{"id":139161,"date":"2014-06-10T00:59:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T23:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.manchester.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=139161"},"modified":"2014-06-25T17:51:17","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T16:51:17","slug":"the-basics-of-unique-theme-development","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2014\/session\/the-basics-of-unique-theme-development\/","title":{"rendered":"The Basics of Unique Theme Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve recently had a few people asking me about bespoke WordPress themes &#8211; what you can and can\u2019t do, what is \u2018WordPress specific\u2019, what starter theme to use, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to give a short demonstration on the basics of creating a WordPress theme from scratch, showing how it is much easier than people may think.<\/p>\n<p>I will also share a few tips and tricks I\u2019ve picked up over the years that enhance and enrich bespoke builds, along with a few resources I\u2019ve found invaluable.<\/p>\n<p>The talk is aimed at people who want to create a one-off theme for a single website (eg. a client project, personal blog), rather than building a theme for distribution.<\/p>\n<p>It will require previous knowledge of WordPress, HTML, CSS and basic familiarity with PHP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve recently had a few people asking me about bespoke WordPress themes &#8211; what you can and can\u2019t do, what is \u2018WordPress specific\u2019, what starter theme to use, etc. I would like to give a short demonstration on the basics of creating a WordPress theme from scratch, showing how it is much easier than people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2014\/session\/the-basics-of-unique-theme-development\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Basics of Unique Theme Development<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6699784,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1403949600,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[139122],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[29714],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-139161","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-technical"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"session_date_time":{"date":"28\/06\/2014","time":"11:00"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"139122","slug":"samantha-miller","name":"Samantha Miller","link":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker\/samantha-miller\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/139161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6699784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/139161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139190,"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/139161\/revisions\/139190"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/139122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=139161"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=139161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}