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Portland WordPress Meetup

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Portland, OR, US

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What we’re about

Love WordPress? Us too! We are based out of our long-time WordPress hub, Portland, Oregon, and have two different types of meetups each month:
* Presentations (date varies)
* HelpDesks (4th Monday 6 PM Pacific Standard Time).
The Presentation Meetups cover every WordPress topic imaginable, while the Help Desk Meetups are open to total beginners through seasoned developers – bring your questions and be ready to share your screen if you like. Everyone is welcome. Slack? Yup, we have Slack. Join the conversation in our [Slack group](https://wpportland.slack.com/join/shared_invite/enQtNDIwMDY4MTQzODYyLTI4ZTcyMzVjOWRhNjI0YTNmNDg2NGI1N2I3Yzc2ZGI1NDg3NjQ1N2ExMzlkZDIzNDQxM2FmY2E0NWQwZGQ3YzM#/shared-invite/email/expanded-email-form). WordPress Global Community Sponsors help fund WordPress Meetup groups and WordCamps worldwide. Thank you to WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack, Nexcess, Bluehost, and Weglot, for their support!
WordPress Global Community Sponsors help fund WordPress Meetup groups and WordCamps around the world. Thank you to WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack, Bluehost, and A2 Hosting for their support!

Sponsors

Bluehost makes building, growing, and managing WordPress websites easy!

Woo is the leading open-source ecommerce platform, built on WordPress.

Global hosting, community roots, built for what’s next

Safer, faster WordPress.

We're a hosted version of the open-source software

Build with WordPress, grow with Kinsta.

Digital Trends kindly provides our downtown venue.

Discounts on books and conferences.

Upcoming events

2

Tue, Jan 13 · 6:30 PM PST
Speeding Up Your WordPress Site with WordPress 6.9
Hostel Cafe, 1810 NW Glisan St, 97209, Portland, OR, US
In-Person MeetUp at the NW Portland Hostel, 479 NW 18th Ave, Portland, 97209.

The most recent release of WordPress includes many performance improvements to give visitors a better experience. We'll look at how the
changes result in a faster page load. We'll also look at how to evaluate themes and plugins for their performance impact. Lastly, we'll do some live
performance audits for attendees' sites to see how they might be made faster.

Speaker
Weston Ruter, a WordPress core committer for over a decade and currently employed at WP Engine, will lead the presentation. Check out his blog at Building a Better Web. There will be time for questions and help with issues on your own websites. Portland WordPress MeetUp coordinators, Angie Drake, Not Your Average American, and Mary Ann Aschenbrenner, Waterlink Web, will be available to help facilitate the meeting.

New Location
In addition to meeting space, the NW Portland Hostel, at 479 NW 18th, offers a cafe. Stop by for a bite or beverage and bring it into the meeting area. We will start with networking and then move to introductions.
8 attendees
Mon, Jan 26 · 6:00 PM PST
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[Online] WordPress Help Desk - 6 p.m. Mon. Jan 26, 2025 [every 4th Mon]
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A WordPress Happiness Bar

This is the place to come for learning and getting help over a hurdle. Be ready to share your question or help others with their questions. No question is too small.

This Meetup is intended for a wide range of users. Whether you're a brand-new WordPress novice or beginner, a creative designer, an experienced blogger, an SEO and analytics expert, or even an advanced developer...all are welcome. We're all here to learn and share in this volunteer-run WordPress community.

Are you working on a project - your own or a client's - and having challenges?

Do you have an idea for your WordPress site, and you don't even know where to begin to implement it?

Are you curious about what themes or plugins to choose from?

Are you wrestling with your page builder?

Do you need a better website host?

. . . This is the Meetup is for you!

If you don't need help, please join us anyway! There's always something to learn and perhaps you'll want to add your experience to the conversation.

The Meetup is 2 hours long and starts on time. Please join the meetup at the scheduled time (6PM Pacific) by going to the Zoom link provided when you RSVP. For added security, we're not going to display the link publicly so you'll need to RSVP to see it.
11 attendees

Past events

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