You can search on the frontend and on the backend of WordPress, but this search is … simple. It is just a full text SQL search. It lacks many features, like highlighting, synonyms, phrase search, etc. And many page builders, even the block editor, create more problems. The search doesn’t work at all or there…

Ever miss Classic Themes and their hooks and filters when it comes to injecting layout elements and functionality into a Block Theme? In this session, I will teach you how to use the new Block Hooks API (first introduced in WordPress 6.4) to inject a dynamic block into a position of your choosing within a…

Do you hate writing Regular Expressions to parse HTML? Do you understand why this is generally a bad idea?! There’s new API’s available in WordPress to help you achieve your tasks without writing any REGEX. This lightning talk will introduce you to these API’s and provide real world examples of how you might use these…

The working relationship between SEO and developers is usually a tricky one, which does not help with creating a WordPress website that maximises business results, particularly in international projects. This friction also creates an unhealthy working environment that prevents both teams from achieving objectives in harmony. In many occasions, this lack of collaboration is due…

Get to know what features the WordPress.org repository provides to the community, how the review team is working to make plugin reviews faster and more accurate – with the aim of improving plugin compliance, reliability and security, whilst reducing plugins review backlog. If you ever planned to work on your own plugin or already have…

The ability to create dynamic, interactive content is taken for granted in modern frontends. This talk, tailored for WordPress developers, showcases the culmination of a multi-year effort to make creating interactive web experiences with WordPress delightfully simple. It introduces WordPress developers to the cutting-edge Interactivity API that the team I’m part of has designed and…