October 23, 2023 — This workshop explores the tools and techniques that can be utilised to build a modern workflow delivering secure, robust and maintainable WordPress projects.

We’ll examine concepts like environment configuration, dependency management, quality assurance, source control and continuous delivery through demonstrations and hands-on practice with tools like Lando, Bedrock, GitHub Actions and more.

By the end of this session, you’ll have gained a solid understanding of the key components that you can integrate into your own WordPress development process.

October 23, 2023 — We all know that AI tools are here to stay. How can we use AI as a tool to fulfill our content strategy and planning goals? In this workshop, we will learn how to use AI as part of a content creation process that includes:

* Identifying a content strategy and target audience
* Planning quarterly content using AI
* Producing content using AI

By the end of this workshop, participants will be empowered to successfully use AI and

* Jumpstart their content creation process
* Maintain an authentic voice on social media platforms, email, and long-form content
* Effectively repurpose content

October 23, 2023 — The maturing and widespread adoption of the Block Editor has coincided with the growth of headless WordPress.

The Block Editor provides an unrivalled WYSIWYG experience – where content teams can provide richer, more creative content for their end-users. Headless provides unrivalled performance and provides a great Developer experience (DXP).

But until now, they have rarely come together. Headless often means a huge compromise for content creation teams – requiring a ‘leap of faith’ – where the display settings are abstracted into a few meta fields in the backend. Creativity and flexibility are constrained and they’ve been left behind by the WYSIWYG revolution.

No longer. We’re going to look at a major enterprise project (mecum.com) where we build the ‘Block Editor Bridge’ – where the Block Editor feeds directly into UI Components in the frontend app. We’ll look at new, exciting initiatives from VIP and WPEngine and how you can implement the same approach in your next project.

The Headless Block Editor is the new gold standard – the best backend and frontend experience – and it’s here.

October 23, 2023 — Forget the recently penned think-pieces – Multisite is here to stay, and The Motley Fool provides free and premium investment guidance to its members via our Global WordPress-powered CMS. Learn how we created a robust access-control solution to segregate free and premium content using networked sites and a custom-built entitlement system, and how we share, categorize and aggregate content across each site with our handy Global custom taxonomy!

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October 23, 2023 — At Georgetown University, we have two codebases. Each is an installable, ready-to-go version of WordPress that we use to produce live sites. One contains about 18,440 files including all of WordPress core, various third-party plugins, and a bunch of bespoke code produced by a third-party agency. The other: only 36. None of them are WordPress files—not themes, not plugins, and not core. One file, and only one file, defines how all of that is to be installed: composer.json.

Composer is a tool that maintains a list of PHP dependencies within a project so you don’t have to. It can, with a single command, build a standard WordPress installation, install bespoke and third-party plugins and themes, and maintain the appropriate version of all of them. If you, like us, have hundreds of sites to manage, Composer is a dream come true for both new sites and maintaining old ones in a way that guarantees they remain in sync with each other.

This talk is for anyone who wants to streamline their build and installation process. Come if you’re tired of installing themes and plugins from the Dashboard. Give it a listen if you don’t want to have to install Core from the zip file anymore. Or, stop by if you want to learn how you can rollback changes without having to use arcane git commands and make merge conflicts a thing of the past. You — yes you! — can set up all of this and more with Composer.

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October 23, 2023 — WDG partnered with The Ford Foundation to migrate their existing accessible video player to WordPress. The now open source plugin, displays videos alongside downloadable transcripts, and for videos where visuals require additional understanding, audio-described versions. Vajaah Parker, Directory of Strategy, will partner with Kurtis Shaner, Technical Director, to talk about the process, build and the plug-in.

October 23, 2023 — Get a tour of the site. See the code. Explore the backend. This breakout session will allow you to meet Team NASA, ask us questions, and look under the hood of our WordPress implementation for beta.nasa.gov

February 6, 2021 — Workshop on the Introduction to WordPress

November 26, 2020 — ‘Fabian and Anja want to instruct you to develop a custom Gutenberg block from scratch with the help of tools the Gutenberg team has developed:

November 26, 2020 — ‘Fabian and Anja want to instruct you to develop a custom Gutenberg block from scratch with the help of tools the Gutenberg team has developed: