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“Ask the Expert & 200 Member Celebration”

Join in the fun, we’re celebrating reaching 200 members!  Chat with topic experts on WordPress and related topics like infrastructure and SEO.  It’s your chance to direct the discussion to what ever YOU want to learn about WordPress.  Bring all your questions, beginner to expert, there will be 5 to 7 identified “Topic Experts” on hand to answer your questions one on one or in small groups. Of course you can discuss your questions with anyone else there too!  We’ll have some refreshments and snacks on hand to help you keep your voice in top speaking condition.

Topic Experts: (more may be added)

Dave Adams of DS Communications works on the admin, optimization, security and the required infrastructures for 15 WordPress sites. For example, one of my sites averaging 500 Visits and 1000 pages views a day. Talk to Dave about: WordPress + infrastructure.

Stéphane Boisvert is a Senior Digital Advisor for Bob Rae, Leader of the Liberal party. Stéphane is part of the team that runs the Liberal.ca network of sites. He has been working with WordPress since 2009 and with PHP and MySQL since 2002. Talk to Stéphane about: WordPress + multi-site, BuddyPress & optimizations.

Jackson Lo is an SEO Consultant specializing in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Local Search Optimization. Talk to Jackson about: WordPress + SEO.

Richard Martin is an online entrepreneur. He created and manages a site that provides health services to clients and continuing education training for health professionals. Before going online he did product marketing in Silicon Valley with several companies including Apple, Cisco and Broadcom. Richard now lives in Ottawa. Talk to Richard about: WordPress + how an effective blogging and video strategy can drive clients to your WordPress site.

Rick Radko of R-Cubed Design Forge, is a designer and developer specializing in custom web applications and multilingual WordPress sites. He is also a seasoned WordCamp presenter, and has published WordPress plugins. Talk to Rick about: WordPress + multilingual sites, multi-site, backups and site migration.

Jasmine Vesque is the Communications Marketing Manager for a group of five companies. She maintains their online presence through web design, development, and maintenance, and social media management. She also works as a freelance web and graphic designer. The only thing she loves more than building websites with WordPress, is sharing her knowledge with others. Jasmine recently shared her knowledge as a Ladies Learning Code mentor. Talk to Jasmine about: WordPress.

Meeting Details:

If you want to connect to WiFi, you will need your library card.

Free parking is available on the neighbouring streets after 5:30pm.  Check the signs, a couple of the closest streets are limited to 1hr before 7pm.

The classroom is downstairs. Enter the main doors, head left, and down the stairs.  (Do not enter into the actual library)  Turn right at the bottom of the stairs and follow the halls to the room.

We ask for a $4 donation to help cover the cost of the room and our Meetup fees, which total about $450/year  – Exact Change would be greatly appreciated!

Agenda

6:00 – General announcements

6:05 – Ask the expert and network!

8:00 – End

“How to WordPress: The basics” – Part 1 of 2

An introduction to creating your own website (or blog) using WordPress. At the end of this series you should have an understanding of how WordPress works and be able to create a basic site.

Each part will be 2 hours:

In part 1 (November 7th) we will: learn about what WordPress is and see who uses it, get acquainted with the WordPress dashboard, discover the WordPress settings panel, learn about the different content types and how to add content, including images and video.

In part 2 (January 9th) we will: add and manage menus and sidebar widgets, checkout more settings and learn how to adjust your site setup, create and manage users,  look at the resources available on wordpress.org, learn how to install and manage plugins.

Presented by Rick Radko a developer and designer with a passion for finding solutions to difficult design problems.

NOTE: LOCATION – Main Branch.

Meeting Details:

If you want to connect to WiFi, you will need your library card.

Free parking is available on the neighbouring streets after 5:30pm.  Check the signs, a couple of the closest streets are limited to 1hr before 7pm.

The classroom is downstairs. Enter the main doors, head left, and down the stairs.  (Do not enter into the actual library)  Turn right at the bottom of the stairs and follow the halls to the room.

We ask for a $4 donation to help cover the cost of the room and our Meetup fees, which total about $450/year  – Exact Change would be greatly appreciated!

Agenda

6:00 – General announcements

6:05 – Presentation

8:00 – Q&A, Mingle and Network

“Intro to WordPress Plugin Development”

NOTE: NEW LOCATION – Sunnyside Library!!!

This workshop is for anyone who may be interested in, or is curious about, creating their own plugin for WordPress, but does not necessarily have coding experience.

As we construct a simple plugin to add an awesome widget to your sidebars, we’ll summarize the resources needed to help you create plugins.  While you will definitely need to learn PHP, HTML and CSS to create plugins on your own, no coding ability is required for this workshop.  You only need to be able cut and paste text into a file you create on your web site.

To work along during the workshop you will need access to your hosting account or a local install of WordPress, but the workshop is also intended to be a tutorial that you can complete at a later time.

Meeting Details:

To connect to WiFi, you need your library card.

Some parking is available in the library lot, there is also parking on the streets west of Bank Street. (Almyer Av.)

The classroom is downstairs. Enter the main doors, head right, and down the stairs.  Turn left at the bottom of the stairs and follow the signs to the meeting rooms.

Cost: $4, Exact Change would be greatly appreciated!

Agenda

6:00 – General announcements

6:10 – Presentation

7:00 – Q&A