March 24, 2023 — In this beginner-level tutorial, learn how to use featured images on block themes, how classic themes use featured images, and how to use featured images to control how social media displays your website’s images.

March 24, 2023 — The WordPress User Roles and Capabilities system provides a robust way to control user access to sensitive data on your WordPress site. It’s not only possible to create custom roles and assign capabilities to those roles, but it’s also possible to assign content type capabilities to your custom post types. This adds another layer of control over your site content, especially if you require different levels of access. In this session, we’ll be taking a look at the specific functionality that exists in the register_post_type function that pertains to post type capabilities, learn how this works, and how to best make use of it.

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March 24, 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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March 23, 2023 — Have you ever wanted to update your site’s design, but wondered exactly what that would entail? It sounds so daunting, so maybe you’ve wanted to watch someone else do it first before you tried? If so, then this online workshop is for you!

Come join this informal live stream where Ben will update his personal blog’s design while answering questions from attendees. In this multi-part workshop, you’ll get to see the full process of updating a site’s design, including:

* Creating a local staging site of a live site and transferring updates between the sites
* Updating a site’s theme from Twenty Twenty-Two to Twenty Twenty-Three
* Editing templates and template parts in the Site Editor

This is Part 2 of a multi-part series.

March 20, 2023 — A template provides the structure or design for how a page is displayed. That usually includes a header template part, a content area and a footer template part. In this beginner session, we will look closer at the various templates available, the template layout, and how to assign a template to a post or page.

March 17, 2023 — The WordPress User Roles and Capabilities system provides a robust way to control user access to sensitive data on your WordPress site.

While the predefined roles and capabilities should suffice for most requirements, it is also possible to add new user roles, and define capabilities for that role.

In this session, you’ll learn about the default WordPress roles and capabilities, how they are set up and stored in the WordPress database, and how you can create custom roles and assign capabilities.

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March 17, 2023 — In this session, we will look at how to create or update custom field values in your REST API endpoints, the built-in authentication options for authenticating WP REST API requests, and how to test REST API routes and endpoints using a third party too.

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March 16, 2023 — The Single template controls the layout of individual blog posts on your site, and the 404 page will be displayed when your site visitors end up on non-existent URLs and find no content. This Online Workshop will show how you can customize these templates to meet your design needs.

March 16, 2023 — Learn how to make simple website improvements to get clients to stay and interact. Topics include keyword/image ratios, navigation, WordPress plugins, website performance, keeping content interesting, the value of simplicity, use of color, and call-to-action.

Accessibility note: The slides in this presentation include animations and color contrast that may affect some viewers.

March 14, 2023 — Web designers and developers are each specialists with their own priorities, needs, and focus. Sometimes there can be a communication gap between the two, leading to misunderstandings and frustration. How can you learn to speak each other’s language and ensure your projects run smoothly and without hassles?

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