October 13, 2023 — This Lightning Talk shares how to easily translate your WordPress site using AI translation.

People prefer reading, engaging, and buying in their own language. And you can easily reach them by translating your website.

Doing this used to be expensive and time-consuming but no more! Thanks to automatic translation using AI, it is now fast, affordable, and available to anyone. All you need are the right tools.

October 13, 2023 — Navigation is the main component of a website when it comes to moving around different pages and finding content. For this reason, it is critical to design and develop accessible navigation. This means keeping those using different devices and assistive technologies such as screen readers in mind.

Accessible navigation is easy to understand, semantic, and adaptive. In this session, Steve will review the best practices to design and develop accessible navigation from start to finish. He’ll also discuss how to replace the navigation in an existing theme.

October 13, 2023 — This developer-oriented talk offers advice from an SEO expert for setting up a WordPress site for SEO success.

October 13, 2023 — In the middle of the pandemic, Ken Liu, an award-winning writer, lost faith in storytelling, the magic that has always made his life a joy. This is the story of how he rediscovered the meaning of narratives in our lives, and his message will challenge us all to rethink how and why we do what we do.

October 13, 2023 — Rejection after rejection. That was the norm after prison until this speaker found a new lease on life with WordPress.

This talk is a testament to the power of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), illustrating how it encompasses more than just identity and disability.

Follow along with this journey from reformed convict to self-taught software engineer. Find out how the WordPress community sparked radical change and opened doors to a brighter future.

October 13, 2023 — This talk examines what performance and scalability mean from a server-side development perspective and how to optimize for this environment.

It covers basic mechanisms like profiling, deferred processing and caching first.

Then go deeper into code that simply needs to run faster or in a more scalable way, including topics such as loop optimization, static data, opcaches and other concepts.

October 13, 2023 — Learn multiple ways speed up your WordPress builds with AI tools ChatGPT and BARD, from generating content that looks better than “Lorem Ipsum” to helping you with your CSS and coding.

Find out more about AI generated images, and how to structure prompts to get both images and background images. Discover other AI tools that might help you speed up your website workflow.

October 13, 2023 — The workshop for WordPress developers offers an opportunity to understand and work-with hooks. Learn more about some of the hooks WordPress has to offer and find out how to create your own.

October 13, 2023 — Large Language Models are the technology behind ChatGPT, Google’s Bard and more. They are weird and somewhat intimidating pieces of technology: we’re still trying to figure out how they work and what they can do, in a field that changes radically on an almost weekly basis.

In this talk I’ll break down how they work, what they’re useful for, what you can build with them and how to dodge their many pitfalls.

I’ll show you how to run surprisingly capable models on your laptop, and demonstrate techniques like semantic search and retrieval augmented generation which harness LLMs to help unlock the value in your own data.
I’ll also talk about their many limitations, including new classes of security vulnerabilities that threaten applications built on top of them.

Exploring LLMs has made me more ambitious with the projects I take on. Used thoughtfully, LLMs can unlock new capabilities, both for us and for the communities that we build software to serve.

October 13, 2023 — This talk explores AI’s impact on SEO with a focus on integrating automated content into your sites. Striking a balance is key as AI tools boost content output but risk losing authenticity.

Learn how successful strategy involves infusing AI-generated content with a brand’s unique voice and values. Align with search engine algorithms while prioritizing user experience. In this synergy, businesses can elevate SEO, connecting meaningfully with audiences.