Milwaukee WordPress Meetup Group

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Meetup in the MeetuperyHave you been handed an existing WordPress website at work, church, or organization but need some help managing it?  Or have you decided to take up blogging and want to start writing on your own WordPress.com blog? Maybe you already know about other content management systems, but want to know more about WordPress?  There’s a local meetup group right here in the Milwaukee area that is 100% geared towards helping out the local WordPress community! Continue reading →

Aaron Holbrook’s CMS Presentation at the Milwaukee WordPress Meetup

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If you missed Aaron’s presentation titled: WordPress is a CMS, dammit!, at the February 2013 Milwaukee WordPress meetup, you can catch it here.

Aaron Holbrook's WordPress CMS Presentation at the Milwaukee WordPress Meetup

Listen to the Audio recording from Aaron Holbrook’s WordPress CMS Presentation – An MP3 audio file of Aaron Holbrook’s WordPress CMS Presentation at the Milwaukee WordPress Meetup.
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Milwaukee WordPress Meetup: October 2012

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The Milwaukee meetup group for WordPress convenes on the third Tuesday of each month. This meetup has taken place at numerous locations throughout Milwaukee. In more recent months it has found its home at Bucketworks, a collaborative/co-working space near the historic Third Ward.

The group is co-lead by Scott Offord, director or internet marketing at Orion Group, and Dustin Filippini, lead web developer at Orion Group.

This meetup focused on various issues regarding updating WordPress sites and keeping them safe from viruses and attacks, among other topics.

The evening’s discussion covered specifics like:

  • when to trust a plugin that might not be compatible with the latest core release,
  • how to go through the update process and
  • which variation of WordPress – the pre-installed content management system (CMS) or self-installed – will best suit a site builder’s needs. Continue reading →

Milwaukee Web Design With WordPress

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Web design has really taken on a whole new form with the integration of content management systems. Content management systems such as WordPress are a very popular platform for web designers to build new websites with ease and it’s easier for users to access their website content and edit it from the back-end.Milwaukee Web Design

WordPress has become really popular with many Milwaukee web developers. Orion Group has recently started creating numerous websites with WordPress because it’s highly customizable and user friendly. Existing WordPress themes can be edited and customized to create just about any type of website you can imagine.

WordPress plugins are available so that you can add even more features to your website such as social media icons and many back-end items such as Google analytics. Continue reading →

Orion at Wordcamp Chicago 2011

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This past weekend, some of us from Orion, me (Rachel), our Internet Marketing Director Scott, and some of our Web Designers/Developers, John and Paul, went to Chicago for the Wordcamp Chicago event that took place Saturday and Sunday July 30-31st at Depaul University’s student center.

The event was split up into two days which consisted of topics that ranged from SEO and social media, to WordPress entrepreneurship and E-Commerce shopping carts. Scott even had the chance to lead a couple of discussions on SEO, which turned out to be very lively. Continue reading →