Category: Meetup

The Presentation

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.

Benjamin Beck

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.

This month’s meeting will be held at Mojo Themes

12159 S. Business Park Dr. Suite #160
Draper, UT 84020

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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.

Bryan Petty

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.

This month’s meeting will be held at Mojo Themes

12159 S. Business Park Dr. Suite #160
Draper, UT 84020

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PHP developers sometimes prefer to write their own CMS because they feel limited by existing content management offerings. But why reinvent the wheel?  We’ll show how developers can add their custom code while letting WordPress take care of the rest.

What we will go over

• Adding PHP to a theme
• Adding PHP via plugin

What you will learn

• Viable ways to add custom code to WordPress
• Whether to code a plugin or a theme
• Where to find more information

This month’s meeting will be held at Mojo Themes

12159 S. Business Park Dr. Suite #160
Draper, UT 84020

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This month’s meetup will be held on Wednesday at 7pm @ Mojo Themes

In June, we covered many of the ways anyone can contribute back to WordPress without being a programmer including documentation, translations, beta testing, and support. This month, we’re going to dig into the code, and cover the best and fastest ways to report bugs within WordPress, and to contribute new code improvements.

In this presentation, we will cover:

• Checking out WordPress from SVN and generating patches
• Using Trac, the WordPress issue tracker
• WordPress Coding Standards
• Effective team communication (getting your patch the attention it deserves)
• Contributing code beyond basic bug fixes and small improvements

New This Month

We’re trying to make the meet up more accessible to beginners as well as more advanced users of WordPress so this month we will hold a short Q/A session for beginners at the first of the meeting, and in the following months we will hopefully have beginning presentations in the following months so please suggest topics you’d like to learn about.

This month’s meeting will be held at Mojo Themes

12159 S. Business Park Dr. Suite #160
Draper, UT 84020

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This month’s meetup will be held on Wednesday at 7pm @ Mojo Themes

A presentation on theme types( frameworks, starter, child, etc ), theme structure, and testing themes. We will go into some detail about how to use child themes and how to prepare a theme to be used as a parent theme.  How to create additional page templates. We will also go over what make themes successful in a marketplace (some insight from MOJO).

What we will go over

• Theme types
• Theme structure
• Testing Themes
• Theme Hook Alliance

What you will learn

• How to build child themes
• How to prepare a theme to be used as a parent theme
• Some handy plugins for testing
• Tips to go to a marketplace

This month’s meeting will be held at Mojo Themes

12159 S. Business Park Dr. Suite #160
Draper, UT 84020

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