May 15, 2014 — The back-end and front-end teams at Modern Tribe set out to create a WordPress starter development kit in order to speed up development and help keep uniformity among projects. So, how did we build it? Why didn’t we use “________” framework instead? What does the code look like? Is our universe real? What is true happiness? This session will attempt to answer at least 60% of these questions.

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May 11, 2014 — Join Konstantin Obenland and Michael Cain for a whimsical trip down Advanced Theming Lane, where they’ll shed light on some of the dastardly mishaps in Themeland and how they fight them with their Swords of Best Practices. Structured like a TV morning show!

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March 31, 2014 — Steve Zehngut demonstrates how to use Foundation Framework to develop WordPress themes.

March 27, 2014 — It’s easy to get going with WordPress theme development, but this can mean overlooking some fundamentals along the way. Themes are in the spotlight as we step through the WordPress loading sequence, seeing where the Loop comes from, how the Template Hierarchy makes its decisions, and why child themes trump their parent. We’ll use our new-found knowledge to safely modify the Loop (and create our own), and to learn the difference between Actions and Filters.

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February 26, 2014 — Almost 40% of WordPress downloads are for localized versions. WordPress has good support for I18N, and is well-translated into many languages, but is your plugin or theme? Let’s talk about how to get translations working across the whole community, and how to get translations out to your users.

January 24, 2014 — A presentation on how Helpful Technology developed the GovIntranet theme for the Department for Culture, to use for their intranet and how we have subsequently released the code on GitHub and are working with other departments with the theme.

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January 6, 2014 — Sakin shares his experiences and some tips and tricks that would help your free theme appear on the top 15 Most Popular Downloads at WordPress.org repository. This is a great achievement if you want to become a professional WordPress Theme Developer and want to sell your themes.

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December 24, 2013 — Philip Arthur Moore talks about how to professionally become a WordPress Theme Developer; learning how to theme the right way, knowing where to look for answers, and how to become the best WordPress theme developer in the world.

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December 10, 2013 — Once you get to the point where you feel that version control might be a useful tool things get different. Most people will point you to Git, probably the most widely used version control software around. A lot of people, though, seem to have trouble getting started with it.

Instead of throwing basic commands at you we want to invite you to explore the “Git Universe” with us in a kind of fireside chat between Kirsten, representing the web design world and Elisabeth, who gained her first computer experience with Basic many years ago.
Our focus will be on how Git works, what those strange commands really mean and how you can benefit from integrating it into your theme development work flow.

This talk aims at people working with WordPress and developing their own themes.

November 28, 2013 — This talk is about making the jump from theme tinkerer to developer and how to make a theme you really love. The journey begins with CSS and culminates with Photo Addict.

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