Automated WordPress Development

A widely recognized best-practice in web development is to keep JS and CSS to a minimum. This means combining multiple files into a single download and minifying the file so it loads quickly. Grunt is a local development tool that helps optimize and streamline this workflow, empowering developers and designers to focus on what they do best. Attendees will be introduced to various CSS and JS best practices, and to a workflow that uses Grunt to automate the nitty-gritty details of preparing a theme or plugin for release.