What: Developer Workshop: Future of WordPress
When: March 16th 2018
Where: FIU Campus in Miami
For: Any Level of Developer, Especially Those That Work With WordPress
Developer Workshop has SOLD OUT
There is a waiting list for those who would still like to attend.
Every year, WordCamp Miami has a Friday workshop focused on developers. In the past, workshops have been focused alot on BuddyPress (and we’ve called these BuddyCamps). But this year we decided to provide a new experience for developers – a workshop that prepares developers for the future of WordPress.
Why Focusing Now On “The Future of WordPress”?
There are many things coming in 2018 that effects the future of WordPress in various ways – including how WordPress works behind the scenes AND a major change to the WordPress editor and how the average user uses WordPress (Gutenberg). It’s important that developers are made aware, and prepare – especially if they have clients that use WordPress or they use WordPress to build their own themes and plugins for clients.
What’s “Gutenberg”?
Although other subjects will be covered in the workshop, Gutenberg is a primary focus.
Gutenberg is a new publishing experience for WordPress that changes alot of how users will interact and add content into WordPress. It is perhaps the largest change to the WordPress experience in WordPress’s history. If you develop with WordPress, it is important that you learn about Gutenberg in 2018, especially if you build themes or plugins for WordPress.
You can initially learn more about Gutenberg here. You can also see a video of a live demo here:
At WordCamp US 2017, Matt Mullenweg announced that in April 2018 Gutenberg is scheduled to be released. So we decided at WordCamp Miami that our event in March is a perfect time to instruct both developers AND users about this upcoming change.
Who is Speaking?
Speakers lined for this “future of WordPress” workshop include Zac Gordon (teacher of The JavaScript for WordPress Master Course), Josh Pollock (of Caldera Forms), and Brian Richards (of WPSessions) with additional speakers to be announced.
What’s The Schedule?
We are planning on releasing the schedule for this workshop in January 2018. Check back on the website soon.
When Are Tickets On Sale?
Tickets for this workshop will be available with our other workshops soon. You can follow us on Twitter or join our Slack channel for the latest updates when our tickets go on sale.
Learn JavaScript Deeply
WordCamp Miami has a dedicated track to learning JavaScript whether you know WordPress or not. Our developer workshop on Friday will tie into the JavaScript track on Sunday, March 18th. To get a full experience, you should plan on attending both days.
