Workshop: Intro to Building WordPress Themes (in English)

WordCamp Sofia is happy to give you the opportunity to attend a free workshop on building themes with WordPress. The workshop is for beginners and aims to give you an introduction to creating beautiful design templates for WordPress websites.

Get a free ticket for the workshop here (limited capacity)

Instructor: Emanuel Blagonic, founder, and designer at Croatia’s leading WordPress agency Blagonic brothers and organizer of WordCamp Croatia
Suitable for: Students from age 14+ with more than basic understanding of HTML and PHP
Capacity: 20 students – you need to get a free ticket for the workshop to reserve your spot
Duration: 3 hours
Sessions: Morning: 10am-1pm, Afternoon: 2pm-5pm.
Bring along: A laptop optional (If you would like to use your own computer, please install Mamp (a local server package, and WordPress)

What you will learn

  • What every WordPress theme has to have
  • How to organize files and directories
  • Understanding WordPress templates and template hierarchy
  • What is WordPress loop and how to work with custom queries
  • How to create basic templates to show your pages, posts, and homepage
  • How to supercharge your theme by adding support for plugins like ACF

Where and when

  • Sunday, November 12th, 2017
  • SoftUni, Sofia
  • Address15-17 Tintiava str, fl 1, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
  • 11am

About the instructor

Emanuel Blagonic has more than 13 years of experience and more than 500 different projects with worldwide clients on his back. From designing websites to designing touch–screen applications, he worked with small and big clients, startups and global projects. Although primarily a designer, he’s been in love with WordPress for the past 10 years, being one of the biggest promoters in Croatia – writing articles about WordPress that are not only promoting WordPress but open source as well. He helped organize the first WordCamp Croatia and organizes WordPress Meetup Zagreb with his brother Lucijan.

As one of the pioneers of the web standards movement in Croatia he is active in community where he works on building a better understanding for design process and educates clients as much as possible. Can be found on Twitter as @eblagonic.

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