Informal Coffee - 8:30am on Hertel Ave in Buffalo

We're meeting on Hertel Ave at The Bean on Hertel (https://www.beanonhertel.com/) Thursday July 3 at 8:30 am and we can chat all things WordPress ...or not, as we see fit. This is an informal gathering to get to know one another and talk shop.

There were six of us at WP Buffalo’s Meetup June 20 at Peggy’s Coffee Shop, including Freed, Becky, Sandi, Josh, Bill, and Charles.

• Sandi is launching her site today!!! Josh & Becky went over appearance, accessibility, and performance with her during breakfast
• SEO Plugins – taking their editing advice while maintaining readability
• Using Rank Math for multiple sites
• SEO Plugins keeping up with AI
• Whether to use AI to write code
• Josh has a great technique wherein he asks AI to ask him what it doesn’t understand about his query
• Using Elementor’s new AI wire framing
• Josh is using AI in his directory website to create a meta image from the post name and background image
• DreamHost, Kinsta, SiteGround, Bluehost
• How to optimize images before or after loading into the site. Sandi uncovered a great formula for eliminating
• Using Lighthouse to tweak a site’s SEO scores
• Setting Elementor image size to eliminate Lighthouse layout shift issues – Sandi has uncovered a great technique for this!
• Freed’s love for her part-time work at REI and her ridiculously silly spoof, I have to fill your DMs with these memes
• How many coffee shops have sprung up in WNY
• What kind of coffee do you get for home?
• Elizabeth Gilbert’s book, Big Magic, and being able to eat the shit sandwich of a job. Read it – it’s really good.

I schedule these events at different venues around WNY so everyone can join if they want (and don't want to drive half an hour first thing on a Thursday). If there's another neighborhood or coffee house you'd like me to plan for, put it in the chat. I'm always up for finding new local coffee places.