December 15, 2022 — Templates are the WordPress theme files used to render website pages. Getting acquainted with templates is an important step in learning to build themes for WordPress.

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November 23, 2022 — Learn how to use the Create BLock Theme plugin to streamline your block theme development processes.

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October 21, 2022 — Listen-in pm this casual chat about some of the Block Theme features that are planned to land in WordPress 6.1.

October 19, 2022 — This lightning talk explains the importance of internationalization in WordPress, and why it’s essential for themes and plugins. Learn how to make themes and plugins translatable, with practical tips and real code samples.

September 16, 2022 — Learn the basics of building the simplest functional block theme possible from scratch using a text editor and local development environment.

September 16, 2022 — Being able to edit a theme in the Site Editor is handy, especially if you’re using it as the base for a new theme. But where do those changes get saved? What happens when you make changes to Global Styles, Block styles, Theme template files, and template parts? What happens when you make changes to the theme files, and changes to the Site Editor; which take precedence? In this session, we’ll be answering these questions.

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August 28, 2022 — Have you ever wondered how block themes are developed from an idea, through a Figma file, into WordPress, and beyond? If so, this social learning space is for you! Join Sarah Snow as she walks intermediate WordPress users through the high-level process many theme developers take to design a theme from start to finish.

August 17, 2022 — Block themes represent an existing shift in how WordPress themes are developed. It’s now possible to create an entirely new WordPress theme in the Site Editor and export it to be used wherever you need it.

In this session, we’ll be looking at a new WordPress plugin called Create Block Theme, that allows to you export your newly designed theme over your existing theme, as a new custom theme, or even as a child theme.

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December 30, 2021 — This lightning talk examines the past and present of WordPress theme development, with a look towards role of themes in the future of WordPress.

December 16, 2021 — This talk looks towards the horizon of modern website development.

Learn more about core WordPress tooling and how blocks, patterns and theme.json interplay with the new Full Site Editing experience.