Not every project needs custom developed blocks to provide a great block editor experience for your clients and their use cases. You also don’t need to be a JavaScript wiz to make adjustments to the WordPress core experience. It certainly helps, you can grow gradually into it. In this talk, we’ll discuss tools and methods…

Editorial styling has made significant progress since Snowfall, which inspired Gutenberg. With the evolutions, you can automatically generate styles considering content, mood, or data input. As a result, it has become more sophisticated and accessible, truly generative. We’ll review the past looking at generative art and upcoming AI technology, and then explore current tool availability. Discover…

Are you facing aggressive, resistant, or defensive reactions from your design or development colleagues, your marketing department, your managers, or even your full-service advertising agency as soon as you start talking about accessibility? Do you want to learn how to counter and motivate them? Join my talk, and you’ll leave with some fantastic techniques and…

Looking at websites over the past decades, performance is becoming more and more crucial. But still, it’s treated as a “nice to have” or “add-on” late in the development process of a website. What if we would integrate performance into our workflows so we don’t have to worry about it when we’re already done developing?…

In the evolving landscape of the WordPress industry, striking a balance between the cost of open-source contribution, business involvement, and the sustainability of WordCamps has become a critical necessity. In this talk, we’ll take an honest look at the issues at hand. We’ll explore the ‚costs‘ and ‚returns‘ of open-source contribution at the individual level.…

This talk is meant to be an advanced deep dive into how we can extend the block editor to fit our needs for highly customized WordPress builds in 2023. It will go into details how to build custom blocks that interface with the query loop, using block variations, theme.json filters and much more.

WooCommerce offers great performance for most use cases out of the box, but it can struggle with managing lots of products and orders. We will take a look at how to tackle these scaling limitations of WooCommerce and see a demonstrator shop with over a million products and orders, using the new HPOS feature as…

Picture this: you’re leading a team, and change is barreling toward you like a freight train. You might be tempted to run for the hills, but hold onto your hats because change isn’t just an inevitable part of business; it’s an exhilarating opportunity for growth. In this electrifying talk, we’re going to unpack the game-changing…