Dragging WordPress Core CSS into the 2000s - CSSConf 2015

Working on a 12 year old free/open source software project that powers nearly a quarter of the internet* can be challenging, especially when your major priorities include the end user and backwards compatibility. I've learned a lot over the last several years in my unexpected journey to becoming one of just six lead developers: about balancing new users, fledgling developers, and future work as we continue to make changes to WordPress, and about understanding and respecting the history of a well-established project whose roots extend even further back.

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1. DRAGGING WORDPR S CORE CSS I O E 2000S Helen Hou-Sandí ▴ @helenhousandi ▴ CSSConf 2015
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8. @helenhousandi CSSConf 2015 CORE PHI SOPHI @helenhousandi #cssconf
9. @helenhousandi CSSConf 2015 D OCR NG PUB SHING @helenhousandi #cssconf
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18. @helenhousandi CSSConf 2015 UNDOING E B H @helenhousandi #cssconf
20. @helenhousandi CSSConf 2015 W WH ? @helenhousandi #cssconf
21. @helenhousandi CSSConf 2015 DOCUM T ON + P RN BRARY @helenhousandi #cssconf
22. @helenhousandi CSSConf 2015 VISUAL REGR SION T ING @helenhousandi #cssconf
23. @helenhousandi CSSConf 2015 MING + C A NG @helenhousandi #cssconf
24. @helenhousandi CSSConf 2015 MORE O , MORE PROB MS? @helenhousandi #cssconf
25. @helenhousandi CSSConf 2015 ’S ICKY This speech is my recital, I think it's very vital. @helenhousandi #cssconf
26. @helenhousandi CSSConf 2015 E RE OF WORDPR S @helenhousandi #cssconf