Track: Workshop 1
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WordPress for scientists: building engineering websites at CERN
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How do you scale WordPress across multiple teams without losing consistency or control? This talk shares lessons from building and maintaining eight WordPress websites for a large scientific organisation, focusing on workflow, governance and long-term sustainability.
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How to make toast
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Learn how to break down complex work into clear, workable steps through a hands on, playful workshop. Using simple activities that reveal how processes really form, you’ll discover practical ways to build systems that support your agency, plugin, or freelance projects. You’ll leave with a repeatable method you can use anytime you need clarity, alignment,…
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WordPress ROI map: engineering business value with BMC
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Understand your client’s Business Model Canvas (BMC) to deliver impactful value and solve their core problems. This session introduces the BMC as a ‘translation layer,’ helping developers shift from building features to engineering business value. Learn how to uncover hidden client needs and communicate the value of WordPress solutions.
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Get your plugin ready for submission to the directory
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You’ve spent weeks coding the perfect plugin, and you’re finally ready to share it with the WordPress community. You hit “submit,” wait, and then… the team’s volunteers point out a lot of issues you didn’t even know you were causing. Getting your plugin into the official directory doesn’t have to be a trial by fire.…
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Build your developer portfolio: a hands-on guide to FSE
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Full Site Editing isn’t just for DIY users—it is a powerful architectural tool for professionals. Join this workshop to master the lifecycle of a modern Block Theme. We will build a portfolio site to showcase your work, focusing on three core skills: scaffolding with the Create Block Theme plugin, configuring design systems via theme.json, and…
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Build your first AI-powered WordPress plugin
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So you’ve heard about the WordPress Core AI projects. Maybe you’ve read the blog posts, skimmed the GitHub repositories, or watched a talk about what’s coming. But there’s a massive difference between understanding something conceptually and actually building with it. If that’s the case, then this workshop is for you. In this workshop, you’ll learn…
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50 shades of cache: a WooCommerce deep dive
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Caching in WooCommerce isn’t one thing p it’s fifty. In this hands-on workshop, we demystify the full spectrum of WordPress and WooCommerce caching layers: OPcache, server-level cache, page/HTML cache, object cache, and WooCommerce-specific caching quirks. No theory for theory’s sake – we’ll walk through real examples, debug common cache misses, and show live demos of…