WTS '24 Theme

Background

Back in September 2024, we had our first What The Stack conference. It was a pretty good overall, and we got some really positive feedback for the website. So we decided to make it a theme, and publish it as open source.

Features

• Retrofuturistic and synthwave inspired theme (with ambitions of being a design system when it grows up)
• Speaker showcase with profile pictures and bios
• Schedule display with session details and timings
• Ticket pricing section with multiple tier options
• Sponsor logos display
• Contact form
• Easy to customize and extend

Stack

• Astro
• Tailwind
• DaisyUI (with the Synthwave theme, duh)

Data and Content

When we first started, we made the "wise" decision of going full Astro content collections. Not to say it's a bad decision, but we ended up having to reinvent relational data 😅 It works fine though, as long as you stick with some of the existing conventions.

1. Each session in the sessions collection requires a speakerId which is a reference to a speaker in the speakers collection.
2. speakerId is an array, so you can have multiple speakers for a session.
3. The rest of the data config can be found in the src/content/config.ts file (but most of the frontmatter data is optional).

Credits

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the theme! List below:

• @DBozhinovski
• @iboshkov
• @BStojanoska