{"id":464054,"date":"2013-10-23T10:24:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T14:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2013.boston.wordcamp.org\/?p=464054"},"modified":"2013-10-23T11:09:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T15:09:45","slug":"please-welcome-upstatement-as-gold-sponsor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2013\/please-welcome-upstatement-as-gold-sponsor\/","title":{"rendered":"Please welcome Upstatement as Gold sponsor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Jared Novack<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Boston WordPress community has given me so much in terms of new ideas, connections and knowledge. I&#8217;m really excited to return the favor and sponsor this year&#8217;s event with my company, Upstatement.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t too long ago that I was a full-time Drupal developer. That changed when I went to my first WordCamp here in Boston last summer. I remember going to some awesome developer sessions from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kadamwhite\" target=\"_blank\">K. Adam White<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HotchkissWeb\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Hotchkiss<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonheller\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Heller<\/a> that opened my eyes to WordPress as a full CMS and application framework.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, we&#8217;ve built some incredible WordPress sites for <a href=\"http:\/\/upstatement.com\/portfolio\/global-news\/\" target=\"_blank\">GlobalNews.ca<\/a> (with <a href=\"http:\/\/10up.com\" target=\"_blank\">10Up<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/upstatement.com\/portfolio\/random-house\/\" target=\"_blank\">Random House<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/upstatement.com\/portfolio\/boston-colleges-squared-away\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boston College<\/a> &#8212; with a bunch more in the pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>Upstatement specializes in building sites for magazines, newspapers and other media companies. My partners and I got our start in the newsrooms of The Boston Globe, New York Times and San Jose Mercury News. After leaving newspapers, we worked on lots of editorial projects like <a href=\"http:\/\/upstatement.com\/portfolio\/boston-globe\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Boston Globe&#8217;s responsive redesign<\/a> in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upstatement.com\/portfolio\/boston-globe\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/files.upstatement.com\/globe.jpg?w=625\" title=\"Boston Globe\" alt=\"BostonGlobe.com\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because we&#8217;re doing so much WordPress themeing, we brought along concepts from the JavaScript world (like Template languages) to make it even better. We created <a href=\"http:\/\/timber.upstatement.com\" target=\"_blank\">Timber<\/a>, a plugin that lets you use the Twig Template Engine in your themes: making it easier to build sites and allowing clients to customize them for special sections and stories. Timber is now one of the most popular <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/jarednova\/timber\" target=\"_blank\">open source WordPress projects on GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timber.upstatement.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/files.upstatement.com\/timber.jpg?w=625\" title=\"Timber homepage\" alt=\"Timber homepage\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m giving a special <a href=\"https:\/\/2013.boston.wordcamp.org\/session\/wordpress-templating-with-timber-and-twig\/\">Workshop this Friday covering the ins-and-outs of Timber<\/a>: how it can speed-up development and let you write themes with beautiful, simple markup + code (and less debugging!).<\/p>\n<p>You can find us on Twitter at: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/upstatement\">@Upstatement<\/a> or on regular internet: <a href=\"http:\/\/upstatement.com\">http:\/\/upstatement.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jared Novack The Boston WordPress community has given me so much in terms of new ideas, connections and knowledge. 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