Chris Van Patten -

This week, I’m attending/speaking at WordCamp for Publishers 2018 in Chicago. It’s my first time in Chicago and my first time at an “enterprise-level” WordCamp, so I am beyond excited.
My talk was titled “Decisions, not Options” in the Age of Gutenberg, which covered some general design principles for building block UIs. As part of the talk I also open-sourced a new project: Gutenberg Human Interface Guidelines (HIG). These guidelines...

As Tomodomo (my company that builds websites for magazines) grows, I’m spending more and more of my time thinking through “bigger picture” technical architecture decisions, as opposed to actual implementation. I try hard to make sure our technical architecture...

I was thrilled to be asked back to WordCamp Halifax this year, after having spoken at last year’s inaugural event.
This year, I spoke about Gutenberg (which I’m using to write this post), and our experience of choosing Gutenberg and building for a Gutenberg world. The talk was more philosophy and anecdote than step-by-step coding lesson: how and why we decided to...

I was so happy to be part of the first ever WordCamp Halifax last weekend, speaking about a topic near to my heart: making WordPress development suck less.
I also debuted a new technique for “wrapping” WordPress inside a Slim Framework core (you could easily adapt this for other frameworks too)....