WordPress Memphis January Meetup

Building Online Community

I love our WordPress Memphis meetup group. I organized the group last September as a peer group to study WordPress. We have folks of all levels of experience and have a group website that we use to experiment and are going to design as a group project. Our January meetup was a great time as [...]

WordPress Memphis — October Meetup

WordPress Memphis admin area

I’m excited about this week’s WordPress Memphis meetup. First, we’ll cover some basic search engine optimization (SEO) techniques with Michael Myers, a local SEO guru. If you want to get your site noticed, you’ve got to know at least a little bit of SEO, so don’t miss it. Then we’ll play around with our WordPressMemphis [...]

WordCamp Birmingham: All WordPress, All Day

WordCamp Birmingham

This past weekend I took a road trip to Birmingham, Alabama to attend WordCamp Birmingham, a day-long conference about all things WordPress. If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you know I’m obsessed with WordPress. Andre Natta and the rest of the team did a phenomenal job organizing the day. Every session I attended [...]

WordPress Memphis Kickoff Wrapup

WordPress Memphis Kickoff meeting at LunaWeb

What a great first meeting of our new WordPress Memphis group! We had about 16 WordPress enthusiasts, ready to learn. We’ve got a diverse group of experience level, ability and background. We began with some networking time, pizza and wine, then brief introductions before we moved on to discuss Why WordPress, which I covered from [...]

WordPress Resource List

Here’s my list of resources for WordPress study in no particular order – feel free to post your own as well. Yoast Twitter Yoast founder Joost de Valk and guests provide tips on optimizing WordPress, Magento, search engine rankings, analytics and website performance. We also offer the SEO tools, Magento extensions and WordPress plugins to [...]