June 10, 2025 — News publishers are navigating a complex digital world where balancing innovation with practical, scalable solutions is key to staying competitive. In this session, we’ll explore how Are Media, one of Australia’s largest publishing groups, partnered with XWP to make strategic business and technical choices by leveraging WordPress to rebuild their digital ecosystem, previously on Umbraco. Join Stéphane Boisvert, XWP CTO, as he takes you behind the scenes of how Are Media transitioned their vast network of legacy sites to a modern, scalable WordPress-based enterprise platform. You’ll discover: The decision-making process behind choosing WordPress for large-scale digital publishing. Key benefits of WordPress that empower editorial teams to create, manage, and syndicate content across multiple brands efficiently. How a centralized design system and enterprise platform enhanced Are Media’s user experience, SEO, and ad performance. Real-world insights on overcoming challenges such as content migration from legacy systems, maintaining brand identity across sites, and ensuring platform scalability for future growth. If you’re looking to learn how WordPress can simplify complex content management, boost efficiency across multiple sites, and provide a scalable foundation for future growth in the enterprise publishing space, this session is for you!

October 10, 2024 — In this session we will explore the strategic and technical processes behind migrating Vox Media’s extensive portfolio—including Vox.com, Polygon, and The Verge—from the proprietary Chorus CMS to a headless WordPress multisite. Attendees will learn about creating a new backend editorial workflow, managing extensive data migrations, and developing a custom GraphQL API for Vox’s “Duet” frontend. Key takeaways include methods for customizing CMS to fit specific editorial needs, essential factors for successful large-scale migrations, effective collaboration with internal teams, and ensuring a smooth launch day. This session is ideal for those curious about the complexities of large-scale CMS migrations.

October 8, 2024 — A discussion around issues and challenges that come up when developing multilingual sites in the WordPress ecosystem.  Panelists will present and contrast a handful of available solutions with real-life examples and stories.  Information will be relevant and useful for developers intermediate and above, as well as those leading or interacting with developers.  There will be time dedicated to questions from the audience.

September 15, 2015 — Une introduction a comment écrire du code sécure pour WordPress.
Un apperçu des vulnérabilité les plus commune et comment protéger son code.
Un survol qui inclut:
Bien utiliser les fonctions: esc_url(), esc_html(), esc_attr(), esc_js et wp_json_encode()
Se protéger contres les Injections SQL
Nettoyer des donnés de l’utilisateur
Comment utiliser des nonces
Utiliser Current_user_can pour les permissions d’utilisateurs

Préalables:
Cette conférence est pour les gens qui ont commencé à modifié le code PHP dans les fichiers de leur thème. Elle va vous donner une idée de comment le faire de façon sécure. C’est aussi un bon rappel pour les développeurs intermédiaires et avancés.

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August 17, 2015 — Saviez vous que vous pouviez regarder a votre code en temps réel? Avec un débogeur on peur regarder a n’importe quel variable a n’importe quel temps. On peut aussi pauser le code sur n’importe quel ligne et faire des modifications en temps réel. Dans cette présentation on va découvrir avec l’aide de PHPstorm et Xdebug pourquoi add_action a été appeller. Pourquoi notre fonction retourne la mauvaise valeur et plus!