Do you use WordPress? Have a site on WordPress.com? Meet other local fans of WordPress, the Internet's leading blog platform and content management system.
Open to anyone interested in learning how to build a website, start a blog, and build traffic to their website. We also discuss the technical aspects of WordPress, and social networking topics such as Twitter.
Our group's talented members have experience with web design, political blogging, video blogging, online marketing, photography, book publishing, internet security, community building, and much more.
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Sat, 29 Oct 2011, 14:00 - 16:00 in Richardson, United States
Learn all about WordPress with an in-depth look at the main features, files, and plugins.Learn to install, configure, style and extend your WordPress site using best practices.Learn what's new, what's old, and what's on the horizon for WordPress.Learn how to update a WordPress site for the latest trends in social, mobile and SEO.Learn to optimize your site and to keep it running fast on even the slowest, cheapest web hosts.
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Sat, 24 Sep 2011, 21:00 - 23:00 in Dallas, United States
Not just for blogging anymore, WordPress is an effective platform for powering websites with a variety of types of content and structured data. Learn about new WordPress 3 features, the child theme architecture, custom plugin development, and mobile device optimization. Leave with plugin recommendations, code samples, and techniques for extending current WordPress sites and for developing new sites.
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Sat, 23 Apr 2011, 21:00 - 23:00 in Dallas, United States
Join us as A.J. Wood demonstrates best practices for creating images for your WordPress website. An Adobe expert, not only will he talk about Photoshop, but free alternatives for optimizing your web images. We'll also discuss web themes geared toward creative professionals.A.J. posts weekly videos on Lightroom & Photoshop, and is regularly featured on Adobe's Facebook community pages.
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011, 21:00 - 23:00 in Dallas, United States
There's a reason the TV show LOST hooked people: it was an ongoing story that left viewers feeling like they had to know what happened next. For centuries, sequential content has kept readers, listeners, and viewers coming back for more. Christopher Gronlund will discuss ways you can use WordPress and sequential content to keep people coming back to your online content. No matter what you're doing online, sequential content can increase traffic to your site—Christopher will show you how.
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26-27 Feb 2011 in Dallas, United States
Become a WordPress Wizard in 60 minutes. (OK, maybe just an Wizard apprentice). Learn WordPress tips and tricks as well as undocumented features that will make your website sing.A wide-ranging discussion of best practices and tips, with plenty of time for Q&A. Topics will include importing content from other CMSs, working with multisite, evaluating plugins and themes. Stephanie talk about how little things like your permalink structure can have a huge impact on your site's performance.
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Sat, 26 Jun 2010, 21:00 - 23:00 in Dallas, United States
WordPress began as software for blogging, but it has evolved over the years to become a powerful platform for building other kinds of web sites as well. Using the core Pages feature, you can create hierarchical content outside of the blog chronology. Randy Hoyt walks us through the web site for a course he teaches at the University of Texas at Dallas, demonstrating the plugins, page templates, and other techniques he uses to run this non-bloggy site in WordPress.
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Sat, 22 May 2010, 21:00 - 23:00 in Dallas, United States
By popular demand, our May Meetup will cover the basics of WordPress and web site design. *Tony Cecala will give a short talk on the topic of choosing and editing themes. *Cone Johnson will give a presentation on creating a good user experience. *Mark Ramsey will teach us about PodCasting and how to effectively integrate media into your site.WordPress experts will be on hand to answer questions and help you with your WordPress.com or self-hosted site.
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Sat, 24 Apr 2010, 21:00 - 23:00 in Dallas, United States
Don't just jump in. Pause, and think about it. Chris Ronan and Leia Scofield of RD2 will talk about design tools and practices that will help you plan and achieve a better outcome with your WordPress blog. You'll learn a process to help engage design thinking the right way -- whether you design yourself, have a design partner, or use existing WordPress themes.Leia Scofield is User Experience Architect and Developer at RD2.
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Sat, 27 Mar 2010, 21:00 - 23:00 in Dallas, United States
Michael J. Pratt presents "Introduction to BuddyPress: Social networking in a box." Learn how to build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community all based on the power and flexibility of WordPress.Michael is contributor to the BuddyPress core code and BuddyPress.org. He ran BuddyPress Unconferences at WordCampNY.
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20-21 Feb 2010 in Dallas, United States
It doesn't take a crystal ball to see that the smartphone revolution will dominate our attention in the coming years. (The App store has had over 1 billion downloads in 9 months, and Google recently bought mobile ad company AdMob for $750 million). How does "mobile" impact bloggers, web developers, entrepreneurs, and WordPress rockstars?We are delighted to have serial entrepreneur, Jeff Haynie, flying out from California to address this topic.
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30-31 Jan 2010 in Dallas, United States
We're starting off 2010 with a bang! Dallas' most famous, colorful, and high-profile blogger, John P. will be presenting an informative and entertaining talk on how to Make More Money with WordPress, Social Media and Analytics.John P. is the CEO of iFusion Labs, the company that brings you Woopra, host of the popular Wealth Nation podcast, former Chief Marketing Officer for Layered Tech, and the founder of HTMLHelp.com.
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5-6 Dec 2009 in Addison, United States
December 5 at BlackFinn in Addison Learn, share and network with WordPress experts, bloggers, and newbies. All are welcome. Join us for networking, smart people, good times, and great conversation. Holiday Happy Hour It's a party! Hang out with all of your favorite DFWWP colleagues. We're going to end the year in style with a "networking" happy hour at BlackFinn. Featuring half-price drinks and half-price appetizers. Follow us: @dfwwp
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Sat, 24 Oct 2009, 21:00 - 23:00 in Dallas, United States
Scott will demonstrate how the Pods plugin makes it easy to develop new datatypes for WordPress. from the Pods web site: "Pods is a CMS framework for WordPress. It's a plugin that sits on top of WordPress, allowing you to add and display your own content types. These content types, or "pods", are totally separate from Posts, Pages, or Custom Fields. The Pods plugin uses its own database structure for maximum efficiency, and for relationships among items."
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Sat, 26 Sep 2009, 21:00 - 23:00 in Dallas, United States
This month we're having a special presentation by the wonderful and talented DB Ferguson. Our very own DFWWP member is the creator and webmaster of the NoFactZone, the #1 Stephen Colbert Fan Site on Planet Earth. DB Ferguson, creator/webmaster of NoFactZone.net, the largest Stephen Colbert fan community online, will talk about building your readers into a strong and enthusiastic community.
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Sat, 29 Aug 2009, 21:00 - 23:00 in Dallas, United States
Some members have expressed an interest in doing a BarCamp-style event. Our August meeting will use a quasi-BarCamp style organization: Speakers can sign up for 15-minute lightning presentations. Members can attend the meeting or network in the hallways. ("The rule of two feet") If you wish to present, use the comment field on this meetup and I'll put together a poll so members can vote. (I'm new to this, so more details will probably follow.
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Sat, 25 Jul 2009, 21:00 - 23:00 in Dallas, United States
This month: Post WordCamp Recap & ReconnectionGiovanni Gallucci expands on the SEO secrets that he shared at WordCamp Dallas.Learn, share and network with WordPress experts, bloggers, and newbies. All are welcome. Join us for networking, technical discussions, great people and great conversation.Bring your business cards and a portable internet device ? try to have a full battery :)Meeting space, food and drink graciously supplied by the Art Institute of Dallas.No charge this month.
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