October 13, 2023 — Learn more about the various paths that are available to you if you want to work in tech, but don’t want to code.

October 13, 2023 — The idea of decoupling your website front-end and WordPress backend brings a lot of opportunities and some disadvantages.

Who can benefit from this concept? This talk offers an introduction to the idea and explains how headless WordPress works.

October 13, 2023 — WordPress is a powerful content management system, but certainly isn’t the ideal solution for complex business functions and secure data management. These functions are often left to dedicated CRM and ERP solutions that are external to the website.

There’s good reason for organisations wanting to use WordPress for their primary website. It means they are able to manage their own public facing content easily, and with 40% of all websites on the internet using WordPress, it’s a good choice when choosing a platform to standardise on. However there is often an element of their line-of-business web applications that is user facing (such as a customer portal) and ideally it makes sense for these to be presented seamlessly via the website. Integrating between WordPress and other platforms has traditionally relied on methods such as iframes, APIs and custom developed plugins.

Inherently, most of these integration methods come with their fair share of security and/or usability issues and considerations. They can also be a pain to maintain.

In the pursuit of a secure, flexible, and maintainable solution, we explored a novel approach—leveraging Single Page Applications (SPA) built with frameworks like React and Vue.js. This approach provides a seamless user experience because the content is rendered seamlessly in WordPress as HTML, and as it is environment agnostic it works equally well in the Block Editor, a Page Builder or a traditional WordPress template.

Get ready for real-life examples and a practical demonstration of how this can be achieved, and more importantly some of the challenges you might encounter (and how to overcome them). From managing how to best style these for consistency with your existing style sheets, to learnings about how it can impact SEO and user experience – not to mention how we solved some of the challenges of dynamically adjusting navigation (and other items) when users authenticate or log out.

Whether you are a seasoned developer or new to WordPress integrations, this talk will equip you with practical knowledge and inspire you to push the boundaries of what can be achieved with external web applications (custom or not) and WordPress.

October 13, 2023 — This talk explores the best ways to ask for feedback in a manner that makes clients feel comfortable and secure.

Learn about various online tools and advanced techniques that can be used to receive valuable, specific and constructive feedback on your designs.

In order to avoid receiving vague or unhelpful feedback, it’s crucial to learn how to ask for it in the right way.

October 13, 2023 — As of 2023, WordPress is the most popular content management system in the world that also powers a global economy estimated to be worth billions of dollars. However, no corporation owns WordPress – it is open source and maintained by a global community, and it needs steady contributions to grow and thrive. Many WordPress companies support the project through the Five for the Future program by sponsoring up to 5% of their employees’ time to contribute to the software. Pledging contributions to WordPress will not only ensure the project’s long-term sustainability but will also offer tangible benefits and growth opportunities for individuals and companies.

This session will be in a panel discussion format that will bring together four seasoned WordPress contributors to share about their contribution journeys. We will discuss Five for the Future and explore various available growth opportunities as part of the program. The discussion will also explore how companies can set up their own internal contribution teams and how they can contribute efficiently and grow alongside the project. Together, we will explore how individual contributors of all experience levels can start their contribution journey through WordPress and use it to build a successful career. The discussion will delve deep into contributor sponsorship opportunities as well.

October 13, 2023 — This talk explains how to generate income by teaching WordPress in your community.

Using WordPress as a teaching tool for high school students can help them tap into an entreprenuerial mindset, develop project management skills, and help to surface their creativity.

Learn how developers can get paid contracts with school districts and develop curriculums to teach WordPress in the clasroom.

October 13, 2023 — Cultural Intelligence (CQ) is the capacity to work with people who are not like you.

The business ecosystem around WordPress is multicultural and distributed.

While global business speaks English, it can be challenging to understand what others are trying to communicate. Remote companies operating in different regions often struggle to effectively implementing practices that work well for everyone.

How do you navigate the minefield of culture-based misunderstanding?

This talk identifies some of the big invisible boundaries of global business and suggests ways to bridge them.

The presentation is based on the experience of a former Make WordPress rookie who joined the Polyglots team consisting of 20 000 contributors speaking 200 languages, and then found herself resource managing a team of 50 engineers and project managers across APAC, Americas, and EMEA.

October 13, 2023 — This inspirational talk shares the speaker’s journey of overcoming obstacles and delivering exceptional designs despite color blindness.

With a keen sense of observation and a gift for understanding clients’ needs, this speaker thrived in the creative industry. This motivational talk provides encouragement to coders and programmers to embrace design skills in their daily practices.

If you’ve ever felt limited by your coding skills and believed design was out of reach, this talk is for you. Let’s ignite creativity within the coding community and shape a captivating digital landscape together. Learn how to unlock the potential of design-thinking in programming!

October 13, 2023 — The talk offers some ideas for growing an online business with a low budget. Learn more about an easy-to-use workflow for measuring and testing a growth-marketing strategy. The speaker has been using this workflow successfully to improve conversion rates by up to 18%.

October 13, 2023 — Accessibility is about people. Web accessibility is about allowing people to use and understand websites without barriers.

This talk covers the different types of cognitive and physical abilities that people have. Learn more about how designers and developers create many unintended barriers to them using a website.