This month we have Matt Zak from WP Site Care presenting. In this presentation, we’ll cover the basics of using categories and tags to help users navigate your site, and how the default taxonomies can be leveraged for SEO.
Category: Meetup
March 25th — Mike Hansen — Getting Started with Google Analytics
We will be taking a tour of the GA dashboard and identifying some useful tools you may not know exist. There will be a short list of action items for everyone to take away. We will look into custom reporting and how to become more productive with your sites’ analytics.
February 25th — Juliette Reinders Folmer — The story of WPSEO and me
Or how a virtually unknown developer in the WP community became a lead developer of one of the world’s top 10 WordPress plugins.
How often do you find yourself frustrated by unanswered support requests about plugins or themes ? How often do you find yourself thinking “this plugin *nearly* does what I need, but not completely” ? And how often do you wonder why a bug which you fixed locally, still isn’t fixed in the #th official update of a plugin?
In this interactive talk I will take you on a journey through how I became involved with WordPress SEO by Yoast, what the effect has been on me personally and on my business, show you how git made it a lot easier to start contributing to (a lot of) plugins and themes, share some best practices, and tell you some anecdotes about the hurdles you might run into working in a virtual team and why white screens do happen.
January 28th — Chris Reynolds — CMB2: Electric Boogaloo
CMB2 is the new generation of a developer tool called Custom Metaboxes and Fields (CMB). CMB2 will help you create metaboxes and forms with custom fields that will blow your mind. Like this:
Chris will show you what CMB2 can do for you and how to use it so you never need to roll your own forms or metaboxes again.
Chris Reynolds is a WordPress developer for WebDevStudios and has been a freelance web designer and developer specializing in WordPress since 2007. He has submitted plugins and themes to WordPress.org and is the author of numerous WordPress-centric online training courses for Pluralsight. When he’s not writing code or making videos, he makes electronic music and cheers for Real Salt Lake.
This month’s meeting will be held at Mojo Themes
12159 S. Business Park Dr. Suite #160Draper, UT 84020
December 18th — Christmas Waffles
The UtahWP group is having a christmas party this year. We are going to go hold it at the Belgian Waffle House in Midvale. If you have never been there, the waffles are amazing. Help us celebrate this great year we had by joining us Thursday the 18th.
Food will be sponsored by Bluehost, but funds are limited. If you’re planning on going please RSVP to the meetup event, so we can get a head count. If the event is full and you’d still like to join us be aware that your food may not be covered.
Thanks everyone for the great year.