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Very excited I was when Ana Silva and Jenny Wong reached out to me about a UK WP Community led event series called Guten Tag. They, along with some Core developers, Plugin developers, designers, managers, agencies and others to discuss the finer points of the roll out of Gutenberg and what it meant to everyone … Continue reading Guten Tag Events – A Gutenberg Community Series – The First 4 Sessions
There is a great community series on Gutenberg starting called Guten-Tag. One of the first sessions I am doing with this series is on "How to Stay Up to Date on Changes in Gutenberg." This has been a really relevant topic for me because I have released a course on Gutenberg Development, a Live Gutenberg … Continue reading How I Follow Changes in Gutenberg Development
At WordCamp US in early Dec 2017 I set out a goal to release a Gutenberg Development Course by the end of the year. As of writing it is New Years Eve 2017 and I just made it! One of the important functions I learned about while working on the course is registerBlockType, which is used to register … Continue reading Sneak Peak Video from My Gutenberg Development Course – “An Overview of registerBlockType”
Since WordCamp US 2017 earlier this month, I have been working on a Gutenberg Development Course to help theme and plugin developers get up and running with the new editor coming to WordPress. I still have some more recording to do at the time of writing, but I wanted to share one of the videos from the … Continue reading Sneak Peak Video from My Gutenberg Development Course – “Important JavaScript Libraries that Ship with Gutenberg”
It's been a good number of years since I last attended a WordCamp New York. But it holds a warm place in my heart. My first WordCamp was WordCamp New York 2008 🙂 This year, my good friend, David Parsons, took up the lead organizer role and put on a great WordCamp New York. From … Continue reading WordCamp New York JavaScript Workshop
Wow! What an honor to attend the 3rd annual WooConf! Last year I did a workshop on WooCommerce Theme Development. This year it was all JavaScript, API, and Data Visualization. https://twitter.com/BFTrick/status/921481970315542528 I was a little unsure going into the event how the talk would go. Originally it was a workshop using the Woo API and Chart.js … Continue reading Data Visualization Talk at WooConf
My First WCA2 When I put out the call at the beginning of 2017 that I would like to start doing more JavaScript workshops, my good friend Kyle Maurer, from WordCamp Ann Arbor, was one of the first to invite me to come do a workshop. The Workshop I have continued to refine the JavaScript for WordPress workshop … Continue reading WordCamp Ann Arbor 2017 JavaScript Workshop
¡Pura Vida! Is the best way to start my review of attending WordCamp San José (formally WordCamp Costa Rica). Organizers Roberto Remedios and Alfredo "El Puas" invited me to do a workshop at WordCamp San José 2017 earlier this year while we were all hanging out at WordCamp Miami (also a great camp to attend). What started as a JavaScript … Continue reading Teaching JavaScript Deeply at WordCamp San José 2017
This weekend I had the opportunity to attend WordCamp Denver, a great example of a well attended and run local camp. The first day included two tracks of great talks. The second day featured 13 different workshops (including one from me on JavaScript + WP REST API). Site SEO Checkup Flexbox Defining, Mapping and (Sometimes) Automating … Continue reading Workshopalooza at WordCamp Denver 2017
This weekend we had the first ever WordCamp DC. I have been part of the DC WordPress Community since it's early days so it felt wonderful to have such a great 3 Day ~500 People Inaugural Event. On the third day of the event we had 6 workshops running concurrently with Contributor Day: Beginning WordPress Beginning … Continue reading WordPress DC 2017 – HTML, CSS and JavaScript Workshops
WordPress Educator Zac Gordon 