Category: Development

WordPress is a powerful platform for building websites of all shapes and sizes. To truly thrive, WordPress is embracing the latest advancements in web technology. This talk will explore how developers and site owners can leverage cutting-edge web platform capabilities to create next-generation WordPress experiences. This talk will explore the world of modern web APIs…

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.

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.