{"id":306,"date":"2012-08-14T10:03:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T16:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2012.slc.wordcamp.org\/?p=306"},"modified":"2012-08-22T08:08:27","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T14:08:27","slug":"chris-reynolds-wpslc-speaker-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2012\/chris-reynolds-wpslc-speaker-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Reynolds — WCSLC Speaker Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Chris<\/a>I am a project manager, developer and support monkey for the premium WordPress event management plugin, Event Espresso<\/a>. I’m also a WordPress theme and plugin developer and I launched a web design studio in 2007 with my wife, called Arcane Palette Creative Design<\/a>. In 2010 we debuted Museum Themes<\/a>, a premium WordPress theme shop. I volunteered to help with the WCSLC preparations this year, and have been working on the web site, content, and the theme (which uses _s<\/a>). <\/p>\n

To the best of my knowledge, I started on WordPress 2.1. Before that I was using a software called Sblog<\/a>, but I was frustrated by the lack of updates. Before that<\/em> I maintained a web-log the old-fashioned way, with HTML and manual FTP updates. I used to say that my favorite part of WordPress was its ease-of-use, but lately my answer has changed to how easy it is to develop for it. A few years ago I would never have considered myself a developer. I have since dived into code — for custom themes, plugins, for Event Espresso, as well as plugins (and one theme) in the WordPress.org repositories — and am constantly amazed at the wealth of tools and documentation at my disposal.<\/p>\n

When I’m not doing things related to WordPress, I’m an avid gamer. I love gaming on the computer, but even more than that, I love tabletop gaming. Castle Panic<\/a>, Settlers of Catan<\/a>, Munchkin<\/a> and Forbidden Island<\/a> are some of my current favorites.<\/p>\n

A project I’m most proud of right now is the new Event Espresso website. I did a lot of little, back-end things, custom plugins, and a lot of the initial development for what’s now the product system. I’ve also done quite a bit with the bbPress forums<\/a> which have received significant amount of hacking. The site is also using 2 of my plugins: WordPress Wiki That Doesn’t Suck<\/a> (used for the Documentation pages<\/a>) and my Progress Bar<\/a> plugin (used on various<\/a> pages<\/a> on the site<\/a>).<\/p>\n

My presentation at this year’s WordCamp<\/a> will build off of what I presented last year<\/a>, which was an introduction to the idea of doing theme development and\/or light theme modifications. This presentation is going to get into the nitty gritty of theme development and is largely informed by my own experience getting my theme, Museum Core<\/a>, added to the WordPress.org repository, and what I learned through the theme review process.<\/p>\n

While I don’t listen to jazz all the time, I do listen to some, and my favorite jazz musician is John Coltrane<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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