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Recap of July 15, 2014 Meeting

Status of Modules in progress

Child Themes (@liljimmi)
Tracy added Screening Questions and Teacher Notes. This module needs to be tested live 1 more time
WordPress Template Hierarchy (@CoachBirgit)
Birgit added Screening Questions and Teacher Notes

Other Items

Teacher Resources page (@tecdoc)
We need a link to a good 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. tutorial
Anatomy of a Module page (@courtneydawn)
Tracy will update the page to include an explanation of Screening Questions and Teacher Notes
Copy editing (@meaganhanes)
We have a new copy editor – Meagan Hanes. She will get started on 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 .
Module Suggestion
@juliekuehl suggested adding an overall Module Description to the top of each module. Something that tells the instructor what’s cover and can be used as a description of the class/workshop/presentation itself. Tracy will add this to the Child Theme module and see what people think.

Tracy Levesque 4:34 pm on July 16, 2014

I updated the Anatomy of a Module page to include a description of each section: https://make.wordpress.org/training/anatomy-of-a-module/

Feel free to add to it!

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Recap of July 15, 2014 Meeting

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