April 10, 2024 — From its initial release back in 2018, the Site Editor has had its fair share of growing pains as users adjusted to the change. Recently, WordPress has made significant strides in improving its page-building experience and has tremendously grown since its inception. The shift from the Classic Editor to the Site Editor has provided users a more visual design process that enables them to design fully functional web pages similar with how they would typically achieve it with any other third-party page builder.

While the Site Editor has been continuously enhanced with great improvements, there are still a number of users that have trouble streamlining their workflow and getting the most out of the Site Editor. In this talk, I’ll be demonstrating how one can achieve an efficient workflow from start to finish and providing a fresh take on how to unlock the full power of what the default WordPress Editor offers.

April 10, 2024 — Once upon a time there was a legacy CMS causing their website owners all sorts of trouble! The owners wanted to move their blogs and data to WordPress, but they didn’t know where to start. They were worried that all of their data would be trapped forever. Along came a crafty WordPress developer and database wizard, and with the help of her SQL & Excel magic she freed them from the clutches of their old CMS.

April 10, 2024 — INP (Interaction to Next Paint) is a new Core Web Vital that measures interactivity by seeing how long it takes for a page to give visual feedback in response to user input. By capturing the worst of these interactions, the INP metrics helps developers understand and debug resources that are contributing to a poor user experience.

The INP metric is already built into a wide variety of testing tools including Web Page Test and Lighthouse. As a WordPress site, plugin or theme developer, it is important to understand what INP is and how you can leverage it to improve the user experience your site or product delivers.

In this talk, we will discuss:

– What INP measures exactly and what poor experiences it helps capture
– How to measure your site’s INP – RUM & lab data
– How to improve your site’s INP – top culprits
– INP best practices for WordPress developers

By the end of this talk, you will have a good understanding of INP and how you can improve your user’s experience by improving your INP!

April 10, 2024 — The work we do in DEIB (diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging) in the tech community, and WordPress specifically, matters a great deal.

Imagine making unilateral decisions on global projects from only one point of view. This effectively disengages users, customers, clients, and community. The decisions we make about how products, software, services, and community operate must take into consideration how people from every part of the world – including underrepresented groups – will use them and be involved.

From making sure our venues are wheelchair accessible, to making sure our websites are accessible to users of different disabilities and languages, to making sure our community is accessible to all people inclusive of race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, physical ability, nationality, socio-economic status, religious beliefs, and any other characteristics that are a part of our identity and humanness matters. It matters a lot.

How we do the work to achieve this is allyship. And it’s worth it.

This session will present some history of how we’ve gotten where we are, the work that’s currently in place, what might be on the horizon, and how each and every one of us can (and should) advocate for representation and inclusion.

April 10, 2024 — This session is tailored for developers, website owners, content writers, and SEO beginners, filled with practical tips and strategies that you can immediately apply to outshine your competitors. Walk away with the knowledge and confidence to elevate your webpage’s ranking on Google efficiently and effectively:

– Discover simple yet powerful technical tweaks that can drastically improve your site’s SEO.
– Learn how to enhance your webpage’s relevance and searchability by making your content more understandable to search engines, as well as helpful for your audience.

April 10, 2024 — This talk is intended to be the inspiration for people who is/want to develop with WordPress. It will be about various ways I have made multiple income streams as WordPress developers in the past years, up until now.

The ways I used in the past includes:

– Selling WordPress plugin extensions
– Selling WordPress plugins
– Freelancing WordPress projects
– Work as technical project manager, with other WordPress designers & developers to deliver WordPress projects
– Create sales pages with WordPress for other digital products e.g. e-books, online course, conference

April 10, 2024 — In the last 12 months, since WordCamp Asia Bangkok, tangible artificial intelligence has become mainstream. For example, Large Language Models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT have become the fastest growing web applications in history. But these models have mostly been developed and trained by large technology companies using proprietary datasets they’ve scooped up from the Internet. As an individual user, you have no way of knowing how much of that data is yours, and you have no way of controlling it either once it’s been ingested. Thankfully there are more and more open models becoming more widespread that you can use yourself.

This talk will give a brief introduction on the current state of AI, what LLMs are, how you can integrate existing LLMs into your own WordPress site, and lastly, for the adventurous, how you can train your own to give more specific results, more control of your own data and tell the other bots to go away.

April 10, 2024 — When was the last time you tested code in production? Your own website doesn’t count.

WP-CLI for PHP developers is the sequel of WordPress through the Terminal talk, focusing on a set of commands and tools useful for PHP developers.

This is not just a live demo of WP-CLI commands. This is zooming out and seeing WP-CLI in collaboration with other tools in the context of PHP developer needs and everyday tasks. We’ll probably release the Kraken as well.

April 10, 2024 — Have you ever used a website or an app that was so frustrating to use that you just gave up? Or maybe you’ve used one that was so well-designed that you couldn’t help but grin and sing its praises. What made the difference between these two experiences?

In this presentation, we’ll talk about why it’s important to design digital experiences with purpose. We’ll cover the key principles of intentional design and how you can use them to create experiences that are both user-friendly and effective. We’ll also look at some examples of successful intentional design and discuss how you can apply them to your own work.

April 10, 2024 — Public speaking is a universal fear. If you’ve ever wished to speak to an audience, or improve your presentation and public speaking skills, this session will put you on a fast track to success.

Here, we’ll tackle a range of common concerns:

– How to deal with anxiety and butterflies?
– How to craft stories people love?
– How to avoid being a lousy speaker?
– Should you move around on stage?

You will learn these and many other secrets:

– The 1.1.1.1 rule
– What to do when you goof up
– Dealing with all the um’s and ah’s and other filler words
– Classic mistakes you will catch 90% speakers make (but you shouldn’t)

While you won’t emerge as a naturally charismatic on-stage orator in this short span, you will shatter your biggest fears, paving the way for your stage debut. For those with prior stage experience, expect a significant boost in power and effectiveness during your next appearance.

Noteworthy bonus: Brace yourself for an exceptionally interesting session! Make sure you attend it!

Join us and transform your approach to public speaking.