A walkthrough of Full Site Editing

Herb Miller will give a short tour of Full Site Editing (FSE) in this workshop from his perspective as a contributor to the outreach experiment for this major development in WordPress.

He has created a learning resource which attendees can use to follow on during the workshop.

Herb will give attendees an overview of:

  • how to get started
  • the components of the Site Editor
  • example templates and template parts
  • some of the blocks used to create FSE themes
  • example themes
  • a very few code samples
  • some answers to FAQs
  • how to become involved
  • and many links to other resources

Getting started translating WordPress, themes, and plugins into different languages

In this workshop, we will introduce new Polyglots contributors to translate.wordpress.org.

How to find a suitable translation project, how to suggest a translation, and where to find information about standards and glossaries for your locale. It will also cover how to get involved with your local translation team and how to get your translations approved, so others can benefit from your contributions.

Presenters representing the Polyglots Team will be Theo Gkitsos and Tor-Bjorn Fjellner.

How to start designing for WordPress

In this workshop, Javier Arce (Product Designer at Automattic and member of the Make WordPress Design Team), will share some practical tips and tricks on how to start designing for WordPress using Figma.

This workshop is open for everyone that wants to know how the design team at WordPress work. The content will be mostly intended for designers. Previous experience using Figma is desirable but not required to follow through the workshop.

Attendants will learn how to begin contributing to the project, how is the WordPress Design Library organised, and how to structure their Figma files so that their work can shine and follow the WordPress design conventions.

10 ice-breakers and energisers for online events

Does your local community have that blank stare while attending your online meetup? Do you want to get them involved more? In this workshop, our presenters will share 10 ways to get your audience on their feet! 

Practical tips to make your WordPress online events more engaging and welcoming. Many of these tips can apply or be adapted for Meetups, WordCamps or team meetings.

Come and join this session presented by two of the Community’s Team deputies, Angela Jin and Taco Verdonschot.

You don’t need to be a current event organiser to attend.

Help shape content on Learn WordPress

Through contributing to Learn WordPress, you can help give those new or already using WordPress a roadmap for their learning journey. This could be through gaining better understanding of the difference between a post and a page, improving your code skills, or progressing and sharing your skills as a longer term contributor. 

Learn WordPress connects multiple WordPress Make teams, business owners, professionals, and individual users with ways to navigate their journey through WordPress the software and WordPress, the open-source project. 

WordPress.org is made up many different teams. These work together on Learn WordPress, the resource launched at the end of 2020. We are currently working on a proposed roadmap for content that will aim to include learning needs of a wide range of audiences, from a website visitors, designers, and developers, supporting those with accessibility needs. This will help guide future content on http://learn.wordpress.org. Roadmaps to learning are similar to a syllabus of curriculum but presented in a visually organized manner, like a flow-chart. 

Join us if you would like to take part in planning the content that will helps others take the next step in learning about the WordPress platform and its community. Learn WordPress contributors come from a variety of backgrounds. We are content creators, project managers, technical writers, designers, developers, trainers, and teachers. We would like to work with you.

Following the workshop, there will be a breakout session where you can plan out topics or help map existing content on Learn WordPress to the roadmap. Places are limited to 50 for the breakout session.

Are your customers looking for you? How to do keyword research

So you think you want to start an SEO campaign? Great! Before you spend any money (or any time) the first thing you need to do is figure out how your customers are looking for you in Google- or IF they are looking for what you have to offer. In this workshop, David will teach you his process to determine whether or not your customers are looking for you in Google and, if they are, what phrases they might use.

WP-CLI, how to manage WordPress from the command-line

WP-CLI is the official command-line interface for WordPress. It provides a collection of commands that can be used to perform various WordPress actions such as plugin & theme installations, core updates, configurations or backups without using a browser.

Marcel Tannich will teach you the basics of WP-CLI and present useful commands to learn more about this powerful WordPress management and development tool.

This workshop is aimed at beginner & advanced WordPress users who are not familiar with the command line yet and are looking for an easy way to get started.

Blazing fast block development

I’ve been OBSESSED w/ building blocks since before Gutenberg was released. I’ve built a BUNCH of custom block plugins over the years. In this workshop I’m going to share the framework I’ve been using for quickly building custom block plugins for WordPress.