Jackie Dana
Happiness Engineer at Automattic, blogger at Surviving the Modern World. I like both shiny gadgets like my iPhone and simple things like my own homemade soap. Above all, I love WordPress! :)
Posts by Jackie Dana
Functions, functions, show us your functions!
Announcements: Fill out the WP Austin survey! New WordPress Austin meetups: WordPress for Business: 2nd and 3rd Mondays. First two are Feb 11th and Feb 18th. WordPress for Users: content and blogging; inaugural meeting on March 6. These meetups are in addition to our 1st and 4th Tuesday meetups. Join our WP Austin Meetup group for [...]
Preparing for Success: WordPress 3.5 and other goodies
Announcements: Be sure to fill out our 2013 Survey so we know what direction you’d like to see WordPress Austin go in 2013! Automattic is hiring! We would love people to get more involved in WordPress Austin. Plan your own meetups, help spread the love! WordPress 3.5 updates – Pat Ramsey Slides for presentation Version [...]
Social Media and WordPress
Announcements AIR – Austin: competition sponsored by Knowbility. Signups through mid-October. Learn about accessible web design, CSS, theme development, etc. Google Hangout recording of the meetup: Pat Ramsey: Follow Pat’s Presentation: http://wpsocial.slash25.com/ Why are we using social media? put people in contact with one another participate in contents new networking everyone has something in their [...]
How Everything Has Changed – Social Media
Announcements Next WordPress Austin meetup on Sept. 4th will be on debugging Javascript; meetup announcement should be posted by the end of the week New theme Twenty Twelve has been released on WordPress.com Everyone is always welcome to attend the Austin Adobe Users Group Ignite 360 is looking for a full-time WordPress developer Knowbility is [...]
The future of design: Responsive Design!
Announcements: Next month’s first Tuesday WordPress meetup will focus again on Responsive Design, but this time at a more intermediate/advanced level. We will be adding yet another monthly WordPress meetup! The new meetup will be for beginners and bloggers and will focus on the basics of WordPress, content strategies and how to get the most [...]
Understanding the Basics of WordPress Media
Ideas We polled our attendees for ideas for upcoming Hands on WordPress meetups. If you have a topic you’d like to hear, please comment on this post and we’ll add it to our list! Announcements: Jackie Dana (hey that’s me!) is a new Happiness Engineer at Automattic. I’ll be able to work from [...]
You have questions? We’ve got the answers!
What’s the difference between plugins and widgets? WordPress comes with some widgets by default, but to add additional widgets, usually you will need to install a plugin. Widget areas will be defined by your theme. Widget areas are content areas outside of your main content area. Sometimes you will have widget areas in your header [...]
Getting Started with WordPress
What to expect: In tonight’s meetup, we will discuss the basic functionality of WordPress: The differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org How to log into your site (typically, http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin ) How to create new content The differences between pages & posts Adding media files (images, video, etc.) and accessing the media library How to modify your [...]
Photos from SxSW
Photos from the WordPress party and the WordPress/Automattic booth at the SxSW Trade Show, March 2012. Photos taken by WordPress Austin members Debra Schmidt and Jackie Dana.
How to connect with WordPress Austin
If you’re new to our group, we have lots of ways to connect with us. Of course, the WP Austin website (where you are right now!). Here we post notes from our meetings and other information that we think may be of interest to local WordPress users and developers. Our WordPress Austin meetings, on the [...]
