March 7, 2024 — One of the most regularly used developer features in WordPress is its Hooks system.

In this video, you will learn what hooks are, how they work, and how you can use them in your WordPress themes and plugins.

March 6, 2024 — Welcome to the Polyglots/Documentation Onboarding session, presented by Estela Rueda
Learn how to contribute to Polyglots/Documentation by following this onboarding call for documentation and the Italian polyglots team (in English).
The onboarding process is long, so if you have time, please review some of the onboarding videos.
https://make.wordpress.org/docs/2022/06/13/live-onboarding-sessions-for-the-documentation-team/

March 5, 2024 — WordPress ha evolucionado más allá de ser simplemente una plataforma para bloggers; se ha convertido en un sistema de gestión de contenido versátil que impulsa una gran parte de la web. Michelle nos habló de conceptos básicos y herramientas útiles para no Coders.

Sobre el ponente:
Michelle es programadora BackEnd en PHP y JAVA Spring, aprendiz de WordPress, blogger, QA Specialist, amante del té y los gatitos. Trabaja en un proyecto de Toxinas orientado en BioInformatica, Women TechMaker Ambassador, Conferencista. Técnico en Ingeniería en Ciencias en Computación.

March 3, 2024 — Los eventos de la comunidad son una excelente oportunidad para compartir conocimiento y hacer networking. Alex nos habló de los diferentes eventos de la comunidad de WordPress a nivel global y cómo puedes participar: organizando y asistiendo.

Sobre el ponente:
Alex es un entusiasta de las tecnologías libres con 15 años de experiencia trabajando con diferentes tecnologías. Engineering Team Lead en NicaSource y contribuye a la comunidad WordPress desde 2017.

March 2, 2024 — Welcome to the onboarding session for the Bengali Polyglots team. This video explains how to start contributing to WordPress translations in the Bengali locale.

February 28, 2024 — In this panel discussion Arun Singh, Bidisha Das and Rahul Singh had come up with a insightful comparative analysis between the different segments of Career Building Opportunities in today’s IT industry.

February 28, 2024 — Are you using AI to streamline your proposals? SOW? OKR’s? Project Management steps and procedures? If you aren’t and are curious on how you can use generative AI to help become more efficient with your web projects with AI, this may be transformative.

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February 27, 2024 — This one-hour session focused on theme development will explore how to craft web layouts using WordPress blocks. This talk is perfect for those who want to learn about block composition–the skill of assembling various blocks to create unique and effective web designs. We’ll look at a range of non-block web layouts, including some submitted by the community, and demonstrate how to convert them into WordPress blocks.

In the second half of our session, we’ll discuss practical aspects such as when to introduce custom CSS, how to add unique block styles, and when to package your design as a pattern. This will give you a better understanding of how to customize layouts while maintaining a clean and functional design. Whether you’re new to WordPress or an experienced theme developer, this talk will provide you with valuable insights into creating modern and responsive websites using the power of blocks.

February 27, 2024 — Keeping your WordPress site SEO-friendly is a continuous process. Regular audits help ensure your site’s SEO is on point. But with the plethora of plugins and tools, which ones should you use? This talk will cover:

The basics of SEO auditing for WordPress.
Recommended plugins to simplify your audits.
A few external tools that offer valuable insights.
Tips for a straightforward audit process and consistent checks.
Walk away with a clearer understanding of SEO audits and a list of reliable tools to help maintain your WordPress site’s SEO health.

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February 27, 2024 — The maturation of the block editor brought with it a major shift in how WordPress theme development was expected to work. For many independent developers and small agencies, this shift seemed like an huge disruption to their workflow – a once-reliable codebase now in flux, entirely new coding languages and tooling to learn, and layers of complexity added to tools (like hooks and queries) that used to be simple and accessible.

The questions seem overwhelming: How do we build something modern for our clients while ensuring its stability and reliability in the years to come? How do we find the time to learn all these new tools while continuing to produce quality work (and support ourselves or our team in the process)? Can’t I just keep doing it the way I was doing it?

Through my own experience as a full-time independent developer – building and supporting real projects with classic WordPress, the block editor, “hybrid” themes, and Full Site Editing as these features were introduced – I will share what I have learned about navigating the triumphs and pitfalls of modern WordPress theme development, and how to confidently decide which tools and features make sense for your projects.

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