December 22, 2013 — This talk walks through some basic customizations like uploading images and galleries through the new Media Manager, using widget areas to publish all kinds of content, how to install and customize a theme.and ending with a discussion on how to choose a theme that’s right for you.

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December 21, 2013 — Generally our meetings are simple and to the point, we talk about more advanced WordPress topics and projects we’ve been working on as well as everyone gets to share code and design tips and ideas for everyone to comes.
No one person will speak but instead we try to make this into a bit of an unconference round table with people wanting to talk about WordPress and encourage everyone to bring at least one interesting new thing for us all to learn from in the group.

December 21, 2013 — Parallax Web Designs have been pretty popular lately. Jimba explains why Parallax Designs are made and how they play a vital role in a better storytelling.

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December 20, 2013 — Learn how to keep your WordPress sites under version control using a workflow refined over dozens of sites. We’ll cover repository organization, what belongs (and, perhaps more importantly, what doesn’t belong), and how to make deploying updates and working with multiple environments as painless as possible.

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December 20, 2013 — In this presentation learn ways to find fresh new material for your blog week after week using headline starters to spur ideas, piggybacking off of popular bloggers without plagiarizing their material, interviewing people, writing posts that tie into current events as well as other strategies to make sure you always have engaging material for your readers.

December 19, 2013 — This presentation mixes in general and advanced SEO using tools for keyword research and showing you what you should find. Learn about site audits and some tools to incorporate it all into WordPress.

December 19, 2013 — Learn about WordPress accessibility for the physically disabled. This talk goes over some interesting facts on internet trends concerning the disabled and why it is important that we cater to this demographic. It covers some current and generalized strategies for making any website more accessible. And it showcases some specific WordPress plugins and techniques that make WordPress websites way more accessible to the disabled.

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December 18, 2013 — WordPress has grown so much lately that it can be daunting for beginners in finding where to start. This talk covers each section of the admin panel and explains what each does.

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December 18, 2013 — Sliders are one of the most popular functional elements included with themes, or added via plugin. Despite their widespread use, the value added to a site by having a slider has been increasingly questioned lately, with some results showing that a slider actually hurts the site in terms of click-through rate, in addition to possible negative effects to the overall site performance. In this talk see where sliders can be most effective, how they can be effective and what makes, or doesn’t make, a slider a valuable addition to a site.

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December 17, 2013 — Developing themes and plugins is a common topic in the WordPress community, but the non-technical aspects are usually glossed over. In fact, many of these non-technical elements are more important than the code itself. This talk is about software licenses, support strategies, and theme/plugin monetization, as well as tips and tricks for making your users happy.

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