September 29, 2023 — What do 16-year-olds think about WordPress? Do they know WordPress? Do they like the way WordPress looks? Are they able to find their way around in the WordPress backend?

In this talk, I will first share my own experiences with WordPress and other CMS’s as a support engineer at a major WordPress plugin and as a WordPress developer myself. After that, I’ll share some research I did amongst my peers on how they look at WordPress and some of WordPress’ competitors. At the end of my presentation, I’ll also share some of my ideas on what the WordPress community could do to appeal more to a youthful audience.

September 29, 2023 — WordPress’s Gutenberg editor offers the amazing intuitive opportunity for developers to decide upon the exact website’s content and design by using blocks.

While it’s indeed used for WordPress development, with the help of precise Rest API and GraphQL engineering the editor’s technology can be implemented for building and editing virtually any website.

I believe this empowers various top-notch technology websites and platforms to benefit from Gutenberg’s and WordPress’s easy usage. Business’s dedicated marketing teams with their never-ending need for flexibility, scalability and speed can quickly make the necessary changes so that the platform can quickly live up to the customers’ standards and expectations.

In my session, I will happily show you the ultimate pathway which brings Gutengerg, WordPress and web development together so that developers could easily benefit from the nearly endless opportunities the CMS offers, regardless of the website in question.

September 29, 2023 — WordPress was already popular in 2016 but relatively simple content management system primarily used for building basic blogs and websites.

Fast forward to 2023, WordPress has evolved into a powerful platform that can create complex e-commerce sites, membership platforms, and even mobile apps.

As a result, how we market and sell WordPress needs to evolve.

This talk addresses the need to adapt new approaches to selling WordPress in the ever-evolving web design and digital landscape.

September 29, 2023 — This talk shares the story of growing WordPress Plugin Business from a single-person company to 100+ team members which is powering 500,000+ websites.

Learn what worked and lessons learned, how to take customer feedback, and build features that help for growth.

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September 29, 2023 — Join us for a comprehensive and engaging panel discussion at this year’s WordCamp as we delve into the world of performance optimization in WordPress. Our panelists, representing a diverse range of experience and expertise from site owners to plugin developers to core contributors, will share their insights and thoughts about website speed and overall performance and user experience.

During the panel, we will discuss the common challenges faced when it comes to performance optimization, and how to overcome them. Our panelists will also discuss why performance is critical for a good user experience, and how it can impact the success of a website.

Panelists will discuss the tools and best practices they follow when optimizing performance. We will also discuss how to handle performance challenges specific to different areas, how to balance features vs. their performance impact, and ideas for how we might leverage Gutenberg and Site Editing to improve WordPress performance in the future.

Join us and learn what it takes to take your website or product performance to the next level!

September 29, 2023 — WordPress contains an extensive list of APIs for performing common tasks across a WordPress site. From interacting with the database to creating responsive images, there’s an API for practically everything. This session will focus on the Responsive Images API, including a brief history of responsive images in WordPress, how the API works, and how it’s used for theme development.

September 29, 2023 — Added to WordPress in version 2.7, The Settings API allows developers to develop admin pages containing settings forms to be managed semi-automatically. It lets you define settings pages, sections within those pages, and fields within the sections. In this session, you’ll learn how to use the Settings API with the Options API to create settings pages for your plugins or themes.

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September 28, 2023 — In a digital landscape historically painted with masculine strokes, women’s experiences bring a unique blend of challenges and triumphs. From battling biases to leveraging WordPress as a tool for empowerment, this session The presentation is designed to inspire women, share their stories, encourage diversity, and enrich the broader digital community.

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September 28, 2023 — How do you build a company that is loved by employees? No, giving all the money is not the answer. In this talk, Eng Chin will share how Automattic – the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, and more – builds an open, distributed, inclusive workplace culture using P2, a WordPress theme built for team collaboration, and becomes one of the top Most Loved Workplace® in the world.

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September 27, 2023 — In this installment of WordPress Developer Hours, we dove into the functionalities of the create-block package. Developed to simplify and accelerate the process of building custom WordPress blocks, this package has become an indispensable tool for developers of all levels.

In addition to covering the fundamentals of the create-block package, the presentation showcased often overlooked features such as external project templates and variants, among others. So, whether you’re starting with block development or an experienced pro, this session will help you build better blocks.