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.

February 16, 2023 — L’introduction du Full Site Editing marque une nouvelle ère WordPress dont les blocs sont les fondations.

Pour un développeur WordPress historique, les nouveaux concepts tels que les blocs, les patterns, les templates parts et les blocs themes, qui plus est codés en JavaScript, sont une évolution rapide et radicale de nos façons de travailler avec la plateforme.

Alors si on souhaite évoluer, comment appréhender la chose?

Voyons ensemble par quelles étapes passer, et l’investissement que ça peut représenter pour un développeur classique.

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November 11, 2021 — Learn more about the many possible uses of web components for WordPress pages, blocks and plugins.

May 28, 2021 — Web Components are custom HTML tags you can create and these are part of the browser specification. HMTL code and JavaScript can be wrapped into a custom HTML tag and used like regular HTML. Think ‘widgets’ or HTML plugins.

Learn how to create your own HTML tags to use in WordPress pages, Gutenberg blocks, or even create HTML/JS/CSS ‘plugins’ to deploy in any HTML site.

November 3, 2020 — In this talk Pablo Postigo, co-Founder & CEO of Frontity, will give an introduction to the basics of Frontity Framework and what are the main challenges when developing a React frontend for a Headless WordPress.

In addition he will share his vision of the future of JavaScript in the WordPress ecosystem and also the story behind Frontity, with special attention to the key learnings from these years building the Framework.

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October 29, 2020 — The web in 2020 is a bloated and over-engineered mess! Many modern web development “best practices” are making the web worse. This thought-provoking talk shares ideas on how to fix the problem as it explores an alternate set of best practices.

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October 29, 2020 — React.js has become one of the most well-known and popular JavaScript libraries. WordPress rebuilt its WYSIWYG editor using React. Drupal recently adopted React to create admin interfaces.

This talk explains the basic concepts of React outside of the context of any particular CMS implementation. The examples help to understand React and why it is powerful. Learn how to convert a static site into a dynamic React application.

October 21, 2020 — We all know that 3 seconds is all it takes to lose the attention of visitors to our web pages. But there’s hope yet! We can all win on the web by leveraging the brain’s strengths and limitations. An understanding of how the human brain processes visual information can greatly help us win our visitors over and keep them where we want them, instead of losing them to cyberspace.
In this talk, I want to present how the JavaScript ecosystem has flourished in recent years, creating a wide range of opportunities for contributors working on the Gutenberg project. At the same time, I want to explain many of the architectural decisions that have sought to make the transition as smooth as possible for those familiar with developing products and services based on WordPress.

October 21, 2020 — WordPress has always been recognized as a very welcoming platform for developers at any level of expertise. Introduced in WordPress core over a year ago, the block editor not only brought an entirely new editing experience for users, but it also redefined the way plugins and themes are developed.

In this talk, I want to present how the JavaScript ecosystem has flourished in recent years, creating a wide range of opportunities for contributors working on the Gutenberg project. At the same time, I want to explain many of the architectural decisions that have sought to make the transition as smooth as possible for those familiar with developing products and services based on WordPress.

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