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  • Kathleen McDade 1:02 pm on July 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Hood River WordPress Meetup 

    We’ll be having our regular Portland meeting on August 19, but meanwhile, I wanted to let you know that Callie Carroll is hosting an informal WordPress meetup/unconference in Hood River this Sunday, August 1! Here’s the information from her email to our Google Group (I didn’t post her phone #/email, but you can contact her via Twitter or leave a comment here):

    For anyone interested in a short jaunt away from Portland this
    weekend, I am hosting a last-minute WordPress unconference/meeting/
    camp/chat, at 2pm on Sunday, at this location:

    Ground Coffee
    12 Oak Street
    Hood River, OR

    Hood River is family-friendly, and full of shopping and restaurants,
    so bring your non-WP-loving family and set them loose. Street parking
    is free on the weekends.

    Wifi is available, and coffee, beer, and sandwiches are sold on the
    premises at Ground. The shop can be very busy, so we will move to the
    semi-private office at the end of the hall if that’s more appropriate,
    and a sign will be posted to direct you. I don’t have a projector, but
    bring your laptop and a VNC client!

    RSVP to me privately via email, phone, SMS, or Tweet (@cusability), so
    I can get an idea of the size of the group, and plan on having enough
    chairs and tables.

    cbc

    –
    // Callie B. Carroll, MS-HCI //
    // User Experience Design //
    // http://www.cUsability.com //

     

  • Kathleen McDade 9:34 pm on July 13, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    July…what day is it? 

    I’m emerging from our family-wide summer break to remind you about our next meeting, and I can’t even remember what the date is! But the calendar says that this Thursday is July 15, and that it is indeed the third Thursday in July.

    Let’s talk content, shall we? We talked about SEO a little bit last month, with several people strongly asserting that good content is more important than any other SEO technique. Be prepared to tell us what you write about, or what you want to write about, and how you keep coming up with content on a regular basis. I always learn something new from someone else on this subject.

    See you on Thursday, 6:00 p.m. at Webtrends, 851 SW 6th Avenue, Suite 1600. RSVP on Upcoming.

     

  • Kathleen McDade 8:08 pm on June 14, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    June 17: Blogging Tools 

    Are you familiar with all of the tools built into WordPress? Know how to add a sidebar widget, create a poll, manage categories, and install plugins?

    Or maybe you want to add a Paypal button to your site, or a user ratings system?

    My bugaboo is Facebook integration. I tried to install a plugin, but it didn’t quite work for me.

    If you want to know more, have specific questions, or would like to share your knowledge with others, please come to our next meeting on Thursday, June 17, 6:00 p.m. at Webtrends (851 SW 6th Avenue, Suite 1600).

    RSVP on Upcoming

     

    • PK 2:10 pm on June 16, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Hi,

      I am new to Wordpress and blogging. Hoping to get started and to learn more at the meeting.

      Thanks for the opportunity.

      PK

  • Kathleen McDade 8:57 pm on May 17, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Meeting May 20 6:00p.m. 

    Yes, we are meeting this month! I know several of our regulars will be at the WebVisions conference, but if you’re not going to be there Thursday night, please come on over! It’ll just be a general networking and Q & A meeting, rather than being focused on a specific topic. If you have any WordPress questions, or if you’re looking for a WordPress developer, this would be a great time to come by.

    As usual, 6:00 p.m. at Webtrends, 851 SW 6th Avenue, Suite 1600.

     

  • Kathleen McDade 9:40 pm on April 27, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Win a Free Pass to Open Source Bridge 

    The folks in charge of the Open Source Bridge conference, which will be in Portland June 1-4, 2010, were kind enough to give us one free pass (a $300 value) for one lucky member of the Portland WordPress User Group.

    How do you enter to win? Easy. Just join our Google Group anytime between now and midnight on April 30, and you’ll receive one entry into the drawing. If you’re already a member, just post your favorite WordPress tip to the group, and you’re entered. ONE ENTRY PER PERSON. Winner will be chosen by a random drawing. Entry deadline is Friday, April 30 at midnight Pacific time, and we’ll announce the winner on Saturday, May 1.

    Open Source Bridge is a conference for developers working with open source technologies and for people interested in learning the open source way. Find out more at http://opensourcebridge.org.

    PS: Members can also register for Open Source Bridge at a special discounted rate. I’ll post the discount code on the Google Group.

