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Helped with signup link and menu management. Helped with WooCommerce theme. Added custom css to the Buy Now button on certain pages, also to move the image labels. Discussed WPBakery page builder technology. Tineye.com can see if a photo is in used on the web Discussed starting a business with writing/blogging. Google extension: keywords everywhere…

Ron wants to only show certain content to certain roles. We found this link: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/5047/how-to-check-if-a-user-is-in-a-specific-role Also, Andy mentioned the Members plugin  

10 attended Intros Andy showed us how to use Slack We talked some #wcbuf We looked at Joyce’s site, (TrailChaiser2020) and explained how to add/remove widgets, use the customizer, and generally how to customize a WordPress.com hosted site. We looked for a theme that could handle Anne’s requirements for her site. We looked at Chuck’s…

http://kb.mailchimp.com/lists/signup-forms/add-a-signup-form-to-your-website https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/eventbrite-api/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/ https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/

Talked about backup plugins. Good list here: http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/7-best-wordpress-backup-plugins-compared-pros-and-cons/ Images Media files: 4.4 uses responsive images Imsanity EWWW Image Optimizer https://developers.google.com/speed/webp Ron had a problem that seems to  be addressed here: http://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/repeater-field-with-image-type-wont-update-if-image-too-small/ SEO https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo Yoast https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=rand+fishkin&tbm=vid https://duckduckgo.com/      

7 in attendance. housekeeping: WP moving toward javascript. briefly talked about new venue. Andy talked about flexbox. You can learn a lot at flexboxfroggy.com and flexbox.io We demo’d  on codepen.io: http://codepen.io/empireoflight/pen/QyNpaY max mega menu and uber menu are good menu options for complex menus

We did some workflow showing off. Then we looked at Randy’s site, http://rooducts.com We had the idea to redesign his site as part of the meetups over the next several months. Stay tuned for a schedule!

Targeting April/May 2016 for next #WCBUF Pat wants to learn how to customize her WP Blog. We showed her how to make a sticky post. Ivory wants to back up his site. We tried the duplicator plugin, but it failed because he has huge mp3 files on his site, and his hosting provider doesn’t give…

Discussed Automattic.com acquiring woocommerce. Scott demo’d a woocomerce site he’s building. Demo’d Gravity Forms/Woocommerce integration. Anne asked if we could ask questions somewhere-either here or meetup.com. We should discuss/integrate a discussion board maybe. Scott’s code for making custom shortcodes that show the last modified date: // ============================================== // SHORTCODE FOR LAST MODIFIED // ============================================== function…