This month we’re diving in to the nuts and bolts behind a WordPress website. Beau Moffatt walks us through setting up a new install of WordPress from pointing your domain, creating a database and installing WordPress to initial settings and customization of every fresh WordPress setup. Below are links to the slides as well as […]
Presentations
April 2020: Safely Swimming with Sharks (Web Security 101)
Dave Willis presents this month in our first Online Meetup on the ever timely topic of web security. Dave covers how to keep yourself and your WordPress website safe and secure online. Huge thanks to Dave for covering such a wide ranging list of necessary and important topics–and for being our guinea pig for a […]
March 2020: Accessibility Matters to You, Too
Accessibility is a hot topic, isn’t it? Developers, designers, and users all need to think about how to make sure their work is as usable by as many people as possible. Depending on your role on a website, your accessibility focus will mean different requirements and tasks. This presentation was about how you as a […]
January 2020: Do you even need a page builder anymore?
This meetup features a head to head competition between Beaver Builder, a popular page builder plugin, and the block editor (formerly known as Gutenberg) as it’s been released in WordPress 5.3. We’ll build identical (as close as we can get, anyway) landing pages and compare notes on the process and outcome. Block Editor Feedback (Robin) […]
December 2019: WordPress Wellness Visit for 2020
We’re taking your website to the doctor this month for a wellness check as you head in to a new year! Robin Cornett and Beau Moffatt will go over improvements in the most current version of WordPress Core 5.3 as well as highlight key areas to check and make sure are in place for site […]