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WordPress Toronto – North Edition #16

April 25, 2017 by Alex Sirota

Agenda and Notes on meetup.com Intros We had a new person join our group – welcome Monica! We talked about content marketing — the benefits and viewpoints. Our roundtable was a useful introduction but also tested some assumptions we all have about good and great content. Business Discussion: Lynda.com WordPress Course Walkthrough We walked through … Read more

WordPress Pros topics for first 3 Meetup sessions

September 14, 2018March 24, 2017 by Robin Macrae

The first Meetup session of a new WP Toronto group, WordPress Pros, is 7 page speed techniques for better UX and higher SEO on 2017-04-16 and we’ll discuss topics for the second and third sessions details of which are set out in this post.

WordPress Toronto – North Edition #15

March 21, 2017March 20, 2017 by Alex Sirota

Notes on meetup.com – Livestream archived on Facebook (you must login and be a member of WPToronto on Facebook to view). Topic: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) background and fundamentals By: Erez Elias SEO has figured prominently into many businesses decisions as they go online. Companies spend a large amount of budget to have their website ranked … Read more

Forms, Memberships, Emails and Automation

September 14, 2018March 11, 2017 by Andy

This month’s WPToronto East meetup focused on WordPress forms, memberships, emails, and automation. Big thanks to members Don Tai and Dan Stramer for sharing their knowledge with us this weekend!

WordPress News Headlines: March 8, 2017

March 8, 2017 by Andy

In years gone by we’d send out an email via Meetup.com with a roundup of recent WordPress news headlines worth checking out. We’re rebooting that series on the blog. Headlines below! This week in the news: We’ve got a WordPress security release; improvements for WordPress.com and Jetpack users; Clef shuts down; Ninja Forms adds Recurly; … Read more

Community Update: Upcoming workshops, meetups, and WordCamps

March 1, 2017March 1, 2017 by Andy

Hello! Welcome to March. 🙂 We’ve got a handful of updates for you this week looking to the month(s) ahead: Upcoming hands-on WordPress workshops; meetups to check out; and WordCamps in the works.

Let’s Talk SEO, Structured Data & Backlinks

February 22, 2017 by Andy

The WPToronto East and WPToronto TO-DOers groups came together last weekend for a couple of lightning talks and a hands-on workshop about SEO. Andy McIlwain presented a lightning talk on the current state of SEO; Robin Macrae presented on adding structured data to improve your site’s appearance in search results; and David Michaels presented on … Read more

WordPress Toronto – North Edition #14

March 15, 2017February 20, 2017 by Alex Sirota

Notes on meetup.com Paid Memberships Pro Continuing on past month’s WooCommerce discussion and demo, we will review Paid Memberships Pro — check out the test site at wpto.newpath.consulting — if you want access to admin to play around, let me know (alex@newpathconsulting.com).

WordPress Toronto – North Edition #13

March 15, 2017January 16, 2017 by Alex Sirota

Notes on meetup.com eCommerce for Businesses A vendor-neutral review of several membership and ecommerce plugins Cart66 Exchange MemberPress Restrict Content Pro WooCommerce + Memberships + Subscriptions <- reviewed this one Paid Memberships Pro <-next month Review Shopify Great meetup to kick off 2017. We had some regulars come out which was nice to see. We are … Read more