December 23, 2024 — While the WordPress hooks system makes WordPress very extendable, it can sometimes create conflicts with your plugin’s functionality.

In this lesson you will learn how to remove hooked callback functions to prevent them from executing.

December 23, 2024 — As a plugin developer, you’ll probably try to cover all possible use cases when building your plugin’s functionality.

In this lesson, you will learn about custom hooks, the perfect way to enable your users to customize your plugin to their needs.

December 17, 2024 — In the final Developer Hours session of 2024, we took a closer look at WordPress Playground. This tool allows users to create fully functional WordPress instances directly in their browser, with no installation or setup required. Beyond spinning up WordPress sites, Playground offered powerful capabilities, from testing plugins and themes to running demos and even supporting app development. No matter how you engage with WordPress, Playground has something valuable to offer.

The session explored tools and workflows for plugin and theme development, demonstrated how to use Playground for testing and support, highlighted key improvements introduced in 2024, and offered a preview of exciting new features planned for 2025.

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December 16, 2024 — WordPress Playground is a platform that lets you run WordPress instantly on any device without a web host. Anyone can use it to build, experiment, and test anything related to WordPress.

In this online workshop, core WordPress Playground developer Berislav Grgicak joins developer educator Jonathan Bossenger to share insights into how developers can leverage WordPress Playground.

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December 13, 2024 — This talk will explore how WordPress Playground provides a seamless environment for coding and testing. We’ll discuss how it can enhance your development cycle, enabling quicker iterations without the need for complex setups.

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December 11, 2024 — Learn how to override synced patterns in WordPress to create flexible, reusable designs. This lesson demonstrates how to enable overrides for specific blocks, customize content across instances, and maintain stylistic control by updating central design elements. Discover how this feature can enhance workflows, enforce design consistency, and offer a curated editing experience.

December 5, 2024 — Learn how to use the Gallery block in WordPress to add and customize image galleries. This lesson covers adding images, adjusting layouts, enabling Light Box functionality, and styling options.

December 5, 2024 — Learn how to use the Media and Text block in WordPress to create balanced layouts by placing images or videos alongside text. This lesson covers various customization options.

December 3, 2024 — In this session of Developer Hours, we took a deep dive into the advanced usage of tools like create-block and wp-scripts, along with a few others. We focused on solving common challenges and showcasing techniques that went beyond the basics, even for developers already familiar with these tools.

The session featured practical examples and insights to help participants work more efficiently, especially when building blocks, block themes, and Editor extensions. While the discussion covered more advanced implementations, it remained accessible to developers of all experience levels, with plenty of resources provided.

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December 3, 2024 — Discover the steps, challenges, and lessons learned from submitting a theme to the WordPress.org repository, from the initial submission to the final approval.

Have you ever dreamed of publishing your WordPress theme or plugin with the world?

I did too!

But the theme review process can be scary, even for experienced developers.

In this talk, I’ll share my personal experience of submitting my first theme to the WordPress.org repository.

From the initial submission to the “finally” moment which was the final approval, I’ll share the steps, challenges, and lessons I learned along the way.