June 5, 2017 — Creating high quality content before designing and developing a custom WordPress site can be the difference between a successful project and one that goes over budget, wastes time and leaves everyone feeling frustrated. Unfortunately, the reality is that clients underestimate the enormous task of writing and editing and aggregating the right content.

After some trial and error, our team at Big Room Studios has worked to incorporate content gathering, writing and editing into every part of the web development process.

I’ll go over how we incorporate content creation into:
1. The sales process
2. Client intake and education
3. Wireframing and Information Architecture
4. Development sprints
5. Final writing and editing before launch

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June 4, 2017 — A case study on using Docker to develop from multiple machines. Covering docker-compose, docker files, basic commands and a few clever nginx hacks to round things out.

June 3, 2017 — We’ll start with an overview of what you can build with the Customizer and where to use it, followed by hands-on development building customizer controls. We’ll wrap up with a discussion on some of the more advanced ways you can leverage the customizer, with tips & techniques for your own theme.

May 30, 2017 — VVV 1 is a popular local developer environment, but VVV 2 is now available with significant improvements to site setup.

This session will walk through the new features, and how to migrate to VVV 2

May 16, 2017 — Desarrollo de un sitio web a partir de la aprobación de tu mockup de una forma ágil y sin temas hijos: Trabajar con Gantry agiliza tu proceso de desarrollo de una web. ¿Quieres unirte a la comunidad Gantry en español?

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March 24, 2017 — Great topic for developers of various levels. I walk through a case study and decision tree for building a theme framework and leveraging Child Themes and Grandchild Themes to build quality websites that can continue to be upgraded without affecting design or operability.

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February 27, 2017 — The day I discovered Vagrant was the day that I changed the way I worked. I went from fighting with server setups and local development boxes to seamlessly creating sites that fit in with my own workflow. But Vagrant by itself, while good, won’t get you there alone.

That’s where VVV – a WordPress development environment – comes in. VVV comes pre-equipped with all of the tools, bells, and whistles needed to streamline your development environment.

Mitch will walk you through the setup of Vagrant, commands and tips to help you get the most out of Vagrant, and other applications (VVV Dashboard and VV) that help you use VVV to its full potential.

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February 16, 2017 — Repasaremos buenas prácticas y etapas clave del ciclo de vida para el desarrollo, lanzamiento y explotación, de un sitio web basado en WordPress desde su conceptualización. Haremos referencia a cada una de las fases, hitos e importancia a lo largo del proceso, así como de los roles involucrados en el mismo. El objetivo de la ponencia es recorrer las fases del proceso de creación de un proyecto, donde establecer hitos y puntos de control, así como bucles, para llevarlo a cabo con altas probabilidades de éxito.

December 16, 2016 — You’ll love being a WordPress theme developer even more than you already do by learning to apply time- and sanity-saving practices to your WordPress development workflow. If you’ve heard about web developers using technologies like CSS preprocessors (e.g. Sass), task runners (e.g. Grunt, Gulp), and version control (e.g. Git) and wondered how to apply them to developing WordPress themes, I’ll show you how!

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December 11, 2016 — How does a WordPress get made?
Here’s the short version.

In a quickly-paced session, attendees will learn the way a release works from beginning to end.