{"id":9340,"date":"2011-04-08T11:59:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T16:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=9340"},"modified":"2011-04-08T11:59:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T16:59:39","slug":"my-first-wordpress-meetup-excellent-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/08\/my-first-wordpress-meetup-excellent-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"My first WordPress meetup: Excellent experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

I attended my first WordPress Meetup<\/a> last night at Emerge Memphis. These meetups happen monthly, but up until this month I hadn’t been able to attend, due to really important stuff like playing poker and drinking beer. However, now having been, I’ll definitely make an effort to go back. Otto<\/a> gave an excellent presentation on WordPress post formats, and then spent some time answering general audience questions.<\/p>\n

I filled an entire page with notes I scribbled – plugins I want to investigate, a new theme I want to try, ways to play with CSS. Seriously, if you use WordPress, these meetups are well worth your time. I got lots of ideas for my own blog, and for the Intranet site at work built in WordPress (which, by the way, officially launches this afternoon).<\/p>\n

On a side note, my blog may be down or may look weird for brief periods tomorrow, as I play around with themes and plugins. Given that it will be sunny and well into the 80s though, I don’t plan to spend too<\/em> much time with WordPress.<\/p>\n

Apologies to the other attendees for my sniffling and sneezing all the way through. Claritin-D isn’t getting the job done; going to switch to Allegra today. Also, apologies for not staying afterward and introducing myself; I got a last-minute request to trade consulting for free beer at the Saucer, and obviously I was not going to turn that down.<\/p>\n

Consulting meeting went well, although it was rather unnerving to have a person sitting at the window staring at us the entire time. It’s really too bad there’s not a D-league for social skills.<\/p>\n

If you’re looking for something to do tonight, I’ll offer the following five suggestions: GRIZZLIES, GRIZZLIES, GRIZZLIES, GRIZZLIES and GRIZZLIES. Home game at the FedExForum against Sacramento at 7 PM. We win, we’re in the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"