August 28, 2022 — Have you ever wondered how block themes are developed from an idea, through a Figma file, into WordPress, and beyond? If so, this social learning space is for you! Join Sarah Snow as she walks intermediate WordPress users through the high-level process many theme developers take to design a theme from start to finish.

August 17, 2022 — Block themes represent an existing shift in how WordPress themes are developed. It’s now possible to create an entirely new WordPress theme in the Site Editor and export it to be used wherever you need it.

In this session, we’ll be looking at a new WordPress plugin called Create Block Theme, that allows to you export your newly designed theme over your existing theme, as a new custom theme, or even as a child theme.

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December 30, 2021 — This lightning talk examines the past and present of WordPress theme development, with a look towards role of themes in the future of WordPress.

December 16, 2021 — This talk looks towards the horizon of modern website development.

Learn more about core WordPress tooling and how blocks, patterns and theme.json interplay with the new Full Site Editing experience.

October 29, 2021 — This talks suggests that good themes are more important than ever in this newer era of Full Site Editing and the block editor. If you are a theme developer — or want to be one — learn more about how to build well-designed themes with all the right guide posts for Full Site Editing.

August 30, 2021 — This talk encourages tool creators to ensure that their work and their tools enable accessibility.

As creators of themes, plugins, and code that might be used by millions, tool creators have a significant responsibility to ensure that accessibility is a consideration in everything they build.

When a platform improves accessibility, the change can be powerful, trickling down to millions of websites that were built using it.

May 27, 2021 — This talk shares the current status of Full Site Editing development. It provides a look behind the scenes at some themes created as early examples for theming WordPress with Full Site Editing. The session covers Templates, Template Parts, experimental-theme.json and more.

March 18, 2021 — Learn about block-based themes and how to use features like menus and widgets. This talk introduces using a block-based theme and also provides a brief demo of how you can easily build a block-based theme.

January 21, 2021 — In the WordPress post Gutenberg world there are fundamental shifts in both user and development workflows, and moving forward that means how we develop themes for will also change. Let’s look at the current status of theme development, how you can get started taking advantage of the core editor right and how we can begin building themes for the future. Specifically, we’ll cover: • How to modify existing themes to take full advantage of the new editor and blocks. • Adding Theme Supports and Block templates to existing themes • What’s the difference between Block Enabled and Block Based Themes • Upcoming enhancements for Full Site Editing and Global Styles and how this will affect theme development.

November 23, 2020 — “Tailwind CSS ist ein hochgradig anpassbares Low-Level-CSS-Framework, das Ihnen alle Bausteine zur Verfügung stellt, die Sie für die Erstellung maßgeschneiderter Designs benötigen, ohne lästig aufgezwungene Stile, um deren Überschreibung Sie kämpfen müssen.”

Die Integration von Tailwind CSS in ein WordPress Theme um mal kurz auszutesten, gestaltet sich ziemlich leicht. Die Einbindung eines Links aus einem der vielen zur Verfügung stehenden CDNs reicht für das ausprobieren aus. Wer aber das volle Potenzial des Utility-Frameworks ausreitzen will, kommt um ein lokales Setup nicht herum.