The Oklahoma City WordPress Meetup group has been around since 2009. It was originally started by David North, tech enthusiast and geek. I started helping him with the group in late 2010 since I observed he was a busy guy with a heavy travel schedule and asked if I could help out. Since then, I’ve been arranging for speakers and sending out the monthly announcements. […]
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This was my second trip to Fayetteville, Arkansas for a WordCamp, (hashtag #wcfay) I was there in 2011. If you wish, you can read that review here. Thanks so much for the hours donated by the organizers and volunteers. You all are much appreciated. The Venue Once again, we were at the Donald Reynolds Center on the University of Arkansas campus. This year the maps
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I ‘discovered’ Dustin Hartzler on iTunes earlier this year while I was looking for a WordPress podcast that kept to topic and didn’t waste my time with a lot of chatter. I won’t mention the names of the podcasts I had to delete because of too little content, but I can highly recommend Dustin’s Your Website Engineer podcast if you want to learn about WordPress
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Fayetteville, AR held their second WordCamp July 30-31, Twitter hashtag #wcfay, and @wcfay I hadn’t been to one since Dallas in 2009, so I had been looking for one close to the OKC area to attend and this one fit the bill. It was one I could do without an overnight. I was especially excited to see Jane Wells on the program. She works with
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Using BackupBuddy from iThemes to backup my site is a lot like using Carbonite to back up my hard drive. Once my settings are in place, I know I’m protected and can easily recover everything. BackupBuddy is a premium WordPress Plugin that backs up your website or blog– not just your posts, but your theme, widgets, plugins and SQL database. This is superior to any
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If you’ve used WordPress, you’ve probably heard of Lisa Sabin-Wilson, WordPress rock star and author of the popular WordPress for Dummies (the 3rd edition is coming out in June). She also wrote BuddyPress for Dummies, a book about delving into the social side of WordPress by creating your own on-line community from within WordPress. This book came out just this month (April, 2010). Lisa was
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Last Friday and Saturday (April 23-24), were spent in tech bliss (and overload), at the first ever ithemes Oklahoma City Builder Bootcamp. Here are a few things I learned… 1. Builder is even better than I originally thought. I purchased Builder the minute it was available (sign up for their email newsletters, you could probably snag a discount coupon on product releases {sorry @jamesdalman, I
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I’ve been using Windows Live Writer for over a year now and recently downloaded the update and did some exploring on what’s new with Writer and how it allows me to easily use its various tools to make my blog postings look great without having to know a lot of code and other technical stuff. Live Writer isn’t a web-based app, you download it and
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