December 13, 2013 — Project Argo was a project at NPR, funded by the Knight Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, to build topic-based verticals at member stations around the country. Those 12 beat blogs were built on a set of WordPress-based tools built under the Argo banner.

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November 1, 2013 — This panel discussion gives a variety of perspectives from SEO, Content Management, Design and Coder.

December 18, 2012 — The Breakpoint framework is more than a responsive design tool, it’s a philosophy that helps you tame the complexity of responsive web development. In this presentation, we will tackle the grid, responsive images, and how you should be thinking about media queries.

If you want to check out the framework for this session it’s available on Github at https://github.com/lesjames/Breakpoint.

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January 5, 2012

July 17, 2010 — Are you interested in WordPress template design? Find out how to create your own unique, flexible design to set your site apart from the crowd! This is an introduction to theme file structure and logic, followed by a look at a theme frameworks and how to modify them. It includes a heavy focus on child theming and framework design.

July 17, 2010 — Over the past 3 years the WordPress theme landscape has changed dramatically. What started as a few key community members pumping out cool and interesting theme designs has turned into big business with huge turnovers and a truly worldwide scope.

This is a history lesson showing how the theme market has grown and how elements such as free themes, theme clubs, GPL and theme frameworks steered its evolution. There’s also a look at the future of the theme market and WordPress theme technology.

April 24, 2010 — Austin Passy discusses the advantages and flexibility of using theme frameworks with your WordPress site.

April 16, 2010 — Brendan Sera-Shriar talks WordPress as a CMS, the power of jQuery, and more in this interview from the ConFoo Report by Christian Aubry.