December 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.

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December 2, 2022 — In this Hallway Hangout, we’ll have a casual chat about some of the Block Theme development-related features that are under active development. This will be an open conversation via Zoom. Expect plenty of healthy conversation, question and answers, and maybe even a demo or two.

November 27, 2022 — Using core blocks in a custom site helps streamline development and keep the customer’s cost down, but it can also give clients too much ability to break a carefully crafted design.

This lightning talk is for anyone developing WordPress sites for clients or WordPress themes for the public. Learn more about the various ways of customizing core Gutenberg blocks in order to keep a site’s administrators and content editors within the guard rails established by the designer.

November 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.

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October 28, 2022 — As content and functionality becomes more modular thanks to advances like the block editor, theme designers will have to accommodate even more flexible ways of visualizing and presenting the information. How do we anticipate and accommodate the needs of a constantly evolving website while providing visual solutions that are clean, thoughtful, and consistent?

This talk works through the entire thinking process as it relates to theme design. It offers a thorough checklist of steps and tools for designing themes that support WordPress core functionality, custom templates and content, common plugins, and an array of standard and custom Gutenberg blocks.

June 25, 2020 — This talk examines the current status of theme development (in May 2020). Create stunning themes for the future by learning how to take advantage of blocks, block templates, and block patterns.

topics include:
– explaining the difference between block templates and patterns
– adding templates and patterns to your existing themes improves user experience
– building block templates and patterns for existing themes
– planning to take advantage of upcoming core enhancements like full site editing

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June 2, 2019 — When building a custom theme, we pay a lot of attention to how everything looks on the frontend — but what about in the editor? This talk will explore how to make sure what your users see in the backend matches up to what visitors will see in the frontend.

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June 21, 2017 — Il est beaucoup plus facile de créer un thème sur mesure que ce que l’on peut croire.
Aujourd’hui beaucoup se rabattent sur des thèmes premium et des pages builders.
Mais savez-vous qu’avec quelques bases HTML/CSS et un peu de PHP, créer un thème sur mesure pour WordPress n’est pas si compliqué ?

C’est ce que l’on va faire en 30 petites minutes lors de ce Workshop. Vous aurez à l’issue une base solide qui vous servira de tremplin à tous vos futurs projets.

On en profitera pour aborder les fichiers de templates, le template hierarchy, les fonctions fournies par WordPress ainsi que la fameuse “Loop”.

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May 8, 2017 — Odin é um Framework para desenvolvimento de temas feito pela comunidade brasileira de WordPress.

Conheça tamém o Kirki um Toolkit para a Customizer API. Vou mostrar as principais características e features do mesmo.

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May 4, 2017 — Hoje, a maioria dos temas oferece suporte para WooCoommerce. Mas existe uma grande diferença entre suportar e ser feito para vender.

Vamos explorar algumas das maiores questões sobre como desenhar temas para lojas virtuais que utilizam a maior plataforma de venda online do mundo: o WooCommerce.

Como projetar uma boa interface utilizando a estrutura do plugin? O que pode ser alterado? Quais são as melhores opções de usabilidade? Como potencializar a conversão através do design do tema?

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