{"id":2064,"date":"2017-10-09T12:30:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T16:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.philly.wordcamp.org\/?p=2064"},"modified":"2017-10-05T20:40:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T00:40:53","slug":"2064","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2017\/2064\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech and Art Mingle with the Practical in the WC Philly Designer Track"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seven speakers will share their expertise in WordPress techniques, creative tools and processes, not to mention evolving CSS, as part of the Designer track. Both designers and power users who want to build their skillsets will find useful topics at WordCamp Philly 2017 on October 28.<\/p>\n

The talks include unraveling the mysteries of the WordPress theme template hierarchy; learning the proper way to add scripts and stylesheets; and learning the basics of CSS grids.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The sessions and speakers for the Designer track are:<\/p>\n\n\t

\n\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\tEnqueueing Scripts and Styles\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

Presented by Paul Barthmaier<\/a> in Designer.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\"\"\t\t\t\t\t

WordPress relies on several programming languages to provide a solid, yet extensible, framework to build upon. The server-side language PHP does the heavy lifting behind the scenes to provide data to the browser. The browser employs client-side languages like HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery to produce a rich and seemingly limitless user experience. At its core, 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 talk you will learn how to tap into the system WordPress uses to manage the myriad scripts, and correctly load the scripts and styles you need so that WordPress can manage them efficiently. The method for adding scripts and styles to WordPress is essentially the same for both plugins and themes. In this talk, we will be customizing a child 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.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\tGet on the Grid!\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

Presented by Tracy Rotton<\/a> in Designer.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\"\"\t\t\t\t\t

CSS Grids are here! In this talk, I’ll go over the basics of the new specification including:<\/p>\n