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Finding the best tools to make things happen

At this month’s Meetup, we talked about all of the tools we use at GreenMellen to help us keep moving forward. We dig into the…

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Meetup: From NOT to HOT with Javascript

JavaScript is an important part of WordPress, and will become even more so in the future, as Matt said in his State of the Word…

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MeetUp: WordPress security and performance for the rest of us

Have you been hacked? Worried about protecting your data and your website? Carel Bekker from ClickHOST walks through creating a secure WordPress environment, including an overview of security…

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MeetUp: PHP in WordPress – Part 2

PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be…

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MeetUp: Email marketing and MailChimp

While it’s not as hot as social media and other messaging, email marketing remains one of the best ways to reach your customers. Atlanta-based MailChimp…

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MeetUp: An Introduction to Classes in PHP

Many WordPress developers start out learning PHP from playing around with themes and then slowly pick up the language and start moving towards writing their…

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Meetup: Supercharge your WordPress site with Jetpack

Chase Livingston is a Happiness Engineer at Automattic (the company behind WordPress.com) working on the very popular Jetpack plugin. Jetpack is a powerful plugin with many…

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Meetup: CSS, LESS and SASS: Simplify your Work

During our All Things WordPress Meetup, Diana Nichols demonstrated how using a pre-processor for CSS can go along way toward reducing your development time and ensuring…

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Meetup: Content and blogging from start to finish

Content and blogging are an important part of your website. In our Meetup, we covered: How to find topics to write about How and why to…

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Meetup: Development Workflow – Setup through Deployment

Diana Nichols and Aaron Reimann walked through several approaches to creating a development workflow, creating a new site, and deploying it to a live server. Topics…

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Meetup: Installing WordPress from Scratch

Did you miss the Meetup today on installing WordPress from scratch? Our test live broadcast for Periscope was a success! If you missed the Meetup,…

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Meetup: Useful Developer Tools and Resources

Did you miss the Meet-Up today on Developer Tools? Our test live broadcast for Periscope was a success! If you missed the Meet-Up, you can…

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WordCamp Panel Discussion: UX / Web Design

This past month I had the privilege of moderating a panel at WordCamp Atlanta. We were given an hour to discuss website design and user…

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Meetup: A deep dive into site maps and wireframes

At our last Meetup we discussed the questions we ask in order to begin a web project. This month we’ll be discussing the steps we…

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WordCamp Atlanta 2015: Planning your website from concept to launch

This weekend every WordPress newbie, expert, and everyone in between is gathering in Atlanta to talk about the framework we all love: WordPress. We will…

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