Sessions

  • Behavior-Driven Development in WordPress with Behat

    Presented by Mauricio Dinarte

    Adding test coverage to your website and applications provides lots of benefits. For example, making sure requirements are met and preventing regressions from happening. One of the many approaches for testing is Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). This can be accomplished in WordPress using a series of tools: Behat, Mink, WordHat, and Selenium. This session is for …

    November 1, 2019 at 9:15 am CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 240)
    45 min. Regular Session

  • Creating an Environment of Innovation

    Presented by Tina Peterson

    Come along as Tina Peterson recounts the journey of the Sprint Accelerator. Learn how and why corporations work with innovative young companies, what’s been learned along the way and why none of this would have been possible without the community. Bonus: If you join this discussion, you might even get magic formula for innovation.  Watch on WordPress.tv

    November 1, 2019 at 9:15 am CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 220)
    30 min. Regular Session

  • WordPress: An Operating System for the Open Web

    Presented by Jonathan Wold

    Jonathan Wold will talk about the history of WordPress, its current state, and its future through the lens of serving as an Operating System for creating on the Open Web. Watch on WordPress.tv

    November 1, 2019 at 9:15 am CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 230)
    45 min. Regular Session

  • Align SEO Efforts with Your Target Market and Today’s Search: Learn How to Perform Keyword Research and Map Them to Content

    Presented by Rebecca Gill

    In this session, we will review what matters in today’s search and explore how this relate to website owners. The session will walk through keyword research, evaluation and selection of keyword phrases, and mapping of preferred keywords to website content. Attendees will receive templates to use throughout the process, as well as checklists for use …

    November 1, 2019 at 10:00 am CDT in Workshop (Room 275)
    90 min. Workshop

  • Automating Your QA with Visual Regression Testing

    Presented by Andrew Taylor

    After running WordPress updates most of us go look at the home page, and other templates, to make sure things are okay. It’s a cumbersome task that, let’s be honest, we probably can do more thoroughly. In this workshop, we will look at how to use visual regression testing, which uses a headless browser to …

    November 1, 2019 at 10:00 am CDT in Workshop (Room 276)
    90 min. Workshop

  • Contributing to Core, No Coding Necessary

    Presented by Jeffrey Paul

    If you, like me, have ever thought “I’m not a developer, how could I realistically contribute to WordPress?”, then think again. Anyone can contribute to WordPress. And yes, that includes you! In this lightning talk I’ll walk you through a couple examples like coordinating component teams, gardening bugs in Trac, and getting videos submitted to …

    November 1, 2019 at 10:00 am CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 240)
    15 min. Lightning Session

  • Grow Your Meetup!

    Presented by Victor Ramirez, Andy McIlwain, and Meagan Hanes

    This workshop will cover how to grow an established meetup and will cover popular main topics: Marketing: Tactics for how to grow your meetup size and how to advertise/attract potential sponsors and other surrounding meetups.Formats & Creative Ideas: What formats and ideas have some meetups successfully used to avoid getting themselves into a “rut”?WordCamps: How …

    November 1, 2019 at 10:00 am CDT in Community (Room 274)

  • How to Perform a Quality UX Audit on a Budget

    Presented by Maddy Osman

    You might love your website — but does your target market? More importantly, are the people you seek to serve actually converting in terms of your website's goals? It's easy to get caught up in bias when it comes to a project that you're closely involved with. One way to get around this involves inviting unbiased …

    November 1, 2019 at 10:00 am CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 230)
    45 min. Regular Session

  • Open Source, Open Process, Open Web

    Presented by Helen Hou-Sandi

    Open source, open process, open web: loaded concepts with a lot of history. Let’s take a look at those histories and discuss how they relate to what we’re all here to talk about – WordPress. How “open” is WordPress, anyway? What makes WordPress open source, how open is the process, and how does the project …

    November 1, 2019 at 10:00 am CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 220)
    45 min. Regular Session

  • Using WordPress to do_action

    Presented by Tess Coughlan-Allen

    Can one day’s work benefit thousands of people in the local community? Yes. For every do_action there is a positive and empowering re_action. Hear the inside scoop about the first do_action day to take place in Europe, a one-day hackathon where we created WordPress sites for 5 non-profits and charities in the South West of …

    November 1, 2019 at 10:15 am CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 240)
    15 min. Lightning Session

