1. Finding the (WP) Theme to Fit Your Content by Brett Bumeter @brettbum

2. Who am I? • I'm a WP developer that helps clients find themes. • I customize themes, but don't make them often. • Worked with WordPress for 7 years • Husband/father/toe shoe runner/paddle boarder • Aspiring writer & former accountant tax law guy

3. What will we do today? • Wrap our brains around 2 very popular themes. • Look at some of the elements that make a theme. • Understand, how to fill up a theme • Consider why we put things where we do on themes • Think about our content & how to organize it...

4. WP themes are like paper doll clothing sets

5. Often when we pick new themes, we are trying to better organize our content

6. Sort of like Organizing Closets!

7. We are trying to communicate our ideas, our content. Clarity of content presentation helps.

8. Let's look at some Sites with clarity • www.thecultureist.com - Magazine theme • 3200creative.com - Executive Theme • empoweredsustenance.com - Magazine theme • bellaballroom.com - eleven40 theme • thaoteaco.com - Parallax theme

9. Disclosure I'm only looking at StudioPress themes today

10. But first lets look at a site I don't like The Huffington Post

11. Let's really look at some these Sites now! • www.thecultureist.com - Magazine theme • 3200creative.com - Executive Theme • empoweredsustenance.com - Magazine theme • bellaballroom.com - eleven40 theme • thaoteaco.com - Parallax theme

12. Do the magazine themes & parallax themes stand out more? Can you spot them in these next examples?

13. Let's Play! Let’s look at the Magazine & Parallax Themes inside WordPress.