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Event Recap – October 14

Randy H. — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 01:22:05 +0000

We had about ten people attend our monthly meeting on October 14, 2010 at Spot Studio. We had good food and good conversation about WordPress. We had two people give presentations.

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Peter Poulides

Peter Poulides is a professional photographer and instructor here in Dallas. His work has appeared in Travel & Leisure, Time, and other publications, as well as in Getty Images and at the Smithsonian. He currently also teaches photography classes through Spot Studio. He spoke about techniques for taking better photographs for your web site. Links he mentioned can be view here:

Gigapxl Project
Halta Definizione
AutoPano Pro
AutoStitch for iPhone
Hugin – Open-source panorama photo stitcher

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Ronald Huereca

Ronald Huereca is a web developer from near Austin. Ronald is the lead developer of the Ajax Edit Comments plugin for WordPress and author of the book WordPress and Ajax. He gave a presentation on using advanced JavaScript techniques in forms on WordPress web sites, which you can find here:

Event Recap – September 16

Randy H. — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:07:03 +0000

We had about twenty people attend our monthly meeting on September 16, 2010 at Richland Community College. We had good food and good conversation about WordPress. We had two people give presentations.

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Randy Hoyt

Randy Hoyt teaches web development and web publishing (including WordPress) at UT Dallas, and he builds sites for clients through his web development agency Amesbury Web. He gave a presentation on WordPress plugins, which you can view at SlideShare:

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Scott K. Clark

Scott K. Clark is a member of the Pods CMS (WordPress plugin) development team, and he builds sites for clients through his web development agency SKC Dev. He share some of his experience working with the WordPress Plugin Directory for us Pods plugin and walked through the process of getting your plugin listed in the directory:

Event Recap – August 19

Randy H. — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:28:18 +0000

We had about ten people attend our monthly meeting on August 19, 2010 at Richland Community College. We had plenty of food and good conversation about WordPress. We had two people give presentations.

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Randy Jensen

Randy Jensen implemented and maintained a number of WordPress blogs at Richland Community College, and he now builds sites for clients as a freelance web developer. He gave a presentation on HTML5. Here is a link to the slides for his presentation on SlideRocket:

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Tony Cecala

Tony Cecala produces the Wellness Expo® and organizes the DFW WordPress Meetup group. Tony Cecala explored caching and other techniques for speeding up a web site, particularly looking at the available plugins and services for the WordPress platform. Download a PDF of his presentation (7.36 MB):

Event Recap – June 17

Randy H. — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:00:09 +0000

We had over twenty people attend our monthly meeting on June 17, 2010. Thanks again to eLocomotive for providing the venue and to Spot Studio’s WordPress 101 class for providing the food. We had two people give presentations.

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Leia Scofield

Leia Scofield is a web strategist at RD2, Inc., a web design company in Dallas. She provided an in-depth presentation about capturing and displaying additional profile information about users in WordPress. She has posted the slides, links to sites she mentioned, and code samples in posts on the RD2 blog:

Enhancing WordPress User Profiles (presentation and links)
Part 2: Adding Existing Fields to the Profile
Part 3: Displaying the New Fields in Your Template File

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Randy Hoyt

Randy Hoyt teaches web development, web publishing, and WordPress at UT Dallas, and he builds sites for clients through his web development agency Amesbury Web. He demonstrated two examples from his work for clients that used some of the techniques Leia detailed.

Video: NAWBO Houston
Plugin: ProjectManager

Event Recap – May 13, 2010

Randy H. — Tue, 18 May 2010 19:25:59 +0000

We had about twenty people attend our monthly meeting on May 13, 2010 at Richland Community College. We had good food and good conversation about WordPress. Thanks again to @lovelyleslie for providing the venue and to Veribatim for providing the food. We had two people give presentations.

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Randy Hoyt

Randy Hoyt teaches web development and web publishing (including WordPress) at UT Dallas, and he builds sites for clients through his web development agency Amesbury Web. He gave a presentation on the basics of working with images in WordPress: settings, image editing, and template tags. You can watch the video here, though unfortunately it does not have any accompanying audio:

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Here are the links he mentioned:

WordPress Theme: Journalist
PSPad | Aptana Studio
WordPress Template Hierarchy:
- Functional Version (WordPress Codex)
- Well-Designed Version (Chris Coyier)
WordPress Functions:
- wp_get_attachment_link()
- wp_get_attachment_image()

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Matthew Simo

Matthew Simo is a front-end designer and developer currently living in North Dallas. He does some advanced WordPress customizations for client web sites at May, and he provided an in-depth look at some of the code he wrote for a recent project. Here are the links he mentioned:

Slides
ThisWeekIn.com
- Visit Site
- View Description on May’s Blog
Coda
WordPress Plugin:
- Custom Field Templates
- Quick Post/Page Redirect
WordPress Functions:
- add_image_size()
- wp_dropdown_pages()

Event Recap – April 15, 2010

Randy H. — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:14:56 +0000

We had about fifteen people attend our first monthly meeting on April 15, 2010 near Fair Park at the Hickory Street Annex. We had good food and good conversation about WordPress. Thanks again to RD2, Inc. for providing the venue and to eLocomotive for providing the food. We had three people give presentations.

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Randy Jensen

Randy Jensen implemented and maintained a number of WordPress blogs at Richland Community College, and he now builds sites for clients as a freelance web developer. He gave a presentation on best practices for creating custom WordPress themes. Here is a link to the slides for his presentation:

Here are links to sites he mentioned during his presentation:

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Randy Hoyt

Randy Hoyt teaches web development, web publishing, and WordPress at UT Dallas, and he builds sites for clients through his web development agency Amesbury Web. He detailed step-by-step how he configured the KB Advanced RSS widget for the New Releases widget on the Blockbuster Blog. Here are the links he mentioned:

Blockbuster Blog (scroll down to see the New Releases widget in the sidebar)
WordPress Plugin: KB Advanced RSS Widget
WordPress Plugin: FeedWordPress
Final Widget: Configuration | CSS | Custom Options

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Leia Scofield

Leia Scofield is a web strategist at RD2, Inc., a web design company in Dallas. She provided a high-level case study of how RD2 transformed WordPress into an application database to manage the entire process for STA Travel’s World Traveler Internship. Here are the links she mentioned:

STA Travel’s World Traveler Internship
- Visit Site
- View Description in RD2′s Portfolio
WordPress Plugin: Theme Demo
WordPress Plugin: Theme My Profile
WordPress Plugin: Capability Manager