TampaBay WordPress

January Meeting

Jan 072011

For the 1st meeting of the year, I thought we’d try something a little different. I think we need a lot more member involvement to really get this group going, since as you can see from my dearth of blog posts you don’t want to be depending on me. To that end, this month instead of one person giving a presentation for an hour or so, I though we’d have multiple members volunteer to give one tip each on a subtopic within a general theme. The theme topic for January’s meeting will be WordPress performance.

We really need to get everyone participating, so if you haven’t presented anything yet, this means you should strongly consider stepping up. It’s not hard, we’re a very friendly audience, and a 10 minute talk is a great place to begin if you’ve never spoken to a group before. One benefit of this approach (dividing a topic into subunits) is that you don’t need to be an expert, you just need to present one idea that you use to make your site a little faster. If you don’t have one, you can look on the web and learn one, and then show it to us.

An example topic is the one I plan to present, namely, how to prepare images for use in a post/page. Easy/peasy.

If you’d like to present your tip, please leave a comment and claim your topic. There’s no need to give any detail; save that for the meeting. Unclaimed topics can be volunteered at the meeting, but it’s risky, since 2 or 3 of you might want to do the same one.

I hope you like this idea, and I look forward to seeing you all at CDB’s Southside on Wednesday January 12th at 7:00 PM.

December Meeting Wrapup

Jan 062011

December’s meeting was another great one. Andrew Norcross gave a comprehensive presentation on eCommerce in WordPress. He used the Shopp plugin as his example, but talked about other approaches as well. Using concrete examples he clearly explained how one would go about the entire process of creating an eCommerce site from the genesis of the idea to the final implementation of the live site.

Upcoming Meetups - November & December

Nov 032010

Color me guilty. I’ve been telling everyone that I would get a post up on the the TBWPUG blog about the upcoming meet-ups, but life has gotten a bit in the way. So now that I’ve gotten the Mea culpa out of the way, let’s get down to business. At the last meet-up we tried an experiment in which we were going to pair up experienced developers/users with those that wanted to learn more about a particular subject. Two major topics seemed to dominate the requests – HTML to WordPress theme and e-commerce. I volunteered to work with a couple of front end designers to put together a talk for November on the subject of HTML to WordPress theme, with [...]

WordCamp Tampa (Hopefully)

Nov 032010

If you are a WordPress developer or just a user and never attended a WordCamp, you are really missing out. It’s a full day (or some cases 2) of sessions on all things WordPress. Anytime like minded people are in one place, great things can happen, as well as great friendships forged. Central Florida was lucky enough to have WordCamp Orlando in December of 2009, however there has been no word of a follow up event. Enter Dan Denney. The man behind Front End Conference started whispers of wanting to help organize an event for the Tampa Bay area earlier this year. Finally, after some encouraging signs, he has gone public with his plans. But he needs the Tampa Bay [...]

October Meet Up - Sharing the Knowledge

Sep 142010

In our October meeting, we’re going to have several simultaneous break-out tutorial sessions, each led by a volunteer mentor. This will enable us to cover topics in depth, for people with specific interests in one of those areas, and enhance the sharing and exchange of information that our group, and WordPress itself, are all about.

September Meeting Recap

Sep 092010

September’s meeting was excellent. With a great presentation by Mark Jaquith on Custom post types, giveaways of 3 great WP Books, a Site Review, an extended Q&A session, a volunteer to lead a project to improve our theme (which needs it badly), and a wonderful idea for our next meeting, it was a heck of a meeting.

Mark Jaquith to Present at September Meeting

Aug 292010

We’re very lucky this month to have Mark Jaquith give a presentation on Custom Post Types. As one of the 5 Lead Developers of WordPress, Mark is one of the most knowledgeable people worldwide about WP, so if anyone can be called an expert, he can. In addition to his voluminous and steady contributions to the core product, Mark has 23 plugins in the WP plugin repository. He’s been a featured speaker at a number of WordCamp events, most recently at Savannah, GA where he spoke on July 13, 2010, about “Building Your First Plugin”. Custom Post Types are a new way in WordPress to have a type of post which has standardized extra features when compared to regular posts. [...]

What the Heck is a Gravatar?

Jul 222010

You have probably noticed as you’ve browsed the web, that in the comments section, many user’s names are accompanied by a little picture. It’s called an avatar, and it is a way to help personalize your persona on the web. I strongly recommend you to do this because people are primarily visual learners, and they will remember your avatar much longer than they will remember your comment.

Gravatar, an enhancement to avatar, is a way to use one avatar in many places, without having to set them all up separately.

Where Should We take TBWP and this Website?

Jul 082010

TampaBay WordPress should make some decisions, even if only temporarily, as to what we’d like to accomplish as an organization, and what we’d like to do with this site. This article puts forth a number of ideas and solicits member comments.

Poll: Desired Presentation Topics for Meetings?

Jun 272010

At our first meeting, a suggestion was made to put up a poll to get member feedback on topic ideas for meetings. Well, here is that suggestion brought to life. There’s one poll for topic ideas for major presentations, and a second for topic ideas for short presentations.

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