I live with my wife and daughter in central Illinois, where we pack our weekends with small town living.
Speaking session
Back To Square One: Building A WordPress Starter Development Kit in the Agency track.
Tell us more about yourself
I am a designer and developer who has an insatiable desire to build things worth putting my name on. Currently, I am an active member of a number of remote development teams, including Modern Tribe where I am learning how to help teams become helpful, happy, curious and accountable.
What’s your presentation all about?
Our team set out to create a WordPress starter development kit in order to speed up development and help keep uniformity among projects. So, how did we build it? Why didn’t we use “________” framework instead? What does the code look like? Is our universe real? What is true happiness? This session will attempt to answer at least 60% of these questions.
What do you want people to learn from your presentation?
How to work as a team to think ahead and give yourself a headstart on WordPress development projects.
Why did you decide to speak?
My topic is something that I would love to learn about from someone else, so I wanted to share my own experience.
What attracted you to WordPress in the first place?
Open source + plugins! As a newbie developer, the plugin repository was like a candy store that gave out free candy. If there was functionality I didn’t know how to build, I could almost always find a plugin that did the job AND be able to look under the hood and try to understand what was going on.
What is your favourite plugin or theme, and why?
Admin Bar Toggle – it’s an extremely simple plugin that allows you to toggle the admin bar on/off on the front end. It really comes in handy when working with layouts with fixed headers.
What are you most looking forward to at WordCamp Toronto?
Meeting new people and learning from others!