October 7, 2023 — The Block Editor has been one of the most controversial and game-changing shifts in how people use WordPress. While some have found this change challenging, recent updates have brought Gutenberg leaps and bounds forward.

In this talk, Benjamin will show a new page-building experience with Gutenberg, and he will demonstrate why starting the shift to the new WordPress Editor is a step in the right direction.

October 6, 2023 — CircleCI is a popular CI/CD tool that can be used to automate the building, testing, and deployment of WordPress applications. This topic will explore how to use CircleCI to streamline WordPress development processes and increase efficiency. We’ll cover setting up a CircleCI pipeline for WordPress, including building and testing WordPress code, managing dependencies, and deploying updates to production environments. We’ll also discuss best practices for using CircleCI with WordPress, such as version control and code review workflows, and integrating with popular WordPress plugins and themes. Whether you’re a WordPress developer looking to automate your workflow or a business owner seeking to improve website performance, this topic will provide practical insights into using CircleCI for WordPress CI/CD.

October 6, 2023 — Ways to inspire and encourage young people to pursue careers in tech and strategies for supporting and nurturing their development.

October 6, 2023 — In this talk, Le-an will show content creators how to take their content creation to the next level with the help of ChatGPT. As AI technology continues to advance, it’s time to embrace it as a superpower rather than fearing it as a replacement. With the right prompts and guidance, ChatGPT can help content creators generate ideas, write blog posts, social media posts, emails, and more in their own unique voice.

Le-an will share her personal experiences using ChatGPT to create content for her business, as well as case studies of successful content creation with ChatGPT. She will also provide practical tips and best practices for using ChatGPT effectively and efficiently, and how to integrate it into your content creation workflow.

If you’re a content creator looking to level up your content game and stay ahead of the curve, this speech is not to be missed. You’ll walk away with a new perspective on AI and a new superpower to help you create better, faster, and more efficiently than ever before.

October 6, 2023 — In my talk, you will learn how to tackle the new challenges you face in international sales, such as cultural nuances, managing international shipping and returns, adjusting payment methods and currencies, managing inventory, using local marketing channels, complying with local laws, and developing competitive strategies

October 6, 2023 — As a WordPress plugin developer, it’s important to have a way to test your plugin code against new versions of PHP. While you can do this manually, there is also a tool you can use that scans your code, and detects any PHP version compatibility issues, called PHPCompatibilityWP. In this session, you’ll learn why testing your code against upcoming PHP versions is important, how to do it manually, and how to use PHPCompatibilityWP to streamline the process.

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October 6, 2023 — Ferdy Korpershoek owns a popular YouTube channel with over 440K subscribers.

In his keynote presentation, Ferdy elucidates his evolutionary journey from the realm of web design to mastering WordPress. Throughout this recollection, Ferdy meticulously highlights a series of ‘key persons’ who guided him in successive directions, thereby enriching his growth in the industry. These influential individuals range from the person who introduced him to Frontpage Express in 1999, the persistent advocate who enlightened him about WordPress in 2011, the guide who led him into the world of Elementor in 2017, to the individual who warmly invited him to his first WordCamp in 2019. Ferdy acknowledges each of these turning points as impactful moments that significantly shaped his life over the long term. The community has always been the key.

Ferdy is dedicated to imparting valuable knowledge to the audience. He aspires to become the same ‘key person’ that the figures had been for him earlier in his career. He plans on sharing ten to twelve strategies on generating income within the WordPress ecosystem, while simultaneously aiding others.

Throughout his entire presentation, Ferdy underscores the importance of being an active part of the WordPress community. He challenges everyone to engage adventurously in enriching dialogues, forming meaningful relationships, and fostering collective growth over these two days.

October 6, 2023 — In the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, the main character sees people struggling with the balance between being uncomfortable with technology while at the same time being dependent on it. This dissonance still exists, especially in web technology. A thriving business needs a proper website, but does it have the required expertise to make a well performing one? Does your client have the time to maintain it? Does it have the money to hire an agency to do it for them?

In the end, will it actually have a well-performing website that serves its needs?

Thinking about this in terms of knowledge allows us to see that an agency’s domain-specific knowledge can be scaled. Its technical knowledge can be scaled. It can scale its entire business by providing knowledge, not time.

I’ll explain how your existing technical expertise, domain-specific knowledge and business acumen plays a big part in scaling your business. That cleverly combining these aspects will allow for you to grow automatically and that your growth isn’t limited by the amount of time you can provide, but rather by the knowledge you can provide in an automated way.

October 6, 2023 — Performance is a popular buzzword in the WordPress space. For most users, installing a performance optimization plugin is the one thing they do on their website, maybe configuring some of the settings. But performance is way more than that. In this session, I want to give a quick overview of what is important for a website to be considered performant and what to look at when working with WordPress websites.

October 6, 2023 — Remember the famous “5 minutes installation” process for installing WordPress? Let’s see what WP-CLI can do in 5 minutes. And everything else that can happen in the terminal in 40 minutes. We might actually make WordPress instances more secure. Or just break it.

This is not your usual presentation talk. This is a live terminal commanding; SSHing your WordPress administration and development; and releasing the Kraken or two.