I’ve been involved in creating three out of the last four default themes for WordPress. It’s been a great learning opportunity and it let me grow, both as a WordPress developer as well as a contributor and member of the community. I’m going to share some lessons learned, on the theme creation side of things about how innovative we were able to be even though we had to cater to such a broad spectrum of users, and on the community side how it enabled me to become more involved with the project and work with other contributors around the world towards a common goal.