October 13, 2024 — Interested in creating online courses to sell or share online? Join me for this session as we go from that spark of an idea, to writing a course brief and outline, to hitting publish. We’ll dive deep into the process of course creation and touch on the related topics of self-publishing vs marketplace, choosing the right learning management system, and marketing your new course.

October 13, 2024 — Getting started with digital accessibility can seem overwhelming; join us in this session where we’ll cover various testing methods such as automated tools like WAVE and AxeDev, manual testing with keyboards, and strategies for reviewing and enhancing existing code. Making a website accessible to all takes work and doesn’t happen overnight; but that shouldn’t deter any creator or developer from taking the first steps towards digital accessibility.

Understanding the real impact of accessibility on users is often left out of the conversation around making websites accessible. In this session, we’ll delve into first hand experiences of individuals with disabilities and how digital accessibility directly affects their ability to navigate and interact with websites. By discussing the challenges faced by users, creators and developers can gain a deeper understanding of the importance of accessible design and its impact on fostering inclusivity in the digital realm. Additionally, we’ll explore practical examples of how we’ve improved accessibility in WordPress plugins, offering insights and strategies for ensuring inclusivity in WordPress development projects.

October 13, 2024 — In this technical session, we dive into the challenges and solutions for managing a high-traffic, large-scale WordPress site. With a history of 11 years on WordPress, handling 10 million posts, and 38,000 terms, The New York Post has been a testing ground for scalability. In this talk, Linnea will share her strategies for managing WordPress at the enterprise level, demonstrating how minor adjustments can lead to significant enhancements in site responsiveness and stability.

Attendees will learn about the architecture of the Gutenberg block-based site that has successfully handled millions of daily visitors and vast amounts of content. Linnea will detail her approach to identifying and resolving bottlenecks, implementing ongoing optimization techniques, and showcasing how tools such as New Relic and the Xdebug profiler can be pivotal in this process.

October 12, 2024 — The team at Human Made inherited an authentic, content-focused website, but it wasn’t built to enterprise standards. They stepped in to make sure that the old worked seamlessly with the new.

Although WordPress is great for content creation if users like the block editor,
enterprise sites need far more than its out-of-the-box features. But this doesn’t have to mean building a new site from scratch. The audience will gain an understanding of the key building blocks necessary for a highly performant, high-traffic website.

Hear the Human Made team discuss what it is like to have the client, agency and hosting work as equal partners, as well as Tailwind, Custom Blocks, Continuous Integration Tools, Visual Regression Testing, Efficient JS and CSS Load, and migrating to a capable enterprise Cloud solution.
This talk will help the audience understand how to keep a legacy site running while incorporating new technologies, and how this influences a very efficient use of budget.

October 12, 2024 — The Automattic Special Projects team helps interesting people, projects, and organizations have a great experience with WordPress. By connecting their partners with the best that the WordPress community has to offer, the team spreads enthusiasm for WordPress and open source in general.

This session will showcase favorite websites and tools created by the team, highlighting how it uses the latest WordPress features, supports other teams at Automattic, and contributes to the WordPress community at-large. Following this talk will be a presentation by Mike Straw, which will touch on further technical details of the team’s projects.

October 12, 2024 — Managing the security of a product with tens of millions of installations is challenging; add Open Source to the equation and the challenges become even more complex. This talk will showcase how Elementor has established internal and external processes to handle security and will highlight our partnership with Patchstack as our bug bounty program and how they have helped enhance our ability to mitigate issues quickly and effectively.

October 12, 2024 — CNN’s journey in Brazil involved critical decisions, from code architecture to development team culture, which enabled CNN to implement innovative and agile solutions. In this session, attendees will explore the technical strategies transforming CNN Brazil from a newborn company to a major player, becoming one of the top three Brazilian news portals. By the end of this session, participants will gain insights into practical performance tuning and robust software development from an enterprise-level perspective. They will leave with valuable techniques to enhance their projects, understanding how thoughtful decisions can drive significant growth and reliability in a competitive digital landscape.

October 11, 2024 — One of the biggest implementations of JavaScript in WordPress is the Block Editor. To develop blocks for the Block Editor, you need to have a good understanding of modern JavaScript, its syntax, and the tooling that’s developed around it.

In this lesson, you’ll discover some of these JavaScript technologies and how they are used to build blocks for the Block Editor.

October 11, 2024 — One of the benefits of working with WordPress is that there are often many ways to do the same thing.

While the block development examples you’ve seen so far use JSX for rendering and @wordpress/scripts for building, you can also develop blocks without using these technologies.

In this lesson, you will learn what a block without JSX or a build process could look like and the pros and cons of both approaches.

October 11, 2024 — One of the benefits of developing blocks is the ability to nest blocks within other blocks.

Let’s take a look at how nested blocks work, and how you can create them in your own block plugins.