notes & the presentation from last night up here soon. The webcast can be seen below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIpcXAcl8V4   Presentation … [Continue reading]

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