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Linn will be giving a talk titled “Don\u2019t Fear the Custom Theme: How to build a custom WordPress theme with only four files<\/a>“.<\/p>\n If I have to pick just one: responsive image support. It’s also been great to see the little tweaks to the content editing experience as WordPress continues getting easier to use.<\/p>\n I love your city! Plus I met lots of Montr\u00e9al WordPress people at last year’s WordCamp in Toronto and everyone was so lovely, it was a good excuse to make the trip.<\/p>\n The bare minimum of PHP functions you need to create a custom WordPress theme. Child themes totally have their place in the ecosystem; this is just an alternate way to get into making your own themes without having to rely on commercial ones.<\/p>\n The confidence to try writing some PHP! Or if you’re already doing that, some inspiration to approaching theme building from a more lean, stripped-down perspective.<\/p>\n Other than WordCamps I don’t participate in the community as much as I’d like to, so this is going to be a short list \u2013 the two people that come to mind immediately are Billy Gregory, for giving people a kick in the pants to take accessibility seriously, and Zoe Rooney, for sharing everything from business admin strategies to WordPress functions (sadly she’s no longer in the industry, but I still use things I learned from her all the time).<\/p>\n I use Advanced Custom Fields on most of my projects, but sometimes I don’t need the full power of that plugin, so I’d love a better UI for basic custom fields in core. I wouldn’t simply want ACF integrated though since Elliott Condon already does such a great job of supporting and improving the plugin as a separate product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Linn \u00d8yen Farley is a Canadian\/Norwegian cat enthusiast. She runs a one-person web design & development studio in Toronto, where she works primarily with WordPress. On the side she teaches beginner classes in WordPress, HTML & CSS with Camp Tech. Linn will be giving a talk titled “Don\u2019t Fear the Custom Theme: How to build … Continue reading “Speaker Spotlight: Linn \u00d8yen Farley”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7673567,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker-spotlight"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7673567"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2078,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions\/2078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\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