WordPress Canberra Meetup Group

WP CBR April Meetup!

April 10 · 6:00 PM
Hartley Life Care

Getting the dates in order for the year. The April meetup has been scheduled - and the organisational details will come!

Morgan Leetham will giving us a demo on how to Backup your WordPress Website using couple of different tools including:

Backup Buddy
WP DB Backup
Backup Creator

Lightning Talks

I'm going to attempt to explain the WordPress Loop - and why it is so important in theme development & customisation.

We are looking for others to do lightning talks for the evening - short 5 to 10 minutes presentations on a topic. It doesn't have to be WordPress specific, it could be around a challenge you've had building a website or using the interface that you overcame - we would love to hear about it.

Please email your topics to [masked] so we can arrange the schedule for the night.

Pizza's and nibblies, along with Tea & Coffee will be provided - all we need is your company to make the evening a success.

The Hartley Life Care facilities are awesome. The room costs us $80 a night, so if you if you could make a small donation on the night to offset the organizers costs, we would be most appreciative!

See you there!

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Dan Navin

Hi guys,

Great to finally make it to another one of these meetups.

A couple of links for things I mentioned that people might find useful:

1. Password tool - 1Password: https://agilebits.com/onepasswor...
2. WP Themes for sale - Themeforest: http://themeforest.net/category...
(They also have a sister site with Plugins for sale - http://codecanyon.net/category/...)
3. WordPress in action as a SaaS product - Happy Tables: http://www.happytables.com/

0 · April 11
- John Payne
  
  Thanks, Dan. Another good Password service is https://lastpass.com/
  
  0 · April 11
- Jason Conroy
  
  Thanks Guys - good reminders for the security talk/discussion from last month re: apps for handling passwords.
  
  0 · April 11
Chris Mundy

Here are some the suggestions for future talks:

* Managing lots of sites
* BuddyPress
* Supporting WordPress with other tools: password management, content editing tools, backup tools, domain name management, training tools, graphic tools
* Stuff you shouldn't do with Wordpress
* Theme Design Philosophy: Custom designed themes vs Theme Packages
* Looking for a theme
* Managing Images
* WordPress Configuration in Detail
* Capturing Business Requirements for your site
* Organising Menus
* Resolving Plugin Problems
* What to do when you inherit a WordPress site from someone else
* Choosing the right host
* Reducing the size of your installation

2 · April 10
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- Jason Conroy
  
  Thanks Chris - Any takers?
  
  0 · April 10
- Andrew Walker
  
  I think responsive design in Wordpress would be an excellent topic. Especially in this day and age. Id be happy to give a quick demo if I can get my laptop to play nice.
  
  2 · April 11
- Karen Mobbs
  
  I'd like the topic of responsive design too.
  
  1 · April 11
Jason Conroy

Hi All,

Peter (http://www.wpcanberra.com.au/me...) is looking for anyone with tips on how to add user generated content to his site e.g. "getting people to register, user forums, storing information next to a user profile e.g. when their subscription ends, pages limited to subscribers, etc."

Any takers for the meetup? Otherwise might be good for general discussion.

Cheers,
JC

0 · April 8
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- Andrew Walker
  
  This link may help if you are just after content for testinghttp://wpcandy.com/ma...
  
  1 · April 10
- Jason Conroy
  
  Good pointer Andrew - also the Automattic guys have some test content her http://codex.wordpres...
  
  0 · April 10
- Andrew Walker
  
  True. Nice one
  
  0 · April 11
John Payne

More thanks for tonight.

What a great and varied group!

I look forward to meeting more of you at coming Meetups. Looks as though Chris has guaranteed something to talk about all the way through mid-2014 ;-)

0 · April 11
Trevor Rowe

Thanks for tonight. I learned a few things and came away with some good tips and ideas.

1 · April 10
Alison

Sorry, unable to make it now (@#%&*). Hope you have a great time and hope to see you next.month.

0 · April 10
- Jason Conroy
  
  No problemos Alispn
  
  0 · April 10
Sean Ness

Apologies, I can't make this meeting tonight, something has come up last-minute.

0 · April 10
- Jason Conroy
  
  No problems Sean - hopefully see you next time
  
  0 · April 10
Kanna Das

Unable to join the meeting today. Need to pick up daughter after school event.

0 · April 10
- Jason Conroy
  
  No worries - hopefully see you next time
  
  0 · April 10
Lou Martiniello

David, I'm in the same boat as you, at the beginning of developing a website. Don't know about you but am mostly interested in creating pages, rather than a blog, at present.

0 · April 10
Charly Leetham

Hey guys! Looking forward to seeing you tonight. About to do the Name Tags - if you haven't already RSVP'd please do so.... so you get a cool name tag tonight.

See you there.

1 · April 10
David

I'm at the very early stage of developing my own personal site/blog. I'd love to go session that looked at 'best practice' and 'lessons learned' from those more experienced in WP. I've also had some experience in managing web development in another CMS, so I know the value of learning from others mistakes as much as successes. Any chance of doing this next?

0 · April 9
- Jason Conroy
  
  Thanks for the heads up David. There is also a lot of time for people to mingle and discuss their own experiences / help each other out - so even if the main talks aren't of interest you might get some value from the group as a whole / make connections etc. Maybe next time!
  
  0 · April 9
David

Too advanced for my needs at the moment.

0 · April 9
Jason Conroy

Also if you have any requests for pizza toppings/types hit me up with a reply to this thread I'll be putting in an order tomorrow night.

0 · April 8