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 on this Facebook fan page and join WPNashville.com (under the developers tab) for latest updates.

****please note, b/c it is the first developer meetup, it is not being posted on the regular Meetup site.

Planning meeting for WordCamp Nashville 2012 ~ hashing out our speakers & schedule

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 various aspects of WordPress as well as what they do and of course the usual Nashville banter about local things. It was very nice break from our usual Presentation style meetup, which I enjoy, but requires more effort.

WordPress Nashville Meetup at the Crows Nest. It's a little dark but we're all there!

We hope to see you at the WordCamp Nashville this year, be sure to get your tickets while we still have some. We expect seats to fill out now that we have our schedule!

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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 event will be held Saturday, April 21, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Watkins College of Art, Design & Film in Nashville’s MetroCenter area.

WordPress is among the most popular and powerful publishing platforms available for bloggers as well as companies wanting to make maximum advantage of their online presence. It’s free, and users don’t need to write code to use it.

Recently, with the release of version 3.0, WordPress has moved to help manage and power sites that belong to big, household names, including major brands, country music stars and professional athletes. WordPress powers more than 70 million websites, half of which are hosted on wordpress.com.

For more information on WordCamp Nashville sponsorship or corporate involvement, call John Housholder at 615-618-7287, email him at john@ahsodesigns.com. For camp and speaker updates, check back here and follow @wordcampnash on Twitter.

PURCHASE TICKETS

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 overall goals is to make the event as enjoyable for those of us putting it on as it will be for the attendees.

Our Meetups are as important to us as they are to you, and we hope that you will come out to be involved in the making of Nashville’s first WordCamp. If you have never heard of WordCamp or think it’s just another conference please read up, you will like what you find!

http://central.wordcamp.org
http://2012.nashville.wordcamp.org

Wow, that was easy! Mom's going to love this post about her spaghetti!

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 of good resources and a good old fashion clicking. Do your homework! Surprise! some advice right, it’s that simple.

In an effort to keep the meetups from being a continual beginner class I think it would be good for us here at WPNashville to continually post new resources we find and hear about. If you have suggestions, please leave a comment. There are so many resources it can be hard to keep up on all the good ones.

Video Resources

A huge resources that you may not realize exists is WordPress.tv. A few words of caution, be patient and you’re going to find a whole lot more than just tutorials. WordPress.tv is a massive pool of videos from users all over the world. Go to WordPress.tv »

I came across this focused video series while looking for WordPress Tutorials. This series is from author “Deltina Hay“. These tutorials were made when 3.0 came out and they are definitely still relevant.

Deltina does an amazing job of walking you through many typical items you will encounter on a regular basis when using WordPress. Don’t shy away just because her video’s are over 7min, you really can’t expect to get a good thorough explanation with out putting in the time. View the complete series: “WordPress 3 Tutorials” by Deltina Hay »

If you would like to add to the resources here leave a comment and we’ll add them into our next related post.

Saturday night we had a great after party in downtown Birmingham at Pale Eddies Pour House. We had the whole upstairs and just enough beer to get us all loosened up, what blast!

It's not the best picture, but you can tell we were having a good time!

If you own a website that is on WordPress and you’ve never attended a WordCamp you really should. It’s not another social networking conference, it’s an all day (or 2 day) conference focused on helping you learn how to use your site as it was ment to be used. No matter what level you are, beginner, intermediate or advanced I can guarantee you will hear something new.

A huge thanks needs to go out to the group who put together the WordCamp! @SaraCannon & Crew you did a great job, and we hope to see you next year!

As some of you may know, a handful of us with the local WordPress Meetup are working hard to put together our fist WordCamp for Nashville. Our goal is to bring you the best Nashville has to offer on WordPress. For more information be sure to signup for the Meetup group and come out to the monthly meetups.

Nashville WordPress Meetup
Nashville WordCamp 2012

Here are a few pics of the 2012 Birmingham 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 something I think we’ve all enjoyed. 20min presentation, 20min Q&A followed by 20min Show & Tell, how can you go wrong. With more interaction and less one-way conversation, you can be sure there is an opportunity to get your question asked.

Meetup Locations

I think we can all agree that finding a solid location has been our biggest hurdle, and I can safely say it is at the top on my priority list! Many thanks to our sponsor CoLab for allowing us to use their space, it’s an awesome building with really cool, laid-back people. However, many of our users are not city dwellers and the hunt for parking was leaving our groups waning. We also spent a brief night at ESpaces thanks to a secondary sponsor MetaCake, but it was short lived and we are on the hunt again. Be sure to always check the location when attending a Meetup.

What’s in store for 2012?

We have our goals set pretty high this year. On top of monthly meetups we are working hard to put together Nashville’s own WordCamp! I’m really excited and hopeful about this.

If you have never heard of a WordCamp or you’ve only heard rumors, then you need to see and read it for yourself. http://central.wordcamp.org

This is not another social networking conference, this is the world of WordPress that lives in your local community. We are all working hard to publish our thoughts, so don’t let inexperience slow you down or scare you away. It’s almost a guarantee that you know at least a donzen people that manage their sites using WordPress so there is no excuse, find those friends and come out to meet the group.

WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress. WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other. WordCamps are open to WordPress.com and WordPress.org users alike.

~ WordCamp Central

For information and current planning for the upcoming WordCamp visit the official WordPress hosted site @ http://2012.nashville.wordcamp.org. As well, we will be discussing our WordCamp planing goals and needs at the mothly meetups, be sure to attend, you won’t regret it.

1. 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 I’m not very computer savvy. In this talk I’ll briefly go over the story of how I hired a developer to build a new site for me and how having a wordpress.org platform is giving me opportunities to grow my business beyond services to products.”

   ~ James Ashenhurst of masterorganicchemistry.com

2. Presentation Q&ampA – 10 minutes

3. What’s everyone working on? – 10 minutes

   We’ll take a couple of volunteers and let them showcase their site.

4. WordPress business around town. – 10 minutes

   Wrap it up with a brief chat about the locally in the WordPress community and what is in store for 2012.

5. Questions and dismissal. – 5 minutes

Location Change
We have changed the location of this meetup to ESpaces.
This is NOT permanent, so please always be aware of the location for future meetups.

November’s Meetup Event

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 SEO
• How the Wrong Plugins Can Hurt Your SEO

There were to very well done tutorials done by Deltina Hay who has put a lot of time and effort into these these. (they are well worth the watch, or listen if you have other things todo) As for the settings pages we simply went through each page and clicked on all the options and updated all the fields to see how they effected our test site.

I believe that learning WordPress is much like learning any other web application. Learn from trial and error, word of mouth and doing your home work. (search the web at all hours of the night to find that one bit of information to complete your masterpiece)

Widgets & Sidebar

By Deltina Hay

This tutorial is a bit long because she goes into a lot of detail.

Custom Menus Tutorial

By Deltina Hay
This tutorial starts off a little slow but only because she does a great job of going through step by step. This is perfect for those of you have not yet worked with the WP Custom Menus.