July 3, 2024 — Some of your website visitors will unfortunately not buy your product or sign up for your newsletter.

Using a real-life example, I’ll show you how you can find out where those people drop off.

Are you a website owner, product owner or marketeer? I’ll give you the tools to identify where this happens on your website, so you can start working on a resolution for those blockages to drive more conversions.

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July 3, 2024 — Learn how to start your local WordPress meetup group, with a new way of meeting that focuses in networking. Check these tips and experience.

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July 3, 2024 — In order to properly protect your WordPress site, you need to know your adversaries and how they work.

In this talk I will live hack a common WordPress website and show what script kiddies & hackers do.

I will then also show you how to set up any WordPress site to protect from such attacks.

July 3, 2024 — The block editor is often perceived as a tool that can only be used to build simple small business websites. However, it has evolved over the last 5 years into a powerful tool for building more complex WordPress websites that utilise post types, taxonomies and meta fields.

In this session, we will take a look at how to create bespoke WordPress websites that make use of custom post types directly in the site editor.

We will explore how to build templates with blocks and examine different ways to extend the editor, including the use of block filters, block formats, custom block styles, block patterns, inner blocks, block locking, interactivity API, building our own blocks, and more.

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July 3, 2024 — Can websites be sustainable economically, ecologically and socially?

Inspired by the research and knowledge sharing of others, we have spent three years building WordPress solutions that honour the principles of the Sustainable Web Manifesto.

Our websites achieve an A+ rating in the recognised Website Carbon Rating System, a 75-90% reduction in carbon footprint, and now meet web accessibility and GDPR criteria.

They rank a lot better on search engines.

Users with limited bandwidth appreciate the lightweight pages.

In the spirit of open source, we want to share our experiences and methods with the WordPress community. The internet has a huge environmental impact, but fortunately, we can reduce this significantly.

The related benefits are numerous: we improve accessibility, security, privacy and performance.

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July 3, 2024 — Testing and automation upgrade your coding skills.

In this presentation, we’ll discover why writing tests saves you time, improves the quality of your code and transforms your development process.

We’ll explore the different types of tests and when to use them, dive into the testing methods embraced by WordPress and Gutenberg, and gain insights from industry standards.

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July 3, 2024 — Contributing to the WordPress project is something most of us love doing, but the financial opportunity to do so is only available to a select few. Financial stress is detrimental to contributors’ mental health and leads to suboptimal contributor churn rates. How can we foster a contribution culture that attracts sponsors to increase the number of sponsored contributor hours, thus improving the mental health and wellbeing of 5 for the Future participants?

July 3, 2024 — In this lightning session Pekka from Seravo introduces efficient methods of administering WordPress on a Linux platform.

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July 3, 2024 — You can search on the frontend and on the backend of WordPress, but this search is … simple.

It is just a full text SQL search. It lacks many features, like highlighting, synonyms, phrase search, etc. And many page builders, even the block editor, create more problems.

The search doesn’t work at all or there are too many “false positive” search results.

Let’s take a deep dive and find out what is broken and how to fix it!

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July 3, 2024 — Ever miss Classic Themes and their hooks and filters when it comes to injecting layout elements and functionality into a Block Theme?

In this session, I will teach you how to use the new Block Hooks API (first introduced in WordPress 6.4) to inject a dynamic block into a position of your choosing within a Block Theme!

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