April 16, 2020 — “This session begins with three separate case studies – from Bill Erickson, Ellen Bauer, and Beth Soderberg – to help you prepare themes for Gutenberg and concludes in a tremendous panel discussion.

Bill uses his time at the very beginning to show how to improve content management for clients by applying careful, thoughtful work to your themes. In the second presentation, Ellen talks about important considerations when working on themes that you plan to distribute to others (that is, themes you plan to sell or provide to a large audience for free). Then Beth helps us to build smarter starter themes using better default block styles and support.

After the presentations, each speaker returns to participate in a panel discussion about the challenges and considerations they couldn’t cover in their separate presentations.”

November 21, 2019

July 17, 2018 — The story of Elmastudio – Ellen and Manuel will share the story of their career and lifestyle and lessons they have learned from their first start as freelancers to building a successful WordPress theme shop and blog.

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July 3, 2015 — Ellen und Manuel haben eine Botschaft für uns: Nutze WordPress als kostenloses Tool, um dein Talent einzusetzen und deine Träume umzusetzen. Ergreife deine Chance und warte nicht auf die Erlaubnis von anderen (z.B. deinem Chef, Lehrer, Professor). Warte nicht darauf oder erwarte nicht, dass andere dein Talent erkennen. Setze deine Stärken ein, mit WordPress und Social Media war es noch nie einfacher.

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