May 3, 2023 — The category template allows you to create a custom page layout for a specific category of posts. In this tutorial, we are going to explore how you can create and customise a category template to display a post category archive.

May 1, 2023 — Five for the Future is the official contribution program of WordPress which encourages individuals and companies to pledge up to 5% of their time to give back to building WordPress. As WordPress scales up, this program will play a major role in helping WordPress grow with the times, and in taking our favorite open-source software to the next level.

We give an introduction to Five for the Future, and provide some practical tips and guidance for organizations and individuals on how they can make the most out of the contributor program.

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April 27, 2023 — Recreating a photography website.

April 27, 2023 — Remember the famous “5 minutes installation” process for installing WordPress? Let’s see what WP-CLI can do in 5 minutes. And everything else that can happen in the terminal in 40 minutes. We might actually make WordPress instances more secure. Or just break it.

This is not your usual presentation talk. This is a live terminal commanding; SSHing your WordPress administration and development; and releasing the Kraken or two

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April 26, 2023 — WordPress is an awesome platform with a vibrant community of developers and a huge market share. Even though WordPress developers are a dime a dozen, it can still be difficult to find developers who really know their craft.

Don’t be “just another WordPress developer”. Learn how to create a roadmap for growth, hone your craft, gain confidence and stand out from the crowd. In this presentation, you will learn:

– How to identify where you are in the learning process.
– What you should be focusing on right now to optimize your learning.
– Mistakes you should avoid when learning new things.

Ultimately, the concepts learned here can be applied to learning any number of things, but we’ll be specifically focused on learning WordPress development.

April 26, 2023 — In the Developing WordPress User Roles and Capabilities tutorial, you learned how to create and apply user roles, how to add/remove capabilities from a user role, and how to check user capabilities. In this tutorial, you will learn about the built-in support for capabilities when you register a custom post type, and how you can refine these capabilities to suit your specific requirements.

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April 21, 2023 — In this tutorial, you will learn how to develop with the built-in WordPress Roles and Capabilities system. You will learn how the user roles and capabilities are set up, how to create and apply user roles, and how to add or remove capabilities from a user role.

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April 21, 2023 — The first time you learn about a WordPress multisite network, you might find you have a bunch of questions. Things like, “Can I point top-level domains to subdomain sites?”, “Can I convert a multisite back to a single site?”, “Can I extract a subsite out of the network?”, “If you have an existing site, can you create a multisite main site above it to keep the first site as a subsite?” and many more. In this session, we’ll look at some of the things that are possible with a multisite network, and hopefully answer all these questions.

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April 20, 2023 — This is the second part of the two part series, “A Beginner’s Guide to Setting Up a Basic Website.” Practice setting up a WordPress website of your own along with Sarah Snow and other learners in this video, utilizing the site editor, style book, the Create Block Theme plugin, and more.

April 18, 2023 — In this demo, we will use a variety of patterns to create a Services Page. Patterns allow you to add beautifully designed, ready-to-go layouts to any WordPress site with a simple insert or copy/paste.