This months meetup was terrific despite the sudden cold. We took a fair bit of link notes which you will find below.
Please do your home work on any of these links, be sure to use a WordPress sandbox installation (testing installation) to check out any plugins or themes.
### Plugins
– https://wordpress.org/plugins/backupwordpress/
– *https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpmandrill/
– http://tri.be/shop/wordpress-events-calendar-pro/
– http://calendarize.it
– https://ithemes.com/security/
– Advanced Custom Fields Pro
– *Akismet
– *Force Strong Passwords
– Google Analyticator
– Gravity Forms
– http://ninjaforms.com/
– Limit Login Attempts (old plugin)
– Members
– WordPress Backup to Dropbox
– WordPress Database Backup
– WordPress SEO
### Themes
– http://www.woothemes.com/
– https://creativemarket.com/search?q=wordpress
– http://yithemes.com/
– http://www.photocrati.com/demos/
– *http://underscores.me/
– http://themes.simplethemes.com/skeleton/
### Sliders
– http://codecanyon.net/item/slider-revolution-responsive-wordpress-plugin/2751380
– http://www.jacklmoore.com/colorbox/
– http://bxslider.com/
### Hosting
– https://www.getpantheon.com/
– http://wpengine.com/
### Other
– http://wpninjas.com/