Learn Javascript deeply, This was said by Matt and WordPress in 2015.
I wasn’t that excited about that. I ignored that advice.
I continued on my Merry Way with PHP, which is both good and bad. WordPress is made with PHP.
I like PHP, I like server side code and have spent a lot of time in it.
Now blocks came out and I was kicking myself.
I was terrified to dive into the block editor because change can be so daunting, and it’s always so much more comforting to stick with the familiar.
I struggled to understand the code inside WordPress docs and I got stuck. Fast.

How do I get this new block stuff to talk to PHP?
In this talk, I will show you how to go from hating blocks to loving them with these development techniques.
In this presentation we are going to make a PHP Shortcode, and then make a dynamic block to show how this works.

Let’s do this.

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