August 7, 2019 — An introduction to registering custom blocks (via PHP) using ACF and implementing clean templating via Timber
Takeaways:
We can still create custom WordPress sites without having to dig deeply into JavaScript
We can keep our templates clean with Twig
ACF is still awesome and can help keep custom site building overhead low
August 19, 2016 — In this presentation I’ll show how WordPress themes (and sites) can be built to achieve 100/100 Google pagespeed. You’ll learn about my process of using Gulp to concatenate and minify resources, along with intentional enqueues and dequeues.
Bonus: some ways to configure cache plugins to achieve a similar effect.
Take aways:
How front-end performance effects mobile users on slower speeds.
Tips on improving front-end performance.
Gulp basics and how to use with WordPress.