October 13, 2023 — In the past couple of years, there has been an increase in the number of WordPress businesses raising capital.

This talk explains how to decide if raising capital is right for your business, what options you have, how to go about the process, and what to look out for. Hint: bringing on outside investors isn’t always right, but it can sometimes help accelerate your business and impact.

October 13, 2023 — Every website contains information. Information is the reason that a website exists, so it’s a pity that how that information is organized is often an afterthought.

To be clear, information architecture is ***not*** the same as navigation design! User interfaces (the stuff people see and touch) are just the tip of a very important user experience iceberg. Good information organization starts with a well-designed, future-proof database and high-quality user research. And in WordPress, that means conscious decisions about how and where data is stored, and a solid understanding of the WordPress ecosystem and how the WordPress database actually stores stuff.

Join me to discover the essential tools and techniques that even beginners (whether designer, developer, UX professional, or project manager) can use to turn your next project from mess to success.

October 13, 2023 — Nothing about accessibility means you have to be boring. It just means you’re making your websites better. Just like when we realized there were a ton of different screen sizes to adapt to, it made our websites better for more people to use, accessibility is another way to give more people access to the sites you make.

We stick to conventions and best practices. We ask about audience and cater to their needs. Accessibility is about integrity. It’s about learning the basics, and using each new project as an opportunity to learn something new.

Let’s go over some amazingly creative ways to make fun and accessible websites.

October 13, 2023 — WooCommerce offers great performance for most use cases, but it can struggle with managing lots of products and orders. This talk explains at how to tackle the scaling limitations of WooCommerce.

See a demonstrator shop with over a million products and orders, using the new HPOS feature as well as ElasticPress.

October 13, 2023 — This Lightning Talk shares how to easily translate your WordPress site using AI translation.

People prefer reading, engaging, and buying in their own language. And you can easily reach them by translating your website.

Doing this used to be expensive and time-consuming but no more! Thanks to automatic translation using AI, it is now fast, affordable, and available to anyone. All you need are the right tools.

October 13, 2023 — Navigation is the main component of a website when it comes to moving around different pages and finding content. For this reason, it is critical to design and develop accessible navigation. This means keeping those using different devices and assistive technologies such as screen readers in mind.

Accessible navigation is easy to understand, semantic, and adaptive. In this session, Steve will review the best practices to design and develop accessible navigation from start to finish. He’ll also discuss how to replace the navigation in an existing theme.

October 13, 2023 — This developer-oriented talk offers advice from an SEO expert for setting up a WordPress site for SEO success.

October 13, 2023 — In the middle of the pandemic, Ken Liu, an award-winning writer, lost faith in storytelling, the magic that has always made his life a joy. This is the story of how he rediscovered the meaning of narratives in our lives, and his message will challenge us all to rethink how and why we do what we do.

October 13, 2023 — Rejection after rejection. That was the norm after prison until this speaker found a new lease on life with WordPress.

This talk is a testament to the power of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), illustrating how it encompasses more than just identity and disability.

Follow along with this journey from reformed convict to self-taught software engineer. Find out how the WordPress community sparked radical change and opened doors to a brighter future.

October 13, 2023 — This talk examines what performance and scalability mean from a server-side development perspective and how to optimize for this environment.

It covers basic mechanisms like profiling, deferred processing and caching first.

Then go deeper into code that simply needs to run faster or in a more scalable way, including topics such as loop optimization, static data, opcaches and other concepts.