Author Archives: Heather Acton

About Heather Acton

WordPress engineer building custom themes and plugins for clients with purpose. Specialties include design (Figma/Sketch/Photoshop) to theme, admin usability, and WooCommerce / Woo Subscriptions performance and customization.

Speaker Spotlight: Ron Rennick – BuddyPress Child Themes

May 29, 2010 by Heather Acton • Comments Off on Speaker Spotlight: Ron Rennick – BuddyPress Child Themes

A BuddyPress theme is a superset of a WordPress theme. It’s a fully functional WordPress theme with extra functionality to handle the BuddyPress content. I have been developing themes for WordPress since 2005 and working with BuddyPress themes since 2008. … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Ron Rennick – BuddyPress Child Themes →

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Speaker Spotlight: Jake Goldman – Hijacking WordPress Administration

May 28, 2010 by Heather Acton • 1 Comment

As developers, most of us know how to tailor the front end of WordPress to our clients’ or users’ hearts’ desires. The real WordPress Ninjas know how to refine the part most visitors never see – the back end – … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Jake Goldman – Hijacking WordPress Administration →

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Speaker Spotlight: Aaron Jorbin – Building Child Themes

May 28, 2010 by Heather Acton • Comments Off on Speaker Spotlight: Aaron Jorbin – Building Child Themes

Building a theme from scratch is so 2007. Now with a default theme like Twenty Ten and theme frameworks such as Thematic, Carrington, and Hybrid there are less and less reasons to ever build a theme from scratch.

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Speaker Spotlight: Kyle Jones – WordPress and BuddyPress in Education

May 28, 2010 by Heather Acton • 1 Comment

I’ve listened and learned from some of the best WordPress gurus for the past five years of my experience using WordPress in a variety of educational ways.  But at WordCamp Chicago I’m able to give back to the community that’s … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Kyle Jones – WordPress and BuddyPress in Education →

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Speaker Spotlight: Chris Jean – How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Backup WordPress

May 26, 2010 by Heather Acton • Comments Off on Speaker Spotlight: Chris Jean – How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Backup WordPress

My name is Chris Jean. I get the honor of speaking about a very important topic that most people never think about. Imagine that you just lost everything on your site. You wake up in the morning to find that … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Chris Jean – How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Backup WordPress →

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Speaker Spotlight: John James Jacoby – Creative uses for BuddyPress

May 26, 2010 by Heather Acton • Comments Off on Speaker Spotlight: John James Jacoby – Creative uses for BuddyPress

My name is John James Jacoby and I am a core contributor on the BuddyPress project, a WordPress plugin that enables social networking functionality. Almost every day a new and inventive use of WordPress is discovered; the news format, photo-blogging, … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: John James Jacoby – Creative uses for BuddyPress →

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