July 23, 2024 — Building custom blocks is a key aspect of WordPress development, but it’s not always the best solution. With the recent enhancements in WordPress 6.5 and 6.6, you can often avoid creating blocks from scratch by leveraging new features alongside core WordPress blocks. It’s all about selecting the right tool for the right task.

In this Developer Hours session, we explored several scenarios often addressed with custom blocks and discussed alternative approaches, especially those that leverage block patterns and Editor extensions. Key highlights include:

– How to add new functionality to core blocks
– How to use content-only editing and the allowedBlocks attribute in patterns
– How to integrate block bindings and block variations
– How to effectively use block locking and naming
– How to create overrides in synced patterns

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July 23, 2024 — In this workshop, I will dissect how a web app made entirely with WordPress and some of its most famous plugins works.

A complete and real use case where a Gymkhana is created using Learndash and GamiPress, all under the site and block editor.

Thinking about content architecture is part of the design process for a technological solution, especially if we want to make it simple and user-friendly for our companions.

Join me in this ‘dissection’ and empower yourself for your next project with WordPress.

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July 23, 2024 — If you have a website and want people to find you online, then you need to make your website findable with SEO.

Keyword research is the foundation of any successful SEO strategy, yet a lot of us don’t take (or have) the time to do it properly. Where do you even start?

In this workshop, we’ll get started with the basics and help you uncover the keywords that your audience is using. It will be given by two of our experts at Yoast who have experience of keyword research.

They will share tools you can use, how to use them and how to best prioritise the keywords you find. After the workshop, you’ll walk away with new insights into your audience and a list of keywords for your site. You’ll have so much inspiration for new content!

And best of all: it will be content that your audience is actually looking for.

To make the most out of this workshop, please make sure to bring your laptop.

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July 23, 2024 — Join us for an exploration of the new Woo Product Editor.

We will kick things off with a comprehensive overview highlighting the most important aspects of its implementation, and guiding you step-by-step through extending the editor for a few real use cases.

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July 23, 2024 — This lesson focuses on creating a one-page website using a front page template. You’ll learn to build a fixed, sticky header, add in-page links and anchors for easy navigation, and implement smooth scrolling for a seamless user experience.

July 18, 2024 — Check out some of the new features that have landed with WordPress 6.6.

July 17, 2024 — Once your theme is live on the WordPress.org theme directory, you may need to update it from time to time. This could be to fix bugs, add new features, or generally improve it.

There are two ways to update your theme on WordPress.org, uploading a new zip file, or using Subversion (SVN).

Let’s look at both methods.

July 17, 2024 — When you’ve made sure your theme includes all the required files, passes the theme review guidelines, and you’ve thoroughly tested your theme, you’re ready to submit your theme to the WordPress.org theme directory.

Let’s dive into what this process looks like.

July 17, 2024 — Once you have finished developing your theme, you need to prepare it for submission to the WordPress.org theme repository.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to prepare your theme for submission, including how to test your theme, check and follow the theme review guidelines, and prepare documentation for your theme.

July 17, 2024 — When you submit your theme to the WordPress.org theme directory, there are a set of required theme files that you need to include in your theme.

Let’s look at what these files are, and why they are important.