April 2018 Help Desk Night

This month we enjoyed a group discussion on some of our favorite tools we use to manage our WordPress installs. Here are links to the tools we discussed. Slate admin theme – Admin Backend Styler can be found in WP Repo, pro version available – https://wordpress.org/plugins/slate-admin-theme/ Better Search and Replace – WP Engine – https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-search-replace/…

Now that most of us have been learned how to customize our WordPress site it’s important to keep those settings intact.  Creating a “child them” is your best bet.  Basically it’s your spin on an existing template. There are hundreds of pages and videos on this subject. Below are a few of those resources you…

Here are the topics we’ll hit at tonight’s meetup. WordPress 4.9 updates http://www.wpbeginner.com/news/whats-new-in-wordpress-4-9/ What is WordPress.org Creating a Profile on WordPress.org / joining WordPress.org slack https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/2017/10/03/slack-101-connecting-with-other-wordcampers-on-slack/ Gutenburg https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ Morten Rand-Hendriksen: Gutenberg and the WordPress of Tomorrow State of the Word from WCUS 2017 Recap articles https://wptavern.com/wpweekly-episode-297-wordcamp-us-2017-recap https://poststatus.com/matt-mullenweg-state-word-2017/?mc_cid=3aa12e0657&mc_eid=290a23d1c3

Here are the slides. Image in WordPress

Tonight we had special guest Joe Casabona walk through the upcoming new WordPress editor. We’ve been collecting links on the upcoming editor on our site.