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 the goal of taking an actual HTML page and converting it into a WP theme. Certainly an exhausting topic that couldn’t be covered completely in one meet-up, however I believe we can show exactly how working HTML can be transformed into a basic theme. I believe these principals will not only help developers looking to explore working with WordPress for client work, but help users and hobbyists better understand how WordPress themes work. As usual, we will have time afterwords for questions and answers.
As for the topic of e-commerce, the very talented WordPress designer and developer Andrew Norcross has volunteered to discuss the basics of how he’s used WordPress plugins to extend functionality and provide e-commerce solutions right within a WordPress site. This will be for the December meeting. After the November meeting, we will have more on Andrew and his presentation.
In the meantime, RSVP for the meet-up and spread the word.
And remember, feel free to use the comments to ask questions, volunteer, offer suggestions. This meet up is all about the members.
Enjoyed the December meeting. Looking forward to hopefully working with some of you on a non-profit, as well as getting out to the next meeting.