November 16, 2022 — Various dimension controls are built into different blocks to help you achieve greater customization for your layout and design, especially when combined.

Padding and margin are two important properties, and they essentially do the same thing – they create extra space. But the question is, where?

In this session, we will explore how to use these controls more confidently.

November 14, 2022 — In March 2022, the nonprofit organization WebAIM published a report about the state of accessibility at the top one million websites. The report flagged the six most common WCAG errors. These errors represented 96.5% of all accessibility errors found. Learn how to find and fix these issues.

November 12, 2022 — Many technical and non-technical roles play an essential part in the WordPress ecosystem. Through this talk, we’ll get to know about making them a part of your career journey. We’ll also cover how you can give back to WordPress in multiple ways while staying connected to your career path or interests.

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November 11, 2022 — This series of workshops will cover what developing blocks without React might look like.

In part 1 we cover the initial files needed to register a block, go over some of the JavaScript syntax and WordPress dependencies, and then add some styling to our block via a useBlockProps and custom stylesheets.

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November 10, 2022 — WordPress 6.1 is here, and with it, more ways to curate the editing experience. In this Online Workshop, we will review the Block Editor Handbook article Curating the Editor Experience in a live environment. Then using real-world examples, you will learn how to tailor the Editor to suit your needs and/or those of your clients. From block locking and advanced theme.json configurations to new features in 6.1, like content-only editing support for container blocks!

November 9, 2022 — Learn how to remove or add blank space between your blocks.

November 9, 2022 — In this session, we are going to explore how to use the padding, margin and block spacing settings.

November 7, 2022 — This talk explores how commerce has evolved, the trends we are witnessing in customer behaviors and expectations, and how merchants — and those who support them — can adapt to the new normal by meeting their customers where they are.

The lines between the physical and digital worlds have converged, impacting the ways in which commerce operates. The shopping experiences that customers want and expect are dramatically different than before.

Consumers expect to purchase whenever they want, from anywhere in the world, and in their preferred local payment methods. How do merchants — and the agencies and developers that support them — adapt to a digital-first and borderless world?

November 7, 2022 — Learn more about the new default theme for WordPress 6.1. Twenty Twenty-Three is a unique, accessibility-ready theme that includes a collection of 10 style variations, submitted and curated by the WordPress community.

November 7, 2022 — In this session, we will take a brief look at what Internationalisation (or i18n) in themes means, as well as cover the common Internationalisation functions available in WordPress, and how to use them. We’ll then create a blank block theme, and then take a look at the strings that we might need to make translation ready, as well as how to achieve this.

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