Archive for 2024

  • Developing with hooks

    Speaker: Jonathan Bossenger

    December 23, 2024 — As you dive deeper into developing with WordPress hooks there are some details about how hooks work that are valuable to understand.

    In this lesson, you’ll learn some good practices to follow when developing with hooks.

  • Determining the correct hook

    Speaker: Jonathan Bossenger

    December 23, 2024 — As you might guess, there is a hook for everything, so one problem you may often encounter is which is the correct hook to use for a given set of functionality.

    In this lesson, you will learn how to find the right hook for your needs as well as some of the more important hooks to be aware of.

  • Removing Hooks

    Speaker: Jonathan Bossenger

    December 23, 2024 — While the WordPress hooks system makes WordPress very extendable, it can sometimes create conflicts with your plugin’s functionality.

    In this lesson you will learn how to remove hooked callback functions to prevent them from executing.

  • Custom hooks

    Speaker: Jonathan Bossenger

    December 23, 2024 — As a plugin developer, you’ll probably try to cover all possible use cases when building your plugin’s functionality.

    In this lesson, you will learn about custom hooks, the perfect way to enable your users to customize your plugin to their needs.

  • Introducción a WordPress

    Speaker: Ángel Cabaleiro

    December 19, 2024 — En esta lección, profundizaremos en los conceptos básicos, para ayudarte a entender lo que puedes llegar a conseguir con WordPress, incluso si eres principiante.

  • Developer Hours: Everything you need to know about WordPress Playground

    Speakers: Nick Diego, Ryan Welcher

    December 17, 2024 — In the final Developer Hours session of 2024, we took a closer look at WordPress Playground. This tool allows users to create fully functional WordPress instances directly in their browser, with no installation or setup required. Beyond spinning up WordPress sites, Playground offered powerful capabilities, from testing plugins and themes to running demos and even supporting app development. No matter how you engage with WordPress, Playground has something valuable to offer.

    The session explored tools and workflows for plugin and theme development, demonstrated how to use Playground for testing and support, highlighted key improvements introduced in 2024, and offered a preview of exciting new features planned for 2025.

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  • WordPress Playground for developers

    Speakers: Berislav Grgicak, Jonathan Bossenger

    December 16, 2024 — WordPress Playground is a platform that lets you run WordPress instantly on any device without a web host. Anyone can use it to build, experiment, and test anything related to WordPress.

    In this online workshop, core WordPress Playground developer Berislav Grgicak joins developer educator Jonathan Bossenger to share insights into how developers can leverage WordPress Playground.

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  • Las bases para construir un buscador semántico con IA para plugins WordPress

    WordPress Meetup TerrassaSpeaker: Amadeu Arderiu Calvo

    December 15, 2024 — Explicaré algunos conceptos clave con los que es posible construir buscadores como Google, o Ploogins, que en vez de usar keywords o literales, nos permiten buscar semánticamente. Para ello, hablaremos de IA, por supuesto.

    Es decir, os explicaré cómo hemos construido un buscador semántico desde cero, Ploogins, y entre otras cosas os desvelaré su ingrediente secreto.

    Será una charla que servirá para entender una parte de cómo funcionan las IAs como ChatGPT por dentro.

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  • Diseñar para interfaces con IA

    WordPress Meetup TerrassaSpeaker: Ana Cirujano

    December 15, 2024 — En esta meetup exploraremos cómo el diseño UX/UI puede facilitar interacciones más naturales con herramientas basadas en inteligencia artificial. Descubriremos patrones clave que optimizan la experiencia del usuario, y compartiremos flujos simples pero efectivos que simplifican el uso de estas tecnologías. Si estás diseñando interfaces para asistentes virtuales, motores de búsqueda con IA u otras aplicaciones, esta charla te ayudará a crear experiencias más intuitivas y funcionales.

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  • Block themes: The future of Full Site Editing and what to expect from WordPress 6.7

    WordCamp Larissa 2024Speaker: Alexandros Kaounas

    December 13, 2024 — In this session, we’ll focus on how block themes have shaped the course of WordPress and what to expect in the upcoming release on November 12th.

    We will explore the new features in WordPress 6.7, looking at how block themes work and the freedom they offer both developers and content editors. We’ll take a closer look at the latest WordPress theme, TwentyTwentyFive, dive into the newest theme.json version (v3) and its role, investigate template files, and play around with patterns and layouts.

    These insights will help developers understand how Gutenberg and block themes work under the hood and empower content editors to take control of their content with confidence.

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