February 8, 2023 — One major benefit of block themes is that they can be built with very little CSS. For example, the Twenty Twenty-Three theme has none. All block styles are defined in a theme.json file. While theme.json is getting more powerful with each WordPress release, you will likely need to add some custom CSS in most projects.

This Online Workshop will explore ways to add custom CSS to a block theme while ensuring those styles work correctly in the Editor and on the site’s front end. If time permits, we will also discuss a Sass workflow you can employ to optimize per-block styles.

February 8, 2023 — Recorded February 2023 onboarding session for WordPress Documentation Team roles: Issue triage facilitator, Issues coordinator, and Issues reviewer.

February 7, 2023 — In this Online Workshop, we will look at how you can use the block editor, and blocks, to create a photography website to display your images and photographic skills. I will demo how I created my own site using the Twenty Twenty-Three theme.

February 3, 2023 — The WordPress REST API provides an interface for applications to interact with your WordPress site by sending and receiving data as JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) objects. By default, it provides REST endpoints (URLs) representing the posts, pages, taxonomies, and other built-in WordPress data types. Your application can send and receive JSON data to these endpoints to query, modify and create content on your site. However, it is also possible to extend the WP REST API, in order to perform specific actions that are outside of the scope of the default routes and endpoints. In this session, you will learn about one of the ways you can extend the WP REST API, by modifying REST responses.

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February 3, 2023 — With WordPress now powering over 40% of the web, website owners need to think more about online security. Almost every week a new plugin vulnerability is found and patched, leading to concerns about the security of WordPress.

Fortunately for the new plugin developer, the WordPress developer handbook has an extensive section on Plugin Security. If followed, plugin vulnerabilities can be drastically reduced, and the entire ecosystem is protected.

This tutorial will introduce the new developer to the first 5 areas of plugin security, using easy-to-understand examples.

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February 2, 2023 — Remember the famous “5 minutes installation” process for installing WordPress? Let’s see what WP-CLI can do in 5 minutes, and everything else that can happen in the terminal in 40 minutes. We might actually make WordPress instances more secure. Or just break it.

This is not your usual presentation talk, it is a live terminal commanding demonstration; SSHing your WordPress administration and development; and releasing the Kraken or two.

February 2, 2023 — The WordPress Site Editor offers users to create Custom Templates that can be used on any page or post. In this Online Workshop, we’ll demonstrate creating multiple post templates and assigning them to different types of posts within the same site/blog.

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January 30, 2023 — When designing WordPress themes, one of the biggest challenges stems from a core component of WordPress itself: the ability for site owners to change, modify, and build new content themselves. This simple yet powerful capability was a driving force behind the adoption and popularity of WordPress, but theme designers are faced with a difficult task: designing for content and functionality that doesn’t yet exist.

As content and functionality become even more modular thanks to advances like the block editor, and as we look ahead to the adoption of Full Site Editing, theme designers will have to accommodate even more flexible ways of visualizing and presenting the information. How do we anticipate and accommodate the needs of a constantly evolving website while providing visual solutions that are clean, thoughtful, and consistent?

We will walk through the entire design thinking process as it relates to themes, and you’ll leave with a thorough checklist of steps and tools for designing themes that support WordPress core functionality, custom templates and content, common plugins, and an array of standard and custom Gutenberg blocks. This process is useful both for custom theme builds, and designing themes for sale as a product.

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January 29, 2023 — Info completa en: https://wpbarcelona.com/meetups/factores-a-tener-en-cuenta-a-la-hora-de-crear-una-academia-online-con-wordpress/

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No hay dos academias online iguales y por eso no tiene sentido que todas se planteen del mismo modo.

A lo largo de la sesión analizaremos un conjunto de factores y nos haremos una serie de preguntas que nos ayudarán en la elección de las herramientas y plugins para llevar a cabo nuestro proyecto.

El objetivo de la charla es ofrecerte una visión genérica del abanico de opciones que dispones en WordPress para crear plataformas de formación.

Así que tanto si piensas crear la tuya propia, como si te dedicas a crear sitios web a clientes, asistir a la charla te facilitará el trabajo la próxima vez que afrontes un proyecto de este tipo.

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David Perálvarez
Hablo de WordPress, freelancing y formación online.

Mi primer proyecto en WordPress fue en septiembre de 2012, desde entonces he estado rompiendo código.

Mi día a día profesional gira en torno a la formación online. Por un lado soy creador de cursos online sobre desarrollo WordPress en mi academia SiliCodeValley, ofrezco servicios de diseño y desarrollo de academias online y soy el 50% del podcast Instructores Online, donde sigo dando la turra sobre el tema.

January 27, 2023