July 12, 2023 — The navigation block is one of the most complex and confusing blocks to work with using the Gutenberg block editor.

But it doesn’t have to be.

This presentation will show you how to set your site’s navigation using only blocks and not the classic menu system. We’ll also have a look at what’s coming in 6.3.

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July 11, 2023 — In this session, we will explore eight tips and shortcuts you could use to work faster and more efficiently in the block editor. We will also explore the various editor modes in the block editor that you can select to improve your writing or editing experience.

July 11, 2023 — In this short video tutorial, we will explore seven ways to improve your site’s security.

July 7, 2023 — The WordPress Training Team brings you the resources on Learn.WordPress.org — and you can be a part of it! You don’t need to be an educator or expert to contribute to the team, nor do you need a huge time commitment — all that’s required is your enthusiasm for WordPress!

In this session, we:
• Introduce you to the Training Team
• Talk about the different types of content the team produces
• All the different ways you can contribute to Learn WordPress and the Training Team

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July 7, 2023 — WordPress contains an extensive list of APIs for performing common tasks across a WordPress site. From interacting with the database to creating responsive images, there’s an API for practically everything. This session will be the first in a series of an introduction to the common WordPress APIs, starting with the Dashboard Widgets API.

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July 7, 2023 — When developing WordPress plugins or themes, it’s a good idea to have tools in place to help improve your code quality and debug your code in the case of errors. Enabling error logs, inspecting the values of variables during code execution, and looking at the database queries being run are all tools that developers can use to find and fix problems. In this tutorial, we’ll dive into some of the options built into WordPress that you have at your disposal, learn about various debugging plugins and their uses, as well as look at one or two third-party tools to consider.

July 3, 2023 — In this video tutorial, we will look at how you can use rows and stacks to achieve various designs.

June 30, 2023 — This Developer Hours session showcases extensibility methods that empower builders to extend and customize the WordPress editing experience.

– What is Editor extensibility and why is it important
– What extensibility methods are currently available in WordPress and how to use them
– What is missing in WordPress in terms of extensibility, particularly related to blocks and the Editor

June 30, 2023 — When developing plugins or themes there are certain considerations one needs to make if you want to make sure your plugin or theme supports multsite. In this session, we’ll cover those considerations, look at some specific multisite APIs, and convert an existing plugin to support multsite.

June 30, 2023 — While the default WordPress database schema is perfect for most content related data types, there may be instances where you need to create custom tables in a WordPress database. One example of this is when a plugin has a specific use case that extends beyond what the custom post type functionality of WordPress offers. In this session, we will look at what you need to know to create and manage custom WordPress database tables, how to create and interact with these tables, and some maintenance considerations.

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