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  • Content managers: let’s make your website accessible

    Sasha Endoh Avatar
    Sasha Endoh

    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.

  • Beyond Microblogging: WordPress Leads the Way in Long-form Text on the Social Web

    Troy Chaplin Avatar
    Troy Chaplin

    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.

  • WordPress and the open social web

    Dave Winer Avatar
    Dave Winer

    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.

  • The Ultimate WordPress Performance Stack: Tools, Tactics & Tradeoffs

    Daniel Paz Avatar
    Daniel Paz

    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.

  • Developer Documentation in the Age of AI

    Brian Coords Avatar
    Brian Coords

    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.

  • Audit and remediate a WordPress site for accessibility.

    Jennifer Curry Jahnke Avatar
    Jennifer Curry Jahnke

    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.