Brian Richards
Instructional Designer at WPSessions
Grandville, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Richards is an instructional designer and WordPress educator with 15 years of experience building teams, products, and training programs for web agencies and enterprise clients. He founded WPSessions and produces virtual conferences (WordSesh, WooSesh), translating hands-on development experience into video-based and bespoke onboarding for teams and individuals. Previously a development leader at Crowd Favorite and WebDevStudios, he’s helped plan, sell, and deliver sites for organizations like Microsoft, Disney, TIME, and the YMCA. Currently at Tidepool, he applies his design and education skills to clinician and patient training for diabetes care while bridging marketing, sales, support, and clinical success. Known for turning complex WordPress workflows into practical learning experiences, he combines a photographer’s eye with strong project leadership. Based in Grandville, Michigan, he quietly blends production, pedagogy, and developer-first tooling to help good people do great things.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Photography, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Photography at Grand Valley State University
Github Skills (57)
wordpress10
ecommerce9
woocommerce9
buddypress9
bbpress9
php9
gutenberg-blocks8
easy-digital-downloads8
devtools7
wordpress-plugin7
plex7
updater6
alfred-workflow6
philips-hue6
sinatra6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
WebDevStudios/StartBox
Jun 2011 - Feb 2014
An incredibly powerful theme framework for WordPress. Download here: http://wpstartbox.com/startbox.zip. Get our sample child theme here: http://github.com/webdevstudios/StartBox-Child —
Contributions:271 commits in 2 years 8 months
wordpress
opencredit/badgeos
Apr 2013 - Jul 2014
BadgeOS is a plugin to WordPress that allows you to easily create badges and set up the steps and achievements users take to earn them. Badges are Mozilla OBI compatible and sharable via Credly.
Contributions:383 commits in 1 year 3 months
wordpress
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