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First Nashville WordPress Developer Meetup

May 18, 2012Comment

The first WordPress developer meetup will be held in the upstairs office of Ah So Designs and Kenneth White Design for intermediate and advanced developers. (upstairs of the tshirt shop)

Address:
440 E Iris Dr
Nashville, TN 37204
Google Map to Location: http://g.co/maps/2yzt3

Everyone should bring a 5 minute slide presentation (in PowerPoint or Keynote) on responsive design development. Ideas of topics are responsive design best dev practices, responsive design WordPress frameworks, and resources. If you don’t have a presentation, please come with two questions for the group.

There will also be an ice chest so please bring several of your favorite beers to trade and share.

Please RSVP [...] Read More

WordCamp Schedule & a quick recap of March

March 29, 2012Comment

The month of March has been quite a busy one for all of us involved with WPNashville and the Upcoming WordCamp. We have recently announced the schedule for this years WordCamp, and I am very excited! With out a doubt we have some great speakers this year. If you have any doubts, please go and check out the schedule and be sure to read up on the speakers.

This month we had our first WP Meetup social, and it seemed to have been a great success! We had around 30 Pressers show up at the Crows Nest and talk shop about [...] Read More

WordCamp Nashville 2012 Tickets Now Available

February 27, 2012Comment

WordCamp Nashville, a one-day event on April 21 2012, will introduce new users to WordPress as well as offer tips for more experienced hands.

Tickets are $20 and attendance is limited to 250. Tickets are on sale now here, on the official WordCamp Nashville website: http://2012.nashville.wordcamp.org/tickets

Speakers will address issues for beginners, such as setting up their first site, and advanced users, such as using WordPress for e-commerce.

Local WordPress users and businesses who are partnering with the WordPress Foundation are putting together WordCamp Nashville, one of a series of WordCamps held by fans of the software throughout the world. The local [...] Read More

Planners & Volunteers Meetup for WordCamp Nashville 2012

February 11, 2012Comment

This month we are having an official WordCamp planning meeting and volunteer signup. We were approved Friday (02-10) by WordCamp official, and we are now on the move. We will be spending this month walking you through the current details and plans for the WordCamp.

To be involved head over to the meetup group and RSVP »

Here is a short list of what we will be covering.

WordCamp Theme & Design
Sponsorship
General Finances
Day of Planning & Volunteers
Speakers & Sessions

Our goal is to solidify a group of Volunteers and divide up the tasks so that we can all to our part. One of the [...] Read More

Video Resources for WordPress Beginners

January 23, 2012Comment

Over the last year of helping out with the Nashville WordPress Meetups I’ve been asked a lot of different questions, 80% of them fall into the beginner area. Everyone has been here and we know it can be tough. Eventually we find our way to a site that seems to have everything we’ve been looking for. Others of us just tough it out and end up clicking on every single button or link we can find.

If you are new to WordPress and are looking to get your feet wet here is my personal suggestion. The best solution is a combination [...] Read More

A short recap of WordCamp Birmingham 2012

January 17, 20121 Comment

A group of us from the Nashville Meetup group headed out Friday afternoon for WordCamp Birmingham. We had to come back a little early on Sunday so we didn’t get the full experience. However, I have to say I walked away with all I was expecting and more! There seemed to be about 200+ on Saturday at the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Center. With three tracks covering all things WordPress you will have to see the schedule for what you missed out on.

Saturday night we had a great after party in downtown Birmingham at Pale Eddies Pour House. We had the [...] Read More

WPNashville goes “Twenty Eleven” in 2012

January 9, 2012Comment

2012 is here and WPNashville is gearing up for an another year on the web. As you can see from the title of this post we’ve updated our look to a child theme of “Twenty Eleven”, with a few mods. The goal was to streamline the site and put more focus on the Meetups and our projected WordCamp.

Nashville WordPress Meetup in 2011
2011 was the first year of the Nashville WordPress Meetup group and it was quite an experience. We tested out a lot of options and tried a few tricks with our meeting format, but we have finally landed on [...] Read More

November’s WP Meetup – WordPress.com to .org

October 24, 2011Comment

This month we are having a member come out and talk about his experience with moving from wordpress.com to a self hosted installation. If you’re not already a member of Nashville WordPress Meetup group then hit the link at the bottom of the post before you go!

A presentation on “Wordpress.com to .org” – 20 minutes

“I’m an online chemistry tutor and promote my service through blogging. After about a year of blogging I was starting to run into some of the limitations of a wordpress.com site and I needed to migrate to a wordpress.org platform. This was scary for me, as [...] Read More

A joint meeting with the Nashville SEO Group to discuss WordPress SEO tactics

September 27, 2011Comment

Join us for a special meeting of the Nashville WordPress Group meeting as we discuss WordPress SEO tactics that can help your website.

Join the group and come and learn! »

This is a joint meeting with the Nashville SEO Group run by Ross Jones of 2 the Top Design. Ross has been a professional SEO consultant since early 1997, 6 months before Google even registered their domain name.

Ross will give a short presentation on WordPress SEO and lead the discussion on topics such as:

Why is WordPress Good for SEO?
Easy Steps to Improve Your WordPress SEO
How the Right Plugins Can Help Your [...] Read More

Nashville WordPress Meetup August 2011

August 14, 2011Comment

Our August Meetup went pretty well, we had about 15 people come together in CoLab’s Nashville location. We started off with a brief introduction on “Why WordPress” and then moved into a demonstration on the text-editor and publishing a post. As a bonus we were fortunate to have Ross Jones in attendance who was continually helping us out with SEO questions through out the demonstration. Ross is the organizer of the Nashville SEO Group.

We also had plans to do a short demonstration on how to move a WordPress installation from server to server, but our developer attendance was a little [...] Read More