November 14, 2019 — Join an animated discussion on the hot topic of WordPress security and automated updates among longtime WordPress contributors. The panel will review recent conversations in WordPress Core on this issue, and discuss points for and against!

November 14, 2019 — Many WordCamps do not have contributor days or hackathons… many organizers hold back thinking they can’t provide a “good enough” experience or maybe their local community isn’t “developer focused.” There are also camps that have done these in the past and want to learn more ways to improve the experience for future events.

There are also contributor day / hackathons that don’t involve WordCamps (language transition day, WordPress.tv captioning, etc.). Explore the potential for local or online single-day events that cover the space between a regular meetup and an annual WordCamp.

November 14, 2019 — In distributed companies and global open-source communities alike, diversity makes our teams stronger. But how do we reconcile diverse opinions to move forward productively as a unified team? In this talk I will share prioritization and team management tools I’ve used as a senior engineer and team lead in a distributed agency-tools that help us understand where and why we disagree, then work together as a group to find solutions, focus, and prioritize the right things. We will never all agree, and that’s the idea! We can disagree with intent and empathy, and use our diverse perspectives and opinions to work together on ever more ambitious and exciting projects.

November 14, 2019 — This is what we’ll look at in this talk. We’ll go over some of the principles that I use for finding ideas for technical articles.

These principles aren’t only useful for finding ideas for technical articles. They’re also great for talk submissions. (Such as this one!) And my hope is that they remove some of the frustrations that you might have with writer’s block.

November 14, 2019 — Design systems are so hot right now. And for good reason! They improve collaboration and creation amongst your crafters (designers, developers, product, and marketing alike). Despite popular belief, it’s more than just colors, fonts, buttons, and components – much more. In this session, we’ll learn how to think about design systems to explore how you can empower your teams to do what they do, but better (and faster)!

November 14, 2019 — To automate or not to automate? Is automation impersonal, ineffective, or overdone? Or is it the key to unlocking retention and efficiency? This discussion digs into how automation applies to online stores, and how it can influence sales, processes, and customer relationships — especially when it comes to retention. We’ll also review how to identify areas for automation as a merchant or developer and where it’s most impactful.

November 14, 2019 — We’re in the middle of the biggest change to the WordPress user experience in several years. It has modernized, streamlined, and simplified content creation. PHP theme and plugin developers are finding themselves needing to transition quickly. Come learn just enough React to take advantage of new features like colour palettes, meta boxes, and reusable blocks.

November 14, 2019 — Design has been synonymous with “making things pretty”, more artificial than functional, but the popularity of UX and design thinking has done a lot to break that stereotype in the last few years. One of the ways to evangelize a better user experience to your product owners and managers is to assign money value to your design improvements.

In this talk I’ll show you a few easy examples of how to do that.

November 14, 2019 — Connecting WordPress to the Outside World
Working with WordPress and External APIs

Do you get asked about how to connect WordPress and [insert service] all the time? Want to build your own stable and secure external API integrations? What makes a good integration?

Whether it’s for the enterprise (Salesforce, Marketo), payments (Stripe, currencies, taxes), or other services, the majority of my work is developing external API integrations. I’ll be sharing the lessons I’ve learned over the past 7 years to help you skip some of the pain, guide you around the land mines, and get your integration up-and-running quickly.

November 14, 2019 — The REST API is a powerful tool but is missing one key feature, authenticated requests. There are many options, on how to solve this problem for your use case. In this talk I will discuss the pros and cons these methods, best use case and pitfalls.