Title: Agenda for May 2, 2017 Meeting Author: Josepha Published: May 2, 2017 --- [ ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chanthaboune/) [Josepha](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chanthaboune/) 2:15 pm _on_ May 2, 2017 Tags: [agenda ( 36 )](https://make.wordpress.org/training/tag/agenda/) # Agenda for May 2, 2017 Meeting The training team will be in the [#training](https://wordpress.slack.com/messages/training/) channel on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform [https://slack.com/](https://slack.com/). The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at [https://make.wordpress.org/chat/](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/) later today for our weekly meeting at our regular time: 19:00 UTC. If you can’t make it, please leave us a note in the comments and we’ll include your thoughts and/or updates in the meeting! 1. Welcome! 2. Lesson Plan Updates 3. Copyediting Updates 4. Testing Updates 5. 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[Paul Barthmaier](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pbarthmaier/) 2:27 pm _on_ May 2, 2017 3. I made some suggestions to the Enqueueing Scripts and Styles, which [@jenwill](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jenwill/) has wonderfully revised. Rather than pasting in SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform [https://slack.com/](https://slack.com/). The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at [https://make.wordpress.org/chat/](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/), I am sharing here as well. 4. WordPress relies on several programming languages to provide a solid, yet extensibleExtensible This is the ability to add additional functionality to the code. Plugins extend the WordPress core software., framework to build upon. The server-side language PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. [https://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php](https://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php) does the heavy lifting behind the scenes to provide data to the browser. The browser employs client-side languages like HTMLHTML HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites., CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site., JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. [https://www.javascript.com](https://www.javascript.com/) and jQuery to produce a rich and seemingly limitless user experience. At its coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., WordPress already manages a long list of scripts and styles to produce a functioning web page. Many scripts and styles are included in WordPress core; others are added by plugins or themes. WordPress has built-in systems to keep track of all the scripts and styles, keep them from conflicting with each other, and use them in the correct order. In this lesson you will learn how to tap into the system WordPress uses to manage the myriad scripts, and correctly load the scripts and styles in your theme you need so that WordPress can manages them efficiently. 5. The method for adding scripts and styles to WordPress is essentially the same for both plugins and themes. In this Lesson Plan, we will be customizing a theme, but what you will learn is also applicable to building plugins. The proper way to add scripts and styles to your theme is to enqueue them in the functions.php file. The details of how to do this depend on several things, including whether you are enqueueing scripts or styles, and whether they will be used on front-end pages, admin pages, or login pages. 6. * ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/eea3308bbc7a879b11adeae863df8817f68fd13afffa859d6d9ce53a430a61fe? s=32&d=mm&r=g) * [Paul Barthmaier](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pbarthmaier/) 2:31 pm _on_ May 2, 2017 * I also thought that since this Lesson Plan is about Enqueueing Scripts and Styles, and not about creating a 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/](https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/), I thought we should give them a child theme upfront: * [Child Theme](https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4dq6kAD2ZPeV0hma3gtU21HdkU) * And then for the lesson we can build on it by adding some scripts, such as: [Slider Scripts](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MhPCOlLr2g7MVuLsGoKpl625Hiu-SgTbwtvcIFl9FWE/edit?usp=sharing) * And we could include the final product, if need be: [Updated Child theme](https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4dq6kAD2ZPeLTdGb08zYzA2aWc) 7. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/eea3308bbc7a879b11adeae863df8817f68fd13afffa859d6d9ce53a430a61fe? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 8. [Paul Barthmaier](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pbarthmaier/) 2:47 pm _on_ May 2, 2017 9. Not sure if this [Lesson Plan](https://make.wordpress.org/training/?post_type=handbook&p=6441&preview_id=6441&preview_nonce=5047e732a5&_thumbnail_id=-1&preview=true) is necessary in light of the Enqeueing plan ### Leave a Reply 󠀁[Cancel reply](https://make.wordpress.org/training/2017/05/02/agenda-for-may-2-2017-meeting/?output_format=md#respond)󠁿 You must be [logged in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fmake.wordpress.org%2Ftraining%2F2017%2F05%2F02%2Fagenda-for-may-2-2017-meeting%2F&locale=en_US) to post a comment. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. [Learn how your comment data is processed.](https://akismet.com/privacy/) # Post navigation [← Recap of April 25, 2017 Meeting](https://make.wordpress.org/training/2017/04/27/recap-of-april-25-2017-meeting/) [Agenda for May 9, 2017 Meeting →](https://make.wordpress.org/training/2017/05/09/agenda-for-may-9-2017-meeting/)