Lessons Learned from Contributing to Default Themes

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Lessons Learned from Contributing to Default Themes

WordCamp Mumbai

My Journey

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Plugins

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Theme Review Team

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Twenty Twelve

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Twenty Twelve

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Automattic

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Twenty Thirteen

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Twenty Fourteen

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Apollo

Community Side

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How to submit a patch.

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How to test a theme.

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There’s always someone smarter than you.

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People have the weirdest setups!

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People really care about Themes!

Technical Side

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Your code will be used and reused by a lot of people.

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You can be bold and push the limits.

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.gallery-columns-4 .gallery-item { max-width: 23%; max-width: -webkit-calc(25% - 4px); max-width: calc(25% - 4px);

}

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Code like you mean it.

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Basic markup and resets are a commodity.

Bonus: Getting involved

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Be respectful.

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Be around.

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Be learning.

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Volunteer.

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Overdeliver.

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Konstantin Obenland@obenland

konstantin.obenland.it

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Questions?

Automattic?

Themes?

WordPress.org?WordPress.com?

Hooks?

Actions?

Filters?

Getting started?

PHP?CSS?

Germany?

Travel?

Contributing?

Documentation?

WordCamps?

Plugin Development?Languages?

Translations?

SVN?

Core?

Cain & Obenland?

Default Themes?

Trac?

Template Tags?

_s?

Underscores?

Themes API?

Feature Plugins?

Code Formatting?