December 11, 2025 — I will show how to create an animated Polaroid effect on a core Image block using Style variations and Block variations.

November 2, 2025 — AI is transforming entire industries… but what about WordPress? In this talk, Matías Sanchez Moises reveals how creators, agencies, and developers can start using AI tools inside WordPress to generate content, automate tasks, and accelerate growth. You’ll see real-world use cases, practical workflows, and a look into the future of the WordPress ecosystem in the age of AI. This isn’t theory — it’s what you can do right now to stay ahead.

November 18, 2023 — This talk advocates for creating website designs that are easier to implement in Gutenberg. Reduce turnaround time and improve quality by designing with an awareness of Gutenberg constructs such as block styles, block variations, block patterns, and global style variations.

October 13, 2023 — Matt Mullenweg discusses 2023 Gutenberg improvements and what is next, followed by live Q&A.

July 26, 2023 — Styling blocks: empowering users with CSS custom properties

It’s important not to be too prescriptive when developing blocks, and to allow users to have as much control as possible over the look and feel of the blocks on their websites.

In this edition of WordPress Developer Hours we talk about CSS custom properties (also known as CSS variables) and look at how you can leverage them in blocks to give users more control over the styling and presentation of their sites.

First up, Michael Burridge presents a solution to a common problem, i.e. how to allow users to have control over the styling of inner elements in blocks which have complex markup. While it’s relatively simple to allow users to style a block at the root level, this presentation looks at how you can assign the values stored in block attributes to CSS custom properties and use them to apply user-defined styling to child-elements in both static and dynamic blocks.

Then, for the second presentation of the session, Justin Tadlock shows you how to integrate CSS custom properties into your block stylesheets that play nicely with themes. The technique used integrates block plugins and theme.json while still giving preference to user choice.

Whether you’re just starting out with block development or have built dozens of blocks already, this WordPress Developer Hours session is for you, and you’re sure to learn a ton.

June 30, 2023 — This Developer Hours session showcases extensibility methods that empower builders to extend and customize the WordPress editing experience.

– What is Editor extensibility and why is it important
– What extensibility methods are currently available in WordPress and how to use them
– What is missing in WordPress in terms of extensibility, particularly related to blocks and the Editor

April 27, 2023 — L’introduzione del Full Site Editing in WordPress 5.9 è stato un cambiamento ancora più grande rispetto a Gutenberg.
Per quanto ancora “acerba”, come sviluppatori non possiamo rimanere a guardare, e con una funzionalità così importante, vale la pena di iniziare a raccogliere esperienza.
In questo talk vedremo come creare un tema da zero ed a prendere confidenza con theme.json che è il cuore attraverso il quale poter configurare funzionalità, template e stili.

Presentation Slides »

April 18, 2023 — This Developer Hours session features a live product demo of the Interactivity API presented by Michal Czaplinski. Michal is one of the developers on the team that brought the Interactivity API to fruition. Following the demo Michal, answered questions posed by the attendees.

April 17, 2023 — This Developer Hours session features a live product demo of the Interactivity API presented by Mario Santos. Mario is one of the developers on the team that brought the Interactivity API to fruition. Following the demo Mario and Luis Herranz, another member of the development team, answer questions posed by the attendees.

April 16, 2023