WordCamp Europe 2021 will be one of the largest virtual WordCamps again and the schedule has some great talks for every WordPress users, developers, site builders, theme designers, DIY site owners and content creators.
We looked through the schedule and spotted very forward-looking Gutenberg related talks, workshops and discussions. Before you study the list, I would recommend the site Time Zone Converter to help you convert the listed times from Central Europe Summer Time (CEST) to your local time. Once in a while I get confused by time zones, and that’s my favorite site to set me straight.

Fabian Kägy, developer at 10up:
Building great experiences in the new editor
Description: Starting out building blocks or experiences for the WordPress block editor can be a bit daunting. Where do I start? Custom blocks, block patterns or just styling core blocks. In this talk, Kägy will walk through the different options and share the benefits and downsides of each while talking about overall good practices for building great editorial experiences.
As a sidenote: Almost exactly a year ago, Fabian Kägy was a presenter at a Gutenberg Times Live Q & A together with Grzegorz Ziolkowski, and demo’d how you can use and extend the official WordPress create-block scaffolding tool.
Monday, June 7th, 2021, at 10am EDT / 14:00 UTC / 16:00 CEST
Full-Site Editing Panel Discussion
The names of the panelist are still a secret, and I will update the post when we know more.
If you’d like to get a jump start here are few resources:
- Video: Full-Site Editing Overview with Anne McCarthy
- Full-Site-Editing – the Ultimate Resource List
- So, You want to talk about Full-site Editing?
Monday, June 7, 2021 at 12:34 pm EDT / 16:34 UTC / CEST: 18:34
Workshop: A walkthrough of Full Site Editing with Herb Miller, Web developer in UK,

Description: 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 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
Tuesday, June 8th, 2021 11am EDT / 15:00 UTC / 17:00 CEST
Lee Shadle, web developer Blazing fast block development

Lee Shadle wrote in his description: “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.”. Shadle recently also held a talk at WordSesh and demo’d his create-block-plugin scaffolding tool and it was inspiring. This is definitely not a talk to miss.
Tuesday June 8, 2021 12:00 EDT / 16:00 UTC / 18:oo CEST
The Future of Themes in WordPress
The future of themes will be a topic of this panel discussion. Stay tuned or follow WordCamp Europe on Social Media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram).

Join us for our next Live Q & A
on June 24, 2021 at 11am EDT / 15:00 UTC
Theme.json for Theme Authors or building themes for full-site editing in WordPress.
Host: Birgit Pauli-Haack
Panel: Daily Olson, Tammie Lister and Jeff Ong Register Now

Conversation with Matt Mullenweg
Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of WordPress and the CEO of Automattic. The conversation should be the highlight of the WordCamp Europe
Wednesday, June 9th, 2021 – 11:42 EDT / 15:42 UTC / 17:42 CEST
This edition of the WordCamp Europe also offers interesting Sponsor talks. Look for them on the schedule, too.
