It’s with great pleasure that we’d like to announce several free workshops that will happen during WordCamp Sofia Contributor day on November 12th.
Intro to building WordPress themes is a 3-hour free workshop with Croatian designer and developer Emanuel Blagonic. The workshop is for beginners and aims to give you an introduction to creating beautiful design templates for WordPress websites. You need to be a WordCamp Sofia attendee to attend the workshop! The workshop capacity is limited to 20 people, so we strongly encourage you to sign up soon.
About the workshop
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 people
Duration: 3 hours
Bring along: A laptop with a preinstalled Mamp – a local server package, and WordPress.
Get a free ticket: https://2017.sofia.wordcamp.org/tickets
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
Address: 15-17 Tintiava str, fl 1, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria - Start: 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 the community where he works on building a better understanding of design process and educates clients as much as possible. Can be found on Twitter as @eblagonic.