October 1, 2023 — Many people still seem to have a very black-and-white stance on accessible design. Accessibility and aesthetics are often seen as conflicting goals. It’s one or the other, so aesthetics gets neglected. Accessibility doesn’t have to hinder creativity and can even lead to designs that are both functional and visually striking.

It’s time to put a renewed focus on creating designs that are both functional and visually stunning. By preserving and finding a balance between accessibility and aesthetics, we can revolutionise design and create websites that truly stand out. A win-win for everyone!

October 1, 2023 — The last few years have brought many new features to CSS that open up new possibilities for designing web applications and WordPress is not out of this new wave of CSS features. The committee called Interop, which is one of those responsible for this change around CSS development, was created to coordinate feature releases and standardization across browsers.

In this talk, you’ll learn how to use CSS features like container queries, layers, CSS @properties, and the new “has” selector and see how they can affect WordPress theme development.

Let’s review some everyday situations and see how these new features can help us.

In this talk, you’ll learn how to use CSS features like container queries, layers, and :has() and see how they can affect WordPress theme development. Let’s go through some everyday situations and see how these new features can help us.

October 1, 2023 — The Global Leads of several past editions of WordCamp Europe will take the stage to discuss what it’s like to organise a flagship WordCamp, what considerations must be taken into account, and what the future could hold: from volunteer organisers to catering, venue selection to swag, what goes into organising WCEU and how might it change in the future?

Join us for this Q&A session with Global Leads from 2020-2022.

October 1, 2023 — Phase 3 of Gutenberg is imminent.

The main objective of his phase is collaboration. Adding it to the editor will be a huge milestone for WordPress.

Let’s discuss the challenges the Gutenberg team will face when implementing this feature.

If you wonder what it takes to create a reliable solution for real-time collaboration, this talk is for you.

October 1, 2023 — Andrija and Lazar met when Andrija wanted to develop a game accessible to all.

They succeeded, and the game won a prize.

From there on together they present at meetups and seminars to create awareness about digital accessibility.

Hearing and reading about accessibility is one thing, hearing it from an actual screen reader user and an experienced developer, is something else! It sticks!

September 30, 2023 — Transform your WordPress website with superpowered templates!

Get ready to level up your website game in our ‘Fresh Off The Block’ presentation. You’ll learn how to take your design, speed, and mobility into high performance using 3rd party templates in the block editor.

Say goodbye to boring, slow websites and hello to “hot off the press” freshly baked WordPress sites.

Join me in this session for some strategies and fun while empowering your block editor experience and website!

September 30, 2023 — Many WordPress developers still struggle to get stared developing WordPress blocks. Once of the first hurdles to overcome is installing Node.js and npm, and setting up the build steps to transpile JSX to JavaScript code that can run in the browser.

However, what many folks don’t know is that while JSX makes block development slightly easier, it’s not a requirement. It is entirely possible to develop blocks without the Node.js requirement, using plain JavaScript.

In this session you will learn how to build block without needing to install anything on your local development environment, as well as the pros and cons to both methods.

September 30, 2023 — Inviting users to read your text and actually making them read it are not easy tasks.

The web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG) are a good starting point, but the factors that condition the experience of reading texts are numerous and interconnected: from the physical mechanisms of reading to the cognitive processes involved, to the amount of attention paid.

Web typography best practices and wise font selection could help. Sometimes informed choices and just a few lines of CSS code can make a huge difference.

September 30, 2023 — When was the last time you tested code in production? Your own website doesn’t count.

WP-CLI for PHP developers is the sequel of WordPress through the Terminal talk with a focus on a set of commands and tools, useful for PHP developers.

This is not just a live demo of WP-CLI commands. This is zooming out and seeing WP-CLI in collaboration with other tools in the context of PHP developer needs and everyday tasks. We’ll probably release the Kraken as well.

September 30, 2023 — AI services like ChatGPT are coming for our jobs! Or are they?

How can we as WordPress developers leverage new AI based tools to make our lives easier.

What are these tools good at? Bad at?

And how will their use impact the WordPress ecosystem over the next year? The next five years? Lots of questions, and maybe a few good answers.