I met the guys from MeetWP when I was at WordCamp Chicago, and when they asked if I’d be interested, I thought about it for a second and said “Sure, why not.” I live in the OC, you see, and while I enjoy meetups, the two nearest me are just over an hour away. I’m a one-car home, and generally my spouse has class when these meetups are, so the timing has just be downright rotten. But a virtual meetup? Hey that has potential.
What is this thing? From their site:
MeetWP is an online WordPress Meetup. Local Meetups are a great place to learn about WordPress and meet new people in the WordPress community, but not everyone can make it to a local meetup or are in an area where a Meetup dedicated to WordPress can happen. MeetWP, the online WordPress Meetup, is here to bring together people all over the world in a virtual meetup to learn from each other.
So yay! They’ll be posting this up on their webpage as a link with all the logs soon enough, and you’ll see me up there as MeetWP #4 (following JJJ, Chris Lema, and Lisa Sabin-Wilson). I didn’t do slides, so you get to watch me break a site, fix it, and then show you my break-fix site (more on that later) where I have examples and plugins you can use to install, break your site, and fix it.
There were crowdsourced notes on Google (you can read them here), and one of them is ‘Don’t be Stupid.’
I try to cure myself of stupid as much as I can, because being hacked almost always boils down to someone being stupid. If I can not be the stupid, I’m in good standing.
Oh and yes, I think SSH and SFTP are a requirement for a webhost. If they can’t do that, I’m gone.
