WordPress Design for Beginners: Customizing Themes

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This year at WordCamp, we are splitting up the beginners day into three workshops, one of the workshops will be the WordPress Design for Beginners.

The WordPress platform is a magnet for those who want to take matters into their own hands, who want complete control over their websites and want to be independent in running them. WordPress does make it really easy to completely customize a website. If you have a bit of knowledge of HTML and CSS, there is nothing you can’t change.

We’ll cover CSS, explain hex codes vs rgb vs cmyk, discuss dpi/ppi, and then use that knowledge to walk through a theme customization.

 

WordPress Development for Beginners: Building Themes (Sold Out)

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This year at WordCamp, we are splitting up the beginners day into three workshops, one of the workshops will be WordPress Development for Beginners: Building Themes.

The post below originally appeared on Sideway8.

This is going to be a fun WordCamp this year. Last year we added a “beginners day” and we had 200 sign up. I was asked by the other organizers to lead this track. I know I can’t do this all by myself so I have asked Micah Wood (a good friend and an amazing developer) to help lead this.

This is specifically for people who either know other frameworks and want to learn how to build within WordPress or for people who know how to hack at a theme but want to know how to do it “correctly”. We will be assuming that people in this track will already be familiar with CSS, HTML, PHP, Git (conceptually speaking) and have some local development experience.

So if you are looking to attend the track and learn the ins and outs of WordPress theming, make sure you show up on March 18th and have the following installed:

We are also looking for other WordPress ninjas (developers) to help us during the sessions. Please let us know if you are interested in helping.

WordPress 101 for Beginners: A Workshop (Sold Out)

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This year at WordCamp, we are splitting up the beginners day into three workshops, one of the workshops will be for people getting started with WordPress.

If you’ve heard about WordPress but didn’t know where to start, or tried to get started and became overwhelmed, now you have an opportunity to move forward with a guiding hand.

From the start of the day to the end, we will will guide you through the process of using WordPress. You will be getting around the dashboard, adding text, images and extra functionality on an actual site that we set up for you that you can continue to use after WordCamp. We will have lots of volunteers on hand to help should you need a little extra attention.

Bring your laptop and we will have a new WordPress site setup for each of you ready to go.