July 4, 2026 — Likes, Filter, Warenkorb-Buttons, Stories – Nutzerinnen und Nutzer sind durch Apps und soziale Netzwerke an Interaktivität gewöhnt. Doch die meisten WordPress-Websites bieten davon kaum etwas. Das muss nicht so bleiben.

Die Interactivity API, seit WordPress 6.5 öffentlich verfügbar, ist WordPresss Antwort auf die Frage: Wie bringen wir mehr Leben ins Frontend, ohne Websites zu kompletten Single-Page-Applications umzubauen?

In diesem Vortrag schauen wir uns an, welche Arten von Interaktionen damit möglich sind, wie das Zusammenspiel von State, Directives und serverseitigem Rendering funktioniert – und warum dieser Ansatz gut für Performance und SEO ist.

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December 2, 2025 — WordPress 6.9 is just around the corner, so now is a great time to start digging into the new developer focused updates coming in the next release.

In the first of two scheduled sessions we will cover

Block Bindings
Interactivity API & Interactivity Router

Join us as we dive into these new updates with live demos and code examples. We’ll wrap up with a Q&A session, so feel free to bring your questions and ideas.

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April 9, 2024 — The Interactivity API was recently released in WordPress 6.5. Now is the time to experiment with the API and incorporate interactions into your custom blocks, but where should you start?

Often, the best way to learn is through real-world examples. In this Developer Hours session, Damon Cook from WP Engine demonstrates how he built a form submission block that leverages the API. This example will teach you how to kickstart a custom interactive block using the Create Block package, use directives to assign critical attributes to your HTML markup, create the store, and hook up the client-side JavaScript.

Resources:

Damon’s demo plugin: https://github.com/colorful-tones/feedback-block
Interactivity API documentation: https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/reference-guides/packages/packages-interactivity/
Tutorial on building a custom block: https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/getting-started/tutorial/