Tonight we welcome Julie Gomoll and Clark Wimberly to talk about using WordPress for blogging. Announcements: Getting Started with WordPress (WP 101) class: Sept. 20th, 7-9pm at Cospace. Blogathon Austin – Oct. 1st at Link CoWorking. All-day blogging, conversations, tech support for bloggers. Join us! Submit a question for next month’s meetup Julie Gomoll [...]
Continue reading...September 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Managing a freelance WordPress development business
Tonight’s meetup features WordPress Consultant Bill Erickson. (Live streamed at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wordpress-austin). Announcements: Next meetup: Back to Basics: WordPress for Blogging Sept. 13 at Cospace, 7:00pm Getting Started with WordPress class on Sept. 20th, 7pm-9pm WP 101 plugin – video training inside WordPress. It’s a premium plugin but once you purchase it you can use it [...]
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Free WordPress Theme Frameworks
Hands-On WordPress meetup 8/9/11 What is a Theme Framework? According to the WordPress Codex, a theme framework is: a Theme designed to be a flexible foundation for quicker WordPress development, usually serving as a robust Parent Theme for Child Themes. Some Theme frameworks can also make theme development more accessible, removing the need for programming [...]
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Image Handling in WordPress
In today’s Hands-On WordPress meetup we discussed using the media library to upload and handle images. Nick demonstrated the basics of adding an image using the upload/insert image option in your WordPress post/page editing window. You can modify your image title, add alternate text, add a caption, and then at the bottom you can choose [...]
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Informal WordPress Gathering
In tonight’s WordPress Austin meetup, we’re opening up the floor to questions and comments. Announcements: Hands-On WordPress meetup will be next Monday, July 11th. Focus of this meetup will be Image Handling with WordPress. Sign up on Meetup.com. Hands-On WordPress will also be offering three classes: one on managing content and users; one on WordPress [...]
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How to choose a WordPress Theme
What is a theme? Depending on how you use it, WordPress is a blogging platform/content management system/website building software – in essence, it’s the behind the scenes code that makes a website work. Your WordPress site itself consists of content, the posts/pages/images that convey information, and a theme, which is the overall design that you [...]
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