June 7, 2025 — Get ready for a sneak peek into the future of WordPress! In this session, we’ll unveil exciting new features that will change the way you experience and contribute to WordPress. Don’t miss out on discovering what’s coming next—and how you can be part of it.

Presentation Slides »

June 7, 2025 — WordPress is a powerful platform for building websites of all shapes and sizes. To truly thrive, WordPress is embracing the latest advancements in web technology. This talk will explore how developers and site owners can leverage cutting-edge web platform capabilities to create next-generation WordPress experiences. This talk will explore the world of modern web APIs and features, showcasing their practical applications within the WordPress ecosystem. From optimizing image delivery with modern formats to enhancing user interfaces with new web components, to prerendering for instant navigations, this session will equip attendees with the knowledge and tools to elevate their WordPress projects. Discover how to improve performance, create more engaging user experiences, and streamline development workflows by harnessing the power of the modern web platform.

Presentation Slides »

June 7, 2025 — This session explores how Figma Design Systems can bridge the gap between designers, site builders, and WordPress developers, making theme development and website creation more scalable, efficient, and maintainable. We will showcase real-world applications, including the Novus Media Newspaper Design System, which supports 22 newspaper brands using Figma modes, typography variables, and color systems, all mapped to WordPress block themes and theme.json structures.

Presentation Slides »

June 7, 2025 — ICT worldwide uses up around 8-10% of all energy. That’s more than aviation. Being more conscious in designing and maintaining your website in sustainable way is one of the easiest things you can do to reduce your digital environmental impact. I will talk about green hosting, tooling to estimate the CO2 emissions of your website, and what easy changes to make in your webdesign & content creation habits to make your website more eco-friendly.

Presentation Slides »

June 7, 2025 — Still clicking through the WordPress GUI, installing the same plugins, and manually changing settings over and over again? Stop wasting time on repetitive tasks! This session will show you how to automate WordPress setups using WP-CLI, scripting, and AI-powered tools.

We’ll explore how AI can assist in generating reusable, tailored configurations for effortless project setup. I’ll showcase a simple web app that lets you select requirements via a GUI to create a consistent config. All code examples, scripts, and resources will be shared via GitHub—so you can start automating immediately.

Presentation Slides »

June 7, 2025 — There are a lot of custom blocks out there that really don’t need to exist. Learning when to use custom blocks, and when to extend core blocks will make all the difference when it comes to benefitting from core updates, and reducing lock-in to specific plugins and block libraries.

Presentation Slides »

June 7, 2025 — Quality Assurance isn’t just for testers—it’s for everyone who touches a product. Whether you’re a developer, product owner, or project manager, the quality of your work impacts the user experience, support burden, and long-term success of your project. In this session, we’ll explore how to make QA a mindset, integrate quality at every stage of development, and use simple, effective testing techniques—even for those operations without a dedicated QA team. You’ll leave with practical strategies to improve quality in your work, no matter your role.

Presentation Slides »

June 7, 2025 — Every line of code added, removed, modified, or intentionally left unchanged in WordPress impacts millions of websites and hundreds of millions of users worldwide. But who decides what changes make it into Core, and how are those decisions made?

This talk takes you behind the scenes of WordPress Core development, shedding light on the decision-making frameworks, philosophies, and trade-offs that shape the platform. We’ll explore what factors determine whether a feature gets merged, a bug gets fixed, or a change is too risky—all while balancing backward compatibility, security, stability, and long-term maintainability.

Whether you’re an aspiring Core contributor, a plugin or theme developer, or a business owner curious about how WordPress evolves, this session will give you a deeper understanding of the thought process behind decisions that impact an entire ecosystem from a 6+ year Core committer with over 12 years experience contributing to WordPress.

Presentation Slides »

June 7, 2025 — I am often hired to teach performance to WordPress developers, and every time I see the same problem: good, experienced developers feel unconfident when they face performance issues. They try to do various things but get no or insignificant improvement. This creates frustration and the stereotype that performance is a black box that only a few “chosen ones” can open. This is absolutely not true. What they really lack is a system to follow when identifying performance issues, to be able to solve the exact problems that cause these issues and get significant improvement with the effort they invest. I am going to present the algorithm that I use every single time I improve Core Web Vitals and explain step by step how to identify the issues that really need to be solved so that other developers can apply it in their daily work.

Presentation Slides »

June 7, 2025 — We will cover some Composer basics to get started and then dive into best practices of dependency management. Learn more about software supply chains, how Composer, packagist.org and Private Packagist come into it and which role PHP dependencies play.

Presentation Slides »