May 30, 2020 — This talk is intended to be a humble narrative about my journey to learning JavaScript and some React. One that is still ongoing and that has stopped and started a few times. We will explore the current evolution of theme development. How JavaScript fits into a WordPress developer’s workflow and where a WordPress developer may end up leaning on an amalgamation of what they know, and they may still need to learn. And from that, I hope to open up a conversation about knowing WordPress as a platform and PHP developer, while perhaps not being the best JavaScript developer in the room.

May 30, 2020 — GeneratePress is a powerful Gutenberg ready theme that allows customizations through the admin customizer. It’s also developer-friendly with the ability to add hooks to extend the page layouts. We’ll get as geeky as the crowd allows! Are you ready to party?

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May 30, 2020 — Gutenberg is on the cusp of completely disrupting WordPress. I’ll talk about how Phase 2 started, how it’s evolved, and where it’s going. We’ll examine the ways in which Gutenberg is going to change WordPress and how the ecosystem can prepare for what’s coming.

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May 30, 2020 — In the last two years, Genesis has totally integrated with the block editor and partnered with Atomic Blocks to become the single easiest way to get a great-looking site up that will actually tell your visitors what they most want to know about you and whatever you’re offering. In short, it’s become a content creator’s dream.

April 16, 2020 — Rich Tabor shares a great presentation on things he’s personally done to improve the editing experience in WordPress through his work with CoBlocks and beyond.

April 16, 2020 — Enrique Sanchez is demonstrates what it’s like to operate Gutenberg using nothing but a keyboard.

April 15, 2020 — Both Joen Asmussen and Pablo Honey share some of the important (and sometimes difficult) lessons learned from the process of creating a new user interface for blocks.

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April 15, 2020 — Victor Ramirez shows us a few of the more intersting possibilities with blocks, both by integrating withe external APIs and by expanding our perspective of a block’s purpose or functionality to include more than content editing within the WordPress admin.

April 14, 2020 — Learn how you can design and build your blocks in Storybook in order to rapidly prototype your ideas with this quick tutorial.

April 14, 2020 — Mel Choyce-Dawn shares her creativity and shows you how to produce unique and interesting layouts by combining multiple blocks in different ways. After explaining the core concepts she then creates several common layouts and uses no custom code to construct them.

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