Speakers: Jonathan Bossenger
-
Manage your block theme fonts with Create Block Theme
Speaker: Jonathan BossengerDecember 9, 2022 — Create Block Theme has a fantastic new feature that enables theme developers to add external fonts to their block theme. Whether you want to download a font from Google fonts, or install a font you’ve downloaded elsewhere, Create Block Theme makes it painless to add them to your block theme.
-
Let’s code: developing blocks without React! – Controls
Speakers: Jonathan Bossenger, Leo GopalDecember 2, 2022 — This series of workshops looks at building a WordPress block, without using React JSX.
So far, we’ve built a WordPress block using plain JavaScript which supports custom styles via a stylesheet, and which uses block attributes and the RichText component to allow the user to edit the block content. Next, we will add a block control and an additional attribute to allow the user to edit the block alignment.
-
Let’s code: developing blocks without React! – Attributes and RichText
Speaker: Jonathan BossengerNovember 25, 2022 — In the previous session, we built a simple WordPress block using plain JavaScript. However, the block was static. A user couldn’t edit the content in any way.
In this session, we add support for attributes, as well as implement the pre-existing RichText component. These changes enable a user to edit the content of the block.
-
Streamline your block theme development with the Create Block theme
Speaker: Jonathan BossengerNovember 23, 2022 — Learn how to use the Create BLock Theme plugin to streamline your block theme development processes.
-
Let’s code: developing blocks without React! – All about Attributes
Speakers: Jonathan Bossenger, Álvaro Gómez VelascoNovember 18, 2022 — In the previous session, we built a simple WordPress block using plain JavaScript. However, the block was static, in that a user couldn’t edit the content in any way.
This week we will add support for attributes, as well as implement the pre-existing RichText component. These will enable a user to edit the content of the block.
-
Let’s code: developing blocks without React! – Block Basics
Speaker: Jonathan BossengerNovember 11, 2022 — This series of workshops will cover what developing blocks without React might look like.
In part 1 we cover the initial files needed to register a block, go over some of the JavaScript syntax and WordPress dependencies, and then add some styling to our block via a useBlockProps and custom stylesheets.
-
Lets code: internationalization in block themes
Speaker: Jonathan BossengerNovember 7, 2022 — In this session, we will take a brief look at what Internationalisation (or i18n) in themes means, as well as cover the common Internationalisation functions available in WordPress, and how to use them. We’ll then create a blank block theme, and then take a look at the strings that we might need to make translation ready, as well as how to achieve this.
-
Using block template parts in classic themes
Speaker: Jonathan BossengerNovember 2, 2022 — WordPress 6.1 includes a new feature, the ability to register block template parts in classic themes.
This feature allows users to make changes to specific parts of the theme, without affecting the rest of the site layout or design.
-
Let’s code: global styles variations in block themes
Speaker: Jonathan BossengerOctober 28, 2022 — One of the great benefits of the Global Styles system in WordPress block themes is the ability to create multiple variations that users can choose from.
With variations, theme developers can create multiple different websites using the same base theme code, providing a wider range of options to their users.
In this session, we’ll be creating a new block theme, and creating a few new Global Style variations for it, to ship with the theme.
-
A beginner’s guide to the WordPress template hierarchy
Speaker: Jonathan BossengerOctober 28, 2022 — A Beginner’s Guide to the WordPress Template Hierarchy, covering how the template hierarchy works, and how it affects both classic and block themes.
An 
Thingamajig
