November 2, 2022 — WordPress 6.1 includes a new feature, the ability to register block template parts in classic themes.

This feature allows users to make changes to specific parts of the theme, without affecting the rest of the site layout or design.

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November 1, 2022 — This session is part of a series: Part 1 and Part 2. In this live demo, we will be re-creating block designs or design elements in the Block Editor. This will require using and nesting a variety of blocks.

October 28, 2022 — As content and functionality becomes more modular thanks to advances like the block editor, theme designers will have to accommodate even more flexible ways of visualizing and presenting the information. How do we anticipate and accommodate the needs of a constantly evolving website while providing visual solutions that are clean, thoughtful, and consistent?

This talk works through the entire thinking process as it relates to theme design. It offers a thorough checklist of steps and tools for designing themes that support WordPress core functionality, custom templates and content, common plugins, and an array of standard and custom Gutenberg blocks.

October 28, 2022 — One of the great benefits of the Global Styles system in WordPress block themes is the ability to create multiple variations that users can choose from.

With variations, theme developers can create multiple different websites using the same base theme code, providing a wider range of options to their users.

In this session, we’ll be creating a new block theme, and creating a few new Global Style variations for it, to ship with the theme.

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October 28, 2022 — A Beginner’s Guide to the WordPress Template Hierarchy, covering how the template hierarchy works, and how it affects both classic and block themes.

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October 27, 2022 — In a digital and business environment where 95% of businesses are small and medium-sized companies, it is our duty as software developers to make code and systems as robust as possible.
We are not just talking about defensive programming, but about taking security into account in all phases of the software lifecycle, from design to maintenance.
Code prophylaxis is about preventing any threat from penetrating our systems, controlling and eliminating any malware that interacts with our code and preventing any attacker from acting on our system.

October 27, 2022 — Composer is a command-line dependency management tool designed for PHP. Come learn how Composer can help you:

– Simplify new project creation
– Minimize duplication of code in your project repositories
– Quickly install and update plugins and themes in bulk
– Manage versioning within your project
– Follow best practices when managing code for your projects

October 26, 2022 — In this session, we are going to look at how to export and import data from one WordPress website to another.

October 26, 2022 — Learn about the history of your favorite content management system (CMS)! In this session, we’ll tell the story of how WordPress began as simple blogging software and then developed into the CMS that it is today.

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October 26, 2022 — Learn how WordPress can be used as a headless CMS and how to pair it with React. Find out why splitting the front end and back end can be a good idea, and see some examples.