April 15, 2020 — Both Joen Asmussen and Pablo Honey share some of the important (and sometimes difficult) lessons learned from the process of creating a new user interface for blocks.

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April 15, 2020 — Over the course of 10 minutes, Gzregorz Ziolkowski will show you how to save hours of time when creating custom blocks by making the most of the block scaffolding command.

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April 15, 2020 — Victor Ramirez shows us a few of the more intersting possibilities with blocks, both by integrating withe external APIs and by expanding our perspective of a block’s purpose or functionality to include more than content editing within the WordPress admin.

April 15, 2020 — “This session features three distinct case studies, plus a group Q&A, from Mike McAlister, Jeffrey Carandang, and K.Adam White.

In the first case study, Mike shares his perspective on creating Atomic Blocks, as well as a bit of design theory with atomic design itself. Next, Jeffrey demonstrates the features provided by EditorsKit and explains what led him to create this super-useful plugin. Finally, K.Adam takes us through the process of converting shortcodes to custom blocks and provides several tips to make this transition easier for developers and editorial staff alike.”

April 15, 2020 — The block editor has come a long way since it was first introduced in the Gutenberg feature plugin. Join Miguel Fonasca and Greg Ziolkowski to learn about how extensibility has evolved from then until now.

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April 14, 2020 — Learn how you can design and build your blocks in Storybook in order to rapidly prototype your ideas with this quick tutorial.

April 14, 2020 — Mel Choyce-Dawn shares her creativity and shows you how to produce unique and interesting layouts by combining multiple blocks in different ways. After explaining the core concepts she then creates several common layouts and uses no custom code to construct them.

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April 11, 2020 — This session is all about kids and code. We will discuss why you should teach your kids to code. We will cover how to teach your kids to code. We will even talk about how to keep your young bloggers safe online. We will cover resources and what you as a parent, or teacher need to know to make sure your child is ready for the future in code.

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April 10, 2020 — First, I promise you I was never a disco fan. (You’re over 50 if you got that joke.)

But I gotta say. Gutenberg has changed everything, and I’m over the moon.

Standard layouts with grids of posts? Done in a couple of hours.

Wild and crazy layouts, with all kinds of things going every which way? Again, Gutenberg’s the star!

And not just in experimental for-designers’-eyes-only pages.

But home pages. Archive pages. Pages of posts. Single posts. Even WooCommerce shop pages!

So let’s get visual!

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April 2, 2020 — WordPress has come a long way from its humble beginning. Many of us have come a long way since our own humble beginnings with WordPress. WordPress enters our lives and we never look back. Together, we will explore all that WordPress has to offer. Whether you are a blogger, freelancer, or small business owner, you will discover how you can connect and grow within the WordPress community, and how to get the most from your WordPress—and WordCamp Seattle 2019—experience.

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