September 18, 2023 — Use a pattern to add a beautifully designed, ready-to-go layout to any WordPress site.

In this Tutorial, we will explore how you can utilize patterns to save time and enhance design and creativity. We will also take a closer look at creating custom patterns, using built-in patterns from certain blocks, and managing template part patterns.

September 16, 2023 — Learn.WordPress.org (Learn WordPress) is the WordPress project’s official learning platform. There, you’ll find hundreds of WordPress-related education resources, including live Online Workshops conducted almost daily!

Online Workshops are free interactive learning sessions that anyone can attend. These are conducted by vetted facilitators, who are often assisted by vetted co-hosts. Anyone can apply to facilitate or co-host an Online Workshop and the WordPress Training Team is excited to help you get involved!

If you’re interested in facilitating or co-hosting Online Workshops for the WordPress Training Team, then this workshop is for you! Come join Ben as he walks through the process of facilitating and co-hosting an Online Workshop. You’ll get an overview of the vetting process, and also a behind-the-scenes view into how facilitators and co-hosts prepare for an Online Workshop.

September 14, 2023 — Having an account on WordPress.org is useful for many different reasons! With an WordPress.org account you can:

• Post on the WordPress support forums
• Rate and review themes and plugins
• Join the Making WordPress Slack
• Track your activity and contributions to the WordPress Open Source project

In this session, we tour the different parts of a WordPress.org profile and demonstrate how to create an account on WordPress.org.

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September 14, 2023 — In this casual conversation, we discuss block variations and how you can use them to enhance the editing experience in WordPress. An often overlooked feature, variations are a great way to extend existing blocks and can be as simple or complex as you like. Many WordPress Core blocks you use daily are variations!

To kick off the discussion, we provide a brief overview of what variations are and how they work. Ryan Welcher then shares how he built the Advanced Query Loop plugin and why he opted for a variation of the Query block instead of building a custom block from scratch.

September 14, 2023 — In order to extend WordPress, a developer needs to have a foundational understanding of the WordPress database as well as knowledge of how to interact with and manipulate the data stored there. In this session, we’ll take a high-level overview of the WordPress database, review the default ways to interact with the core schema and data, as well as learn how to add and use custom tables for additional functionality.

September 14, 2023 — The WordPress HTTP Request API allows you to make requests to external services to fetch and send data between a WordPress site and the external service. This is very useful if you need to interact with external APIs. In this session, we’ll look at the helper functions that the HTTP Request API provides, and how to use them.

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September 12, 2023 — In this session, we will differentiate between synced and non-synced patterns and explore how to create and add them within the post editor and site editor.

September 12, 2023 — The Navigation block is used to display a menu of links to help visitors navigate around your website. This session will discuss using, managing, and customizing your navigation menus.

September 11, 2023 — If you’re the type of person who likes to help others, then one of the least complicated ways you can contribute to WordPress is helping out in the support forums. Every day WordPress users from all over the world post questions in the WordPress support forums, with topics ranging from first time installation problems all the way to plugin and theme errors. All you need to help out in the forums, is a local WordPress installation to test out the problem, and a WordPress.org profile in order to be able to reply to the forum thread. In this online workshop, we’ll take a look at how the support forums work, how to find topics to reply to, and maybe even help troubleshoot and reply to a few forum threads.

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September 10, 2023