May 7, 2026 — Have you ever been captivated by a website’s intuitive navigation and beautiful design, leaving you with a lasting impression? Or perhaps you’ve encountered a frustratingly difficult site that made you want to leave immediately? The difference often lies in the detailed attention to user experience (UX).

In this engaging session, we will explore the principles and strategies that make for outstanding UX in WordPress websites.

The session will feature examples of websites that excel in UX, analyzing successful elements such as clean navigation, intuitive interfaces, and responsive design. We will also learn from common pitfalls by identifying and addressing issues like cluttered interfaces, slow load times, and inaccessible content through real-world examples. Participants will engage in interactive critique sessions to evaluate sample websites, identify UX flaws, and suggest improvements, gaining hands-on experience.

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May 6, 2026 — A reflection of my project and future contributions to WordPress as a member of the WPCredits program.

(Presentation was intended to be given before an audience unfamiliar with WordPress Credits).

May 4, 2026 — I have completed this course, and now I will contribute to the WordPress team.

May 4, 2026 — My video for the conclusion of my WP Credits traineeship in the Polyglots Team.

May 1, 2026 — A wrap-up of my experience contributing to the WordPress Core-Test team through the WP Credits program. Covers what the test team does, what I worked on across the 7.0 release cycle, and what could be improved for new contributors joining the team.

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April 30, 2026 — As shared in New AI-Powered Tools for Creating WordPress Learning Materials article on the Training Team website, the WordPress Training Team and full community now has a set of AI-powered tools to help contributors create high-quality learning materials more efficiently. These tools — a collection of structured prompts usable in any AI platform and a dedicated Claude plugin — are now available to everyone in the Learn WordPress GitHub repository.

In this online workshop, Destiny Kanno guides folks through how to use each tool, shows them in action, and gives attendees the opportunity to try them themselves.

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April 27, 2026 — NIS2 (Directive (EU) 2022/2555) is the EU’s new baseline for cybersecurity and incident reporting across a wider set of sectors and digital service providers. It can feel “too legal” or “too enterprise”, yet many WordPress businesses may be affected directly (depending on services and size) or indirectly through customer and supply-chain requirements. In this talk, we’ll explain NIS2 in plain English: the rationale behind it, the big changes vs. NIS1, and the “essential vs important entities” concept. Then we’ll map the directive to real-world WordPress work: hosting and managed WordPress, maintenance retainers, plugin/theme dependencies, and the practical meaning of “supply chain security”. NIS2 explicitly highlights supply-chain risks and relationships with suppliers, and it also sets structured incident reporting expectations (including early warning and notification timelines).

April 26, 2026 — This video provides a complete guide on how to contribute to Polyglots. It walks through the entire process step by step, making it easy for beginners and experienced contributors alike to understand how to get involved.

You’ll learn how to get started, the tools and platforms required, and the proper workflow for submitting contributions. The video also covers best practices, important guidelines to follow, and tips to ensure your contributions are effective and accepted smoothly.

Whether you’re new to Polyglots or looking to improve your contribution process, this tutorial will help you understand everything in detail and contribute with confidence.

April 25, 2026 — Building custom Gutenberg blocks can feel complex and time-consuming, especially for developers who want to move fast without over-engineering. In this talk, I will show the fastest and most practical ways to build Gutenberg blocks using modern WordPress tools and scripts. Topics covered will include: Using @wordpress/scripts to quickly scaffold and build custom blocks, Creating blocks with minimal configuration using official WordPress tooling, Helpful scripts and tools that speed up block development (block.json, ESNext, build processes), How AI can assist in block development, Using AI to speed up debugging, refactoring, and documentation for blocks, Common mistakes that slow down block development and how to avoid them. This talk is suitable for beginner to intermediate WordPress developers who want to work more efficiently with Gutenberg.

April 25, 2026 — Whether our goal is to deliver pages faster or serve more pages from the same server, most of us want WordPress and the code we write for it to run faster. But how does one go about improving the performance of a complicated and expansive project like WordPress? The goal for this workshop is to learn how to identify and resolve performance issues in WordPress, and to build our intuition for software performance. It will cover a range of topics including causes for performance issues, methods for assessing and measuring performance, and insight into the role that today’s complicated processors play in this puzzle. Themes covered include: how modern processors run code differently than we expect; profiling with Xdebug and SPX; benchmarking; methodology for caching; streaming interfaces; the impact of API sequencing; and the outsized role design plays in avoiding performance traps.