Minneapolis-St Paul Wordpress User Group

Next Meeting

Meeting #18 (September 2011)

• Is SEO Dead? with Dave Allen
• WordCamp MSP 2011
• Favorite Plugins Roundtable

Past Topics

Meeting #18 (September 2011)

• Is SEO Dead? with Dave Allen
• WordCamp MSP 2011
• Favorite Plugins Roundtable

Meeting #17 (August 2011)

• State of the Word (Matt Mullenweg’s Annual Address)

Meeting #16 (July 2011)

• Gravity Forms

Meeting #15 (June 22, 2011)

• WordPress Security Roundtable (group discussion)
• Security Tech Shop

Meeting #14 (May ??, 2011)

• Show and Tell
• Moving WordPress (David Ellenwood)

Meeting #13 (April 28, 2011)

• CiviCRM (Justin Foell)
• Performance Optimization (John Havlik)

Meeting #12 (March 24, 2011)

• Tech Shop!

Meeting #11 (February 24, 2011)

• Design a theme
• Develop the aforedesigned theme
• Make the group’s plugin directory awesome
• Make the group’s theme directory awesome
• Build functionality that gives job recruiters a place to post their openings
• Build functionality that gives job seekers a place to post their credentials
• Build a member directory
• RSVP System for MSP WordPress gatherings

 

Meeting #10 (January 27, 2011)

• Email list ettiquette discussion
• Nerdery Overnight Website Challenge discussion
• MSP WordPress logo voting
• SESSION 1: Getting Started with Theme Frameworks – Genesis (Toby Cryns and Josh Leutze) | Suitable for Intermediate skill level
• SESSION 2: How to submit a patch to the WordPress core (John Havlik) | Suitable for Intermediate & Advanced skill levels
• SESSION 1: Post Taxonomies Explained (TBD) | Suitable for Intermediate & Advanced skill levels
• SESSION 2: Podcasting for Beginners (TBD) | Suitable for Beginner skill level

November 2010 – WordCamp MSP

Meeting #9 (October 28, 2010)

• Web Fonts with WordPress & Kernest (Garrick Van Buren) | Suitable for Intermediate, Advanced skill levels
• WordPress 3.0 (and 3.1) (Mitchell Hislop) | Suitable for All skill levels
• CSS using the built-in WordPress file editor (Toby Cryns) | Suitable for Beginners
• Using Custom Post Types / Meteor Slides (Josh Leuze) | Suitable for Intermediate, Advanced skill levels

Meeting #8 (September ??, 2010)

• Running WordPress Locally on Your Computer (Josh Leuze, Mitch Hislop)

Meeting #7 (July 22, 2010)

• BuddyPress Basics (Toby Cryns)
• Moving WordPress to a new domain/server (Ray Champagne)
• Intro to WordPress Q&A (Mitchell Hislop)

Meeting #6 (May 27, 2010)

• SVN for Beginners (Ray Champagne)
• “Hello World!” – Creating a basic WordPress plugin (Carl Bliss)

Meeting #5 (March 25, 2010)

• MSPWordpress.com Planning Session (Mykl Roventine)
• Converting a Photoshop PSD into a WordPress template. (Josh Leuze)
• Using Custom Fields in your theme (Ray Champagne)

Meeting #4 (Feb 4, 2010)

• CSS for Beginners (Daniel J. Post)
• How we manipulated WordPress to create a great user experience (Ray Champagne)
• MSP WordPress Team Meeting to prepare for Overnight Website Challenge (Tim Elliot)
• HTML 101 (Tony Thomas)
• WordPress 3.0 New Features (Mitchell Hislop)

Meeting #3 (Dec. 3, 2009)

• Super Basic “I know nothing about WordPress” Beginners’ Q&A (Gillian)
• “I know a little bit about WordPress” Beginners’ Q&A (i.e. How do I install email forms?, How do I change the website title?, etc.) (TBD)
• Blogging with WordPress (Mitch Hislop)
• MSPWordpress.com Website Discussion (Toby and Gillian)

Meeting #2 (Oct. 1, 2009)

• 25 Reasons to help you sell WordPress to your client (Adria Richards)
• Using WordPress as a CMS for Flash or Flex (Judah Frangipane)
• My favorite plugins for using WordPress as a CMS (Gillian Reynolds)
• WordPress freelancer’s discussion (Toby Cryns)

Meeting #1 (July 30, 2009)

• Wordcamp Twin Cities Organizing (Jay Myers)
• Convert your rocking HTML Design into a rocking WordPress Templates: a.k.a. Using WordPress Hooks (Toby Cryns)
• WordPress Overview for Beginners (Gillian Reynolds)
• WordPress as a CMS (Tim Elliott)
• Social Publishing & Lifestreaming with WordPress (Steve Borsch)
• ???? (Matt Albiniak) – Matt, What was your topic at the first meeting?

Session Ideas

Is there something WordPress-related that you want to learn more about?  Do you want to lead a session at a future meeting?  If the answer to either of those questions is “Yes”, add your topic idea and/or name below:

• Hooks and Filters: Building your first WordPress Plugin (Toby Cryns)
• Custom Fields and your theme (Ray Champagne)
• Building WordPress Plugins (Add your name here)
• My Favorite WordPress Plugins for ________ (suggest topics below)
  • Blogging (Add your name here)
  • Turning WP into a Social Site (Add your name here)
  • Images (Adria Richards)
  • Navigation: Ordering and sorting your WordPress content (Adria Richards)
• Custom Fields (Daniel J. Post)
• bbPress for Beginners OR Theming bbPress (Add your name here)
• BuddyPress (Dave Buchanan)
• Upgrading WordPress (Adria Richards)
• Securing your WordPress install (Adria Richards)
• Adding eCommerce to a WordPress Site (Tim Elliott)
• “Building our site”  (Mitchell Hislop)
• Pros/Cons of WordPress hosting (WordPress or external) and costs (Add your name here)
• Turning your Photoshop design into a WordPress template (Lindsi Gish – I don’t want to present, but I’d like to see how someone else goes about this in a step-by-step format) (Steph Tanner- also interested in learning this)
• Using your website as your social hub (Mitch Hislop)
• When WP should and should not be presented to your clients (Andrew Wachholz)
• Making Your WordPress Site Mobile-Friendly (Tim Elliott)
• Exploring the new Mobile WP Themes and/or developing mobile friendly WP themes – popularity, helpfulness, usability
• Using and customizing the “Thesis” theme (anyone using this? I’m a newbie, so couldn’t lead this…yet. – Ben Wallace)
• Training Clients on WordPress (Adria Richards)
• Turning your  PHP applications into WordPress Plugins
• Performance tuning your WordPress site
• How to combine CSS into one file
• How to make CSS sprites
• HTML Forms in WordPress/Beyond Form Plugins
• WordPress for Beginners – Dashboard,Your Profile, Your First Post, Adding Widgets and Plugins (Adria Richards)
• Using a single WordPressMU install to manage several domains. (Aaron Hall)
• Contributing to wordpress, best practices for version control, submitting a patch.
• Geo-Tagging