Upcoming Events From Dvize

Dvize, led by Glenn Todd, specialises in producing engaging and dynamic websites for corporate, small to medium business and non-profit community organisations. They have some upcoming apprenticeships and training events which we thought we’d share with you below:

Digital Change Maker Apprenticeships

We are looking for four passionate change makers to undergo an eight week intensive training program provided by some of Australia’s leading digital change makers.

Gain skills and experience in order to co-create strategy, build websites, communicate online and use social media to build movements of positive change.

There are no financial fees for the participants who will earn their stripes by producing various online projects and websites for real positive change projects.

Apprenticeships start on May 13th. Applications close: May 3rd.

http://collaboratory.org.au/apprentice/

WordPress Training Melbourne – 2013 Master Series

Go from novice to awesome with Melbourne’s best WordPress training courses. Whatever level you’re starting from, we will show you how to wrangle control of your WordPress site.

One day of intensive training per week for six weeks. Starts on Monday May 13th – Earlybird special available until May 3rd.

http://dvize.com/wordpress-training-melbourne/

Posted on April 16, 2013

WordCamp Melbourne 2013 is coming!

WordCamp is coming to Melbourne! The conference is designed especially for WordPress enthusiasts, designers, developers or anyone who uses WordPress. It doesn’t matter whether you are a newbie or more advanced, there is something for everyone.

Date: 27 April 2013 – 28 April 2013
Time: 8am – 5pm
Location: Storey Hall (Building 16) RMIT, 342 Swanston Street, Melbourne

WordCamp is always a great event thanks to the dedication of the team of passionate organisers. There are a wide range of speakers across the two days that address a broad range of topics including content management, blogging to e-commerce, community building and beyond.

By attending this event you will hear all about the latest news and information in the WordPress world. It is also a great opportunity to network with other WordPress enthusiasts and have a little fun. You won’t be disappointed!

For more information visit: http://2013.melbourne.wordcamp.org
To register visit: https://register.eventarc.com/13176/wordcamp-melbourne-2013
Follow on Twitter: @wcmelb

Posted on January 3, 2013

Tagged as: melbourne, WordCamp, WordPress

WordPress Syndication Feeds

Did you know that every WordPress site has syndication feeds such as RSS baked in by default? In fact, every WordPress site has RSS, RSS 2.0, RDF and Atom feeds right out of the box.

For example, if your URL is http://wpsupport.com.au, then your feed locations will look like this:

http://wpsupport.com.au/feed/

http://wpsupport.com.au/feed/rss/


http://wpsupport.com.au/feed/rss2/


http://wpsupport.com.au/feed/rdf/


http://wpsupport.com.au/feed/atom/

This assumes you have permalinks (or friendly URL’s) turned on.

You can find out more about WordPress feeds that you will ever need to know at the WordPress Codex Feeds page.

Posted on October 20, 2012

Notes from the Melbourne WordPress Meetup Beginner Sessions

Today, the Melbourne WordPress Meetup catered for beginners with 2 fantastic entry-level sessions. I think this is a great move, the number of first timers was mind blowing, I think it’s the start of something big! :)

@MissAmeliaSmith on WordPress security

@MissAmeliaSmith on WordPress security

I went along and took some notes from the main presentations, I hope you find them useful.

Andrew Davis @goboxless

Andrew (from Boxless) took everyone on a whirlwind tour of WordPress. I’ve seen Andrew present before and I highly recommend him and he was one of the first companies I’ve listed on my professional WordPress services.

Some of his tips included:

  • A solid, practical overview of the main WordPress features
  • Stick to popular themes and plugins
  • Responsive design
  • The importance of mobile
  • Strongly recommended Easy WP Guide

Andrew recommended the Easy WP Guide as a great WordPress manual and tutorial. I couldn’t agree more, get stuck into it here –> http://easywpguide.com/.

Amelia Smith @MissAmeliaSmith

Amelia (from Optus and  Thesis Video Tutorials) covered WordPress security from a birds eye view, but also gave plenty of practical tips:

  • Practice good local security (anti-virus etc.)
  • Use secure protocols (SFTP/SCP rather than FTP)
  • Don’t use the WordPress defaults
  • Use strong passwords
  • Always be updating
  • Check out Sucuri.net for security info
  • Choose themes and plugins wisely
  • Do your homework on themes and plugins
  • Thesis and Genesis recommended theme frameworks
  • Don’t hack your core WordPress files
  • Remove unused plugins and themes
  • Recommended Plugins: BackWPup, Backup Buddy, Login Lockdown, Sucuri, Website Defender
  • WP specialist hosting: WPengine, Synthesis, ZippyKid

It was a great Meetup with 2 great speakers, if you haven’t attended one and you’re into WordPress make sure you add it to your calendar. You can find a list of WordPress Meetups in Australia here, let me know if you come across any not listed.

If you’re after more tips, I’ve put together some notes on WordPress security, recommended themes and recommended plugins.

Posted on October 10, 2012

Making WordPress Go Faster – WordPress Performance Optimisation

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After attending a presentation on “TurboPress – The High Performance Guide to WordPress” by Jeff Waugh at WordCamp Sydney 2012, I came away with lots of great advice on building a better environment for WordPress. I highly recommend watching the video when it’s published (I’ll update this when it is), it was brilliant. I often [...]

Heading to Bendigo for the Next Round of Free Workshops

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Peter Mead (from Peter Mead IT) has started the Bendigo WordPress User Group and invited wpsupport.com.au to come along to their first meeting. We will be running two sessions on Sunday 5th August 2012, a beginner session and an intermediate session. Attendees are welcome to stay for both, but warning – it could cause massive [...]

July Melbourne WordPress Workshop Update

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We thought we’d give everyone a quick update on our recent free WordPress training sessions. After the feedback we received from our post workshop survey that was sent to previous attendees, we thought we’d try something different and hold both beginner workshops and more intermediate level workshops targeted at people already using WordPress. So far the feedback [...]

WordPress Security Links

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As promised, here’s a mountain of reading material and links to the plugins and techniques discussed at my talk at the July WordPress Melbourne Meetup. In no particular order, here are some of the backup and security services: http://www.vaultpress.com/ http://sucuri.net/ http://www.wordfence.com/ http://www.websitedefender.com/ https://www.cloudflare.com/ From WPMU a great discussion on “free themes”, as with any type [...]

WordPress Security Presentation Notes

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Thanks to everyone who came along tonight to the July Melbourne WordPress Meetup, it was a massive turnout. Here are the notes from my presentation and I’ll add another post that list lots of WordPress security links that were discussed and some further reading. https://speakerdeck.com/u/chrisburgess/p/wordpress-security-tips Also, a big thanks to the organisers as well as [...]

A few spots left for July WordPress sessions

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We still have a few spots left at the following July sessions in Melbourne. Beginner – WordPress 101 Friday 13th July 2012 - 6:30 – 8:30pm To register for the Beginner 101 WordPress training workshops click here. Intermediate – World of WordPress Sunday 15th July 2012 - 3:00 – 6:00pm To register for the Intermediate WordPress training [...]

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