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title: 'Portland WordPress User Group: Why save all the love for WordCamp Portland?'
date: '2009-01-06T01:51:48-08:00'
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  - Events
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  - Beer
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  - Wordpress
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# Portland WordPress User Group: Why save all the love for WordCamp Portland?

[![WordPress](https://i0.wp.com/siliconflorist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/logowordpress.gif?w=925)](http://wordpress.org "WordPress")Hands down, one of the [most compelling and beneficial events](http://siliconflorist.com/2008/09/29/wordcamp-portland-wordcampdx-2008/ "WordCamPDX") of the Portland Web scene last year was [WordCamp Portland](http://www.wordcampportland.org/ "WordCamp Portland"), where the [WordPress](http://wordpress.org "WordPress") faithful took the opportunity to gather, share ideas, and learn about new ways to use their favorite blogging platform.

So much WordPress love from the community. It seems a shame to keep it pent up all year.

Enter [Portland WordPress User Group](http://www.anotherblogger.com/2009/01/05/portland-wordpress-user-group/ "Portland WordPress User Group"), a new event designed to help newbies get the help they need, to ensure power users get more powerful, and to generally forge a stronger community among the WordPress types here in town. And an event—most importantly—designed to occur much more often than once a year.

Apart from the assurances of “I know [Beer and Blog](http://portland.beerandblog.com/ "Beer and Blog"). I’ve been to Beer and Blog. This is not Beer and Blog,” the format is still pretty open. The first gathering will be designed to help form that, um, format.

The inaugural meeting will be held Thursday, January 15th from 6:00-7:30pm at [CubeSpace](http://cubespacepdx.com "CubeSpace"). To RSVP, [visit Upcoming](http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1475627/).