Aspiring Indie

It was a lot of fun being at WordCamp Atlanta this weekend, especially being able to introduce a nice room full of people to the concept of parent/child themes and hopefully pass along some tips for them to run with. And I’d like to say, before anything else—big thanks to Brandon Sheats and Tessa Horeheid, the organizers for putting it all together. They really did a great job, and I’m looking forward to next year’s event.

Photo thanks to Jeff Brathwaite, @jbrath

I’ve uploaded my slides to Slideshare, and they are embedded below:

The nice people at the conference also streamed and recorded my presentation on Ustream, which I’ve added here too:

I’d say it all went very well. There seemed to be about 10-25% of the audience familiar with the idea of parent/child themes, which made for some fun question and answer time at the end. It also meant that the majority of the presentation, which really was an introduction to the concept of parent/child themes, fit very well with everyone there. There are a couple of things I’m going to tweak for the future, but really I’m very satisfied.

But don’t just take my word for it:

sitting through nice intro to parent/child theme development here at #wcatl

tweet from @acnatta

great looking deck for Parent/Child themes preso @ #wcatl

tweet from @MeMyselfAndM

Parent/child themes — convince me, dude, I’m nearly there anyway. #wcatl

tweet from @ArtoftheFirebird (and see that she was convinced in her blog post)

Great session on parent/child themes from @ryanimel #wcatl

tweet from @jbrath

Listening to @ryanimel; he’s sharp but sad to hear him encourage everyone to create *yet* another theme framework. #wcatl

tweet from @mikeschinkel

Learning some more on child themes.. Pretty strong stuff. Worth looking into!

tweet from @alliswell

Parent/Child theme session is standing room only. Pulled up my spot on the carpet. #wcatl

tweet from @ChrisCree

Good Parent/Child Theme Development Discussion at #wpatl. Thanks @ryanimel

tweet from @andydarnell

Cool!

Oh, and if anyone did want to see and play with my own internal theme framework (and things like the options panel I use and so forth) than shoot me a comment here and I’ll get one sent over. It’s not public (yet), so you’ll only get it right now if you ask.

Thanks to everyone who attended, and I hope to run into you again at a future WordCamp!