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Let’s Get Personal: How Can Brand Identity Impact Your Website?

Online

Details *******Zoom link will be emailed out at 4pm Atlantic. If you signed up after that, DM Alison Knott for the link!******** -- 7:00: Zoom opens -- -- 7:10 Opening Remarks -- -- 7:15 Presentation: Let's Get Personal: How Can Brand Identity Impact Your Website? with Cassey Deveau Cassey Deveau is a Senior Digital Strategist from Halifax, Nova Scotia. While she specializes in paid media, her passion lies in integrated marketing, bringing together strategies that incorporate web, social, email, media, and offline tactics that follow the customer journey while staying true to the brand. She currently works full time at a media agency but spends a lot of her free time consulting on web projects to help small businesses improve their website's user experience, and find ways to let their unique brand shine through their online presence. -- 8:00 Happiness Bar -- Share your screen to get help, feedback, learn something new, or help a buddy out. Chat and get to know fellow WordPress bloggers, designers, and developers. -- 9:00 Finish up -- **Those who register for the event on meetup.com ZOOM link will be emailed at 4 PM ADT the day of the event*

Meetup #67: A theme on a theme

A Certified Online Business Manager, Kimberly Charron helps busy consultants, coaches, bloggers, authors, and SaaS founders free themselves up to concentrate on their zone of genius by managing their day-to-day projects, operations, team members, and metrics, so they don’t have to. She brings with her many years of experience offering writing, editing, social media/marketing management, and tech services, plus a background in music, theatre, education, and admin. A WordPress aficionado, she has run her own websites since 2008 as well as built websites for clients. She has also helped run this WordPress Halifax Meetup since she moved to Halifax in 2017. In her spare time, you can find Kimberly volunteering, coaching fellow homeschoolers, and enjoying knitting and hand spinning.

Configuring and Optimizing WooCommerce with Eric Leuthardt

Online

7:00: Zoom opens -- 7:10 Opening Remarks -- 7:15 Presentation: Configuring and Optimizing WooCommerce with Eric Leuthardt Event Details: WooCommerce is the largest and most common eCommerce plugin for WordPress. This event will be an adventure into the configuration of WooCommerce as well as some optimization tips. There will be tips and lessons learned from building numerous stores including a primer on how I configure WooCommerce for my Printful stores. Bio: Eric Leuthardt walks the line between art and technology and does it with a New York no-nonsense approach. Programming since the mid-80s and web designing since the mid-90s, he officially began working in the IT industry in 1995. Two Master's degrees later (one in Computer Information Systems and one an MBA in Technology Management), Eric launched his own tech company and specializes in IT security and supporting small businesses. He also enjoys teaching classes and speaking to groups. Leveraging his undergrad degree in Video and Music Production moonlighting as a DJ for fifteen years, he was at home both on the radio and performing at events. When he transferred his talent into photography, he knew he had found his niche. A published photographer teaching and lecturing since 2008, he […]

What is SEO and why should you care how people search? with Callum Pinkney

Online

7:00 - Room opens 7:15 - Presentation: What is SEO, and why should you care about how people search? Event Details: To truly win at Search Engine Optimization, a business should understand two things: what their target audience is truly searching for and what they want from the relationship, and what Google understands about search queries across the internet. This presentation is going to break down what is happening when someone searches, and also how Google figures out if you are worth ranking. The presentation will also touch on a few things you can do yourself to improve your relationship with Google, and why just dropping keywords everywhere onto a page is a disservice to your customers. Bio: Callum owns and runs a marketing company helping professional service companies strategize their marketing goals and execute on bringing trackable ROI to the table. Pilot Solutions offers marketing strategy and execution, website development, branding, SEO, and PPC Ads. 8:00 - Happiness Bar Share your screen to get help, feedback, learn something new, or help a buddy out. Chat and get to know fellow WordPress bloggers, designers, and developers. Those who register for the event on Meetup.com will receive Gather.Town meeting link/password (no […]

#70: A not-so-advanced approach to Advanced Custom Forms with PK Son

Online

Event Details: For many, using ACF can sound overwhelming, but considering how even the free version available on the WordPress repo is highly functional, and how many page builders have integrations, it is not too difficult to build a website that is less susceptible to break even on client handover.

May Co-Working Session

Nova Scotia, Canada

Details Let's show our WordPress websites a little love this month! We're getting together for a co-working session to work on our sites. Install a new theme or plugin, set up WooCommerce, create a new page ... it's up to you. Pair up and help each other or work alone - it's your choice within the video conferencing platform we're using, Gather.Town. Instructions and Password to enter will be emailed to you on the day of. See you there!

#71: WordPress Plugin Roundup

Online

7:00: Room opens 7:15: Plugin Roundup Want to discuss a favourite plugin? Something new you are trying out? Share your screen to get help, feedback, learn something new, or help a buddy out. Chat and get to know fellow WordPress bloggers, designers, and developers. 9:00: Meetup Ends Link and password will be emailed at 4 PM ADT the day of the event to all those who register.

Intro to the Site Editor and Templates

VOLTA 1800 Argyle Street #Unit 801, Halifax, NS

Details It's here! Another hybrid event, so you can choose online or in person at Volta, 1505 Barrington Street, Unit 100, Halifax. We will be in the classroom on the mezzanine level. 7:00: Room opens 7:15: Intro to the Site Editor and Templates. The Site Editor gives you the ability to modify templates, template parts and also customize the style of your entire site. What we will cover: how you can use Styles to modify the site-wide style of your site what templates are and a breakdown of their parts how to modify templates or create new ones how to assign templates to individual posts and pages Bio: Kimberly Charron is a Certified Online Business Manager, who helps busy coaches, bloggers, and creatives free themselves up to concentrate on their zone of genius by managing their day-to-day projects, operations, team members, and metrics, so they don’t have to. She brings with her many years of experience offering writing, editing, social media/marketing management, and tech services (especially WordPress), plus a background in music, theatre, education, and admin. 8:00: The in-person event will split off from the online event, each to have their own "Happy Hour" 9:00: Meetup Ends For those attending […]

#75: Topic TBA with Jon Waite

Online

It's here! The first WordPress Halifax event of 2023. They're online only this month. 7:00: Room opens 7:15: Topic TBA with speaker Jon Waite from WordPress North East in the UK! 8:00: Happy Hour 9:00: Meetup Ends Link and password will be emailed at 4 PM Atlantic Time on the day of the event to all those who register.

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April Co-Working Session

Online

Let's show our WordPress websites a little love this month! They're getting together for a co-working session to work on their sites. Install a new theme or plugin, set up WooCommerce, create a new page ... it's up to you. Show off your website to everyone, pair up and help each other, or work alone - it's your choice. Instructions and Password to enter will be emailed to you on the day of. See you there!

#79: WordPress Halifax Meetup – Topic TBD

Nova Scotia, Canada

Details 7:00 - Room opens 7:15 - Presentation: TBD 8:00 - Happiness Bar Share your screen to get help, feedback, learn something new, or help a buddy out. Chat and get to know fellow WordPress bloggers, designers, and developers. Those who register for the event on Meetup.com will receive meeting link/password (no download or account required) via email at 4 PM ADT the day of the event. Web Design Web Development Online Marketing Blogging WordPress