November 2011 WordPress Ann Arbor Meetup

by Declan O'Neill on November 21, 2011 in Events with No comments
November 30, 2011
7:00 pmto9:00 pm

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, November 12th & 13th, 2011

by Declan O'Neill on October 27, 2011 in Events with No comments
WordCamp Detroit
November 12, 2011
November 13, 2011

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.

Oct 2011 WordPress A2 Meetup

by Declan O'Neill on September 29, 2011 in Events, meetups with 1 Comment
meetup-header
October 26, 2011
7:00 pmto9:00 pm

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

Sign up for Newsletter Alerts: http://eepurl.com/brqaj

Really Useful WordPress Plugins – Sept 2011 Session.

by Declan O'Neill on September 29, 2011 in Previous Meetings with No comments
useful-plugins

The following is a list Free and Paid WordPress plugins that Declan recommended for use on your WordPress website. They are part of a session he gave at WordPress Ann Arbor. If you have any other suggestions you think should be added to the list, please feel free to leave your recommendations in the comments below.

Gravity Forms

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
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 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

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

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

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

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

cart66

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

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 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

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

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

Akismet

akismet

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

http://akismet.com/

Sept 2011 WordPress A2 Meetup

by Declan O'Neill on September 14, 2011 in Events, meetups with No comments
September 28, 2011
7:00 pmto9:00 pm

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: Sept 28, 2011
Time: 7pm – 9pm
Location: Workantile Exchange, 118 S Main Ann Arbor MI 48104

Sept 2011 Speakers:

  • Declan O’Neill – Topic: Really UseFul WordPress Plugins.
  • AJ Morris – Get a sneak peak at the next generation of Headway Themes Drag & Drop WordPress Theme and how it’s going to change the WordPress theme arena. We’ll explore the new grid system, loosely based off of 960.gs, see the Visual Editor in action, and see Headway Themes’ take on a truly drag and drop WordPress theme.

Declan is the Founder of Cake.ie, a small Web Design company specializing in WordPress and MailChimp.

AJ is the Founder of SurfCubes, a small consulting firm specializing in WordPress.

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

WordCamp Detroit 2011

by Declan O'Neill on August 20, 2011 in WordPress News and Updates with No comments

WordCamp Detroit is now official, under the rules & regulations of the WordPress Foundation! Check out the official URL:

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

Date: Nov 12 – 13, 2011
Location: Renaissance Center in Detroit, MI

Tickets

Early bird ticket sales begin August 1st, 2011. Early bird tickets will be $35 for the first 75 attendees! Regular ticket sales will be available shortly after.

Sponsors

If WordPress has affected you personally or professionally, show WordCamp Detroit your support with a sponsorship package! You can view are available packages here: http://2011.detroit.wordcamp.org/sponsors/

Speakers

WordCamp Detroit are now accepting speaker proposals. You can submit your presentation proposal for consideration.

MailChimp Social Plugin

by Declan O'Neill on August 13, 2011 in WordPress News and Updates with 2 Comments

Broadcast posts to Twitter and/or Facebook, pull in items from each as comments, and allow commenters to use their Twitter/Facebook identities.

http://blog.mailchimp.com/introducing-social-a-wordpress-plugin/

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

August 2011 WordPress A2 Meetup

by Declan O'Neill on August 7, 2011 in meetups with No comments

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: Aug 31, 2011
Time: 7pm – 9pm
Location: Workantile Exchange, 118 S Main Ann Arbor MI 48104

Aug 2011 Speakers:

  • Ross Johnson & Declan O’Neill – Stepping into the WordPress Dashboard.

Ross and Declan will be talking about the WordPress dashboard area, by explaining each of the admin panels.

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 – 8:15pm
  • Open Discussion: 8:15 pm – 9:00pm
  • Beers – 9:00pm

Manually Upgrade WordPress Manual (via WPMU.org)

by Declan O'Neill on July 8, 2011 in WordPress News and Updates with No comments

Siobhan from WPMU.org  put together a short manual that you can download and send to your clients, that will walk them through the process of manually upgrading WordPress.

Download the Upgrade WordPress Whitelabel Manual.

Introduction to WordPress Child Themes

by Declan O'Neill on June 30, 2011 in Previous Meetings with 1 Comment
Introduction to WordPress Child Themes

Introduction to WordPress Child Themes – Presentation Transcript

Introduction to WordPress Child Themes Level: Beginner”

What is a Child Theme – 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. – Source: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

Why use a Child Theme? – Child themes are the recommended way of making modifications to a theme.

Child Theme File Structure? –

WordPress Child Themes are located in /wp-content/themes/like any other WordPress Theme.

They’re activated from the WordPress admin like any other theme.

Child Themes always have a style.css file and may often include a functions.php file.

style.css is the only file required for a child theme.

The Child Theme CSS File
/*Theme Name: Twenty Ten 1.2 Child Theme URI: http://wordpressannarbor.com/Description: Child theme for the Twenty Ten by WordPress Author: Declan ONeill. Author URI: http://wordpressannarbor.com/. Template: twentyten. Version: 1.0*/

Theme Name: Twenty Ten 1.2 Child Theme [Required]

Theme URI: Webpage [Optional]

Description: Child theme for the Twenty Ten by WordPress [Optional]

Author URI: Author Webpage. [Optional]

Author: Author name. [Optional]

Template: Directory name of parent theme. Case-sensitive. [Required]

Thank You! Questions? Declan O’Neill / www.cake.ie

← Older Entries
Newer Entries →