April 10, 2024 — The WordPress Training Team recognizes the need for a clear, structured, and user-friendly approach to presenting Learn WordPress content. As a result, we aim to deploy an improved Learn WordPress website experience that provides an easy-to-navigate, goal-oriented learning environment that caters to learners of different roles and skill levels. In this talk I would like to talk about the Learning Pathways Project and also send out a call for volunteers to help support the project.

This project will serve as a foundational start, establishing a framework and functionality that will allow for the expansion and growth of the learning system over time. To meet our objective, this project includes a website redesign that offers clear learning pathways to reach target Learners such as Developers, End Users, and Designers. We will also focus on making relevant content easier to find and the inclusion of a framework that classifies content by skill level. We believe this will enhance user engagement, improve learning outcomes, and increase user adoption of Learn WordPress resources.

The Training Team hopes that this project will help us better serve the wider WordPress community by promoting knowledge transfer and ensuring a thriving community with diverse skills and abilities.

April 10, 2024 — As we embrace multiple AI tools as we saw with the launch and storm of ChapGPT, Midjourney and plenty of others, as users we also need to be aware of possible legal implications, including data protection, and governance compliance. Other matters of interest includes intellectual property and how to best safeguard your interests as users.

April 9, 2024 — Join me on a journey of exploration within the WordPress community as we uncover the qualities and practices that underlie impactful collaborations. Drawing from both data and the real-life stories of WordPress contributors, we’ll dive into the essence of meaningful contributions.

This session isn’t just about gaining insights into the current state of WordPress contribution; it’s about going deeper. We’ll illuminate a broader understanding of how these insights can nurture impactful interactions in various collaborative settings.

By the end of our time together, you’ll walk away with actionable strategies to enrich your collaborative efforts, whether they’re in the realms of work, community projects, or personal situations. This is an opportunity to broaden your horizons and harness the wisdom of WordPress contributors to make a difference that extends far beyond the WordPress community.

April 9, 2024 — Witness the convergence of WordPress and enterprise innovation, where digital frontiers are pushed and customer experiences soar to new heights!

WordPress, a powerful open-source platform, offers enterprise companies a unique opportunity to enhance their agility and deliver exceptional digital experiences for their customers. This panel discussion will focus on strategies for fostering greater enterprise adoption of WordPress, thereby unlocking investments that can fuel ecosystem growth. By addressing barriers, identifying opportunities, and outlining future steps, the panel will contribute to closing the gap between WordPress’s platform potential and the needs of enterprise customers. This, in turn, will create a virtuous cycle of growth for the WordPress community and enterprise WordPress as a whole.

April 9, 2024 — The plugin review team handles hundreds of new plugin submissions every week. 90% of those plugins fall foul of the same mistakes, time and time again. In this talk we’ll walk through the most common pitfalls, so that your plugin submission goes as smoothly as possible.

April 9, 2024 — WordPress is made of blocks, but that’s just the start. The system starts with blocks, that combine to form patterns, template parts, templates and then styling unites everything. This evolution is growing in pace and even more critical to understand not just for those creating designs, but those even looking to extend the interface and components.

Blocks, patterns, templates and styles are the elements of WordPress. What does that mean today? How can you take that knowledge and use it? What does it mean for the concept of themes or the experience of using WordPress itself? In this talk let’s explore a little the history to give context, the present and then the future of the elements of WordPress.

April 9, 2024 — Website accessibility is often the last thing we think about when creating a website, and sometimes it is not considered at all, but it is more than just ticking a box for compliance.

Studies show one in six people in the Asia-Pacific region lives with disability, and that this is likely to increase, so it is vitally important we are taking steps to give maximum accessibility to our web presence.

Come with me on a journey to discover why it is important to build accessible websites, when you should be implementing and thinking about it, and how to engage best practices going forward to make sure as many people as possible can see, interact and enjoy the beautiful sites you create.

April 9, 2024 — This would be a tale of a one-year journey to bring the power of AI assistants to WordPress site builders and owners, focusing on helping them become better at what they are passionate about.

Many raise concerns about AI-generated content potentially eroding the fabric of the web.

Instead, I want to offer the tale of an optimistic approach, where Ai removes all the tedious parts of our work so we can hone our craft and become better designers, better developers, and better writers.

April 9, 2024 — Do you get an aggressive, dismissive or defensive reaction from your design or development colleagues, your marketing department, your managers, or even from your full-service advertising agency as soon as you start talking about accessibility? Want to learn how to counter and motivate? Come to my talk, and you will go home with some great techniques and tactics to turn them around!

This talk is aimed at anyone already working in digital accessibility, in a leading / inspiring role. It’s a peer to peer boost, so to speak.

One of the worst things that can happen to people in creative professions is for them to feel castrated in their creativity, their tools, and their toys. Whether it’s in graphic design, content or code, it results in unproductive resentment.

But the reality is that it’s really not the rules and guidelines for digital accessibility that cause the resentment. It’s the assumptions and misconceptions around it.

In this session, I will share how I guide and inspire designers, developers, and content creators to want to rock accessibility.

Take aways:
1. You will take home some smashing analogies that will help you to win over your colleagues.
2. You will know how to calculate and present the hidden / unexpected and usually substantial financial consequences to stake holders who are financially driven.
3. You will get a list of ways to talk to your peers all over the world about this topic.

April 9, 2024 — In the whirlwind of our hyperconnected society, we’ve all been there – the incessant Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) that lures us into adding one more Slack channel, diving into yet another online discussion, or racing to attend one more event, all in the quest to catch that elusive something important or thrilling.

But what if we could flip the script and turn FOMO into the empowering Joy of Missing Out (JOMO)? Imagine a life where you relish moments of solitude, prioritize genuine connections, and savor the present without being tethered to the never-ending pursuit of the “next big thing.”

Join me in this whirlwind 10-minute journey at WordCamp as we unravel the FOMO-JOMO phenomenon in the context of remote work and beyond. Discover practical tips and strategies to strike the right balance between staying informed and finding tranquility in the digital chaos.

The talking points will be in this direction:

– Our community culture is often centered around FOMO (fear of missing out)
– FOMO is often not sustainable – we have limited time in our lives and need to prioritize.
– Create space to focus on what really matters to you by switching to JOMO (joy of missing out)
– What do you want to prioritize in your life? How do you figure that out?