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Kathryn<\/a> thrives on helping people get the most out of WordPress. After a career designing and building websites for clients, she joined Automattic as a Happiness Engineer in 2012. She\u2019s currently Theme Whisperer on the Theme Team<\/a>, where she helps folks with customization, configuration, and troubleshooting. She enjoys spreading her passion for WordPress at grassroots events like WordCamps, Girl Geeks, and Ladies Learning Code, and also loves encouraging new public speakers.<\/a><\/p>\n Follow\u00a0@zoonini<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter.<\/p>\n Kathryn will be giving a talk titled “A CSS Adventure<\/a>“.<\/p>\n The overhaul of the theme and plugin directories on WordPress.org and within wp-admin.<\/p>\n How could I not participate in my home WordCamp? :-)<\/p>\n Customizing a site with CSS is powerful and useful \u2013 but can seem intimidating if you’re new to it. I’ll walk us through the basics of using CSS to make changes like modifying text size and colour, and hiding elements in the theme. We’ll look at what CSS can do, what the different parts of CSS code mean, and how to put together a piece of CSS that accomplishes your goal. We’ll go through a few examples together and see how much fun CSS can be.<\/p>\n I hope people will be inspired to go straight to their site and make a tweak they’ve been wanting to get done!<\/p>\n I’m inspired by all the folks who do the unglamorous work to support WordPress and strengthen the community, whether it’s translating strings, helping make sure WordPress is accessible, or answering forum questions.<\/p>\n More intuitive theme setup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kathryn thrives on helping people get the most out of WordPress. After a career designing and building websites for clients, she joined Automattic as a Happiness Engineer in 2012. She\u2019s currently Theme Whisperer on the Theme Team, where she helps … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Kathryn Presner<\/span>
\nWhat is your favorite improvement to WordPress this past year?<\/h3>\n
Why did you decide to speak at WordCamp Montreal?<\/h3>\n
What is your talk going to be about?<\/h3>\n
What is the one thing you want people to walk away with from your talk?<\/h3>\n
Who in the WordPress community inspires you? Who do you follow?<\/h3>\n
What new feature would you like to see in the future?<\/h3>\n