State of Themes Panel

Sunday 22nd March
5:15pm
Track 2: The Graduate Centre

Taking stock of the world of WordPress themes as going into mid-year 2015.

Topics to cover include: next-generation themes, looking at Twenty Sixteen and beyond; lessons learned from 5 years of default themes; business of selling themes in 2015; theme support and maintenance; accessibility; mobile and responsive; JavaScript and REST API in themes.

The panelists are:

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Lance Willett

Product manager, technologist, and business leader living and working from Tucson, Arizona. See lance.blog for my latest photos and things. I blog about leadership, WordPress, productivity, mindfulness, web technology, and more at The Full Stack Leader. I've led various teams at Automattic over the years: product quality, new user engagement, and themes/customization. I love WordPress themes, and contributed to Twenty Elevent, Twelve, Twenty Thirteen, Twenty Fourteen, and Twenty Fifteen as a core committer (over 900 commits). Today, I'm a core maintainer of the Build/Test Tools component, security team member, and focused on improving quality, security, an performance for all projects built on WordPress—including core.

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