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.

November 10, 2025 — What if you could show content to users based on their past behaviour, or even the behevior of their peers? In this talk, we will showcase how we leverage WordPress, AWS, Neo4j, and AI to power a recommendation engine that provides personalized content based on site activity and user engagement. We will break down how data flows between each system, the power of a Graph Database, and what this all looks like for the end user.

November 10, 2025 — People talk about the “open social web” but there isn’t a whole lot of web to what they’re doing. WordPress has deep power and is very widely deployed, and of course is a central part of the open web. I felt it just needed a writer-friendly user interface. And that’s what I set out to do with WordLand. I’ll talk about how we got here, and what’s next, and the greater role WordPress can play in the evolving social web.

November 10, 2025 — The Block Developer Cookbook has travelled the world and is finally coming to its home country of Canada to make its debut in Ottawa, Ontario. In this fully interactive workshop, attendees will vote on which recipes to explore, and we’ll work through them together.

Each iteration of this workshop expands with new recipes and content, leveraging the latest features in WordPress, including: Block Bindings API, Plugin Template Registration API, Preview Options API, Interactivity API, New in WordPress 6.8: Performantly loading multiple blocks in a single plugin, Using third-party API data in a custom block, Creating a block variation bound to the post excerpt, Registering a custom post type with its own templatern, Building a dark/light mode toggle that saves to user meta, Developing a gallery slider with the Interactivity API, Using filters and the HTML Tag Processor to extend core blocks, Designing a custom Image block style, Adding a fade-in effect to core blocks, Restricting publishing based on word count, Customizing the @wordpress/scripts build process, Connecting a block to custom fields, Implementing front-end JavaScript for blocks, Using the data layer in a block, Creating a custom format, Working with block transforms, And more.

Join us to expand your block development skills with hands-on guidance and real-world examples.

November 10, 2025 — AI is revolutionizing the way search engines rank content and how advertisers optimize campaigns. For WordPress users, understanding these AI-driven changes is essential to staying competitive in both SEO and PPC.

Whether you’re an entrepreneur, marketer, or agency professional, this session will provide actionable insights to help you maximize your search visibility and ad performance in an AI-driven world.

November 10, 2025 — Every year we’re asked to “do more with less” while budgets continue to shrink. As a development team, how do we continue to manage all our responsibilities while taking on even more? Automation.

While developers understand how helpful automated testing can be, getting started can be overwhelming. Finding time to learn and research, as well as designing tests tailored to specific needs, can be daunting. As a result, automated testing is often pushed to the back burner and forgotten due to various constraints.

In this workshop, attendees will gain insight into the benefits of end-to-end testing. This involves testing an application from start to finish, simulating a real user scenario, and testing the application as an integrated whole. Using the Cypress testing framework, we will go hands-on in the setup of the testing framework, and the process of integrating it into our workflows, before writing our first test together. Attendees will leave with a set of tests they can immediately put into practice, and a solid idea of how they can expand those tests to fit their unique needs.