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Matt is a full stack developer<\/a> with a primary focus on developing custom WordPress themes based on Photoshop comps. With almost 20 years as a developer in the industry, he has a strong focus on performance and process — always seeking new and better ways to accomplish a task both for the benefit of the developer and of web page visitors.<\/p>\n Matt lives in Nevada City, CA in a home that he and his wife designed and built. He works remotely from that home while enjoying a thriving family life with his wife and their 5 kids.<\/p>\n We\u2019re thrilled Matt will be speaking at WordCamp Sacramento 2016 on Building Custom WordPress Themes With Sass!<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n To help you learn even more about Matt, we asked him to answer a few questions for us, some WordPress-related, and some others we think you’ll appreciate \ud83d\ude42 Be sure to give him a shout out on Twitter<\/a> and don\u2019t forget to use our hashtag #wcsac<\/strong>.<\/p>\n I’ve had tremendous success using Sass to generate CSS in custom WordPress themes and I wanted to share what I’ve learned about the process with others and encourage other developers\/designers to learn more about how Sass can make their development process smoother and easier.<\/p>\n I was introduced to WordPress about 4 years ago through an agency contract. We leveraged it as a CMS for standardized, repeating content (such as press releases, news articles, and events) that we displayed on a site built with a PHP framework.<\/p>\n Approximately 70% of my consulting revenue for the last 4 years has come from projects where I created a custom theme to build a web site on top of WordPress.<\/p>\n Primarily I create custom themes that build on top of plugins like ACF and WPML to create web sites for Silicon Valley technology companies. Occasionally I will create a custom plugin to wrap some behavior outside of the theme.<\/p>\n I am always seeking new and better ways to build websites — both for my own benefit to reduce the time and friction of building a theme and for the benefit of site visitors so that they have a speedier site visit experience. I am excited to be speaking and share what I know as well as learn from others.<\/p>\n Fiction: Rich Man’s War<\/em> by Elliott Kay. Non Fiction: Jolt<\/em>.<\/p>\n I’m mostly non-dairy and gluten-free. I eat largely Paleo. Locally my favorite restaurant is Cirino’s at Main Street and my favorite menu item is the Sicilian Port Rostini with Orange Thyme Sauce.<\/p>\n I don’t watch TV.<\/p>\n I enjoy working on projects at home (I recently built a Coracle with my eldest son) and camping\/hiking\/backpacking with my family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Get To Know Matt Vanderpol Matt is a full stack developer with a primary focus on developing custom WordPress themes based on Photoshop comps. With almost 20 years as a developer in the industry, he has a strong focus on … Continue reading WordCamp Sacramento Speaker Q&A: Matt Vanderpol<\/span> Speaker Q&A With Matt<\/h2>\n
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How has WordPress Or WordCamp impacted you?<\/h3>\n
How do you primarily work with WordPress?<\/h3>\n
What does the WordCamp theme Discovery mean to you?<\/h3>\n
What is the latest book you read?<\/h3>\n
What is your favorite restaurant? Favorite menu item?<\/h3>\n
What TV series are you current binging on\/into?<\/h3>\n
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