April 6, 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 3 of a multi-part series.

April 6, 2023 — In the plugin security best practices tutorial we covered the 5 top ways you can ensure your plugin is developed securely. However, it’s important to understand why you need to follow these principles.

In this tutorial, we will cover the top 3 Common Vulnerabilities that are found in plugins, and how to use the practices taught in the previous tutorial to combat them.

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April 4, 2023 — In Part 2 of this Online Workshop series, we will briefly review the building blocks added in Part 1, then apply those blocks to creating the content for our Website Pages and Posts.

We’ll create an entire Home Page, Contact Page, and Portfolio Page using just a mobile browser and the WordPress Mobile App.

See in action how a website is put together on a mobile phone. Future sessions will dive a little deeper each time.

April 3, 2023 — Use a pattern to add a beautifully designed, ready-to-go layout to any WordPress site. In this Tutorial, we will explore how you can utilise patterns to save time and enhance design and creativity.

April 3, 2023 — Join us for a discussion about migrating a shortcode or widget based plugin to blocks. Learn from your peers and from experts. This is also an opportunity to share any hurdles or pain-points you’ve encountered and discover how to overcome them.

April 2, 2023 — WordPress has made it even easier for folks by enabling users to add media via the Inserter and images from Openverse that are free to use on your site.

April 2, 2023 — Learn key tips, tricks, and resources to use open-source technology about updating WordPress videos.

March 31, 2023 — Where do you go to learn how to use the latest and greatest features that WordPress has to offer? Did you know that the WordPress community has its own official learning platform, with hours and hours of free tutorials, courses, and online workshops, that you can use to level up your WordPress knowledge? In this session, you’ll learn about the Learn WordPress website, walk through the website’s learning resources, share how to utilize each content type to your advantage and needs, discuss how to highlight Learn’s resources to others, and showcase how you too can contribute to the Learn WordPress initiative!

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March 31, 2023 — The WordPress REST API is more than just a set of default routes. It is also a tool for creating custom routes and endpoints. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create custom routes and endpoints and test them using Postman.

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March 29, 2023 — Do you see caching as “that vague and confusing thing that developers do to speed up your site”? Maybe you’ve even gotten brave and tried installing and configuring a caching plugin.

The reality is, you aren’t really sure how caching works and it always seems to make things more complicated than they need to be. If this is you, don’t miss this session!

You will come away understanding what caching is, what types of caching exist and how they work, why you might use different types of caching, and will be able to avoid common pitfalls that DIY caching novices fall into.