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Backing up your WordPress website

Could you recover your WordPress website if it was lost due to a hardware failure, hacked, or corrupted during an update or plugin install? Having reliable automated backups can make the difference between taking 10 minutes to restore your site, and needing to do a complete site rebuild that may take a week or more. This presentation will look at the many options and plugins for backing up your WordPress site including backing up to Amazon S3.

Presented by Rick Radko of R-Cubed Design Forge.

Agenda

6:00 – General announcements

6:05 – Presentation(s)

7 ish – Questions

7:30 – Open help session “Happiness Bar” – get answers to your WordPress questions.

8:00 – Adjourn

Meeting Details:

LOCATION NOTE:

We have a private space downstairs. Enter the main doors, turn left, and down the stairs.

We’re working on a new downtown location for the regular monthly meetings of the meetup since we’ve outgrown the libraries.  As we have not settled on a new location yet, this meeting will at the James Street Pub.  We have a private space in the basement to keep the meeting separate from the regular bar patrons. (This will not be our regular location.)

No donations for this meeting!  If attendees buy enough food etc. from the pub it covers our tab.  (We normally ask for a $4 donation to help cover the cost of the room and our Meetup fees, which total about $450/year)

For this meeting we’re following up on the success of the Happiness Bar at last months WordCamp and we’ll be answering your WordPress questions – Happiness Bar style.

Come on out for an informal meet-up about anything WordPress.  Want to learn more about typography or creating posts?  Setting up a new WordPress site? Picking themes or plugins?  The best plugin to do ????  How about customizing themes or child themes?  Setting up multi-site or multilingual sites?  Just need some help with something you are stuck on?  Come to the Meetup and let us help you with it.

If you are a developer we hope you’ll join us too, and have fun sharing your knowledge helping our members.

Meeting Details:

LOCATION NOTE:

We have a private space downstairs. Enter the main doors, turn left, and down the stairs.

We’re working on a new downtown location for the regular monthly meetings of the meetup since we’ve outgrown the libraries.  As we have not settled on a new location yet, this meeting will at the James Street Pub.  We have a private space in the basement to keep the meeting separate from the regular bar patrons. (This will not be our regular location.)

No donations for this meeting!  (We normally ask for a $4 donation to help cover the cost of the room and our Meetup fees, which total about $450/year)

Agenda

6:00 – General announcements
6:05 – Open Q&A
7:30 – Mingle and Network

WordPress as a Tool, SEO as a Strategy

Are you looking to drive more traffic to your WordPress blog? Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one avenue that you absolutely need to include in your online strategy. This session will walk through what an SEO Strategy is and how you can leverage a vehicle like WordPress to attract new eyeballs on your content.

Presented by Jackson Lo. Jackson is the founder of SteerUp Marketing, an Inbound Marketing company located in Canada’s capital, Ottawa. He regularly consults with his clients on how to effectively leverage inbound marketing to drive more leads to their business. He’s a speaker and also an instructor for his Search Engine Optimiztaion (SEO) Workshops.

Meeting Details:

LOCATION NOTE:

We have a private space downstairs. Enter the main doors, turn left, and down the stairs.

We’re working on a new downtown location for the regular monthly meetings of the meetup since we’ve outgrown the libraries.  As we have not settled on a new location yet, this meeting will at the James Street Pub.  We have a private space in the basement to keep the meeting separate from the regular bar patrons.

No donations for this meeting!  (We normally ask for a $4 donation to help cover the cost of the room and our Meetup fees, which total about $450/year)

Agenda

6:00 – General announcements

6:05 – Presentation

7:15 – Q&A, Mingle and Network

A Journey in Marketing

A Journey in Marketing will be about how Ryan discovered a problem, found a solution to his problem, and marketed the solution. More specifically, he will talk about how he market’s his WordPress plugin. He’ll talk about how to target people with a specific need or problem through various online networks such as Google search, Adwords, YouTube and Twitter. He’ll share strategies, tips and techniques he used to bring awareness to his WordPress plugin. While Ryan is going to talk about marketing his WordPress plugin, his approaches and tactics can also be applied to most other products.

Presented by Ryan Parent of Vidrack. After taking economics at Carleton University Ryan realized that he wanted to start his own business. He had an interest in photography and decided to start a wedding photography company here in Ottawa. Soon after he discovered that he enjoyed marketing his photography just as much as actually being a photographer. Over the next few years Ryan learned all kinds of ways to market online and after speaking at a marketing meet up he was offered contract work with Marketing What’s New a local marketing agency. After discovering a problem gathering user generated videos he decided to create a WordPress plugin that could help him easily gather user generated videos. He is now working on his first tech startup, vidrack, completely built on WordPress.

Meeting Details:

LOCATION NOTE:

We have a private space downstairs. Enter the main doors, turn left, and down the stairs.

We’re working on a new downtown location for the regular monthly meetings of the meetup since we’ve outgrown the libraries.  As we have not settled on a new location yet, this meeting will at the James Street Pub.  We have a private space in the basement to keep the meeting separate from the regular bar patrons.

No donations for this meeting!  (We normally ask for a $4 donation to help cover the cost of the room and our Meetup fees, which total about $450/year)

Agenda

6:00 – General announcements

6:05 – Presentation

7:15 – Network

Google Analytics
Learn how to install Google Analytics on your WordPress site and gain valuable insight into where your visitors are coming from.  Learn where your visitors are getting stuck on your website as well as if you should prioritize Facebook, Twitter, Email or other Social networks by seeing where you get the most visitors and the most clients.

Stéphane Boisvert has been working with PHP and MySQL for over 10 years, he’s been using WordPress for 4 years and currently works for Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com as a VIP Wrangler.

Meeting Details:

LOCATION NOTE:

We have a private space downstairs. Enter the main doors, turn left, and down the stairs.

We’re working on a new downtown location for the regular monthly meetings of the meetup since we’ve outgrown the libraries.  As we have not settled on a new location yet, this meeting will at the James Street Pub.  We have a private space in the basement to keep the meeting separate from the regular bar patrons.

No donations for this meeting!  (We normally ask for a $4 donation to help cover the cost of the room and our Meetup fees, which total about $450/year)

Agenda

6:00 – General announcements

6:05 – Presentation

7:30 – Network