May 19, 2026 — In recent releases, WordPress has started introducing small portions of real gems that will have an immense impact on the way we develop websites and think about essential aspects of them that go beyond the code, such as performance, user experience, developer experience, and maybe the most important of all, accessibility. Drawing inspiration from Symfony’s Live components, this API is built for speed, extensibility, and server-side rendering and is tailored to seamlessly integrate with the WordPress ecosystem. But the Interactivity API is not just the most fun API ever; it is built with accessibility best practices in mind.

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May 19, 2026 — AI is rewriting the rules of the web. Users now expect products to be smarter, faster, and more capable than ever, and that bar keeps rising. WordPress core isn’t sitting on the sidelines. In this session, we’ll dig into the AI building blocks already shipped in core, including the WP AI Client, the Abilities API, and the MCP adapter. You’ll see exactly how to use them to bring AI-powered features into your own plugins, themes, and sites. We’ll also tackle a bigger question: when agents can spin up entire projects on any stack, why is WordPress still the right bet?

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May 19, 2026 — Claude Code is a powerful AI coding agent that can serve as a command center for WordPress development and site management. In this talk we’ll see how to use it to create plugins, generate block themes from designs, interact with your production WordPress site, and automate everyday tasks — all from the terminal. We’ll explore three key capabilities: Skills (specialized knowledge packs for tasks like plugin development or block theme creation), MCP (Model Context Protocol, which lets Claude Code connect directly to external services like WordPress, GitHub, Figma, or N8N), and the Abilities API (which lets WordPress expose its functionality as tools that AI agents can use). Through live demos, we’ll walk through real workflows: generating a block theme from an HTML design, querying your production blog using natural language, installing plugins, and reading error logs — without leaving the terminal. While the demos use Claude Code, the concepts — MCP, Skills, and the Abilities API — are standard and transferable to any AI coding agent that supports them. What you learn here applies regardless of the tool you choose. Aimed at developers and technical profiles with basic WordPress knowledge who want to discover how AI coding agents are changing WordPress workflows, both for development and site management.

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May 19, 2026 — In 2026, my day stopped being about writing code and started being about describing outcomes, orchestrating agents, and reviewing diffs. I’ll walk through the loop I actually run and the guardrails that keep the output production-ready.

May 19, 2026 — WP Agentic Admin, is a privacy-first AI assistant for WordPress that runs entirely in the browser. No cloud APIs, no data leaving the device. Just a small language model running on your GPU, turning WordPress admin into a natural language command center. Marcel will demo and share how this project came to life during the Cloudfest Hackaton 2026.

May 19, 2026 — When people think about WordPress, they often focus on development, themes, plugins, and the professional ecosystem around it. But WordPress is much more than software. It is a vast open project powered by hundreds of volunteers who contribute in many different ways. In this session, we will explore the broader WordPress project and the free resources it offers: learning platforms, community support, media and photo directories, design resources, and opportunities to get involved. Whether you are a developer, designer, content creator, or simply curious, you will discover how WordPress goes far beyond code and how you can benefit from and contribute to its open ecosystem.

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May 16, 2026 — The WordCamp Asia Contributor Day will be taking place on April 9, 2026! In preparation for the day, we’d like you to share ideas of what contributors at the Training Team table can get involved with that day. You can read our Preparing for a Flagship WordCamp Contributor Day handbook page to learn more about how the Training Team prepares for Flagship WordCamp Contributor Days.

May 14, 2026 — You launch a site for your client. You enable automatic updates and automated billing to boost your passive income. Before long, you realize that without monitoring, you’re taking on a slightly bigger risk than you’d like.

Downtime monitoring is the standard solution, but it doesn’t actually catch your biggest losses. Managing over 2,000 WordPress websites, we started developing a roadmap of 57 different monitoring solutions in 2025. I’d love to walk the audience through the most remarkable ones (otherwise we won’t make it in 20 minutes).

May 14, 2026 — Bespreken van concepten in Varnish die kunnen worden gebruikt om huidige implementaties een boost te geven.