July 31, 2017 — Jose Castaneda is a WordPress fanatic, theme reviewer, father, husband and life-lesson learner. He loves to learn new things and loves to share those lessons. He works on open-source projects when he can and try to give back when he is able to.

His interest include but are limited to type, music, fonts, art, design, PHP, WordPress, JavaScript, CSS, learning, code, hiking, photography, culinary arts, food, Flamenco guitar, music, video editing, HTML

Jose is a member of the Theme Review Team but also spends a lot of time on the support forums helping people with their WordPress issues.

July 29, 2017 — Jetpack, el plugin de Automattic para WordPress.org, es como un acorazado: grande, potente e indestructible. Pero, como un acorazado, no es útil en todas las situaciones.

Jetpack tiene infinidad de módulos que pueden hacer tu vida más fácil, y una serie de ellos que sólo necesitarás en casos específicos y que deberías saber activar y desactivar.

¿Quieres aprender y profundizar más con Jetpack? No te pierdas esta sesión.

July 23, 2017 — Kat Slump is a rising senior at the University of Nebraska at Omaha where she is pursuing a degree in IT Innovation.
Kat has had experiences in a variety of areas — from development to marketing to design — interning at Interface School, Flywheel and Apple. In her spare time, Kat loves playing with her kitten, Swift, who happens to be named after her favorite programming language. She also has a love for fashion and blogging. You can find Kat on Instagram & Twitter via @katslump.

July 23, 2017 — Building a Successful WordPress Business

July 23, 2017 — Building a Successful WordPress Business

July 22, 2017 — No one can dispute the power that democratized publishing affords us. After all, anyone today can start a website and be heard by the world. And of course, WordPress has played a central role in all this. But let’s face it, we have a problem on our hands. Over the past year now, misinformation on the internet seems to have reached a tipping point, not just in the United States, but all over the world. From the persistence of content designed to manipulate our emotions to the polarization of politics and the spread of radicalism, all of these issues can be attributed in some way to the ease with which anyone can find a voice on the internet today. My talk will therefore 1) describe the problems democratization can create, and 2) discuss potential solutions. To paraphrase a well-known saying, “The price of democratization is eternal vigilance.”

July 21, 2017 — “This presentation will:
▪ Define what a Component Library is
▪ How to use a Component Library
▪ Essential ingredients for creating your own Component Library
▪ How atomic design and component libraries work together
▪ How to consolidate your components used in a project into a pattern library”

July 21, 2017 — This session will describe the benefits of decoupled language pack updating, and why you should do this for your plugins and themes not hosted with wordpress.org.

July 21, 2017 — Active in the WordPress domain from last 3 years, Achal Jain currently works with IdeaBox Creations as Sr. Web Developer. He also likes to get himself involved towards aesthetic parts of the functionality too.
Achal talked about how one can leverage Underscore.js in specific use cases. He will also shed light on how you can take its use on frontend elements and data presentation.

July 21, 2017 — Nidhi Jain, the Themeing rockstar of IdeaBox Creations has over three years of experience in the WordPress ecosystem.
Nidhi talked about the ideology behind WordPress Customizer, how it is a useful tool and what are the things you should know while building or using customizer.