March’s WordPress Providence Meetup will take place on March 22, 2011, at 6 pm, at McFadden’s Restaurant & Saloon. We’ll be in their private room; food and drinks will be served. Free drinks for the first 10 attendees, withfree finger foods for all, courtesy this month’s sponsor.Parking is free on and off street (starts at 5:30 pm).

Back during our 3rd meetup, Providence’s MoFuse introduced us to their third party platform for mobilizing your website. Now we’re going to take a look at two other ways to mobilize your WordPress powered site.

After a quick discussion about choosing your mobile approach, we’ll have two short walkthroughs. Meetup organizer Drew Bennett will walk us through setting up the WPtouch plug-in, available in both free and premium/paid editions, demonstrating a simple and off the shelf way to mobilize your WordPress site. After Drew’s tutorial, we’ll walk through a more developer centric approach (speaker TBA), that involves a few simple custom lines of code in your header and astylesheet built specifically for mobile. Whether you’re a simple WordPress blogger looking to nail the mobile audience, or a developer (WordPress user or not!) looking for some techniques to optimize your site for mobile, you’ll get something out of our March meetup!

This meet up is sponsored by BRIDGE Technical Solutions. BRIDGE Technical Solutions is a full-service Information Technology staffing firm with a fast growing information-centric security consulting practice. Headquartered in Rhode Island, BRIDGE has been proudly serving the Information Technology community in Rhode Island and Southeastern New England for more than a decade.