Slides from the April 2013 WordPress Users Meetup in Melbourne (http://www.wpmelb.org/events/105411502/)

1. WordPress Melbourne
April 2013 Users Meetup
6.30pm: Pizza & Socialising
7pm: Housekeeping & WordPress News
7.10pm: Warren Denley - An Introduction To Themes and Plugins
7.40pm: WordPress Q&A
8pm: Wrap up & Socialising

2. Welcome WordPress Users!
#wpmelb check in

3. Thank you to our Pizza sponsor
Envato is based in Melbourne
They are passionate about WordPress and developers
They run ThemeForest.net, CodeCanyon.net and TutsPlus.com
They're really happy to be sending Pizza our way ;-)
http://envato.com/

4. Thank you to our Venue sponsor
A coworking community who love passion and diversity
Provide free drop-in desks
Full-time and casual memberships available
Hire out the space and meeting rooms for other cool events
For more information: hello@inspire9.com

5. Thank you to our Transport sponsor
Your on-demand private driver!
Free rides tonight to/from Inpsire9 between 5:30pm and 10:30pm (up to
$100 in value)
For more information: http://bit.ly/uberwpmelb

6. WordPress News
WordPress 3.6 Beta 1 released - final release due April 29
13th April: WordSesh - 24 hours of live WordPress streaming
http://wordsesh.org/
27-28th April: WordCamp Melbourne

7. Informal weekend conference about all things WordPress
Saturday April 27th & Sunday April 28th
Speakers, Sponsors & Schedule Announced
2013.melbourne.wordcamp.org
General Admission Tickets: $50

8. Presentation
Warren Denley
Pimp Your Site - An Introduction To Themes and Plugins

9. Q&A

10. Question:
What is best practice for setting up comments ?
I would like to be confident that I don't have to
approve every comment.
Encouraging comments and avoiding spam.
- Kerrin

11. Question:
Any recommendations for a survey plugin that has
similar functionality to zoomerang, survey monkey or
questionpro.
- John

12. Question:
Which plugins or tools should I use to backup my
WordPress website / blog ?

13. Question:
Which plugins or tools do you use to style fonts ?

14. Question:
Which SEO plugins or tools do you recommend ?

15. More questions ?
Refer to the easywpguide.com
Ask on the WP forum wordpress.org/support
Ask on the forum of wpaustralia.org
Post the project to tweaky.com
Post a project on Meetup wpmelb.org
Google WordPress Training Melbourne

16. And Finally...
27th & 28th April : WordCamp Melbourne
8th May : Developers (Advanced/Tech) Meetup
Thanks for coming!
Thanks again to our sponsors and speakers!