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  • “We love it. Now change everything.”

    February 28, 2016
    Sallie Goetsch
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    “We love it. Now change everything.”

    If you request a comprehensive change at a late stage of site development, any developer who wants to avoid bankruptcy is going to land you with a nice fat change order. Read this series to learn how to avoid being a Client from Hell.

    Series: Projects from Hell
    Filed under: WordPress Consulting
  • Learn How WordPress Works

    February 28, 2016
    Sallie Goetsch
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    Learn How WordPress Works

    A  website is essentially a piece of business equipment. If you bought a new copy machine for the office, or a new delivery van, or a security system, you’d have to learn how to use it. The more you know, the better you can plan.

    Series: Projects from Hell
    Filed under: WordPress Consulting
    Tagged with: Learning WordPress
  • Get to Grips with Your Content

    February 28, 2016
    Sallie Goetsch
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    Get to Grips with Your Content

    “Content” is a generic term that includes all the material you have on your website: text, photos, video, audio. A content management system (CMS) like WordPress is designed to let you add, edit, and remove content without having to mess with the site’s design or functionality. Content strategy should be one of the very first things you…

    Series: Projects from Hell
    Filed under: WordPress Consulting, Content Strategy
    Tagged with: Content Audit
  • Take the Discovery Process Seriously

    February 28, 2016
    Sallie Goetsch
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    Take the Discovery Process Seriously

    You might think that a paid discovery session is only necessary when your site has hundreds of pages or a lot of bells and whistles. You would be wrong.

    Series: Projects from Hell
    Filed under: WordPress Consulting
    Tagged with: Discovery
  • Invest in Comprehensive Design

    February 28, 2016
    Sallie Goetsch
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    Invest in Comprehensive Design

    You can speed up the development process by investing in comprehensive design that includes multiple screen sizes, all your content types, and interactive elements.

    Series: Projects from Hell
    Filed under: WordPress Consulting
    Tagged with: Page Builders

What I Write About

  • Book Reviews
  • Content Strategy
  • Design
  • Hosting and Servers
  • Most Valuable Plugins
  • There's a Plugin for That
  • Using WordPress
  • Widgets
  • WordPress Consulting
  • WordPress Events

Series

  • Events Calendar Tutorials
  • WP-Tonic Roundtable
  • WordCamps
  • Projects from Hell
  • Checking Up on Your Website
  • Interviews

East Bay WordPress Meetup

  • Does It Work? Using The New CSS Layout with Rachel Andrew
    Description Over the past two years, we have moved from a situation where we essentially lacked a layout system for the web, to one where a complex and flexible system […] The post Does It Work? Using The New CSS Layout with Rachel Andrew appeared first on East Bay WordPress Meetup.
  • Speaker Training
    Get the workbook and slides for the October 2019 speaker training, plus background and pro tips. The post Speaker Training appeared first on East Bay WordPress Meetup.
  • SEO Audit Template & Resources
    Our November speaker, John Locke, graciously provided a template for an SEO audit report. You can download it as a Microsoft Word or PDF document. The post SEO Audit Template & Resources appeared first on East Bay WordPress Meetup.
  • How to Conduct an SEO Audit (11/18/18 Slides)
    The purpose of an SEO Audit is to give a website the best chances of ranking. It is an investigative process. Doing it properly takes time, nuance, and an understanding of context. The post How to Conduct an SEO Audit (11/18/18 Slides) appeared first on East Bay WordPress Meetup.
  • Slides: Google Tag Manager
    Anca Mosoiu demonstrates the use of Google Tag Manager for handling all of your tracking scripts and understanding the behavior of your website visitors. The post Slides: Google Tag Manager appeared first on East Bay WordPress Meetup.

About Me

Sallie Goetsch, smiling, wearing blue-framed glasses and a peacock-feather-motif jacket.
No longer a girl, but still a fan, I built my first website in 1994 and have been building with WordPress since 2005.

Contact Information

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I work from home in Oakley, 45 miles northeast of the WordPress Meetup in Oakland.
  • Sallie Goetsch (rhymes with ‘sketch’)
  • sallie [at] wpfangirl [dot] com
  • +1 (510) 969 -9947 voice/text
  • 2063 Main St #133, Oakley, CA 94561

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