January 31, 2024 — A brief introduction to HTML, what HTML looks like, and how it’s rendered in the browser. Includes an introduction on writing accessible HTML markup and additional links for further reading.

January 28, 2024 — Learn how a typical admin page request is processed, and step through the code execution.

January 28, 2024 — Learn how the typical WordPress front-end request is processed and step through the code execution.

January 28, 2024 — Learn how permalinks work on a WordPress site. Identify where Permalinks can be set for a WordPress installation, what happens when Permalinks are set, and how they rewrite dynamic URLs.

January 28, 2024 — Learn about the different tables in the WordPress database, and the core functions to interact with these tables.

January 28, 2024 — Learn about the files and directories that make up a WordPress installation

January 28, 2024 — Learn what a web server is, the different parts of a web server, and how a web server powers a WordPress site.

January 19, 2024 — In this inaugural WordPress developer live stream for 2024, we look at how to set up the WordPress core local development environment, to get ready to contribute to WordPress core.

December 15, 2023 — The main goal of the Interactivity API is to provide a standard and simple way to handle the frontend interactivity of Gutenberg blocks. This standard would make it easier for developers to create rich, interactive user experiences, from simple cases like counters or popups to more complex features like instant search, or carts and checkouts. In this session, you will learn more about this new developer API, through a live coding example.

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December 1, 2023 — There have been a few quality-of-life improvements to the Create Block Theme plugin over the course of the WordPress 6.3 and 6.4 releases. This tutorial will give you a brief introduction to these improvements.