Brian Richards
Instructional Designer at WPSessions
Grandville, Michigan, United States
Summary
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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.
14 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 (91)
wordpress10
membership10
mozilla10
appointment10
wordpress-plugin10
zip9
buddypress9
woocommerce9
bbpress9
ecommerce9
commerce9
php9
easy-digital-downloads8
updater8
gutenberg-blocks8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
brichards/gutendev
Mar 2018 - Feb 2019
Sample instructional code for creating custom Gutenberg blocks for WordPress.
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 11 months
wordpresslmsgutenbergwordpress-plugingutenberg-blocks
WebDevStudios/StartBox
Jun 2011 - Feb 2014
Contributions:271 commits in 2 years 8 months
wordpresswordpress-themetheme-frameworkzipwordpress-development
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