I wasn’t able to find a speaker for this month, so we’ll try something that UPHPU has done before. A show and tell meeting with Q & A mixed in. If you have a cool/handy trick you’d like to share or a question you need answered bring it on down.
This month I’ll be presenting on some simple things you can do to keep your sites secure. We’ll also have a beginner Q&A session at the beginning of the meeting.
In this presentation we will go through every stage of having a theme on WordPress.org from first days to deprecations.
With Google updates happening regularly and hearing about popular websites like RapGenius.com being “banned” or “de-indexed”. People often ask “what should I do?”.
In this presentation Ben will be going over the basics of optimizing a WordPress site for search engines along with several Google-friendly tips to help you gain rankings & customers without spending a lot of time or money.
Ben is an online marketer who helps small businesses and start-ups succeed online. He likes WordPress because it is a quality and flexible platform that allows people to start & grow their website easily. You can learn more about online marketing on his blog or feel free to ask him questions on Twitter.
Notice: January’s meeting will be highly technical, so we will begin the meeting with a Q and A session for non technical members.
With such a wide matrix of WordPress versions, browsers, and plugin combinations out there, it can be a daunting task releasing your own plugin with highly forgiving compatibility requirements. In this presentation, I will demonstrate how you can write your plugins to support more users than you thought possible using automated unit tests while feeling confident that your new plugin changes didn’t break your other features or even WordPress itself.
This presentation will be highly technical, and require some previous experience writing WordPress plugins. We will make use of the new WordPress unit testing framework, and PHPUnit.
As part of the Open Source Outreach team at Bluehost, Bryan is a developer that works full-time on WordPress core, contributing patches, and providing support to the WordPress community. He is very passionate about open source software, has mentored students in the Google Summer of Code program 4 years in a row, and is also an official developer on the wxWidgets open source project.