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All Things WordPress: Backing Up, Updating and Restoring Your WordPress Website

At some point, your website is going to crash; it’s almost impossible to avoid and can certainly be a stressful process to fix. At our…

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All Things WordPress Meetup: Smooth Projects From Start to Finish

We’ve discuss our web design process before (you can see a video of it here), but this week’s All Things WordPress Meetup was a little more thorough….

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All Things WordPress: The Best WordPress Plugins for Everything

At our most recent All Things WordPress Meetup, Mickey Mellen lead a group discussion about the best WordPress plugins to handle every situation. If you didn’t…

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All Things WordPress: WordPress Hooks: Actions and Filters

Anyone who has worked with WordPress before knows that it is both flexible and extensible; mainly because of the sheer number of plugins and themes…

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Meetup: Making the Most of Beaver Builder

During our most recent All Things WordPress Meetup, the topic of the day was Beaver Builder, an up-and-coming theme builder for WordPress websites. We compared this…

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Meetup: Build Your Own Starter Theme – A Three-Part Series

Over the past 2 months, GreenMellen and other WordPress professionals hosted a three-part Meetup series on how to build your own WordPress starter theme. If…

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Meetup: Scoping, Estimating and Pricing Your Projects

GreenMellen hosted a WordPress Meetup on Thursday, which focused on ways to establish (and control) the scope of projects. Mickey touched on some important points, including…

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Meetup Business Panel: Learning from those that do it well

GreenMellen invited three local WordPress-focused business owners to join us at our most recent Meetup to discuss various aspects of owning a business. Fill out…

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Meetup: The Creative Side of WordPress

GreenMellen invited five local designers to join us at our most recent Meetup to discuss processes, best practices, tips and strategies for designing WordPress-based websites. Fill…

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Meetup: Build your own starter theme

Aaron Reimann and Diana Nichols walk you through building your own starter theme for WordPress. Work along with us, or just listen to learn more…

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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: PHP in WordPress – Part 1

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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