{"id":248478,"date":"2013-09-13T09:53:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T13:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.atlanta.wordcamp.org\/?p=248478"},"modified":"2015-01-02T15:21:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T20:21:35","slug":"check-out-atlanta-wordpress-meetup-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2014\/check-out-atlanta-wordpress-meetup-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Out Atlanta WordPress Meetup Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>WordPress Meetup Groups in Atlanta<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Meetup Badge\" src=\"http:\/\/2013.atlanta.wordcamp.org\/files\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-2012-12-28-at-3.07.31-PM.png\" width=\"238\" height=\"165\" \/> We have several WordPress Meetups, held all over the Metro-Atlanta area. These Meetups feature specific topics geared to the various levels ranging from beginners through developers.The Meetups are a good way to learn more about WordPress and how to use it, whatever your level is.\u00a0If you have some degree of proficiency, WordPress Meetups are a great way to share your WordPress knowledge with others by getting involved and speaking. A good number of our WordCamp speakers are drawn from speakers from our local Meetups.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/2014.atlanta.wordcamp.org\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" \/><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sign up at Meetup.org and search for WordPress Atlanta where you can find and join our various local WordPress Meetup Groups. You will then receive e-mails announcing the groups and their monthly topics. You can come to one or all. We have included a list with links to some of them below.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than just waiting for our yearly WordCamp event, we encourage you to check the topics and get to the Meetups if you are interested in getting involved with WordPress and WordCamps. We are a very diverse group in every way and would love to have you get involved.<\/p>\n<p>Local WordPress Meetups:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ATLANTA &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/wordpress-atlanta\/\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta WordPress Users Group<\/a><br \/>\nThis group is the oldest and largest Atlanta WordPress Meetup. It is usually held in the evening, on the 4th Wednesday of each month, in Inman Park near Downtown, Atlanta. We have one or two presentations depending on the degree of complexity of the topic. The presentations are designed for beginners and\/or intermediates to learn to build, customize,and maintain WordPress websites. We will also cover plugins as well as how to address business uses such as ecommerce, membership sites and supporting multiple languages.\u2028 Bring your questions about your WordPress project. We include time for refreshments, networking and trouble shooting.<\/li>\n<li>ALPHARETTA &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/atlanta-wordpress-seo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta WordPress, SEO, and Web Design<\/a><br \/>\nThis groups convenes normally on the Second Tuesday of every month. If you are starting a business or need help promoting an existing business, this is the meetup to be in. By attending our meetup, you will learn the following:<br \/>\n\u2022 Create, design and publish a WordPress site<br \/>\n\u2022 Plugins, Themes and Widgets<br \/>\n\u2022 Website tweaks and best practices<br \/>\n\u2022 Search Engine Optimization (SEO)<br \/>\n\u2022 Small Business Web Tools<br \/>\n\u2022 Google Services, Adwords, Adsense and Google Places<br \/>\n\u2022 Online Marketing<\/li>\n<li>GWINNETT &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/WordPress-Gwinnett\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress Gwinnett<\/a><br \/>\nWe meet every 3rd Thursday of the month at 7PM.<br \/>\n\u2022 plugin development<br \/>\n\u2022 professional development workflow<br \/>\n\u2022 performance and scaling<br \/>\n\u2022 custom CMS solutions<br \/>\n\u2022 industry-specific solutions e.g. NPOs<br \/>\n\u2022 following and contributing to core<br \/>\n\u2022 WordPress business models<br \/>\n\u2022 WordPress current events<\/li>\n<li>MARIETTA &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/wpatlanta\/\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta WordPress Hands on Learning Group<\/a><br \/>\nWe meet monthly on the 2nd Wednesday in the evening to learn from each other, troubleshoot problems, and kick around a topic or two. This is a hands-on working group, not a lecture.<br \/>\n\u2022 Don&#8217;t have a WordPress site yet? We&#8217;ll help you get one up and running before you leave.<br \/>\n\u2022 Don&#8217;t know what you don&#8217;t know? Not sure what questions to ask? Tell us what you want to do and we&#8217;ll guide you.<br \/>\n\u2022 Struggling to get something to work? \u2028We&#8217;ll help you stop wasting hours and pulling your hair out in frustration.<\/li>\n<li>MARIETTA &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/all-things-wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\">All Things WordPress\u2014N. Atlanta<\/a><br \/>\nA monthly daytime Meetup, typically held on the third Thursday of each month, discussing the intersection of WordPress and social media. We&#8217;ll spend 20-30 minutes presenting the latest topic and giving you hands-on ideas to incorporate, and the rest of the time will be spent working with each other on the daily topic or any other WordPress or social media issue that you might have.<\/li>\n<li>SOUTH ATLANTA WORDPRESS USERS MEETUP GROUP\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/WPSouthAtlanta\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Richardson&#8217;s group <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress Meetup Groups in Atlanta We have several WordPress Meetups, held all over the Metro-Atlanta area. These Meetups feature specific topics geared to the various levels ranging from beginners through developers.The Meetups are a good way to learn more about WordPress and how to use it, whatever your level is.\u00a0If you have some degree of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2014\/check-out-atlanta-wordpress-meetup-groups\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Check Out Atlanta WordPress Meetup Groups<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8115226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8039],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-updates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8115226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248478"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519513,"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248478\/revisions\/519513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}