     

  • Kathleen McDade 9:59 pm on April 5, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    April 15: Taxonomies Are a Wonderful Thing 

    At our April 15 meeting, Michael Fields will present “Taxonomies Are a Wonderful Thing.” He’ll tell us what taxonomies are, why we should use them, and how to set up and use your own custom taxonomies.

    You want to know what a taxonomy is NOW? Well, they’re sort of like tags and sort of like categories. Custom taxonomies allow you to set up alternate ways of categorizing posts, photos, etc. I grabbed this use case scenario from Justin Tadlock:

    Imagine you ran a website that reviewed books, movies, and music. When writing posts in WordPress, you want to label something as a book, yet you also want to further label it by genre or by author.

    Yeah. The rest of that post kind of confuses me. So I’m looking forward to seeing MIchael’s talk and demonstration.

    We’ll have time for networking, too. Come on down! We’ll be at Webtrends, 851 SW 6th Avenue, Suite 1600, 6:00 p.m. RSVP on Upcoming.

    Update 4/11 – Mike adds: “Please bear in mind that there will be absolutely no code to learn. All
    examples can be reproduced by a beginner with the aid of freely available,
    open-source plugins.”

     

  • Kathleen McDade 7:56 pm on March 9, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    March 18: Multisite features and more in WordPress 3.0 

    Join us March 18th at 6:00 p.m. as Aaron Jorbin demonstrates the new multisite, custom post type and menu management features coming in WordPress 3.0. This will be an opportunity to see some of the biggest changes to WordPress in quite some time. Some of the things Aaron will go through include:

    • What the multisite features mean to both users and developers
    • How to enable Multisite once you’ve upgraded
    • How to add and customize custom menus on your site
    • How to add a custom post type

    This talk will be aimed at both users and developers. Even if you don’t know a thing about coding, Aaron will show you the basics to help you understand these three changes. If a beta version of 3.0 is released before the meeting, we will work off of that. Otherwise Aaron will use the latest trunk version of WordPress. As this will be a development version, things can and will change before 3.0 is released, but this should give you an idea of what to expect. If you have any questions or suggestions on specifics that you would like to see covered, please comment on this post. See you on the 18th!

    http://aaron.jorb.in
    twitter: twitter.com/aaronjorbin

    ———
    As always, we’ll meet at Webtrends (851 SW 6th Avenue) from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
    RSVP on Upcoming.

     

  • Kathleen McDade 7:57 pm on February 11, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    If you missed Aaron Hockley’s talk on how to launch a new blog, you can find an outline at http://bit.ly/bloglaunch.

     

  • Kathleen McDade 7:41 pm on February 11, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    February 18: WordPress and Statistics 

    Join us Thursday, February 18 to talk about statistics: what programs can you use, what are the benefits and drawbacks of each, and what can they tell you that’s really useful?

    Chris O’Rourke will join us to talk about Mint. We’ll also look at the WP-Stats plugin, Google Analytics and Woopra. Do you use any of these, or something else entirely? Bring your expertise and/or your questions, and let’s talk!

    As always, 6:00 p.m. at Webtrends, 951 SW Sixth Avenue, Suite 600. You may need to have the security guard enter an elevator code if you arrive after 6:00. RSVP on Upcoming.

     

  • Betsy Richter 11:30 pm on January 12, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    PDXWP Site Backed by Network Redux! 

    I used the Network Redux-hosted gathering at Beer & Blog a few months ago to secure a free lifetime account for the Portland WordPress user group so I could move it off of my own paid hosting plan. While it took me a while to get the site actually migrated, we’ve been running smoothly here for a month or so now.

    When I made the announcement here, I threw in an offhand reference to the upcoming domain registration costs for the site as well, hoping to get some kind soul(s) to kick in for renewal costs. Frankly, I figured I’d just hit up the user group attendees in January, collect a few bucks, & call it good.

    Not so — instead, I received an unsolicited email a week or so ago from Network Redux’s CEO Thomas Brenneke in response to this earlier post: “We’d like to take care of your domain registrations for the two years. Can you tell me what domains you need registered/renewed and my team will get you squared away?” And they did.

    So, to Thomas, Damien & the rest of the Network Redux team — thank you on behalf of the whole PDXWP user group!

    (I can also unequivocably recommend Network Redux, as they’re now providing the hosting for OurPDX & a few other sites I manage. Yes, I’m now a paying customer of theirs & very happy with both the service & support.)

     

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