Category Archives: Past Meetups

What’s the gist of this meetup? I want to help you build Divi websites more efficiently and confidently, which is why I’d like to share my Divi workflow with you during this 2-part meetup. In part 2 (held in February 2021), we’ll talk about refining your building techniques. (Check out the slides and recording for […]

What’s the gist of this meetup? I want to help you build Divi websites more efficiently and confidently, which is why I’d like to share my Divi workflow with you during this 2-part meetup. In part 1 (held in January 2021), we’ll talk about establishing your workflow. What topics will I hear about? Creating a […]

Your website is not a cornfield… just because you built it, doesn’t mean they’ll come. So, you’ve got a website — great! Now it’s time to sit back and watch the business roll in, right? I mean, that’s how it works in the movie — he builds the baseball field in the middle of nowhere, […]

SEO is over-analyzed and over-explained. But it really comes down to 1 thing: how well can you connect your website to your audience? The gap between your website and your audience can be difficult to bridge. Fortunately, the best way to connect those two sides is through something that doesn’t require technical knowledge — content […]

JAMstack is growing in popularity as a faster, more secure option than a traditional CMS like WordPress. However, WordPress is still a powerful tool for creating and managing content and can serve as the backend for a modern application. In this session, you’ll learn what JAMstack is, why many consider it the future of the […]

Last fall we held our first mega meetup. We loved the format so much we wanted to have another this year. Due to COVID, however, we had to move our meetups online and make a few adjustments. See the schedule and sessions below and make sure to RSVP for each session you want to attend […]

Whether your goal is to work on and preview your own website changes or to update and present changes for a client’s website, managing multiple WordPress instances can help your workflow. We’ll discuss the benefits of creating local, staging, and live WordPress environments for your site and how to manage changes across multiple environments. Duncan […]

Headless WordPress is known to dramatically speed up your site (up to 8 times as fast, if you can believe Netlify!) It seems as easy as following a Smashing Magazine article, or so Benji Kostenbader, Front-End Developer at Top Hat, thought. But what about ACFs, Yoast, Forms, and Custom Post Types? Follow him on a […]

For our May 2020 Meetup, Understanding (Yoast) SEO, we had a guest presenter give us an overview of the best practices for using Yoast SEO plugin, including: Setting defaults for search appearance and making sure only the content you want indexed gets indexed Generating the XML sitemap and checking it carefully Connecting your site to […]

Security and performance is important for any website. But what about a website with hundreds of thousands of visitors per month and millions of dollars a year on the line? In this session built for site managers and developers, Top Hat founder Ben Butler will share lessons from managing and building high-traffic WordPress shops to […]