Tutorial: Converting your Agency Template to the New WordPress System (Pros, Cons, ROI, and concrete steps)

Details

• Target Audience: A junior developer, project manager or owner at a small agency which is still using the classic theme because it has its own theme template.
• Topic description: Converting your Agency Template to the New WordPress System (Pros, Cons, ROI, and concrete steps)
• Learning objectives: Provide an overview of the ,major differences between blocks vs classic: the Pros, Cons, and ROI for your agency, and then to provide a roadmap for the basics of converting/updating your agency’s theme template (or part of the template) to full site editing/FSE/Gutenberg/Block Theme/WP 6.2 step by step with minimum impact on your agency’s bottom line.
• Content type: Video, plus written content for those who learn better that way
• WordPress version (optional): 6.2, 6.3 vs classic
• Will you be creating this content?: Yes/No - As one of those junior devs from a small agency, I'd love to, but together with experts

Related Resources

Developer’s handbook
Full Site Editing by Carolina Nymark
Wordpress learning and Wordpress TV
A few other for-profit tutorials that are good - 10up, etc.

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