August 11, 2024 — Since GDPR we have been worried about all the data we’re losing from our web analytics. I’m here to show that you can do a lot of things without setting cookies nor tracking any of the user’s personal information.

– How to make sure you’re not tracking any user data
– What you can do with basic page view data
– What you can do with custom event data

When we have an anonymous tracking setup, we can even consider removing the cookie consent banner completely.

August 11, 2024 — At a WordCamp in 2011, Simon got in touch with other WordPress people for the first time. He started his first local Meetup one year later and has never stopped. Now, ten years later, after more than 150 facilitated in-person, online, and hybrid events, Simon looks back on one of the most rewarding and enjoyable hobbies he could have wished for.
Now he combined his own experiences with the shared knowledge and tricks of meetup organizers worldwide. This talk aims to help anyone interested in starting local meetups, revitalizing dormant groups, and building strong and sustainable local communities.

August 11, 2024 — Web Development has come a long way. From importing singular global scripts like jQuery to packaging your React projects into bundles to ES Modules. At the same time, support for more modular approaches for website development have surfaced.

In this talk we will be exploring how WordPress developers can utilize these new platform API’s to create modular building blocks for their site, while remaining completely buildless and in-browser.

After this talk you’ll be equipped with knowledge on some of the latest web platform API’s inluding but not limited to

– Web Components / Custom Elements
– ES Modules
– Import Maps
– CSS Modules

With these tools in your toolbox, you’ll be able to ship more ease-of-use and value to your customers in your WordPress projects.

August 11, 2024 — The carbon footprint of the World Wide Web expands every passing year, and we need to figure out ways to diminish it in order to truly use digitalisation as the weapon that can help us battle the climate change, and to create more sustainable choices for a healthier planet and environment.

In this talk we shall explore the concept of Green Sustainable Web and how we as designers, developers and content creators can do our part to make WordPress websites more energy efficient, and thus more environment-friendly. We shall discuss the most common design and content pitfalls that can make your WordPress site “energy-hungry”, how we can design better solutions to avoid the said pitfalls, how to measure the impact, and most importantly – how to do this without compromising great UX and your SEO.

August 11, 2024 — There are many ways to create Gutenberg blocks. Advanced Custom Fields is widely used plugin to create custom blocks and it offers an easy learning curve for developers used to work with ACF. On the other hand WordPress offers a native approach for developing custom blocks without any plugins. There’s lot of benefits of native approach and learning how to write blocks with React and other native tools is a valuable skill in any developers toolbox. This talk will cover reasons why everyone should create native blocks instead of using third party plugins.

August 11, 2024 — …And nobody sees the same colour you see, anyway.
This talk opens up a liberating perspective on colour, debunking a few theory and psychology myths, and providing practical information on how to craft accessible, inclusive colour palettes. With the very welcome side effect of getting your clients the conversions they want – by expanding their audience thanks to accessibility and inclusion. Even if we don’t really care about their brand colour!

August 11, 2024 — Remember the famous “5 minutes installation” process for installing WordPress? Let’s see what WP-CLI can do in 5 minutes. And everything else that can happen in the terminal in 40 minutes. We might actually make WordPress instances more secure. Or just break it.

This is not your usual presentation talk. This is a live terminal commanding; SSHing your WordPress administration and development; and releasing the Kraken or two.

August 11, 2024 — I know, the heart start pumping hard, your mind starts running wild and the anxiety appears. This is normal once you face a successful hacking attempt. OK, now let’s act and correct, let’s apply what we call Incident Response.
First of all, let’s put the case in perspective, this will help to understand the dimension and will help to calm down ourselves with the tranquility that the taking actions towards the recovery gives.

August 11, 2024 — Choosing the right hosting platform can be a challenging task, especially with so many options available in the market. In this talk, we’ll explore the factors to consider when evaluating different hosting platforms for your Managed WordPress site, using the story of WP.one (previously known as WP-Cloud) as an example of how hosting platforms can evolve over time.

WP.one is a Managed WordPress hosting product that was created by our speaker 7 years ago as a sole entrepreneur. Over time, the company behind WP.one was acquired by Zoner, and then by group.one. Today, our speaker is leading the technical hosting infrastructure for WP.one, which has grown significantly in scale and complexity.

Through the story of WP.one, we’ll discuss the different types of hosting platforms available, such as shared hosting, VPS and cloud hosting. We’ll also explore the key considerations for each platform, including performance metrics like speed and uptime, scalability features like resource allocation and load balancing, security features, and achieving performance at scale.

We’ll illustrate how these factors have impacted the evolution of WP.one over the years, and how our speaker and their team have adapted and optimized the hosting platform to meet the changing needs of their customers. Through real-world examples and case studies, we’ll show how the right hosting platform can make a significant difference in website performance and user experience, and how to balance these factors based on your specific needs and budget.

By the end of this talk, attendees will have a comprehensive understanding of how to evaluate and choose the right hosting platform for their Managed WordPress site, based on their unique goals and requirements, and how to adapt and optimize their hosting platform over time to meet changing needs.

August 11, 2024 — I would like to discuss the effect the invasion of Ukraine has had on WordPress websites. I have developed a platform (WP-Ensure/WP-Turva) that monitors and maintains WordPress and Multisite installations and since the invasion there has been a clear change in how bots are attacking WP sites. I would like to discuss the incentives behind why hackers usually use bots to attack WP sites including data stealing, bringing the sites down, simply for fun etc, also some real-life stories of what I have seen and how things have changed with attacks coming out of the Russian Federation. I will talk about ways to mitigate the risks already at DNS level through for example Cloudflare, as well as tools at server level and within WP itself that can help protect your site. I would like to talk about common attacks, why they happen and what you can do to prevent them as a web developer or end-user.