June 19, 2019 — GatsbyJS has become quite the darling in front-end web development. It runs off popular new technology like React, Webpack, and GraphQL. It generates blazingly fast static sites that are cheap to host and scale. You can use it to make a quick website or an intricate web application. But most importantly it works with almost any data source out there. Enter WordPress from stage left.

WordPress lets the modern developer provide the intuitive, customizable back-end experience that content creators love to use. Headless WordPress provides that same experience while allowing for any front-end development of choice. For your efforts making these ends meet, your visitors are rewarded with sites that load quickly and have the same content awareness they expect from a WordPress site.

June 19, 2019 — Keynote

June 18, 2019 — Over the past five years, I’ve been running a weekly interview show featuring a new guest from the WordPress community every episode. I’ve learned a lot about the people who make up this community. I want to share the reflections I’ve gleaned from listening to the people who use and make WordPress.

June 18, 2019 — It’s 2019. Everyone uses their phones to access website, and most every site is now mobile friendly. But, was that site created with the desktop or mobile view in mind. Learn how having a mobile-first website will bring a site to the next level, both in the eyes of the visitors and Google.

June 18, 2019 — Mobile first! Yes, but how?

In a heavily optimised marketing environment, the one room where growth is still a work-in-progress is mobile.

In this presentation, I will showcase how we leveraged the AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) framework by Google, to increase our mobile traffic and help our business grow.

I will show how we integrated WordPress with AMP, the advantages and disadvantages, and how to start building an AMP template yourself.

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June 14, 2019 — In 2017 Thomas spoke about how to plan a multilingual design site properly based on User Experience principles and some common sense (that perhaps wasn’t so common). This time around, he will show you how to setup a best practice multilingual site using WordPress. During his talk he will cover design, content, technical, and SEO considerations, among others.

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June 14, 2019 — At the State of the Word, it was announced that one of the upcoming focuses of the WordPress project is raising the minimum version requirement of PHP.

WordPress core is already PHP7.2 compatible but are your plugins and themes?

In this talk, Jenny will be looking at the steps needed to check if plugins and themes are compatible, and the lessons learned from doing the steps.

Are you PHPrepared?

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June 14, 2019 — Data centers in the U.S. use more than 90 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year. That requires roughly 34 giant coal-powered plants. What can a single developer do to make more energy efficient code? I will go through a series of not-so-serious experiments showing how various implementations made with Raspberry PI web server and power meter affect power consumption. How much energy does enabling WordPress caching save? What about optimizing queries? I will tell.

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June 13, 2019 — Ще бъдат представени основните и най-важни плъгини и стратегии, нужни за успешното изграждане на един онлайн магазин на WordPress, най-важни стъпки за маркетингово развитие на магазина, последвани с реални маркетинг примери от 10 годишния ми опит в изграждането на уеб сайтове и онлайн магазини и накрая ще се завърши с няколко бързи трика за бърза SEO оптимизация без много познания.

June 13, 2019 — Diversity is not inclusivity and equality is not the equity. Lets make the WordPress community even better and hopefully change the world by helping marginalized groups.