Children Are The Future: An Introduction to Rapid Theme Development with WP Child Themes
Allan Cole
We’ve got about 11 days till WordCamp does NYC and I couldn’t be more excited! This will be my first time attending a WordCamp and it looks like tons of fun. It’ll also be my first time speaking publicly since college (YIKES) so I’m a little nervous as well but I’m sure I’ll enjoy myself regardless.
I’ll be speaking about Child Themes, which I’ve been using to develop both WordPress themes and full-blown websites for various clients and organizations. I first discovered child themes while following Ian at ThemeShaper.com and I’ve never looked back. As a mostly front-end and interaction designer, Child Themes really allow me to speed up my development time and make future-proof theme edits which are essential to any development strategy. My session will mainly cover three subjects: (1) What is a Child Theme?; (2) How to build a Child Theme; and (3) WordPress Theme Frameworks. If you are a front-end developer, a web designer, or a beginning theme developer who’s a bit more focused on design and user experience and not so interested in memorizing WordPress template tags and PHP, then you should definitely check out this session. If you do plan on attending, please download and install my Child Theme Boumatic, which I will be referring to throughout the session.
About 9-10 months ago I decided to develop almost exclusively using Child Themes. It makes development so much easier and cleaner. Hopefully, sometime in the near future Child Themes will become a part of the WP repository.
If you have any questions for me, just leave a comment.
Best,
Allan
Just wanted to say that I went to your Child Themes presentation at WordCamp NYC last year, and it was fantastic! Both funny and informative. You should speak publicly more often. I’m only now ready to put what I learned from you then, into practice, but I’m very grateful to have your presentation as a resource.