Category: Development

WordPress has long been criticized for being insecure. Some of this comes from prior versions of PHP having security issues, some of it comes from user configuration errors, and some of it comes from WordPress itself. In addition, WordPress does not specify any differences between regular theme and plugin updates and security updates. This means…

Fresh from its appearance at WordCamp Asia 2025 in Manila, the Block Developer Cookbook is making its European debut at WCEU in Basel. 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…

We will cover some Composer basics to get started and then dive into best practices of dependency management. Learn more about software supply chains, how Composer, packagist.org and Private Packagist come into it and which role PHP dependencies play.

Discover how to transform WordPress Playground into a powerful demonstration tool for your plugins and themes. This practical session will guide you through creating pre-configured blueprints that let potential customers experience your products in a real-world environment. You’ll learn how to craft the perfect demo environment by configuring essential settings, populating it with relevant content,…

Quality Assurance isn’t just for testers—it’s for everyone who touches a product. Whether you’re a developer, product owner, or project manager, the quality of your work impacts the user experience, support burden, and long-term success of your project. In this session, we’ll explore how to make QA a mindset, integrate quality at every stage of…

There are a lot of custom blocks out there that really don’t need to exist. Learning when to use custom blocks, and when to extend core blocks will make all the difference when it comes to benefitting from core updates, and reducing lock-in to specific plugins and block libraries.

It works on my machine’, ‘We can’t test that in staging’, ‘It seems to have been broken for a while’… This sounds familiar to many of us, and this is what I want to fix with this talk! I will share practical ways to approach observability in WordPress, and move beyond logs to investigate and…

The WordPress Speed Build Challenge is a fun live challenge, where two people battle it out against the clock and each other to replicate a website design in just 30 minutes. Check out previous speed builds.