Better WordPress Style: Using SASS & LESS CSS Preprocessors

CSS controls the look and formatting of your website, allowing you to give your site a unique look. CSS Preprocessors take this to another level, making it easier to reuse and manage your CSS code.

Although their syntax is different, both LESS and SASS follow the DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) principle and support reusable variables, nested selectors, and functions. Define your style only once; apply to your selectors as needed. Saving you time. And writing better, cleaner CSS.

In this hands-on presentation, we’ll go through how to create a WordPress theme style sheet with SASS and LESS CSS, and reuse your styles on future projects.

OPENING PRESENTATION:

Kuratur is a new WordPress plugin that targets one of the biggest challenges facing website owners: content. Kuratur keeps your site stocked with fresh, relevant content that will build trust and credibility with your target audience. This content is syndicated from your hand-picked social media sources (Twitter, Facebook, RSS), and automatically updated as often as every hour.

GET ONE-ON-ONE ASSISTANCE AT OUR HELP DESK:

The experts from Tadpole.cc (http://tadpole.cc/) will be available throughout the evening to help you with your WordPress issues and answer your questions.

"WPNYC GIVES BACK" RAFFLE:

We will raffle off $1 for each user that RSVP's. This money will be split between:

• One WPNYC member.

• A WordPress developer that has donated a free theme or plugin to the community (chosen by the member winner)

Check out our past winners > (http://wpnyc.org/gives-back/)

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

Gabriela Levit (http://jacarandatech.com/) is a managing member of Jacaranda Technologies, with over 15 years of programming experience. Jacaranda focuses on creating WordPress web sites, custom WordPress themes and plugins. She was a recent 2014 WordCamp Phoenix speaker and WordCamp New York volunteer. When not programming, she can be found taking pictures, eating /cooking yummy food, and traveling – sometimes all three at once.

Kirsten Lambertsen (http://www.kuratur.com/) is an internet industry veteran of over 16 years, all in startups. She was the founder of BeautyRiot.com, the first virtual beauty makeover on the web, which she sold in 2009. She founded Kuratur in
September of 2012.