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 22, 2020 — Let’s build a Gutenberg block! Tom will cover building a basic block in javascript, and in PHP. A great opportunity to refresh on the basics and lay a solid foundation. Suitable for intermediate developers.

April 16, 2020 — Matt and Matias take us through what to expect in future iterations of the block editor and how you can better prepare for upcoming releases.

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

April 10, 2020 — First, I promise you I was never a disco fan. (You’re over 50 if you got that joke.)

But I gotta say. Gutenberg has changed everything, and I’m over the moon.

Standard layouts with grids of posts? Done in a couple of hours.

Wild and crazy layouts, with all kinds of things going every which way? Again, Gutenberg’s the star!

And not just in experimental for-designers’-eyes-only pages.

But home pages. Archive pages. Pages of posts. Single posts. Even WooCommerce shop pages!

So let’s get visual!

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March 23, 2020 — It’s been over a year since Gutenberg was released with WordPress 5.0 and we have seen some great improvements.
While Gutenberg continues to outshine on the content creation experience, there have been so many updates and changes in Gutenberg that it’s hard to keep up. Many developers also find block development challenging because there is a learning curve to React and JavaScript

Whether you are someone who always thought of digging into it, but never started, the one who is left behind, or even just want to get your questions answered, this online meetup is for you.

It’s time to challenge those challenges.
This meetup helps you build those core concepts and have your questions answered, by diving deep into Gutenberg

Topics that will be covered:

– Touch on basics of Gutenberg
– Understand how things work in Gutenberg behind the scenes.
– Understanding the Gutenberg core.
– Build tools like @wordpress/wp-scripts and @wordpress/create-block
– WordPress Data Module.
– Current State and Future of Gutenberg.
– Contributing to Gutenberg

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March 19, 2020 — ¿Qué puede hacer Gutenberg en WordPress en un gran medio? En esta ponencia pretendo exponer cómo de útil ha sido Gutenberg para The Sun, el famoso tabloide inglés. Con una redacción de decenas de personas y unas 600 noticias generadas a la semana, el desafío no era fácil pero Gutenberg ha llegado a The Sun para cambiarlo todo… para bien.

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