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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June 28, 2023 — Global styles help users change the overall style of their website. It lets you avoid the hassle of editing individual blocks or pages. With Global styles, users have improved control over the layout and design of their websites.

In WordPress 6.2, a new feature has been added to the global styles interface that allows users to preview every block that can be inserted into their site.

In this session, we will explore using global styles and the stylebook to style your site.

June 28, 2023 — Shockingly, only 2.6% of the Web is truly accessible to those who are disabled or cognitively challenged. Did you know that you can enhance your content in simple ways to make it more accessible? Join Alicia St. Rose for a few Ah-ha moments and breakthroughs as she shares 7 easy habits you can start to build immediately to make your content more accessible.

Let’s go deeper and outside-the-box to transform your content into an experience to be enjoyed by all.

You were born a leader, one who strives for A11y Excellence. It’s time to master the 7 habits that can catapult your content toward Accessibility mastery.

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June 26, 2023 — In this video tutorial, we will learn how to utilise WordPress Playground.

Visit playground.wordpress.net to get your very own, private, in-browser WordPress running. That’s it! Now you can build a theme, build an entire site, test a plugin, and more!