AWP March Meetup sponsored by Trestian

NOTE: If you get locked out of Wednesday's meetup, call 781-767-7434.

This event will be broadcast live at: http://www.trestian.com/awp

Trestian is excited to be sponsoring this month's Advanced WordPress Meetup at Co-Merege Workplace downtown. The event kicks off at 6pm and there will be plenty of pizza and refreshments. You can learn more about Trestian's services by visiting www.trestian.com.

MARCH AWP MEETUP SCHEDULE

6:00pm - 6:15pm - Networking

Meet and greet. Grab a slice of pizza and get to know your fellow AWPers while late comers look for parking :-)

6:15pm - 6:30pm - Introductions

We'll kick off the event by going around the room and introducing ourselves including a brief description of our background and what brought us to AWP. We'll also pass around a sign up sheet where those who would like to talk can pick a slot for the Round Table Forum.

6:30pm - 6:45pm - Yaron Guez: Building an order tracking plugin bundled with Gravity Forms and Advanced Custom Fields

Yaron Guez will describe a custom plugin he recently wrote that used TGM Plugin Activation to bundle Gravity Forms, Advanced Custom Fields and several ACF Add Ons to provide a custom tailored order tracking application while adhering to best practices for plugin authoring.

6:45pm - 7:00pm - Devin Walker - Custom Functionality Plugin and CMB Wizard Devin Walker of WordImpress will explain why you should be using a custom functionality plugin and a good started plugin he started that's available on GitHub. As well, he will display an advanced usage of Custom Metaboxes and Fields in where he creates a walk-through interface.

7:00pm - 7:15pm - Matt Cromwell - Image Optimization with Embed Services

Matt Cromwell of mattcromwell.com will revisit image optimization in light of image services such as Getty Embeds and another one that inserts Flickr Photos using credits.

7:15pm - 8:45pm - Round Table Forum

We'll divide the hour and a half into slots based on the number of people who sign up to talk. Participants can talk about anything and everything WordPress related. Please respect the current speaker but feel free to comment or ask questions.

8:45pm - 9:00pm - Closing Remarks and Networking

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We are excited to have a different company help out each month with sponsoring and logistics for Advanced WordPress and look forward to growing out the local San Diego WordPress community more and more each year!