August 10, 2018 — Ask your questions to the group of people building Gutenberg. Learn its design language, how to create blocks and extend the new editor interface in various ways.

August 10, 2018 — Ask your questions to the group of people building Gutenberg. Learn its design language, how to create blocks and extend the new editor interface in various ways.

July 9, 2018 — This talk explores the principles behind some of the original decisions behind Gutenberg. What does it mean to build around HTML and treating the user’s content as the privileged actor? How does Gutenberg work internally to power the editing experience? This talk dives on the technical side of the project and its implications for democratizing publishing.

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December 4, 2017 — The State of the Word is the annual keynote address at WordCamp US, presented by the co-founder of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg. In this year’s address, Matt summarizes the highlights of 2017 — including the 4.8 and 4.9 releases — and previews what we can look forward to in 2018 ( spoiler: it’s Gutenberg 🙂 ).

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June 30, 2016 — The introduction of Calypso has brought the notion of a modern JavaScript approach to the front and center of the WordPress community. What does an admin UI built entirely in JavaScript (with technologies like React that have taken the JavaScript community by storm) mean for WordPress and how we think of JavaScript in the project? Explain some of Calypso’s core development values that have driven us from the very start at Automattic. How does it look internally and why it’s not powered by any “framework”? How can you get started, contribute, and begin making cool things with it?

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December 11, 2015 — React has taken the JavaScript community by storm and is changing how we build UIs and write JavaScript. What are some cool things that you can do with React? Why did Automattic chose to build the new WordPress.com UI (Calypso) using it? And, how can you start using React today in WordPress to enhance your themes and plugins? Let’s see what we can come up with and imagine a future filled with easy to reuse components.

October 3, 2012 — Underscores (_s) es un theme creado por Automattic, que posee la sabiduría ganada de muchos años rompiendo otros themes, y que sirve de base para la mayoría de los que diseñamos actualmente. Esta presentación es una introducción al uso de _s, para luego explorar cómo diseñar tu sitio con él usando CSS de la mejor manera.