Jared is the founder of Upstatement, a web design firm located in Boston that specializes in responsive websites for media companies (like BostonGlobe.com which they designed in 2011). At Upstatement he directs projects and uses WordPress to build and prototype sites. Jared was formally the newsroom developer at the Houston Chronicle and Boston Globe and an adjunct professor at MassArt. He graduated from Syracuse University in 2006 with a BA in Computer Art.

Presentation: WordPress Templates are Broken! (but we can fix them)

In my talk I’ll be covering Twig, a popular open-source template language for PHP. By integrating it with WordPress (via the Timber plugin) developers can take advantage of a dramatically simpler theme development process that reduces errors, speeds-up coding and makes it easier to work with front-end designers.

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