Design challenge weekend extra learning session

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Along with the other sessions we’re also going to have one by Justin Tadlock (@greenshady) titled “Intro to child themeChild theme A Child Theme is a customized theme based upon a Parent Theme. It’s considered best practice to create a child theme if you want to modify the CSS of your theme. https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/. dev”.

“Learn the basics of developing, designing, and putting together a child theme that’s ready for WordPress.org. The goal is to give designers without much theme dev background the chance to design a child theme without having to get too deep into the complexities of full/parent theme development.”

This will be at 14:00 Central in #themereview 12th December Friday.

After each session there will be a Q&A session in #themereview on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. Just before each session we’ll post the hangout link in Slack and also on this blog. We’ll then share the recorded link after.

Justin Tadlock 1:57 am on December 11, 2014

I’ll have a blog post with more details about the format of what I’m doing tomorrow.
- Jose Castaneda 3:52 am on December 11, 2014
  
  Awesomeness! Can’t wait to read it. 🙂