Eric Juden

St. Louis WordPress Users Group

Lately I’ve been thinking it would be good to start a St. Louis WordPress users group. I’d love to attend some of these and meet some other WordPress people in the St. Louis area. The idea of having a St. Louis WordCamp is also appealing, but I think it would be beneficial to find out how many people are interested in WordPress before investing the time for a WordCamp.

So who out there has a place to host such an event and would want to put it on? I’d be happy to help, but I’m not sure I’d be able to make it to every meeting. I wouldn’t want to be the point person, I’m just trying to get the ball rolling.

EDIT: I did come across a group on Facebook, the St. Louis and St. Charles WordPress Users Group. I signed up, but it doesn’t seem very active.

EDIT x2: I just found a meetup group for STL WordPress: http://www.meetup.com/stlwordpress/

Newsletter Converter 1.0.6 Released

Not sure if anyone has noticed, but the Newsletter Converter for WordPress has been updated to version 1.0.6. Hopefully this release fixes a lot of the timeout issues people were experiencing. You also have the ability to use cURL instead of php’s file_get_contents() function, which is apparently not enabled on a lot of web hosts…go figure.

If you are happy with it, feel free to buy me a beer (in the sidebar).