September 5, 2019 — Works at Automattic. Member of WordPress Community Support Team. New to WordPress community, coming from Ruby on Rails.

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September 5, 2019 — Writing maintainable and scalable CSS is one of the biggest aspects of front-end work. Sami will show how CSS methodologies such as ITCSS and BEM can help achieve that and, at the same time, maximise the WYSIWYG experience in Gutenberg editor without rewriting the CSS that much.

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August 26, 2019 — With the new editor Gutenberg, the entire editing experience has been rebuilt for media-rich pages and posts. Experience the flexibility that blocks will bring, whether you are building your first site, or write code for a living. This talk will walk you through some basic and advanced features of Gutenberg Editor.

August 26, 2019 — Gutenberg is the new WordPress editor with great capabilities for building custom pages and post layouts. A lot of users have started using it for complete website builds and there are several plugins in the ecosystem to extend Gutenberg with more features and functionality.

While page builders have been around for a long time, recently there has been a lot of discussion about the future of Page Builders in the Gutenberg era. Having built products for both Page Builders and Gutenberg (under development), I have experience of both the worlds and have interacted with customers about their use cases and requirements. In my session, I will share insights about how Page Builders and Gutenberg can co-exist.

What kind of challenges and problems both of these solve. Pros and cons of these elements for not only users but how it’s going to impact Business owners – who build with WordPress and for WordPress.

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.