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Today in the WordPress Support Group, we discussed this new service, IFTTT (If This, Then That).  The concept is that when I publish this post, it will show up on our Facebook page.  Groovy!

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Oakland Local is offering a holiday advertising package at a special rate to all Tech Liminal friends and clients. The package is a badge ad for a month on Oakland Local and a newsletter ad for 2 issues in December for $250.  You must be a locally owned business employing 10 people or less to [...]

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Fridays, 2:00 – 3:00 PM (after the WordPress Support Group) Cost:  $10 The public demands it!  We will now be offering a CSS clinic on Fridays, immediately after the WordPress Support Group.  Bring those pesky things that don’t line up, questions about fonts, colors, and more, and get help with your site.    

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From the WordPress support group…  Just paste this code into your functions.php file, once you’ve created a child theme.   <?php define( ‘HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH’, apply_filters( ‘twentyeleven_header_image_width’, 970 ) ); define( ‘HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT’, apply_filters( ‘twentyeleven_header_image_height’, 150 ) ); ?> This will change the header height to 970 pixels wide by 150 pixels tall.

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It’s hard to keep track of all the URL’s and passwords that you need in order maintain your online presence.  Here’s a handy-dandy checklist we’ve been developing to help you organize it all. Download the Tech Liminal Website Checklist The first two pages of this worksheet are the keys to your kingdom!  Guard them well. [...]

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Thanks to Cheryl Liquori from the fabulous Breakfast Blogging Club for inciting me to write this post.  I was going to do a presentation, but it somehow seemed more appropriate (and easier to share links) to just make it a blog post. The effective use of images can make your blog come to life.  A wall of text [...]

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Hello there, This is a work in progress post, but contains links to useful things for our HTML to WordPress workshop. Get Genesis (currently, our favorite framework) Genesis Hooks Reference Creating a WordPress Child Theme Visual Markup Guide WordPress Template Hierarchy (this tells you what files you want to create in your theme) W3Schools.com – [...]

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Learn about the world’s most popular Content Management System (CMS), WordPress. Anca Mosoiu, who has been developing WordPress sites since 2006, will give a developer-focused overview of this LAMP platform, which is simple enough for your grandma’s bridge club site, flexible enough for a neighborhood business association, and powerful enough for a book publisher’s online [...]

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Saturday December 10 and Sunday December 11 Short, inexpensive classes let you explore your passions at low cost in just one weekend:   Learn to Solder A soldering workshop for complete beginners! Ages 8 to 80. Rolf and Miloh will guide you through the process of making a blinky RGB LED or a TV-B-Gone kit. [...]

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We’ve been keeping track of useful WordPress plugins in a nice Google Spreadsheet. Check it out – and email me if you’d like to add your own comments and notes. This is a work in progress, with many thanks to all the contributors from the East Bay WordPress Meetup group.

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