August 18, 2015 — Konstantin has been involved in creating three out of the last four default themes for WordPress. It’s been a great learning opportunity both as a WordPress developer as well as a contributor and member of the community. Konstantin Obenland shares some lessons learned, on the theme creation side of things about how innovative we were able to be even though we had to cater to such a broad spectrum of users, and on the community side how it enabled him to become more involved with the project and work with other contributors around the world towards a common goal.

August 13, 2015 — In Phillips Vortrag geht es um die Präsentation eines nackten WordPress-Themes für WordPress-Entwickler, WordPress-Hasser und WordPress Einsteiger in der Theme-Entwicklung.

Das Theme ist so aufgebaut, das zunächst alle Scripts, Klassen und Styles entfernt sind, sich aber mühelos wieder hinzufügen lassen. Der Vortrag beantwortet die häufig gestellten Fragen: “Wie entferne ich etwas?” und “Wie füge ich etwas ein?”. Das Theme soll dabei helfen WordPress zu verstehen und zu eigenen Lösungen anregen.

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August 6, 2015 — The focus of this presentation is making a WordPress theme more accessible for those with disabilities. This presentation is programming specific, and cover various HTML and CSS requirements to ensure any WordPress theme is accessibility-ready. I cover accessible images, media, link text, headings, keyboard navigation, colour contrast, skip links, and forms; and how a developer can program these aspects to meet WCAG 2.0 Guidelines.

August 5, 2015 — WordPress themes aren’t always one size fits all, but we, as developers can help get them a little bit closer. Ever get a 911 email from a client saying they added an extra piece of content to the homepage, and now the whole layout is broken? One of the best things about WordPress is that it allows non-technical people to control the content of their website, so why are we not considering this when building themes? In this talk we look at some of the common ways WordPress themes get broken from dynamic content, and how to prevent them from happening.

August 5, 2015 — Are you using a theme on your blog or website that is almost what you’re looking for but that could use a bit of customization? Don’t want to look like everyone else using the twenty fifteen theme? Child themes let us inherit the functionality of an existing theme, while adding our own custom functionality and style to suit our tastes and needs. In this session we look at how to create a child theme and some ways which we can make that baby our own.

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August 1, 2015 — WordPress upgrades, they bring us new features, faster sites, and better security. But pushing that upgrade button can be a scary moment, unless you’ve ensured your site is ready and compatible. I’ll show you the best practices for ensuring your site is ready including a simple strategy that works whether you manage one site or hundreds.

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July 28, 2015 — CSS preprocessors make developing clean and semantic stylesheets effortless. My talk takes someone through a basic structure for organizing Sass within a WordPress theme, using the Bones theme framework as an example. I go through some of the benefits and cool tricks you can implement with this structure including breakpoint includes, variables, functions, nesting, and mixins. Finally I address perhaps the greatest hurdle to immediately implementing Sass in your WordPress theme — compiling. I take people through the common methods of doing this including Grunt, Compass, and WordPress plugins like WP-SCSS.

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July 26, 2015 — A whirlwind tour of how to build options pages for beginning to intermediate themers and plugin-ers. And, since the WordPress.org theme review team has now made options pages a no-no for the theme repository, we’ll extend our tour into the world of the Customizer API.

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July 21, 2015 — Vortrag vom WordPress Meetup Franken am 16.07.2015

Frank Staude erzählt was über Sprachen, warum Software übersetzt sein sollte, wie das in WordPress funktioniert. Wie man dabei Mitarbeiten kann und warum man das tun sollte. Und auch wie man eigene Themes und Plugins übersetzbar machet (undn warum man das tun sollte).

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July 16, 2015 — I’ve used WordPress for prototyping for a while and it has been very useful. It solves the issue of having to choose between quick prototypes with low fidelity and high fidelity ones which take ages to make. I walk people through creating a prototyping framework from an HTML template by creating a theme.