April 15, 2022 — Ride along with Anne McCarthy, Courtney Robertson, and Sarah Snow as we walk through the process of testing new WordPress features together, specifically the new Author Template, which will be released with WordPress 6.0.

If you are brand new to testing, have tested WordPress a time or two before, or are an expert, this session is for ALL of you.

April 13, 2022 — Podcasting is an easy way to engage with your audience, have your voice heard, and stand out from the crowd—and WordPress makes it even easier. With a few free plugins, WordPress becomes a natural platform for publishing your serial audio content. We’ll review how to install and configure these plugins to get started with hosting your podcast files and creating easy ways for you to share your episodes and for users to subscribe.

April 13, 2022 — Nearly every website has a header and footer. Full Site Editing makes managing these content areas a breeze. In this social learning space, we explored how to edit the header and footer of a block theme using the Site Editor. We also learned how to completely redesign these areas and how to add unique headers and footers on different page templates.

April 13, 2022 — Every WordPress user benefits when you share your patterns and help democratize design. This lesson aims to equip users to help expand the Pattern Directory and share their designs with the rest of the WordPress community.

April 7, 2022 — This workshop will walk you through the key differences between reusable blocks, block patterns, templates and template parts. We will also shed light on when and why you need to use them.

April 7, 2022 — Bud Kraus, a WordPress instructor and site developer, will demonstrate how to use the Blank template to create a sidebar that can be used for single posts. He will also demonstrate how to create and add a unique header with site-wide navigation.

March 30, 2022 — Learn the process of going through Trac tickets for the current WordPress release and selecting tickets for Dev notes, end user documentation or developer documentation. Once selected, tickets are added into the WordPress GitHub project for release documentation.

March 29, 2022 — Today we are going to take a closer look at how post comments are displayed when you’re using a block theme.

March 29, 2022 — Have you always wanted to create your own Gutenberg block but didn’t know where to start? Or, maybe you tried and found the process daunting or confusing? If so, then this intermediate learn-up is for you! We are going to use Replit.com for this session to allow attendees to use their web browser to work in a pre-configured WordPress installation.

March 28, 2022 — In this social learning space, we explored everything you need to know about positioning blocks in WordPress. From layout and alignment to dimensions and block spacing, you’ll learn the nuances of each and how to configure them correctly.