July 24, 2026 — Bruno Zagorščak shows how a WordPress agency podcast can become a long-term recruiting channel instead of a short-lived project. He shares a simple planning system for mapping episodes, picking a niche and choosing a format that builds familiarity with your team before you ever post a job opening. The talk also covers a minimum viable recording setup, a lightweight production workflow, a repurposing checklist for turning episodes into social posts and newsletters, and where AI tools genuinely save time versus where they create extra work.

July 24, 2026 — WordPress is often seen as a tool limited by its themes, plugins and templates. In this talk, Davor Jovanović shows how these constraints can become a starting point for building flexible systems. He presents dynamic Gutenberg blocks with their own logic and state, enabling complex layouts without writing code. He also shows how Astro and Bunny CDN can decouple content delivery from WordPress, resulting in faster load times, stronger security and easier scaling.

July 10, 2026 — It works on my prompt

AI is creeping into every aspect of development. As with any new technology, there is “the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” application of it.

In this time of rapid changes, will WordPress manage to stay current without breaking some of its decades-long philosophies? We will not answer this question.

But we will discuss what AI has to do with WordPress. Is it good, bad, or ugly?

July 10, 2026 — In this session, Pekka shows procedures on migrating from a simulated, old WooCommerce installation into an updated one, bringing the High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS) into use.

The session will introduce the audience how to utilize HPOS using the terminal and show results on how much clutter can be cleaned up from a non-HPOS database

Presentation Slides »

July 10, 2026 — WooCommerce Deep Dives cuts through the documentation and gets straight to what actually works. Real solutions, real code, and the hard-won lessons you only learn by breaking things in production.

The session is intended for mid to senior developers who want deeper insight into building reliable WooCommerce solutions.

Presentation Slides »

July 10, 2026 — Anton Lukin is a Team Lead at TaxDome with over 15 years of experience in backend development, infrastructure, and engineering leadership. He has worked on high-load systems, built multiple WordPress plugins and a theme, and focuses on improving development workflows and tooling.

At WordPress Developers Day Novi Sad 2026, he will present Running WordPress in Kubernetes, explaining how WordPress can be deployed and scaled in modern cloud environments using Kubernetes.

Presentation Slides »

July 10, 2026 — Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster. This is as true today as it was in 1995 when windows, pop-up menus, and pretty icons were making it hard for people to freely type basic text documents. Our computers and networks are faster but we still struggle to type those documents. Increasing server density and the onslaught of AI demands only highlights the problem more: we have to do more with less.

WordPress is responding to this need with a family of streaming APIs for processing text, HTML, CSS, and Blocks. Streaming means being able to handle large documents in small chunks, or being able to process documents of any size within the same limited amount of resources. It also means being able to set arbitrary limits of time, latency, and robustness of processing.

Come see in this talk how to use these new APIs and which ones are coming next, why they are important and which values lead their design, and hopefully discover some new way to more capably interact with structured content on the server without blowing the budget.

Talk is intended for developers working with PHP, HTML, and/or blocks.

Presentation Slides »

July 4, 2026 — Most developers and website creators already recommend plugins they trust – but many don’t realize they’re leaving money on the table. In this talk, we’ll explore how affiliate marketing works in the WordPress space, why it’s not just for influencers, and how developers, freelancers, and agencies can earn recurring or passive income by sharing the tools they already use with their clients. Presented byZemyna

July 4, 2026 — This talk addresses the growing hostility in the WordPress community and its impact on companies, contributors, and the values of open source. Through real-world examples and interactive exercises, it reveals how destructive commentary is easier than constructive critique and why that matters. The session introduces practical suggestions to promote facts, fairness, and responsibility, empowering WordPress to remain a role model for open source communities.

July 4, 2026 — Most of the WordPress agencies provide very similar set of services and standing out from competition can be hard. Through product development agencies can either offer something unique and/or get their work done more efficiently. In this talk I will show how the biggest WordPress agency in Finland (Evermade) does product development, what we consider as products and how product development looks in practice. Presented byTeemu Suoranta