Track: Workshop 2
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Building dynamic gallery experiences with WordPress Interactivity API
Take your block development skills to the next level! In this hands-on workshop, you’ll build a fully functional, touch-enabled gallery slider using the WordPress Interactivity API (IAPI)—the modern standard for adding dynamic, reactive experiences to WordPress blocks. What You’ll Build: A production-ready gallery slider featuring slide navigation, infinite carousel mode, auto-play, and mobile swipe gestures—all…
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Do you really need an SEO/GEO plugin for WordPress?
Plugins help us in many ways, especially SEO plugins. I’m not a denier, but sometimes we forget that WordPress is there, and that it has lots of native tools and features with an impressive range of things you can do, completely with WordPress, without any plugins, to improve—or even destroy—a website’s SEO and GEO. From…
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HTML API practicum: a deep dive
The HTML API is almost three years old, but continues to evolve with each WordPress release. It’s seen deployment in WordPress’ backend, in Gutenberg, and in many plugins and themes. The HTML API’s core values have even expanded into new pipelines for working with block structure and text encodings, helping to modernise, optimise, and harden…
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Agentic AI & WordPress: from prompts to tools & systems
Prompts chat; Agents act. In this hands-on session, you will move beyond LLMs to build a tool-using AI workflow. We’ll engineer a system that audits a live WordPress site, validates the results, and generates structured tickets. Bring your laptop; leave with a deployment-ready workflow.
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Fireside chat
WordCamp Europe 2026 in Kraków closed with a fireside chat between Mary Hubbard, Executive Director of WordPress, Matías Ventura, lead of the Gutenberg project, and Rich Tabor, a WordPress designer and developer. After a celebration of WordPress in education, including a new WordPress course launching this October at Kraków University of Technology, the three discuss…


