Speakers: Stuart Shields

  • From 25 Million to 45 Million Views: Technical Strategies That Fueled RecipeTin Eats’ Growth

    WordCamp Asia 2025Speakers: Stuart Shields, Shipra Sood

    June 10, 2025 — Learn the technical strategies that powered RecipeTin Eats’ growth from 25 million to 45 million monthly views. We’ll cover key decisions around managing tech debt, building new features, and implementing visual regression testing. Discover how these practices can be applied to your own site to optimize performance, improve user experience, and scale effectively. This talk offers practical insights for developers and site owners looking to implement technical improvements for sustained growth.

  • How We Grew and Optimized RecipeTin Eats to Reach 45 Million Monthly Views (from 25M)

    WordCamp US 2024Speakers: Jon Ang, Stuart Shields

    October 12, 2024 — The team at Human Made inherited an authentic, content-focused website, but it wasn’t built to enterprise standards. They stepped in to make sure that the old worked seamlessly with the new.

    Although WordPress is great for content creation if users like the block editor,
    enterprise sites need far more than its out-of-the-box features. But this doesn’t have to mean building a new site from scratch. The audience will gain an understanding of the key building blocks necessary for a highly performant, high-traffic website.

    Hear the Human Made team discuss what it is like to have the client, agency and hosting work as equal partners, as well as Tailwind, Custom Blocks, Continuous Integration Tools, Visual Regression Testing, Efficient JS and CSS Load, and migrating to a capable enterprise Cloud solution.
    This talk will help the audience understand how to keep a legacy site running while incorporating new technologies, and how this influences a very efficient use of budget.

  • Stuart Shields & Tarei King: Throw away the commute: Stories of two remote workers.

    WordCamp Brisbane 2017Speakers: Stuart Shields, Tarei King

    August 9, 2018 — Remote working often conjures images of beaches, laptops and cocktails, but for some – remote working can be as simple as swapping the office, for a space at home.

    Stuart and Tarei discuss some of changes, challenges and benefits when working from home as WordPress engineers for a distributed WordPress agency.

    These discussions are for the freelancers, remote workers, digital nomads, misfits and those who are interested in potentially making the move to remote working.