April 27, 2026 — NIS2 (Directive (EU) 2022/2555) is the EU’s new baseline for cybersecurity and incident reporting across a wider set of sectors and digital service providers. It can feel “too legal” or “too enterprise”, yet many WordPress businesses may be affected directly (depending on services and size) or indirectly through customer and supply-chain requirements. In this talk, we’ll explain NIS2 in plain English: the rationale behind it, the big changes vs. NIS1, and the “essential vs important entities” concept. Then we’ll map the directive to real-world WordPress work: hosting and managed WordPress, maintenance retainers, plugin/theme dependencies, and the practical meaning of “supply chain security”. NIS2 explicitly highlights supply-chain risks and relationships with suppliers, and it also sets structured incident reporting expectations (including early warning and notification timelines).

April 26, 2026 — This video provides a complete guide on how to contribute to Polyglots. It walks through the entire process step by step, making it easy for beginners and experienced contributors alike to understand how to get involved.

You’ll learn how to get started, the tools and platforms required, and the proper workflow for submitting contributions. The video also covers best practices, important guidelines to follow, and tips to ensure your contributions are effective and accepted smoothly.

Whether you’re new to Polyglots or looking to improve your contribution process, this tutorial will help you understand everything in detail and contribute with confidence.

April 25, 2026 — Building custom Gutenberg blocks can feel complex and time-consuming, especially for developers who want to move fast without over-engineering. In this talk, I will show the fastest and most practical ways to build Gutenberg blocks using modern WordPress tools and scripts. Topics covered will include: Using @wordpress/scripts to quickly scaffold and build custom blocks, Creating blocks with minimal configuration using official WordPress tooling, Helpful scripts and tools that speed up block development (block.json, ESNext, build processes), How AI can assist in block development, Using AI to speed up debugging, refactoring, and documentation for blocks, Common mistakes that slow down block development and how to avoid them. This talk is suitable for beginner to intermediate WordPress developers who want to work more efficiently with Gutenberg.

April 25, 2026 — Whether our goal is to deliver pages faster or serve more pages from the same server, most of us want WordPress and the code we write for it to run faster. But how does one go about improving the performance of a complicated and expansive project like WordPress? The goal for this workshop is to learn how to identify and resolve performance issues in WordPress, and to build our intuition for software performance. It will cover a range of topics including causes for performance issues, methods for assessing and measuring performance, and insight into the role that today’s complicated processors play in this puzzle. Themes covered include: how modern processors run code differently than we expect; profiling with Xdebug and SPX; benchmarking; methodology for caching; streaming interfaces; the impact of API sequencing; and the outsized role design plays in avoiding performance traps.

April 25, 2026 — Your WordPress site is running—but is it thriving? If you’re constantly firefighting performance issues without real visibility into what’s happening, this session is for you. New Relic transforms WordPress monitoring from painful guesswork into intuitive clarity. In this hands-on talk, you’ll discover how to gain complete visibility across your entire stack: frontend user experiences, backend PHP performance, and MySQL database efficiency. You’ll also learn how to capture business metrics that actually matter—the data that informs strategy. Whether you’re optimizing response times, debugging production issues, or proving ROI to stakeholders, you’ll leave with practical approaches to elevate your WordPress monitoring from reactive firefighting to proactive optimization.

April 25, 2026 — This session is about how WordPress professionals can turn website maintenance/care into a real, sustainable business, instead of treating it as an afterthought or an “extra” service. Based on my experience as a WordPress agency with +70 clients and as the founder of a tool that helps 3,000+ professionals worldwide to grow their WordPress maintenance service. I’ll explain why relying only on one-off website projects is increasingly risky (more than ever thanks to AI), and why maintenance is becoming a key pillar for stability, scalability, and long-term growth. The talk will cover: Why maintenance is essential for WordPress sites and clients. The core tasks that should be included in a professional maintenance service (beyond updates). Why maintenance works so well as a recurring revenue model for freelancers and agencies. Common mistakes professionals make when offering maintenance. Practical ideas on how to package, price, and sell maintenance services in a sustainable way.

April 25, 2026 — A decoupled or headless architecture of WordPress adds flexibility and allows content to be used on multiple platforms such as mobile apps and the web. However, it also adds a layer of complexity and cost to manage your project. In this talk, we will learn under what scenarios a Headless WordPress is the right choice. How scalable is a headless site with tons of posts and what value it adds to the business and end-users? We will also discuss which react frameworks are considered the best when building Decoupled WordPress at an enterprise level.

April 25, 2026 — We often rely on best practices. They save time and help us prioritize our efforts, but is there a limit to their usefulness? In this presentation, Delfina dissects common web design best practices and shares unconventional UX decisions that worked in real-world scenarios.

April 25, 2026 — I’ve been experimenting with AI-assisted development since 2021, so when the WordPress Core AI team launched in mid-2025, I was genuinely excited. Finally, the platform I’ve spent years working with was taking AI seriously—not as a gimmick, but as foundational infrastructure. I’ve been following the development closely ever since, and what’s emerging is remarkable. In this talk, I’ll take you on a practical tour of the six WordPress AI projects that are quietly laying the foundation for how we’ll build and interact with WordPress sites in the years to come. Whether you’re a site owner curious about where WordPress is heading, a content creator wondering how AI might help your workflow, or a developer eager to build the next generation of WordPress plugins, this talk has something for you. No AI experience required.

April 25, 2026 — You’ve always wanted to build your own Dynamic Block, but getting started seemed like too much effort? In this flash talk, I’ll show you the fastest path from an empty folder to a working block with server-side rendering. No prior knowledge required, no endless config files – just the essentials so you can start building right after.