November 20, 2025 — When the web was born there were file servers and HTML.

Today, the web is a complicated ecosystem of multiple formats from multiple sources where content has outgrown individual files into a diverse aggregation of related pieces and API interactions. Publishing, sharing, repackaging, exporting, and analyzing this content is non-trivial; placing heavy demands on any interoperable system.

WordPress has been evolving as well, thankfully. It’s becoming faster, more reliable, growing in support for web standards, learning about the Fediverse, finding its way into new environments, and doing all of this while continuing to run on the most basic commodity hosting. WordPress continues to democratize publishing, and does so against the backdrop of the ever-disappearing Internet of centralized proprietary platforms.

In this talk we’ll take a tour of some of these exciting developments and discuss WordPress’ role as an open model for preserving, sharing, and liberating data. We’ll discuss how leaning into web standards makes that happen, and how WordPress can take an active role in lifting up other platforms. Finally, we’ll consider reasons we might want to preserve the health of the open web, and why the greatest collection of shared human knowledge is more at risk today than it ever has been.

Attendees need no technical background for this hopefully-inspiring talk, though technical specifics will be discussed in mostly-illustrative contexts.

Webが誕生した当時は、ファイルサーバーとHTMLしかありませんでした。

今日のWebは、複数のソースから複数のフォーマットが混在する複雑なエコシステムであり、コンテンツは個々のファイルを超えて、関連する要素とAPIの相互作用が複雑に絡み合った集合体へと成長しています。こうしたコンテンツの公開、共有、再パッケージ化、エクスポート、そして分析は容易ではなく、相互運用可能なシステムには大きな負担がかかっています。

ありがたいことに、WordPressも進化を続けています。高速化、信頼性の向上、Web標準への対応強化、Fediverseの学習、新しい環境への進出など、これらすべてを最も基本的なコモディティホスティング上で実現しています。WordPressは、中央集権的な独自プラットフォームのインターネットが消滅しつつある中で、パブリッシングの民主化を進めています。

この講演では、こうしたエキサイティングな開発のいくつかを巡り、データの保存、共有、そして解放のためのオープンモデルとしてのWordPressの役割について議論します。ウェブ標準への準拠がどのようにそれを実現するのか、そしてWordPressが他のプラットフォームの向上にどのように貢献できるのかについて議論します。最後に、オープンウェブの健全性を維持すべき理由、そして人類が共有する最大の知識の集積が、なぜかつてないほど今日危険にさらされているのかについて考察します。

この刺激的な講演には技術的な背景知識は必要ありませんが、技術的な詳細は主に説明的な文脈で議論されます。

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November 20, 2025 — In this hands-on session, we’ll use a lightweight starter block theme and AI site-building tools to create a fully editable WooCommerce store design that you can refine directly in the WordPress editor.

You’ll see a complete, step-by-step walkthrough: configuring the starter theme, defining global styles and crafting your pages with the help of AI.

By the end of the talk, you’ll understand how the flexibility of block themes and the power of AI can combine to streamline your WooCommerce store design workflow from start to finish.

このハンズオンセッションでは、軽量なスターターブロックテーマとAIサイト構築ツールを用いて、WordPressエディターで直接微調整できる、完全に編集可能なWooCommerceストアデザインを作成します。

スターターテーマの設定、グローバルスタイルの定義、AIを活用したページの作成まで、ステップバイステップで詳細なチュートリアルをご覧いただけます。

セッションの最後には、ブロックテーマの柔軟性とAIのパワーを組み合わせることで、WooCommerceストアのデザインワークフローを最初から最後まで効率化できることを理解していただけるでしょう。

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November 20, 2025 — WordPress security has long been dominated by vulnerability scanning and manual patching. But what if we could take it a step further by using open-source large language models not just to detect threats, but to orchestrate full security workflows, from intelligent threat correlation to automated incident response? Modern malicious attackers are launching sophisticated, multi-vector attacks that can compromise hundreds of WordPress sites in minutes. n this evolving landscape, speed, context-awareness, and automation are critical — and that’s where open-source LLMs comes in.

