Michele Butcher-Jones - The Importance of Maintenance

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ABOUT THE PRESENTATION
If you build it, they will come but if you do not maintain it, they will not for long. In this session, Michele Butcher-Jones will discuss why maintenance and security are important to your site and ways to make dealing with site updates not so painful.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Michele Butcher-Jones is a lover of all things Open Source, a WordPress Core Contributor, an international speaker, and an avid campaigner to leave the world in a better place. She has spent over a decade helping others with their online presence including site building, maintaining, hosting, and security. Michele spends her working time between agency support and higher education. She also runs her own WordPress shop at 13Core and is the Head Geek at Can't Speak Geek.

Her passion for making the web a better place doesn't stop there! She gives back to the community as a Meetup Organizer for St Louis and the Lead Organizer for the Southern Illinois WordPress Meetup. Michele is typically up for any type of contributing to the WordPress Community often as a speaker, volunteer, answering questions in the forums, and teaching WordPress to beginners.

Now that she is an empty nester, Michele is spending her time as a photographer, traveler, and collector of jewelry. She is currently working on her first book set to be completed in 2023 and is always down for an adventure, especially if it involves great food or drinks.

ATTENDING THE MEETUP
This event will be ONLINE ONLY at

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/93923621044?pwd=QVRSWGgySmRQdk44M1NFUVQxSjJtUT09

It will be broadcast at 6:00 pm EDT on Thursday, November 17th as a live Zoom online meeting.

Participants are asked to mute their audio when the presentation begins. Please hold all questions until the end. After the presentation concludes, the presenter, organizers, and members of the meetup will be discussing the presentation, answer questions, and socialize in video conference mode.

This presentation will be recorded! We will post it to our YouTube channel, but without the interactive Q&A at the end.

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