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We were given the following task: Pick a colleague’s post, and explain why you chose that one. Outline a plan for the post to get 1,000+ views. Imagine that you have a US $20 budget to work with. I decided to choose a post from my colleague Cristel “Swag pour WordCamp Europe: Réussite d’un travail …

Why creating a child theme might be a bad idea

Over the last few months, we have been refreshing a bunch of themes, the latest one being Radcliffe 2. A couple of weeks ago I was tasked to refresh an old photo blog theme on mine: Cubic. I built this theme as a child theme from Boardwalk as I wanted them to share a similar …

An interview with a Theme Wrangler

The main task of a Theme Wrangler is to create themes for WordPress.com. Thomas Guillot tells us a bit more about himself and what he does. Hi Thomas, can you tell us about how and when did you become a "Theme Wrangler"? After I graduated from University in 2012, I got a job at a …

One Theme May Hide Another

At WordPress.com, every time we launch a new theme, we launch a demo site to go with it. As a Theme Wrangler, after spending weeks working on a new theme, we spend hours on its demo site. We tend to create a theme with a defined user type (e.g. Photographers) and as a result, the …