January 24, 2012 6:00 PM - 6 attended
Installing WordPress, Locally & at Your Host
Grass Lake Landing Restaurant (map)
We'll go through a local install of WordPress using MAMP, which will help folks create a development environment on their local PC or Mac. We will also do a "Famous 5-minute Install" to a live host (create database and FTP files). We'll briefly discuss one-click installs and why a 5-minute install is preferred over one-click installs offered by certain hosts.
Cost to attend this event is $5, to be collected at the event.-
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Heather Acton
No verified location yet. If anyone knows of a free location with wireless and a projector, please let me know. Making some calls today - hoping for gurnee, lake villa, or Antioch.
Posted January 22 at 1:25 PM -
Heather Acton
I'm verifying a few final details with the owner, but Grass Lake Landing in Antioch will be our likely location for this week. There will be food and drink available for purchase. Hopefully this will be a good ongoing spot for us! Thanks to Linda Ryder for the solid lead!!!
Posted January 22 at 2:44 PM -
Patrick Schwisow
Unfortunately I won't be able to make it, but please let me know if this location works well. LKPUG is looking for a good venue for future meetings.
Posted January 23 at 12:36 PM -
Heather Acton
Hi all - I'm checking to see what would be more helpful for folks. Would you rather do this topic, or one where we explore the WordPress dashboard, it's contents, and what all is possible? I'm thinking the latter lends itself better to a diverse crowd of beginning developers and all users, where only developers will probably care about doing a local install to MAMP. Let me know your thoughts...thanks!
Posted January 23 at 12:40 PM -
Caroline - Gurnee IL
Hi Heather.
Would it make sense to do a super-short (highly regulated 20 min) MAMP demo and then move into the dashboard? And then if a few/bunch of people would like to learn/know more about MAMP then there could be a shortened offshoot meeting for that group?
Just thinking out loud...
Posted January 23 at 1:06 PM -
NickS
I could go either way. I've never used MAMP and only installed WP before manually using the guides I found on the web. That suggestion by Caroline, seems like a good compromise...Also, I just realized that MAMP is for a MAC install. I am more a Windows/Linux user, so I think it might not be as interesting unless the process and wrinkles are similar to XAMPP or WAMP. I guess. Your call Heather...I will come for either plan or a combination of both.
Posted January 23 at 7:14 PM -
Caroline - Gurnee IL
Nick, good point. And yes, MAMP is very similar to WAMP. I too 99% of the time use Windows. Maybe that should be the poll question here to make the decision.
What platform do you design/develop on? Windows or Mac? Please chime in.
Thanks everyone! Sorry for hijacking your poll Heather :P Just trying to help!Caroline: Windows
Posted January 23 at 7:54 PM -
Heather Acton
Thank you, Caroline and Nick. I think I will do the hybrid. Kim Schroeder is coming prepared to do a WAMP install to, for PC users, so we should be covered. Thanks do much for your input and see you tomorrow!
Posted January 23 at 7:55 PM -
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Caroline - Gurnee IL
Not going to make it this evening. Sorry everyone. I was really looking forward to this. Next time hopefully.
Posted January 24 at 6:12 PM
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Heather ActonEvent HostOrganizerI enjoyed sharing with everyone and love the engagement in this group. Everyone is willing to share knowledge and collaborate. Hopefully this topic got people's feet wet in creating a development environment and working within a new WordPress install. We'll get even further into it all next month!Checked-in
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NickSThe presentations by both Kim and Heather were instructive and to the point. The group overall was polite and welcoming. The overall experience was enjoyable. :)
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