September 30, 2025 — In this talk, you will learn how theme developers can leverage WordPress Playground alongside the Create Block Theme plugin to create a seamless, browser-based development environment that integrates directly with GitHub for version control—all without writing a single line of code.

June 7, 2025 — Discover how to transform WordPress Playground into a powerful demonstration tool for your plugins and themes. This practical session will guide you through creating pre-configured blueprints that let potential customers experience your products in a real-world environment. You’ll learn how to craft the perfect demo environment by configuring essential settings, populating it with relevant content, integrating complementary plugins, and importing sample data. Best of all, you’ll be able to package this entire experience into a secure, one-click solution that runs directly in the browser – eliminating server overhead and security concerns.

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April 30, 2025 — In this talk, you learn how to use blueprints to pre-configure a Playground instance to showcase your plugin or your theme and make it available to potential customers. After the talk you will know how to add content, additional plugins, data and enable necessary setting to make the demo or test site as close to a real-world examples as possible. You provide your audience with one-click testing solution, without worry on server load or security access.

October 12, 2024 — WordPress 6.7 soll am 12. November released werden. In diesem Vortrag wird Birgit Pauli-Haack die wichtigsten Neuigkeiten und Updates für Seitenbauer und Entwickler demonstrieren und diskutieren. Voraussichtliche Themen sind bisherige Fortschritte im WPAdmin Redesign, mit Tabellenansichten für Beiträge, und die Mediathek, synchronisierten Vorlage für Themes, Zoom out view für bessere Übersichtlichkeit, neue Core Blocks, und weitere Verbesserungen am Interface, um Raster Layouts zu erstellen. Das neue Default Theme Twenty-Twenty-Five wird Basis aller Demonstrationen sein

August 27, 2024 — In this Developer Hours session, we explored how to use the Create Block Theme plugin to make block theme development easier. Tammie Lister, core committer, theme maintainer, and contributor to Gutenberg, joined us to explain how it works and talk about the new features. Whether you’ve used the plugin before or created your own block theme, you won’t want to miss this chance to see how it can improve your workflow.

The following topics are covered in this session:

– How to create a theme from scratch
– How to clone an existing block theme or create a child theme
– How to customize your theme in the Site Editor
– How media used in templates is managed for you
– How the plugin helps make themes translation-ready
– And more!

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May 28, 2024 — WordPress Playground offers a powerful way to experiment with WordPress environments instantaneously. In this session, we dove into the world of WordPress Playground blueprints, exploring how they can be used to create dynamic, disposable WordPress instances.

We started with a brief overview of WordPress Playground, ensuring you have a solid understanding of its capabilities. Then, we looked at the details of blueprint creation and usage, providing hands-on examples and practical tips. When watching the recording, you will learn how to:

– Set up your first Playground environment.
– Create custom blueprints that include specific plugins, themes, and content.
– Use blueprints for testing, which includes enabling experimental features in Gutenberg.
– Use WP-CLI commands with Playground to add posts and attachments.
– Leverage blueprints for teaching and demonstrations.
– And much more!

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April 21, 2024 — Mit dem Plugin können auch Nichtentwickler Themes erstellen und ihren Kunden zur Verfügung stellen. Installiere das Create Block Theme Plugin, modifiziere Styles und Templates im Site-Editor und exportiere als ein neues Theme oder ein Child Theme, um es auf einer anderen Seite zu installieren.

In der Session wird Birgit alle Funktionen erklären und anhand von Beispielen zeigen. Sie wird auch über die zukünftige Entwicklung des Plugins berichten.

October 15, 2023 — Not every project needs custom developed blocks to provide a great block editor experience for clients. You also don’t need to be a JavaScript expert to make adjustments to the WordPress core experience.

This talk covers tools and methods for developers to curate the editor experience. Learn about the nature of block.json and theme.json, and when to use block styles and block variations.

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September 10, 2023 — You don’t have to be a developer to contribute to WordPress and have an impact. There are many ways a non-developer can contribute via the GitHub repository. Learn some lingo, creating and commenting on issues, search labels and work on finding solutions by commenting on design, and functionality. You will also learn how to test upcoming changes in your browser. The talk is aimed at the enthusiastic, yet critical WordPress user, who has fun testing the software, is opinionated and discuss the findings with the team. No coding skills required.

March 30, 2022 — Learn the process of going through Trac tickets for the current WordPress release and selecting tickets for Dev notes, end user documentation or developer documentation. Once selected, tickets are added into the WordPress GitHub project for release documentation.