Once we find the new venue, we will post details here on our website, as well as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MailChimp. If you are planning on attending WordPress Ann Arbor in February or in the future, make sure you check our site first, to confirm the venue and meeting information.

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Cheers, Declan and Ross.

P.S if you know someone who was planning on going tonight, do us a favor and let them know we’ve cancelled tonight’s meeting.

Event is at the Workantile Exchange at 118 South Main Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 on 1/25/2012 – 7:00pm – 9:00pm. Cost: Free!

Panelists:

• Ross Johnson of 3.7 DESIGNS – Blogging for business, fun and opportunities.
• JT Pedersen – Lessons learned from years of blogging.

If you have a question you want answered, post it to the event wall and we will consider including it for the structured portion of the event. Invite your friends.

For more details on version 3.3 see http://wordpress.org/news/2011/12/sonny/

Related Links:

Backup Buddy

VaultPress

WP- DB- Backup

Have Questions? Of Course You Do.

What is a Child Theme: A WordPress child theme is a theme that inherits the functionality of another theme, called the parent theme, and allows you to modify, or add to, the functionality of that parent theme.

Why do I need a child Theme? When there is an update to the core features in the parent theme, you can update the theme without affecting the customizations that you’ve made in the Child Theme.

How do I activate the Child Theme? WordPress Child Themes are located in /wp-content/themes/ just like any other WordPress Theme. And they’re also activated from the WordPress admin like any other theme.

Installing a new theme

I don’t use twenty eleven, can I still use your style theme? Yes, just open the “style.css” and update the following lines to suit your own installation.

Theme Name: Twenty Eleven Child Theme
Theme URI: http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/twentyeleven/
Description: Child theme for customizing Twenty Eleven.
Version: 1.0
Author: WordPress Ann Arbor
Author URI: http://wordpressannarbor.com/
Template: twentyeleven

@import url("../twentyeleven/style.css");

A quick explanation of each line:

• Theme Name: (required) Child theme name.
• Theme URI: (optional) Child theme webpage.
• Description:(optional) What this theme is. E.g.: My first child theme. Hurrah!
• Version: (optional) Child theme version. E.g.: 0.1, 1.0, etc.
• Author: (optional) Author name.
• Author URI: (optional) Author webpage.
• Template: (required) directory name of parent theme, case-sensitive.
• @ import url(“../twentyeleven/style.css”); Change twentyeleven to the directory name of parent theme, case-sensitive

This month we will have a panel of WordPress experts discussing WordPress, design, usability and e-mail marketing. Initial half of the discussion will include pre-selected questions the rest will be driven by you.

Take this opportunity to get advice specific to what you are struggling with and improve your website (and WordPress knowledge) for free!

Event is at the Workantile Exchange at 118 South Main Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104.

Panelists:

• Declan O’Neill of Cake.ie – WordPress essentials, MailChimp and e-mail marketing.
• Lyndsay Dusek of MeadowFete Media – Design and usability expert.
• Ross Johnson of 3.7 DESIGNS – Design and SEO expert.

If you have a question you want answered, post it to the event wall and we will consider including it for the structured portion of the event. Invite your friends.

WordCamp Detroit 2011 will be held at Detroit’s own Renaissance Center. The event will be on Saturday, November 12th and Sunday, November 13th, 2011.

http://2011.detroit.wordcamp.org/schedule/

http://2011.detroit.wordcamp.org/speakers/

WordCamp Detroit is an event in which we can bring together the community to share and experience the power of WordPress.  Organizing this event is just a small way for us to give back the community as a way to say thank you.  WordPress has effected all of us in many ways and by leading this event we can connect local WordPress users and developers as well as introduce new people to the amazingness we all know as WordPress.

WordPress A2 Meetup Format:

We have two presenters covering basic, intermediate and advanced WordPress topics. The session will last approx. 90 minutes, with 15 minutes of questions and answers. Networking before and after along with general Q&A and help requests.

Date: Oct 26, 2011
Time: 7pm – 9pm
Location: Workantile Exchange, 118 S Main Ann Arbor MI 48104

Oct 2011 Speakers:

• Introduction to WordCamp Detroit – Anthony Montalbano
• Getting you Ready for WordCamp Detroit - Anthony Montalbano, Ross Johnson, John Pratt, Declan O’Neill

Agenda and Timeline

• Workantile Member welcomes you our group the Workantile Exchange
• Introductions 7:00pm – 7:10pm
• House Keeping: 7:10pm – 7:15pm
• Speaker 1: 7:15pm – 7:45pm
• Speaker 2: 8:00pm – 8:45pm
• Open Discussion: 8:45 pm – 9:00pm
• Beers – 9:00pm

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Gravity Forms

Contact Forms for WordPress Just Don’t Get Any Easier than Gravity Forms. Quickly build and design your WordPress forms using the form editor. Select your fields, configure your options, and easily embed forms on your WordPress powered site using the built in tools. Gravity Forms requires a minimum of WordPress version 3.0, MySQL 5 and PHP 5 in order to function properly. Please note that Gravity Forms is not compatible with the WordPress.com hosted service. Gravity Forms costs $39.99 for a personal license.

http://www.gravityforms.com/

WP-Table Reloaded

WP-Table Reloaded enables you to create and manage tables in your WP’s admin area. No HTML knowledge is needed. A comfortable backend allows to easily edit table data. Tables can contain any type of data and additional JavaScript libraries can be used to extend it with features like sorting, pagination, filtering, and more. You can include the tables into your posts, on your pages or in text widgets by using a shortcode or a template tag function. Tables can be imported and exported from/to CSV, XML and HTML.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-table-reloaded/

WP-DB-Backup

WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/

Redirection

Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This is particularly useful if you are migrating pages from an old website, or are changing the directory of your WordPress installation.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/

Broken Link Checker

This plugin will check your posts, comments and other content for broken links and missing images, and notify you if any are found.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/broken-link-checker/

Search and Replace

A simple search for find strings in your database and replace the string. You can search in ID, post-content, GUID, titel, excerpt, meta-data, comments, comment-author, comment-e-mail, comment-url, tags/categories and categories-description. It is possible to replace the user-ID in all tables and the user-login for more security in the WordPress-Application

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-and-replace/

Widget Logic

This plugin gives every widget an extra control field called “Widget logic” that lets you control the pages that the widget will appear on.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/

Cart 66

The Cart66 WordPress ecommerce plugin makes it easier to make money online than ever before. Not only can you sell physical products, digital products, and services, Cart66 will also turn your WordPress site into a membership website allowing you to sell subscription access to your content.

http://cart66.com/
Free Version: http://cart66.com/lite/

Theme My Login

This plugin themes the WordPress login, registration and forgot password pages according to your current theme. It replaces the wp-login.php file by using a page template from your theme. Also includes a widget for sidebar login.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-my-login/

WordPress SEO Plugin

WordPress SEO is the most complete WordPress SEO plugin that exists today for WordPress.org users. It incorporates everything from a snippet preview and page analysis functionality that helps you optimize your pages content, images titles, meta descriptions and more to XML sitemaps, and loads of optimization options in between.

http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/

Woopra Analytics for WordPress

This plugin adds Woopra’s real-time analytics to any WordPress installation

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/woopra/

Akismet

Akismet filters out your comment and track-back spam for you, so you can focus on more important things.

http://akismet.com/