October WordPress Meetup: Building Blocks with Telex AI
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It's been another busy month with several of us just back from Ottawa this week and still working through the after-effects of WordCamp Canada 2025 — it was a big hit! We even got a mention in TechCrunch.
Tonight, let's take a look at Automattic's Telex — an LLM-based block generator. (https://telex.automattic.ai/) "Describe your idea. Telex will build a WordPress block for you."
Here are some of the possibilities:
- https://ivanovicmarko.com/2025/09/25/telex-for-designers/
- https://blocktober.fun/
- https://jeffpaul.com/2025/09/pong-block/
- https://juanma.codes/2025/09/19/playing-with-telex-building-a-mermaid-diagram-block-in-just-a-few-prompts/
- https://ivanovicmarko.com/2025/09/17/space-dots/
A friend's kids built a full-featured Pac-Man game in a block with Telex — let's see what we can do!
Bring a laptop with a local WordPress environment installed — but if you don't have that set up and aren't familiar with it, you'll learn how. (It's easy.)
More about Telex:
* https://wordpress.com/blog/2025/09/23/telex-turns-everyone-into-a-wordpress-block-developer/
Continuing from last month, we could also take a closer look at www.mentalhealthradio.ca and their challenges surfacing older, archived podcast content. Is there a block-based solution?
Next Speaker/Topic: TBD
What would you like to cover? Would you like to speak or present a demo?
Leave a comment, get in touch, let me know!
Event Schedule
5:30 PM - Informal networking and Pizza. 🍕
6:00 PM - Introductions and Main Event
7:00 PM - Wrap-up - we can take our time if needed.
7:30 PM - Hard Stop - time to clean up and head out. 👋🏻
8:00 PM - Building closes.
8:30 PM - Catch the end of the Tech Wednesday Meetup, usually at Greta or The Pint on 109 St. (Optional.)
The YEG WP meetup happens monthly, on every fourth Wednesday. Learn more at wpyeg.org.
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