How to Create a Beautiful and Functional Site for Your WordPress Meetup Group – WordPress.com

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Taking advantage of our free site offer for your WordPress community? Here are some new templates you can use.
Ola Bodera
A few weeks ago at WordCamp Europe we announced free sites for local WordPress meetup groups. This initiative aims to support the WordPress community by providing free world-class hosting to promote your local meetups.
Today we’re bringing you a set of easy-to-use templates, along with some ideas on how to customize your community site. Let’s dive in! 
WordPress.com offers a huge variety of themes, but if you’re looking for a place to start, you can’t go wrong with Twenty Twenty-Four. It’s a community project, comes with a professional, polished look, and offers plenty of built-in patterns that make site building a breeze. It also lends itself beautifully to customization.
Twenty Twenty-Four already has a lot going for it, but we decided to take it a step further and offer a couple of custom, community-focused page layouts to go along with it. Our stylish homepage and events page templates will seamlessly integrate with your site. 
The homepage layout includes a welcome message, stats section, upcoming events, a blog, and a call for speakers. All of these are optional and can be removed or re-arranged as needed. Plus, you can supplement them with other patterns from the catalog, like social icons to promote your local group’s social media presence.
Let’s have a look!
First, you’ll want to activate the Twenty Twenty-Four theme on your site. Next, follow these steps to set up your homepage:
Repeat as necessary for the Events page, and any other page that you might want to add to your site, like About, Contact, or Blog.
The above page layouts can also be found in our pattern library in the Events category.
Once you’ve applied a template, it’s time to make it your own. Customizing your site to match your group’s vision is easy. Don’t forget to grab official WordPress logos and other visual assets.
Experiment with fonts and colors to make your design unique. Twenty Twenty-Four theme comes with six style variations that include different colors and fonts, and can be further adjusted as needed.
Use the power of Site Editor to change the header and footer of your site. Twenty Twenty-Four comes with a selection of built-in options for the site headers and footers, so take your pick!
Use the Social Icons block to display logos that link to your social media profiles anywhere on your site.
Once your local community website is ready, don’t forget to add the link to your group description and the “Find us” section on your official Meetup.com page.
We are committed to providing the best tools and resources for the WordPress community. What other patterns or templates would be useful for your meetup site? Share your thoughts and suggestions with us—we’re here to help you succeed!
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