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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">Developer: "Fluffy Bunny," the story of refactoring Digital Trends</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2014-10-27T18:30:00" datetime="2014-10-27T18:30:00">Monday, October 27, 2014 at 6:30pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202391704'><span class='fn org p-name'>US Bank Tower - Ground Floor Conference Room</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">111 SW 5th Ave.</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">Oregon</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97204</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">United States</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=111%20SW%205th%20Ave.,%20Portland%20Oregon%2097204%20United%20States'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>Join the developers of <a href="http://digitaltrends.com/">digitaltrends.com</a> (Richard Benjamin and Brandon Clark) as we share the trials and tribulations of refactoring one of the web's largest WordPress sites.</p> <p> </p><p>Back in January we started a secret internal project humorously dubbed "Fluffy Bunny". The goal was to overhaul <a href="http://digitaltrends.com/">digitaltrends.com</a> and transform it into something modern that would free us from the chains of a legacy codebase. Six months later we unveiled the Digital Trends 2014 theme (AKA: The Unified Theme) which was a near complete end to end rewrite of not just the theme but also much of the core architecture of the site.</p> <p>This will be a high level talk about our development process and thoughts on writing maintainable and modular code within the context of a major site refactor. We will touch on theme and plugin development, project organization, and a good amount of what we jokingly refer to as "code punditry". Afterwards we will be available for extended questions and answers.</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://www.meetup.com/pdx-wp/events/212480142/">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>