August 11, 2019 — In 2018, WordPress will modernize, streamline, and simplify the content creation experience with Gutenberg. It represents the biggest change to the WordPress user experience in several years.
This session will teach just enough React for theme and plugin developers to start using Gutenberg today. Colour palettes, meta boxes, reusable blocks: all the new features, made easy.

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August 11, 2019 — Gutenberg is the planned new content editor for WordPress 5.0. It is going to radically change how we enter content and develop in WordPress, and it has generated a lot of controversy. What’s good, what’s bad, and what’s ugly in the Gutenberg editor? Where do we go from here?

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August 8, 2019 — How adding custom css and js to the WordPress admin can help mold the WordPress front end to better suit the individual client needs with the addition of controls and styles to both the Gutenberg editor and Advanced Custom Fields.
Takeaways:

How to create a more intuitive front end for clients
How to limit the possibility of site breakage by clients
Reduce the numbers of required plugins.

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August 7, 2019 — An introduction to registering custom blocks (via PHP) using ACF and implementing clean templating via Timber
Takeaways:

We can still create custom WordPress sites without having to dig deeply into JavaScript
We can keep our templates clean with Twig
ACF is still awesome and can help keep custom site building overhead low

August 7, 2019 — Gutenberg is more than just the new block editing experience in WordPress. With it came an array of tools that will enrich your interfaces and make your life as a front-end developer simpler. Learn how to make use of what’s newly “in the box” to think outside the block.

Takeaways:

UI components & internationalization
state management & networking
front-end actions & filters

August 6, 2019 — Web accessibility can be tricky, especially as the main focus of many WordPress developers right now is to get into learning Gutenberg and React.

The heated discourse around the new WordPress editor during its release has been heavily concentrated on accessibility, underlining how important it is not to regress, even when new technologies are settling in.

Make your blocks more accessible and learn how to use correct semantic markup, use ARIA tags to tame it and get a crash course in accessibility as a term that encompasses best practices, inclusivity, regulation and SEO.

August 5, 2019 — Nach der Veröffentlichung von WordPress 5.0 am 6. Dezember 2018 scheint weiterhin große Unsicherheit zu herrschen. Ist ein Update sinnvoll, gerade wegen des neuen Block-Editors mit dem Codenamen “Gutenberg”?
Ich habe mit der Gutenberg Fibel bereits einiges an Erfahrung gesammelt und möchte in diesem Talk zeigen, was der neue Editor eigentlich alles kann und wie man am besten das Upgrade vorbereitet.

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July 26, 2019 — From the brains of @themattyg comes a panel discussion on the use of page builders now that Gutenberg is in core. Joining us will be @MichelleAmes and guests yet to be announced!

Questions that could be touched on:

What does Gutenberg solve that Page Builders don’t? Vice Versa?Should page builders continue to be their own interface or adapt and integrate into Gutenberg as a collection of blocks?Why would a user want to use both a page builder and Gutenberg on the same site? Would they want to?Should developers focus on developing for page builders, Gutenberg or neither?How are you using Gutenberg today? How are you using page builders today?How do we change our approach to building sites for clients, when they have this new level of control?When starting a new WordPress site, what considerations would you take when choosing between a page builder, Gutenberg or the classic editor? Which one would you choose?If you already use a page builder on your site, would you consider switching to Gutenberg?

July 26, 2019

July 12, 2019 — Session นี้จะเล่าถึงหน้าตาการเขียนบลอคแบบใหม่ล่าสุดของ WordPress 5.0 ชื่อว่า Gutenberg ที่มีทั้งกระแสด้านบวกและลบ เราจะมาดูกันว่า Gutenberg มันดีกว่าการใช้ Editor แบบเก่ายังไง, ต่างกับ Page Builder ยังไง, มีส่วนเสริมอะไรของ Gutenberg ที่น่าใช้บ้าง, และเราจะสร้าง Block ใช้เองได้ยังไง มีเครื่องมืออะไรช่วยบ้าง