wordpress melbourne user group april 2013 users meetup

WordPress MelbourneApril 2013 Users Meetup

6.30pm: Pizza & Socialising

7pm: Housekeeping & WordPress News

7.10pm: Warren Denley - An Introduction To Themes and Plugins

7.40pm: WordPress Q&A

8pm: Wrap up & Socialising

Welcome WordPress Users!

#wpmelb check in

Thank you to our Pizza sponsor

Envato is based in Melbourne

They are passionate about WordPress and developers

They run ThemeForest.net, CodeCanyon.net and TutsPlus.com

They're really happy to be sending Pizza our way ;-)

http://envato.com/

Thank you to our Venue sponsor

A coworking community who love passion and diversity

Provide free drop-in desks

Full-time and casual memberships available

Hire out the space and meeting rooms for other cool events

For more information: hello@inspire9.com

Thank you to our Transport sponsor

Your on-demand private driver!

Free rides tonight to/from Inpsire9 between 5:30pm and 10:30pm (up to $100 in value)

For more information: http://bit.ly/uberwpmelb

WordPress News

WordPress 3.6 Beta 1 released - final release due April 29

13th April: WordSesh - 24 hours of live WordPress streaminghttp://wordsesh.org/

27-28th April: WordCamp Melbourne

Informal weekend conference about all things WordPress

Saturday April 27th & Sunday April 28th

Speakers, Sponsors & Schedule Announced

2013.melbourne.wordcamp.org

General Admission Tickets: $50

Presentation

Warren Denley

Pimp Your Site - An Introduction To Themes and Plugins

Q&A

Question:

What is best practice for setting up comments ?

I would like to be confident that I don't have to approve every comment.

Encouraging comments and avoiding spam.

- Kerrin

Question:

Any recommendations for a survey plugin that has similar functionality to zoomerang, survey monkey or questionpro.

- John

Question:

Which plugins or tools should I use to backup my WordPress website / blog ?

Question:

Which plugins or tools do you use to style fonts ?

Question:

Which SEO plugins or tools do you recommend ?

More questions ?

Refer to the easywpguide.comAsk on the WP forum wordpress.org/supportAsk on the forum of wpaustralia.org Post the project to tweaky.comPost a project on Meetup wpmelb.org Google WordPress Training Melbourne

27th & 28th April : WordCamp Melbourne

8th May : Developers (Advanced/Tech) Meetup

Thanks for coming!

Thanks again to our sponsors and speakers!

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