Local Development and Child Themes


Ben Attenborough and Zuzana Kunckova gave a presentation last night on Local Development and Child Themes. Here are the slides (click to open):

Local Development and Child Themes presentation, click to open
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Local Development

Here are some resources to help you with local development:

Good blog post from wpmudev: https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-to-use-local-by-flywheel-for-quick-wordpress-development/

Local development software:

Feel free to suggest alternatives!

Child themes

First checkout the official WordPress Codex documentation on child themes.

Also checkout:

The plugin we used to do create child themes automatically was Child Theme Configurator bLilaea Media

Starter themes

Here’s a list of well-known starter themes:

Wrapping up

If anyone has any questions or suggestions feel free to say!


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