Since the launch of Gutenberg, we have been enjoying the great experience of Gutenberg. So far we have been able to take benefit of the WYSIWYG – ‘What You See Is What You Get’, inside the post editor. What would it be like to use Gutenberg outside the editor? Would the traditional admin screens like customizer still exist?
WordPress is moving full steam ahead to land full site editing in 2021. What does it mean for end users and theme authors?
In this talk you will learn about what are Block based themes and how you would be able to use the features like Nav menus and widgets outside of post-editing screen. This talk will give you the taste of not only using the Block Based Theme but also a quick demo of how you can build one so easily.
You will know how the power to decide what the front end of the site will look like will ultimately reside in the user’s hands.
WordPress out of the box is pretty SEO-friendly. Add Yoast SEO and your technical SEO is pretty much covered. If you want to do more and really outrank your competition, you’ll just need to have a great content SEO strategy.
In this talk I’ll first explain the importance of SEO copywriting and of internal linking. After that, I’ll talk you through some practical tips with which you can start optimising your website today.
Can you believe that it’s been two years already since the WordPress core introduced Gutenberg? In the meantime, the block editor has matured tremendously. Have you already tried to extend its functionality? Spend 15 minutes and save yourself hours when creating custom blocks. I will show how to make the most of the scaffolding command that comes from the Gutenberg core team.
Presentation of the new GraphQL API for WordPress plugin, to use the increasingly popular GraphQL API to fetch data from the WordPress site.
The plugin is open source. Repo: https://github.com/GraphQLAPI/graphql-api-for-wp.
We will first explore the current scene of APIs in WordPress:
- What is an API
- What are the current solutions for WordPress: WP REST API and WPGraphQL
- Their characteristics
Then I will explain the characteristics of this new plugin GraphQL API for WordPress, and do a demo of it. The demo involves using the WordPress admin, there won’t be any code at all, so it’s suitable for beginners too.
Slides: https://slides.com/leoloso/graphql-api-for-wp
Takeaways:
Attendees will learn about the different API solutions in WordPress, and about the GraphQL API plugin in particular
Why am I qualified to give this talk:
Because I’m the author of the plugin
