When Michael Cain and I were joking about doing a series of WordCamp sessions in the spirit of Community’s Troy and Abed in the Morning, we had no idea it would come to this:
Yes, apparently there exist golfballs with my face on them. Thanks, Nick Hamze!
Cain & Obenland Swag
Twenty Fifteen
Over the last 18 months I worked on three default themes, Twenty Twelve, Twenty Thirteen, and Twenty Fourteen. Each project was a little different from the other, and on each project my role differed too.
Twenty Twelve was initially designed by Drew Strojny, with Lance Willett creating the templates, leading the project and herding volunteers. It wasn’t ready for WordPress 3.4, but was released with 3.5. I joined them in the 3.5 cycle I started helping out with testing and bug fixes.
For Twenty Thirteen, I was the main developer. Joen Asmussen designed the theme, and it was my job to take his mockups and make them work. Lance was again leading the project, reviewing and committing fixes after the theme was initially introduced to Core.
We took a different approach for Twenty Fourteen, where we ported over an existing theme, Further, designed and developed by Takashi Irie. Lance’s role stayed the same, while Takashi took on a more active role in bringing in fixes, and I reverted back in a more supporting role like in Twenty Twelve. Continue reading
I recently spoke at WordCamp Los Angeles about WordPress’ Customizer and the video of that session has recently been released on WordPress.tv. Here it is for your viewing pleasure:
Image courtesy of Josh Root.
As part of Automattic’s Grand Meetup this year, I got to go to the last game of the San Francisco Giants this season. We had early entrance tickets to hang out in one of their lounges and watch warm ups, when I had my tweet featured on the Giants’ scoreboard!
Konstantin Obenland 