Recap of June 24 2014 Meeting Status of…

Recap of June 24, 2014 Meeting

Status of Modules in progress

• Child Themes (@liljimmi)

  Added sections for Screening Questions and Teacher Notes, but just need to fill in content.

  Highlighted the quiz answers in green, but will switch to the answer below the question and list of options.

  After these items are done it will be ready for @jenmylo to review and get tested at least one more time at a MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area.

• Intro to CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. (@JerrySarcastic)

  Jerry has been busy, but will work on this during airplane time.

• WordPress Template Hierarchy (@CoachBirgit)

  Birgit is taking this on – yay! This was started by Tracy (@liljimmi) but she’s happy to share.

• Templates (@liljimmi & @tecdoc)

  After Child Themes gets moved to the done pile Tracy will work on this next.

• Conditional Tags

  This is currently an orphan and needs someone to take it up

Other Items

• Teacher Resources page (@tecdoc)

  Tom is going to work on this and get in contact with @jjtoothman on Twitter who expressed interest in wanting to help with a local installLocal Install A local install of WordPress is a way to create a staging environment by installing a LAMP or LEMP stack on your local computer. guide.

• Copy editing (@ruthkalinka)

  Ruth is going to try to finish up copy editing the Child ThemeChild theme A Child Theme is a customized theme based upon a Parent Theme. It’s considered best practice to create a child theme if you want to modify the CSS of your theme. https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/. module, but she has been very busy lately.

• Quiz PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party

  @courtneydawn thought she remembered @jenmylo mentioning using a quiz plugin to do the quiz. Or maybe it was in development or something like that. We need to confirm.

• WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Dev days

  Tracy and Courtney are planning on holding Team Training work meetings at WCNYC and WCSF dev days. It looks like most of the team will be at one or the other. Awesome!

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