June 6, 2026

June 6, 2026 — Prompts chat; Agents act. In this hands-on session, you will move beyond LLMs to build a tool-using AI workflow. We’ll engineer a system that audits a live WordPress site, validates the results, and generates structured tickets. Bring your laptop; leave with a deployment-ready workflow.

June 6, 2026

June 6, 2026 — The HTML API is almost three years old, but continues to evolve with each WordPress release. It’s seen deployment in WordPress’ backend, in Gutenberg, and in many plugins and themes. The HTML API’s core values have even expanded into new pipelines for working with block structure and text encodings, helping to modernise, optimise, and harden WordPress. This in-depth workshop will review recent updates, explore undocumented capabilities of these APIs, cast a vision for their ongoing development, provide hands-on experience working with and expanding them, and offer quality time for asking questions and interactively exploring the answers.

June 6, 2026 — How do you scale WordPress across multiple teams without losing consistency or control? This talk shares lessons from building and maintaining eight WordPress websites for a large scientific organisation, focusing on workflow, governance and long-term sustainability.

June 6, 2026 — You’ve spent weeks coding the perfect plugin, and you’re finally ready to share it with the WordPress community. You hit “submit,” wait, and then… the team’s volunteers point out a lot of issues you didn’t even know you were causing. Getting your plugin into the official directory doesn’t have to be a trial by fire. Join Francisco and David as they reveal the most common, easy-to-fix issues that keep great plugins stuck in the review queue. In this talk, you will learn: The “First-Time Success” checklist: what reviewers actually look for. How to avoid the most frequent security and naming pitfalls. Tips to streamline your code for faster approval and a better plugin. Whether you are a seasoned dev or a first-time contributor, this session will give you the roadmap to go from “Pending” to “Approved” without the headache. David and Francisco are members of the Plugins Team, and together they have reviewed more than 25k plugins, with that number increasing. You’ll save time for them and other plugin reviewers! Everyone wins!

June 6, 2026 — Understand your client’s Business Model Canvas (BMC) to deliver impactful value and solve their core problems. This session introduces the BMC as a ‘translation layer,’ helping developers shift from building features to engineering business value. Learn how to uncover hidden client needs and communicate the value of WordPress solutions.

June 6, 2026 — Learn how to break down complex work into clear, workable steps through a hands on, playful workshop. Using simple activities that reveal how processes really form, you’ll discover practical ways to build systems that support your agency, plugin, or freelance projects. You’ll leave with a repeatable method you can use anytime you need clarity, alignment, or a fresh way to plan your work.

June 6, 2026 — Search is no longer a single discipline. As AI-generated answers reshape how people find information online, SEO practitioners are being asked a new question: are you optimising for search engines, or for the models that are increasingly answering in their place? This panel brings together practitioners and strategists to tackle the defining tension in digital visibility right now: The shift from SEO to GEO (Is it really a thing?), and what that means for WordPress builders, content creators, and business owners who depend on organic traffic.

June 6, 2026 — AI Search isn’t just SEO’s problem anymore , it’s everyone’s. From content teams to developers, PPC to partnerships, the shift to AI-native discovery affects your entire business. This session is your wake-up call: why you’re probably already behind, what’s changed, and the quick wins you can implement now to catch up.