September 24, 2024 — The new WordPress Site Editor UI simplifies managing Pages, Templates, and Patterns with easy filtering, customization, and field selection. This enhanced experience is powered by the DataViews component and is part of WordPress’s move toward better collaboration.

Data Views offers a flexible way to display data as tables, grids, or lists, with options for filtering, sorting, and more. Even though it’s still being improved, you can already use the DataViews component in your projects and plugins.

In this Developer Hours session, we explored:

– The fundamentals of the DataViews component
– How to add a React app to a custom WordPress admin page
– How to display a custom dataset using Data Views

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September 12, 2024 — While there are many form plugins available in the WordPress.org plugin directory, being able to code your own contact form plugin is a useful skill, and often the first thing a new developer will create. In this session, you will learn how to create a basic contact form plugin for your WordPress website.

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September 12, 2024 — The Query Loop block might sound bland, but it’s actually the driving force behind the layout of modern WordPress blogs. Let’s dive into this critical block together, and explore some of the ways you can put it to use on your site to show off your content. We’ll uncover why it’s such an important block and where you can use it, and explore how to configure its features to get the result you’re aiming for. We’ll also peek at the different types of blocks you might want to nest inside it. Finally, we’ll uncover some lesser-known ways to use the Query Loop block, to display pages and other types of content besides posts.

September 10, 2024 — In this lesson, you’ll learn how to use the Create Block Theme plugin to customize, save, and export a WordPress theme. You’ll explore how to apply changes to colors, fonts, and layouts and export your modified theme as a zip file for use on other websites.

September 10, 2024 — A blog allows you to share ideas, connect with like-minded people, and enhance your online presence. In this session, we will learn how to set up a blog, create posts, and create categories and tags.

September 10, 2024 — WordPress 6.7 will include a new template registration API, letting you register custom block templates in your plugins. This long-needed feature lets you create default front-end output that plays nicely with themes while also being customizable from the Site Editor by users.

In this Developer Hours session, we looked at:

– The basics of registering templates for your plugin.
– Working with the template hierarchy and themes.
– Building custom templates for custom post types and taxonomies.
– Taking your templates to the next level by integrating them with custom fields, block variations, and more.
– Creating templates for entirely custom URLs built with the Rewrite API.

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September 6, 2024 — The WordPress Playground block is a way to load an instance of WordPress Playground inside your WordPress site.

It includes an interactive code editor, that currently only supports plugins.

Over the course of the next few live streams, I will be working on submitting a PR so that it can also support themes.

September 3, 2024 — This lesson introduces WordPress users to the basics of accessing their site files via FTP or cPanel’s File Manager. It covers the WordPress file structure, how to download and upload files, and an overview of the wp-config.php file for troubleshooting or setup purposes. By the end, you’ll gain confidence in navigating your site’s files and understanding how they fit into “the cloud.”

September 3, 2024 — This lesson introduces WordPress users to their site’s database, explaining the difference between site files and the database, and guiding users on how to access and explore it using phpMyAdmin. You’ll learn about key tables like wp_options and wp_posts and understand how data is structured.

September 2, 2024 — Many hosting options are available for WordPress, but one of the more popular options for developers is using a VPS or virtual private server. VPS services like Digital Ocean, Amazon EC2, and Google Cloud cost a fraction of more traditional managed hosting, with the benefit of controlling your server.

The downside is that you must know your way around server management, including keeping it secure. Fortunately, a wide variety of knowledge is available to guide you through the process.

Over the next couple of live streams, I’ll explain how to set up and manage your own WordPress VPS. We’ll cover the initial server configuration, installing WordPress in both single-site and multi-site installs, different web server software options and configurations, and some security and maintenance best practices.

We covered the initial server setup using Apache and Nginx in the first two streams. This stream will cover installing and configuring OpenLiteSpeed as the web server software.

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