April 10, 2015 — Grow your list without breaking your budget, upsetting your hosting service, or violating your users. Learn which email list building plugin is best for YOU … and discover some neat email marketing tricks along the way.

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April 3, 2015 — The February 2015 Northeast PA WordPress meetup hosted a forum of WordPress tips and tricks. Members talk about some of their favorite plugins and solutions to their problems.

April 3, 2015 — This presentation covers what plugins are necessary to maintain a healthy website and which ones are worth paying for. WordPress has over 25,000 plugins and not all of them are worth your time.

April 2, 2015 — There are many approaches to building websites, but when it comes time to managing multiple websites, the approach that utilizes the most reusable code makes it a lot easier. By leveraging one theme to run multiple websites, you only have to familiarize yourself with one codebase and turn the development and managing of multiple websites into one. In this talk, Brian will share his experience and tips in utilizing this approach.

March 30, 2015 — The beauty of WordPress is in its strength of community, resources and effectiveness. But without a plan in place, our projects can slow down and stall under the weight of all those possibilities. Learn how to jumpstart your process by NOT starting from zero each time. You’ll learn about the power of frameworks, child themes, templates, design inspiration, preferred plugins, integration services and quality research to build a custom workflow that speeds up design and development. It makes for happy clients – and a happy you!

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March 28, 2015 — Although WordPress now allows proper management of the languages at admin and the front, it has problems with the management of multi language content.

Want to know what options to use to manage a site with content in multiple languages?

One is the use of WPML plugin, a system that automates and greatly facilitates the management of languages … but is it for everyone? Does it have to be used at all time?

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March 28, 2015 — A look at how Hawaii State Government has been using WordPress to launch over 450 cloud-based, open-source, mobile first websites. In the fall of 2012, we responded to an RFP by our 1st CIO Sonny Bhagowalia to build a common template for all state agencies. We had <6 months to build and implement EVERYTHING! As of January, 2013, 28 sites were launched. As of 2014, we have over 80 WordPress installs hosting almost 450 sites and all state agencies are now using WordPress. Learn how we did it and hear about our custom solutions and unique updating process that allows the State to push out bug fixes and feature requests with ease.

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March 23, 2015 — Steve Bruner conducts an open discussion of preferred WordPress plugins including:
(Yoast SEO: Melissa Cahill) (OptimizePress: Victor Ramirez) (JSON Rest API: Dr. Ron Suarez and Margaret Koenen) (WP Helpers: Steve Bruner)

March 23, 2015 — This presentation covers everything from design software to code management systems to email marketing platforms to customer retention programs. By taking advantage of these tools, we’ll learn how they make your life easier, your work less stressful, your workflows more streamlined and your pockets much, much bigger!

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March 20, 2015 — Santosh shows pointers on how SEO can be used in WordPress to make your rankings high in search engines. He shares various tricks and tips, plugins that anyone can use to better the content and increase traffic as well.

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