In this session, we’ll explore how community-driven AI models like LLaMA, Mistral, or Gemma can be integrated into WordPress security tooling. You’ll learn how to use them to detect anomalies in plugin behavior, generate security playbooks on the fly and automate patching. The three key takeaways from this talk would be:

Learn how to integrate open-source LLMs into your WordPress stack to detect vulnerabilities, understand plugin behavior, and automate threat response.
Discover how to build self-generating security workflows using lightweight orchestration tools and open-source models.
Discover how to build and deploy automated security workflows using AI agents.
WordPressのセキュリティ対策は、これまで脆弱性スキャンと手動パッチ適用が主流でした。しかし、オープンソースの大規模言語モデル（LLM）を活用して脅威の検出だけでなく、インテリジェントな脅威相関分析から自動インシデント対応まで、セキュリティワークフロー全体をオーケストレーションできるとしたらどうでしょうか？

現代の悪意ある攻撃者は、数百ものWordPressサイトを数分で侵害できる、高度で多元的な攻撃を仕掛けてきます。このように進化する環境において、スピード、コンテキスト認識、そして自動化は極めて重要であり、まさにオープンソースのLLMが活躍する場です。

このセッションでは、LLaMA、Mistral、Gemmaといったコミュニティ主導のAIモデルをWordPressセキュリティツールに統合する方法を探ります。これらのモデルを用いて、プラグインの動作における異常を検知し、セキュリティプレイブックをリアルタイムで生成し、パッチ適用を自動化する方法を学びます。この講演の3つの重要なポイントは以下のとおりです。

オープンソースのLLMをWordPressスタックに統合し、脆弱性を検出し、プラグインの動作を理解し、脅威への対応を自動化する方法を学ぶ。
軽量オーケストレーションツールとオープンソースモデルを使用して、自己生成型セキュリティワークフローを構築する方法を学びます。
AIエージェントを使用して自動化されたセキュリティワークフローを構築および展開する方法を学びます。

November 18, 2025 — Working With 50 Countries
Presented byJill Binder
What happens when you have a local WordPress workshop in Vancouver and scale it to the whole global WordPress community? The human factor. It turns out scaling to a much larger community has a lot more to do with people than it does with systems.

In this candid and personal talk, Jill shares the stories of 10 lessons learned over 5 years while facilitating WordPress public speaking workshops for 50 countries.

These aren’t lessons from textbooks. They’re hard-earned insights gained from real-world experience and real interactions. Mixing humour and gravity, Jill tells about the triumphs and missteps of being a polite Canadian navigating culture, identity, language, and emotion on the global stage alongside real people with real challenges and very real hearts.

You’ll leave with practical insights and surprising truths about collaborating thoughtfully across cultures and handling the unexpected in any community. Learn about popcorn words, poster conundrums, and how to say “Sorry, eh” in a global way.

November 18, 2025 — This session explores effective strategies to combat fake registrations without creating hurdles for legitimate users. We’ll discuss fraud detection techniques, behavior analytics, and actionable insights to balance security and seamless user experience.

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November 18, 2025 — WordPress 6.9 is just around the corner, so now is a great time to start digging into the new developer focused updates coming in the next release.

In the first of two scheduled sessions we will cover

Updates to DataViews and DataForm
Introducing the Abilities API

Join us as we dive into these new updates with live demos and code examples. We’ll wrap up with a Q&A session, so feel free to bring your questions and ideas.

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November 17, 2025 — We will explore during the talk how WordPress cultivates future leaders through initiatives like WordPress Campus Connect and WordPress Credits, aligning educational institutions with the collaborative values that sustain open source. We’ll look at how open source leadership can scale sustainably, how community and company interests align, and how education ensures the next generation keeps the web open.

November 17, 2025 — AI has been the buzzword echoing across the tech world for the past few years. Its capabilities can look revolutionary, sometimes even giving the impression that everything we know is outdated and we should just give up… But is that really the case? In this panel, we will explore the impact of AI from a programmer’s perspective and discuss what it truly means for the future of WordPress.

November 17, 2025 — This session dives deep into WordPress’s often-underestimated power and scalability from a Tech Lead’s perspective. It challenges the common misconceptions surrounding WordPress and showcases its potential to handle complex, high-traffic projects for top-tier brands. I’ll share my personal journey of building a successful WordPress development team from the ground up, detailing the challenges and triumphs. Ultimately, the session aims to reposition WordPress not just as a viable option but as a leading technology choice for modern web development.

November 17, 2025 — Overlays promise quick accessibility fixes—but do they deliver? This session compares popular overlay tools using multiple evaluation methods, with a strong emphasis on thorough manual testing. We’ll look at what these products actually address, where they fall short, and how they align with standards.