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WordPress Wizards Week: Day 4

After the astounding success of the Why WordPress series which ran last year, this week I’ll be asking five WordPress Wizards about what’s next for themes, WordPress and frameworks in what is a slightly more focused discussion than last time!

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Today Cory Miller from iThemes joins in the conversation.

Recently commercial ‘frameworks’ have been increasing in number. Is the way forward a single all powerful theme that has pretty child themes?

No, I think it’s a blend of single “typical” themes and all-powerful ones that do cool things and of course everything in between for different niches and functionality needs. WordPress is too diverse and expansive and the needs too great and varied to think there will be one theme or framework that can do everything. Thinking otherwise is arrogance, in my opinion.

Often there will be a single feature that over a couple of months everyone adopts; what do you think it’ll be this year?

The biggest one on our roadmap right now is a Style Manager where people can make quick and easy changes to their theme design that personalizes it for their unique brand. Talking with other theme devs and knowing our own community, customization requests are by far the biggest request we get.

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Alex Denning
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