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… Continue reading 6-4 meetup notes
5-21-15 notes
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… Continue reading 5-21-15 notes
Notes from 05-07-2015
This month for our users and bloggers meetup we have Connie Oswald Stofko from Buffalo-Niagara Gardening presenting on how to use images legally for the web, as well as a general Q&A. Below are the notes from Connie’s Presentation: How to Use Photos Without Getting into Trouble Notes for talk by Connie Oswald Stofko Buffalo WordPress… Continue reading Notes from 05-07-2015
April developers meetup notes
Connie is trying to make her site mobile-friendly. Trying to back-up, but can’t figure out how to back up site. Andy installed Jetpack and it now switches to a mobile-friendly version. Google now views her site as mobile friendly. We built starter-theme version 2 with more code! We started with starter-theme version 1. Andy will put it on bitbucket… Continue reading April developers meetup notes
WordPress developers 101
starter-theme
Ideas for WP101
Next month: Witness the birth of a WordPress website. Ron will demo buying a domain name on GoDaddy and install WordPress on it. Andy will demo admin panel. Posts, pages.
Notes from 2-19-2015
People are looking for help with purchased themes. It’s too cold out. The join our mailing list form is up. Chip in with some $ on the meetup page.
Notes from 1-15-15
Bob started us off with best practices questions about User Accounts. 1. Is it better to use a user name or email address for accounts? The answer was that it doesn’t really matter and depends on your organizations approach to user accounts. A suggestion was made for generic user names based on positions (webmaster, sales,… Continue reading Notes from 1-15-15
Meeting Notes 12-18-2014
To start the meetup, we took a look at the SoakSoak Vulnerability, and the Slider plugin that was to blame for it. We talked about keeping your site up-to-date, knowing what plugins or built-in functions that a theme you’re using has, and some general security suggestions. Sucuri Security is a plugin that we agree is… Continue reading Meeting Notes 12-18-2014
Meeting notes from 11/6/2014
Looked at gravity forms, demo’d making a form and putting it on a site (wpbuffalo.com). Many people are interested in CRM integration, and Gravity forms makes this easier. A thorough presentation on this would be a good draw for more attendees. resizeyourimage.com for batch resizing multiple images is a good resource. irfam is also good… Continue reading Meeting notes from 11/6/2014