August 25, 2022 — Learn about GitOps as an evolution of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevOps best practices.

This talk explores the idea of GitOps, using Git as the single source of truth, including principles, processes, and practices of building a GitOps workflow. Evaluate if GitOps is right for your team. (If your infrastructure is already in the cloud, the potential is good.)

Find out how GitOps can empower developers to respond to requests faster, improve security and reliability, and generally do more with less.

August 24, 2022 — Explore how to build a header from scratch using a block theme! Gain a deeper understanding of how blocks are nested to create a header, and how to replace a header template part.

August 24, 2022 — WordPress is awesome, but everyone runs into issues now and then. Whether you own, maintain or build WordPress sites, troubleshooting is a skill set that will save you time and money. In this session, you will:

– Learn about the types of WordPress issues you may encounter and how to diagnose them.
– Discover the step-by-step processes that will help you find the root cause of an issue.
– Learn what your next steps are once you know the source of an issue.
– Learn what information you should be providing when interacting with developers or your web host to help speed up the problem resolution process.

August 23, 2022 — In this session, you’ll learn how to create your first custom block, by adding block support to an existing shortcode plugin.

You’ll learn how to set up the plugin to support block development, and use the scaffolded code created using create-block and the existing shortcode to create a new custom block.

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August 21, 2022 — Learn how Hybrid Agile has been successfully utilized at large organizations such as Penske Media and the BBC. Find out how you can bring the benefits of Agile to your own projects.

August 19, 2022 — Block patterns are a fundamental component of modern WordPress theme development. While we have covered patterns in many previous online workshops, this session will review some lesser-known pattern implementations.

In addition to a review of how to register patterns in block themes, a new method introduced in WordPress 6.0, you will learn how to create semantic, contextual, and page creation patterns. We will also review multiple real-world examples of this advanced functionality that you can apply to your own projects.

August 19, 2022 — In Block Theme Builders: Design in Figma, we got familiar with Figma, made a copy of the Theme Template, made it our own, and many of you asked: how do I make this into a theme? Well, let’s do it!

Join us, as we take our Figma design file and convert it into a block theme. We’ll show you how to set up colors, typography and maybe some more (if we have time).

August 18, 2022 — Details

In this introductory session to WordPress multisite, we will discuss what a multisite is, when and why to use a multisite network, and answer any questions folks may have about using WordPress multisite.

Time permitting, we will also review how the backend of a WordPress multisite network looks together.

Target Audience

Beginner-Intermediate; folks with experience setting up a WordPress website before and those who may or may not have set up a multisite.

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August 17, 2022 — In this tutorial, we will take a closer look at how you can modify the way single posts are displayed. We will explore two designs and learn how to restructure and nest various types of blocks.

August 17, 2022 — Block themes represent an existing shift in how WordPress themes are developed. It’s now possible to create an entirely new WordPress theme in the Site Editor and export it to be used wherever you need it.

In this session, we’ll be looking at a new WordPress plugin called Create Block Theme, that allows to you export your newly designed theme over your existing theme, as a new custom theme, or even as a child theme.

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