WordPress Davao March ’17 Meetup!

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March 18, 2017

WELCOME!!

Talks & Discussions

1. We WordPress: Welcome to our WordPress Community

2. Getting Started with Theme Development

3. Getting Started with Divi Theme

4. Creating Themes with Sage Starter Theme

5. Community Time a.k.a KAMUSTAHAN!

1. We WordPress

Dreb Bitanghol @drebbits | @10up

• Hangout with people in our hometown who make things or use WordPress

• Get Inspiration

• Provide/Get help and feedback

• Trainings and collaboration to spark innovation surrounding WordPress

• Give back to WordPress — Community or Core Contributing

Our Photos Here!

2. Getting Started with Theme Development

“The design of a WordPress website”

2.1 What is a theme?

“Themes take the content and data stored by WordPress

and display it in the browser”

• Typography & styles (colors, spacing, etc)

• Layouts

2.2 What can do?

“Good themes improve engagement with your website’s content”

Basic File Structure

2.3 What themes are made of?

Extended File Structure

2.3 What themes are made of?

2.4 Setup a Local Development

MAMP https://www.mamp.info/en/downloads/

Local by Flywheel https://local.getflywheel.com/

VVV https://varyingvagrantvagrants.org/

• XAMPP • Laravel Valet

More local server choices…

• WP_DEBUG • WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY • WP_DEBUG_LOG

The Debug Family

The Debug Family

Add these to your wp-config.php

The Debug Family

Theme Test Data (https://themetest.wordpress.com/)

• Theme Checkhttps://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-check/

• Debug Bar (and family)https://wordpress.org/plugins/debug-bar/

• Query Monitorhttps://wordpress.org/plugins/query-monitor/

• Monster Widgethttps://wordpress.org/plugins/monster-widget/

Supporting Plugins

2.5 Starter Themes

Default Themes

http://underscores.me/

https://roots.io/sage/

What is the difference between a theme and a plugin?

• Theme controls the presentation of content

• Plugin is used to control the behavior and features of your WordPress site.

https://10up.github.io/Engineering-Best-Practices/

3. Getting Started with Divi Theme

4. Creating Themes with Sage Starter Theme

5. Community Time

Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/wordpress.ph.dvo/

Meetup.comhttp://www.meetup.com/WordPress-Davao-PH/

Make WordPresshttps://make.wordpress.org/

Davao Tech Slack Groupdavaotechusergroup.slack.com