Spend some time in the theme repo, any premium theme shop, or design gallery and you’ll notice that a small handful of layouts emerge as clear favorites. WordPress by its nature encourages many of these patterns, and the design/dev community has further solidified them. If we identify these patterns, define them, make sweet love to them, we can design faster and enable more efficient development. Beyond just designing faster, once we know these design patterns, we can blow them up. We can break out of our handy patterns and use design to push WordPress into new and exciting areas. I’ll be focused primarily on design and layout strategies for WordPress created content, but will touch on some theme techniques for using WordPress to created non standard digital experiences.
