October 31, 2016 — These days development needs to compliment design. So many designers have broad skills with branding, print design, and web design. Speaking developer and communicating that design vision to be executed is tricky. Having spent years working with both designers and developer, I want to help our design oriented audience learn to plan an amazing WordPress site that can be developed into a great theme. All while keeping the designer and developers from killing each other.

October 30, 2016 — This talk is an overview of how to incorporate Sass into your theme building practices.

The talk will cover:

What is Sass and why should you use it
File organization, including WordPress-specific considerations
Sass best practices, including WordPress-specific considerations
Using a task runner (grunt/gulp) and development best practices
Thoughts and considerations for parent/child themes
Incorporating 3rd party libraries and frameworks
Exposing styles to WP Admin for better WYSIWYG display
Thoughts and considerations for development vs production CSS
Debugging CSS issues in the Sass
Mention of PostCSS and how it can complement Sass

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October 27, 2016 — Some plugin or theme projects won’t ever be in the official Plugin or Theme Directories. Still, it would be great to be able to send client’s updates. Wouldn’t it? We’ll talk about little about development but mostly about direct deployment from your git host.

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October 27, 2016 — For when you need a custom solution where the default WordPress installation process and code management just won’t work. Make updating core and managing plugins easier through code driven development.

October 8, 2016 — Learn the correct way to enqueue scripts, how to load scripts only when they’re needed instead of all the time, and how to write your JavaScript in a way that minimizes the potential for conflicts with other plugins or with themes.

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October 6, 2016 — Николай Миронов — веб-дизайнер и разработчик, специалист по компьютерной графике. Для Николая это четвертое выступление на WordCamp в Москве.

В этом году он расскажет о том как пройти путь от личной странички в интернете до коммерческих заказов на веб-разработку.

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May 14, 2016 — Quitting banking to pursue web development and how WordPress has empowered that.

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January 11, 2016 — A group discussion and Q&A regarding the REST API and WordPress Development.