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HANDS-ON WORKSHOP AT INTERMEDIATE LEVEL.

Come at 6:00pm if you need a hand setting up the local development platform.

Workshop starts at 6:30pm.

About the workshop:

Have you found a nearly perfect theme for your website but Customizer doesn't let you change everything you'd like to?

Do you build WordPress websites for other people and wish you could use your creativity a bit more?

Child Themes are great for those who want to take WordPress that bit further as they allow you to take an already existing WordPress Theme and change absolutely anything from it.

Why reinvent the wheel by coding a theme from scratch every time, right?

We will start by learning about the structure of a WordPress theme and then create our own Child Theme step by step.

We’ll also learn how to test our site for the various platforms and make sure it is responsive and accessible.

You will need:

Bring your laptop if you can but don't worry if you don't have one, we'll pair you up with somebody who has.

It'd also help if you already had a text editor and a local development environment set up on your laptop with WordPress already installed on it.

You can find information on how to install a local development environment at developer.wordpress.org

For free text editors see www.techradar.com

Basic knowledge of PHP, HTML and CSS will help but it is not essential as we will cover everything from scratch.

If you already know how to build Child Themes, come along anyway and volunteer to help your co-members if they get stuck. It may be you next time!

Code of Conduct:
Code of Conduct:
WordPress Meetups are for the benefit of the WordPress community as a whole, not specific businesses or individuals. All actions taken as an event organizer are with the best interest of the community in mind.
Membership in the local meetup group is open to all who wish to join, regardless of ability, skill, financial status or any other criteria.
Meetups are volunteer-run with volunteer speakers. In cases where a modest attendance fee might be necessary, this fee should only cover the costs of the meetup and shouldn’t be used to pay speakers or organizers.
Meetup groups allow events to be organized by any reliable/trusted member of the community.
Meetups are welcoming places where everyone works to foster an accepting environment which is free of discrimination, incitement to violence, promotion of hate, and general oaf-like behaviour.