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Prepare for the EAA in less than 3 weeks
The European Accessibility Act will take effect on 28 June 2025, three weeks from WordCamp EU. If your company sells products or services to consumers in the EU, you likely need to comply to new legislation. You can wait and see what happens, like many did with the GDPR, but you can also make sure…
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Cyber Resilience Act and WordPress – What to expect?
European Union passed Cyber Resilience Act as a law in October 2024. Many plugin and theme authors need to comply with the first obligations by early 2026. In this talk, I will give a deep dive into how Cyber Resilience Act affects the WordPress ecosystem, and what are the practical steps everyone can take to…
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How to make your website more sustainable
ICT worldwide uses up around 8-10% of all energy. That’s more than aviation. Being more conscious in designing and maintaining your website in sustainable way is one of the easiest things you can do to reduce your digital environmental impact. I will talk about green hosting, tooling to estimate the CO2 emissions of your website,…
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Bridging Design and Development: Figma Design Systems for WordPress Success
This session explores how Figma Design Systems can bridge the gap between designers, site builders, and WordPress developers, making theme development and website creation more scalable, efficient, and maintainable. We will showcase real-world applications, including the Novus Media Newspaper Design System, which supports 22 newspaper brands using Figma modes, typography variables, and color systems, all…
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Fireside chat with Mary Hubbard and Matt Mullenweg (Track 1)
Meet Mary Hubbard, the WordPress Executive Director, and Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of the WordPress project, discussing WordPress and its community, followed by an in-person Q&A.
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Composer Best Practices
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.
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QA 101: Caring about quality even when it’s not your job
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…
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Do you really need a custom block?
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.
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From Reactive to Proactive: Modern Observability for WordPress at Scale
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…
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What if we choose accessibility over beauty? My story with epilepsy
Do people really know what it means to live with epilepsy? Or do they think it’s just about seizures and loss of consciousness? I’ve been asking myself this question since 2008, when I was diagnosed with epilepsy. What does it really mean to be on the web with this condition? It’s not just about seizures—it’s…
Track: Track 2 (Singapore)
Took place in Basel, Switzerland (5 – 7 June 2025)