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sara cannon

Member Since: March 12th, 2010
Birmingham, Alabama
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Co-Founder & Creative Director at Range
@saracannon on WordPress.org and Slack

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WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker
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Sara has a long history in designing, branding, creating and developing. Our Co-founder and Creative Director of the team, Sara has a passion for art, design and typography, living by her motto, “Life is short, art is long, typography is everything, code is poetry.” A seasoned designer, Sara has done work for clients such as Disney Publishing and Flickr. Combining her love of code with her love of design, Sara is considerably adept at creating memorable as well as functional sites and brands.

Sara has been extensively public speaking since 2009. She deeply believes in the spirit of open source and enjoys teaching on Typography, Design, User Experience, & more.

When she isn’t creating masterpieces, you can find her traveling or at her home base of Birmingham, AL with her pets and a few cans of paint.

Interests

Design, UI, UX, Branding, Illustration, CSS, Typography

Wrote a comment on the post Design updates: week two, on the site Make WordPress Design:
What did you work on this past week? Researching media plugins for insight into future…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Design updates week one, on the site Make WordPress Design:
a p2 sounds like a good idea!

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Welcome Ben as a new design rep, on the site Make WordPress Design:
Congrats @empireoflight!! 🎉

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Design updates week one, on the site Make WordPress Design:
Figuring out priorities and tasks for 4.9 This might be off-task for this year's focus,…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Design updates week one, on the site Make WordPress Design:
I can be a wpDO guinea pig for testing.

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Design updates week one, on the site Make WordPress Design:
What did you work on this past week? Had a great Summit and WCEU. Worked…

2 months ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Birmingham, Alabama 2016 coming up on October 29th

10 months ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp US 2015 coming up on December 4th

2 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Ann Arbor 2015 coming up on October 24th

2 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp NYC 2015 coming up on October 30th

2 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 4.3 Kickoff, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Excited for this release! I would love to help out with the Network Admin UI

2 years ago
Created a new ticket, #31710, in Core Trac:
Firefox uses WP emoji for smileys but the native for frowneys

2 years ago
Created a new ticket, #31709, in Core Trac:
Size difference for Emoji in Chrome

2 years ago
Created a topic, A must for any theme developer!, on the site WordPress Support Forums

2 years ago
Created a topic, Great fill-in solution for Multisite UX, on the site WordPress Support Forums

2 years ago
Created a topic, Love it but just works for newly uploaded images, on the site WordPress Support Forums

2 years ago
Posted a reply to only working for new uploaded images, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
this happens to me as well

2 years ago
Created a new ticket, #31673, in Core Trac:
Multisite UX: deleting a plugin

2 years ago
Created a topic, What a great experience linking internally!, on the site WordPress Support Forums

2 years ago
Created a topic, Great User Experience, on the site WordPress Support Forums

2 years ago
Created a new ticket, #31659, in Core Trac:
Multisite UX: "Add New" button on plugins page

2 years ago
Created a topic, Love this simple User Experience improvement for WordPress Multisite., on the site WordPress Support Forums

2 years ago
Created a topic, Great for User Experience!, on the site WordPress Support Forums

2 years ago
Created a topic, I love this plugin! Perfect for User Experience!, on the site WordPress Support Forums

2 years ago
Created a topic, Magic!, on the site WordPress Support Forums

2 years ago
Created a topic, Great for User Experience!, on the site WordPress Support Forums

2 years ago
sara cannon’s profile was updated

2 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp London

3 years ago
Is the 268th person to arrive at WordCamp San Francisco 2014

3 years ago
Registered to attend WordCamp San Francisco 2014 coming up October 25th

3 years ago
Registered to attend WordCamp San Francisco 2014 coming up October 25th

3 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp San Francisco 2014 coming up on October 25th

3 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp NYC 2014 coming up on August 2nd

3 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Do you use Press This? We want to talk to you!, on the site Make WordPress UI:
I use Press This often. I mainly love it for the side-loading of images. feel…

3 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Chicago 2014 coming up on June 13th

3 years ago
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Birmingham

3 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Atlanta 2014 coming up on March 14th

4 years ago
Created a topic, plugin could not be installed, on the site WordPress Support Forums

4 years ago
Created a topic, Love the automated varied backgrounds, on the site WordPress Support Forums

4 years ago
Created a topic, Very Convenient, on the site WordPress Support Forums

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Headlines Not Responding?, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
try changing <script> $("#responsive_headline").fitText(1.2); </script> to <script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(document).ready(function() { jQuery("#responsive_headline").fitText(1.2); }); </script>

4 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Atlanta

5 years ago
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Birmingham 2013

5 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp San Francisco 2012

5 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Phoenix 2012

6 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Atlanta

6 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Vegas 2011

6 years ago
Created a new ticket, #18655, in Core Trac:
Responsive Admin for Small Screen Devices

6 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp San Francisco 2011

6 years ago
Created a new ticket, #17696, in Core Trac:
Blue Admin RTL UI Update

6 years ago

Background Updates for Major Releases

Active Installs: 60+
Better Text Widget

Active Installs: 300+
Content Blocks

Active Installs: 300+
Plugin Last Updated

Active Installs: 200+
Shiftee Basic - Employee and Staff Scheduling

Active Installs: 500+
Twenty Ten IE6 Menus

Active Installs: 200+
YouTube Upload Widget

Active Installs: 500+

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Code is Poetry.