November 10, 2025 — The future of WordPress is already here – the block editor and the site editor. They provide a true flexible WYSIWYG experience, where content editing teams can create the layouts and designs that they want. But that flexibility can come at a cost – off-brand pages, content that does not meet accessibility standards, an overwhelming number of options that take too long to use, etc.

As website builders – designers and developers – we need to put more thought into this content editor experience. We need to curate the editing experience, provide the appropriate guardrails to ensure that the content editor team can do their job in the CMS quickly and efficiently. We need to build the future of content editor interfaces on top of the block editor.

This session will help agencies, freelancers, and designers and developers better understand why they should put some attention to the content editor experience when building a new website, and what tools and tricks they should (or shouldn’t) turn to to do so. It will also help content editors know how to deliver feedback on their experience, by knowing what is possible to customize and what questions they should ask.

November 10, 2025 — What does it take to lead a WordPress release or any major open-source initiative without writing a single line of code? In this talk, I’ll walk through how I’ve helped shape and ship multiple WordPress releases by leaning on product thinking, project management skills, and “glue work”.

You’ll hear the story of a contributor who moved from helper to release deputy to AI team lead all without commit access. Along the way, we’ll explore the often-invisible roles that keep WordPress moving: coordinating feedback, managing timelines, nudging consensus across Slack and GitHub, and motivating volunteers across time zones. I’ll share practical tools, patterns, and gotchas for leading distributed contributor teams, with a focus on how you can lead even if you’re not an engineer.

Whether you’re a project manager, designer, or just someone who makes things happen, this session will help you: Recognize what leadership looks like outside the code, Understand the real impact of “glue work” in open source, Find your place in the WordPress project and level up your contributions, Leave with clear ways to get involved in releases, roadmap work, or contributor organizing.

November 10, 2025 — It’s been over four years since the original Invisible CMS presentation and so much has changed. cough AI cough Create your own “Invisible” platform for your customers, and grow your business! It’s all about creating a business with WordPress/WooCommerce while not being WordPress/WooCommerce. Learn that customers don’t focus on a specific CMS/Platform, but on solutions; and developers need to provide more than just a “built on.” Reimagine what you are solving, integrate 3rd party technologies, and sell a solution to grow.

November 10, 2025 — This talk will cover a brief history of package management in WordPress, why centralized distribution was necessary, and why it’s time to decentralize now to address risk management for the supply chain needed for enterprise WordPress to continue growing. I’ll consider some security risks inherent in a federated repository model and some of the available mitigation strategies.

Lastly, I’ll provide an overview from inside of the approach being taken by AspirePress and FAIR to provide the community with decentralized, secure, and robust package management for WordPress, including some specific advantages for the enterprise, for the ecosystem, and for end users.

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November 10, 2025 — The Core Concept: Every culture develops problem-solving patterns over centuries. These cultural algorithms are like behavioral code – efficient, repeatable processes that run on people instead of computers and get passed down through shared experience.

The core message of this talk is to encourage leaders to view their teams not just from what their skills and career highlights, job descriptions, and even their outward personalities bring to the workplace.

Instead, Dee suggests that we look deeper at the inherent, unique cultural contexts contributors bring to the table that may jolt us out of our own ingrained ‘ways of working’ to novel paths to innovative solutions.

November 10, 2025 — Open Source projects aren’t just about code. They’re about the people driving them behind the scenes. As AI tools become smarter and more capable, we face new challenges.

How do we integrate these tools tactfully without losing what makes WordPress special? How do we utilize AI without eliminating low-friction paths for new contributors? How do we remain deliberate as we’re able to solve problems and implement faster?

In this talk, we’ll explore the thoughtful, sometimes uncomfortable ways AI is reshaping how we collaborate, make decisions, and maintain trust in an Open Source project like WordPress. Let’s talk not just about what we can automate with AI, but what we should.

November 10, 2025 — Imagine not seeing your firstborn until they reach the third grade – missing out on so many experiences. For a portion of our community, that’s how long they’ve been away from Gutenberg/Full Site Editor (FSE), dabbling in premium page builders that don’t support blocks.

In this interactive presentation, we’ll consider the state of WordPress, Full Site Editor, and how new features such as artificial intelligence (AI), the Style Guide, anticipated improvements, and more.

November 10, 2025 — Tired of manually deploying WordPress code? Wondering how to safely update plugins—community or premium—without crossing your fingers? Want your site to actually pass QA before hitting production?

Join Kanopi Studios as we walk through how we’ve modernized our DevOps pipeline for WordPress projects—using Composer, CircleCI, and automated testing to save time, reduce errors, and deploy with confidence. We’ll share real-world examples, config tips, and open-source tooling you can use right away. Whether you’re a solo dev or on a team, this session will help you ditch manual deployments and take control of your WordPress workflows.

November 10, 2025 — Using the Interactivity API to manipulate common DOM interactions.

November 10, 2025 — The landscape of developer education is changing. Every day more code is being written by modern generative AI, with users relying heavily on everything from chatbots to AI-infused IDEs to build new functionality on top of existing platforms like WordPress.

However, LLM-generated code is only as the knowledge it has access to, and performs best when developers give it specific context for each task. So how should plugins and platforms be thinking about their approach to developer documentation when the behaviors of their target audience are shifting so dramatically?

In this session, we’ll uncover the best approach to preparing your documentation for the coding workflows of the future. I’ll pull together insights from around the community, look at the new frontiers like GEO, and evaluate the best practices that are still emerging for developer documentation in the age of AI.