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Imagine not seeing your firstborn until they reach the third grade — missing out on so many experiences. For a portion of our community, that’s how long they’ve been away from Gutenberg/Full Site Editor (FSE), dabbling in premium page builders that don’t support blocks.
In this interactive presentation, we’ll consider the state of WordPress, Full Site Editor, and how new features such as artificial intelligence (AI), the Style Guide, anticipated improvements, and more.
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The Block Developer Cookbook has travelled the world and is finally coming to its home country of Canada to make its debut in Ottawa, Ontario. In this fully interactive workshop, attendees will vote on which recipes to explore, and we’ll work through them together.
Each iteration of this workshop expands with new recipes and content, leveraging the latest features in WordPress, including: Block Bindings API, Plugin Template Registration API, Preview Options API, Interactivity API, New in WordPress 6.8: Performantly loading multiple blocks in a single plugin, Using third-party API data in a custom block, Creating a block variation bound to the post excerpt, Registering a custom post type with its own templatern, Building a dark/light mode toggle that saves to user meta, Developing a gallery slider with the Interactivity API, Using filters and the HTML Tag Processor to extend core blocks, Designing a custom Image block style, Adding a fade-in effect to core blocks, Restricting publishing based on word count, Customizing the @wordpress/scripts build process, Connecting a block to custom fields, Implementing front-end JavaScript for blocks, Using the data layer in a block, Creating a custom format, Working with block transforms, And more.
Join us to expand your block development skills with hands-on guidance and real-world examples.
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Website accessibility can be quite a technical topic. Still, as a content manager, you have a lot of power at your fingertips to make your website’s content accessible to a wide audience without needing any coding skills.
In this workshop, we will go through the simple but impactful ways to improve your website’s accessibility using the WordPress block editor.
Bring your laptop and be ready to roll up your sleeves by editing existing pages and posts while making your website more user-friendly, inclusive, and SEO-optimized. Leave this workshop feeling empowered to audit and improve your entire website with a bonus of a take-home checklist.
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Is AI really coming for development jobs, or can it become your most valuable collaborator? In this live demonstration, we’ll put AI coding assistants to the test by building a functional WordPress plugin from scratch in just 30 minutes. Starting with audience plugin ideas, we’ll showcase a practical development workflow that integrates AI tools like Cursor into traditional WordPress development environments. You’ll witness firsthand how to effectively collaborate with AI to rapidly prototype, debug, and refine plugin features while avoiding common pitfalls.
This session will demonstrate: Creating a structured project plan that sets your AI assistant up for success. Building features incrementally with real-time testing. Troubleshooting issues by feeding relevant documentation to the AI. Practical strategies for overcoming AI limitations, especially with newer WordPress features.
Whether you’re curious about AI’s capabilities, looking to enhance your development workflow, or simply interested in seeing what’s possible, this session will provide valuable insights into the real-world potential and limitations of AI in WordPress development. Come with your plugin ideas, and let’s build something together!
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Real-time sharing of short text messages and links — so-called “microblogging” — is the heart of social networks from LinkedIn to Twitter. But articles and blog posts, with finer details, deeper thought and more analysis, are a crucial part of what the Web is for. In this talk, Evan will go over the role of long-form text on the social web, and how publishers and readers are working together to make a smooth, integrated reading experience happen across sites.
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People talk about the “open social web” but there isn’t a whole lot of web to what they’re doing. WordPress has deep power and is very widely deployed, and of course is a central part of the open web. I felt it just needed a writer-friendly user interface. And that’s what I set out to do with WordLand. I’ll talk about how we got here, and what’s next, and the greater role WordPress can play in the evolving social web.
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In this talk, I’ll reveal the ideal toolset and configurations to achieve top-tier performance with WordPress — including caching strategies, optimization plugins, server setups, and CDNs. We’ll explore how to build a stack tailored for Core Web Vitals, scalability, and ease of maintenance — whether you’re optimizing a WooCommerce store or a high-traffic publishing site. I’ll also share real-world insights from client projects and audits, comparing results from tools like LiteSpeed, Cloudflare APO, Object Cache Pro, and more.
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The landscape of developer education is changing. Every day more code is being written by modern generative AI, with users relying heavily on everything from chatbots to AI-infused IDEs to build new functionality on top of existing platforms like WordPress.
However, LLM-generated code is only as the knowledge it has access to, and performs best when developers give it specific context for each task. So how should plugins and platforms be thinking about their approach to developer documentation when the behaviors of their target audience are shifting so dramatically?
In this session, we’ll uncover the best approach to preparing your documentation for the coding workflows of the future. I’ll pull together insights from around the community, look at the new frontiers like GEO, and evaluate the best practices that are still emerging for developer documentation in the age of AI.
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WordPress provides flexibility, ease of use, customization options, and the ability to integrate with other tools. Whether you’re creating a custom design or using a WordPress theme, you’ll want to make sure your site is accessible and provides a great user experience.
Not sure if your site is accessible? No problem – come prepared to audit your site and learn how to apply some simple fixes to improve the overall accessibility of your site.
Starting with a look at WordPress themes, we will review accessible themes and tips and tricks for making inaccessible themes, more accessible. Using an Accessibility Heuristics methodology, we will walk through the 10 Heuristics principles and introduce manual and automated testing options to determine the accessibility of your WordPress website.
Participants will be given time to assess their site, ask questions, and apply simple fixes. Participants are encouraged to come prepared to audit and remediate a WordPress site. If one is not available, a sample site will be provided.
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