September 30, 2020 — Implementing Gutenberg on older sites can be a daunting task with sites using custom field managers. This talks describes two different migrations, each with very different approaches to migrating “legacy content” to Gutenberg.

August 5, 2019 — Lightning talk. Lessons learned from working remotely (mostly with WordPress) while on a two year road trip.

January 11, 2019 — In this presentation I’ll take a deep dive into my preferred development and deployment workflow. I’ll cover how to work with code quality tools such as PHPMD, PHP_CodeSniffer and JSLint, as well as how to implement Test Driven Development into a custom plugin. I’ll wrap the whole thing up by demonstrating how to connect everything to a continuous integration / delivery pipelines to test the code and deploy automatically.

Takeaways:

Code Quality
TDD
CI/CD

Presentation Slides »

August 14, 2016 — *This is a 15-minute Lightning Talk*

April 15, 2015 — Plugin Development Panel

September 11, 2014 — If you’ve used WordPress for very long chances are you’ve used these features before. This talk will cover how to configure widgets and menus and possibly show you some new tricks that you may not have known about. Aimed for beginners and intermediate users.

May 14, 2014 — Learn about Vagrant, a local development tool that’s way better than MAMP or WAMP, standardizes environmental variables and will make you a better developer.

July 15, 2013 — Learn the “right way” to include javascripts in your theme or plugin and how to pass variables and translated strings to your scripts.

May 23, 2013 — Russell Fair tells us what’s what on child themes at the Atlanta WordPress: Hands On Learning Meetup.