  • The Cost of Contribution

    Presented by Alain Schlesser

    Joining such a welcoming and inspiring community as is the WordPress project can be exhilarating and makes people want to contribute their part to join the movement and strengthen their feeling of belonging. The initial enthusiasm can easily lead to contributors slowly spiraling into overcommitment and a feeling of obligation and responsibility towards the project. …

    November 1, 2019 at 10:30 am CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 240)
    15 min. Lightning Session

  • Level Up Your Technical Troubleshooting

    Presented by Ben Meredith

    Do you want to learn how to troubleshoot technical problems on your website faster? Fixing plugin conflicts, theme conflicts, and server problems is not magic (even when it seems like it). With a clearer understanding of how your site works at a technical level, you will be able to resolve issues, isolate bugs, and get …

    November 1, 2019 at 10:45 am CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 240)
    15 min. Lightning Session

  • A Mom, a Lesbian, and an Entrepreneur Walk into a WordCamp

    Presented by Kori Ashton

    It's not the start of a joke. It's me. I'm a mom, lesbian, entrepreneur and I found my community in this industry when I found WordPress. Awareness for inclusion is growing in our culture, but how does a community this size facilitate and cultivate such diversity? How do you cultivate that dynamic in your own …

    November 1, 2019 at 11:00 am CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 230)
    45 min. Regular Session

  • The Power of CSS: Cool Things To Do With Styles

    Presented by David Wolfpaw

    Frontend Developers are trained to work with JavaScript, and to use it to create interactivity on sites. But there are plenty of cool things that you can do with standard HTML and CSS. Whether it's fitting images into boxes, fitting boxes onto screens, or filling screens with beautifully animated user interactions, CSS can have you …

    November 1, 2019 at 11:00 am CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 240)
    15 min. Lightning Session

  • User Personas as an Inclusive Design and Development Tool

    Presented by Carie Fisher

    In this interactive experience, the audience will build empathy and understanding of people with disabilities (PWD) with hands-on activities and simulations. First, we will discuss how people with disabilities use the internet and how we as designers and developers can make websites and apps more inclusive. Once briefed on the ABC’s of accessibility, we’ll delve …

    November 1, 2019 at 11:00 am CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 220)
    45 min. Regular Session

  • The Hierarchy of Needs for High-Performing Websites

    Presented by Steve Persch

    Many web developers must balance many competing priorities. There are always new requests for more functionality, fresh redesigns, and bug fixing. A small web team can feel like they are torn in different directions when they know they need to increase conversions while often struggling just to keep a site up and running. Organizing competing …

    November 1, 2019 at 11:15 am CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 240)
    15 min. Lightning Session

  • Practical Project Management Tips

    Presented by Chris Ford

    Chris Ford, a project manager at Reaktiv Studios, likes to think of the process she's been developing at Reaktiv Studios as "Practical Project Management". Most of Chris' project management experience was learned in the School of Hard Knocks, using trial and error to learn what works (and more importantly what doesn't) through 13 years of …

    November 1, 2019 at 11:30 am CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 240)
    15 min. Lightning Session

  • The Content Framework that Powers Stories, Landing Pages & More

    Presented by Chris Lema

    Imagine if a single framework could be leverages for your stage presentations, sales letters, landing pages, and blog posts? Imagine if you could learn it in ten minutes and apply it for a lifetime. The good news is hundreds of others have already learned it and use it successfully today. And all I need to …

    November 1, 2019 at 11:45 am CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 240)
    15 min. Lightning Session

  • A Tour Through the WordPress Database

    Presented by Julie Kuehl

    WordPress is built on a database, but have you ever taken a look at what’s in it? Come take a stroll through the tables and fields in the WordPress database and learn how they work together to make your site. Watch on WordPress.tv

    November 1, 2019 at 1:00 pm CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 220)
    45 min. Regular Session

  • Brand Messaging 101: How to Clearly Communicate Your Value and Get Clients to Say Yes

    Presented by Jennifer Bourn

    Your brand is your core business asset. It is the reputation you have in the market, the perception your audience has about your business, and the feelings and thoughts they associate with your products or services. With a strong, clear brand, decision-making is easy, your value is clear, and you can charge your worth with …

    November 1, 2019 at 1:00 pm CDT in Workshop (Room 275)
    90 min. Workshop

  • Creating a Welcoming and Diverse Space

    Presented by Jill Binder, Aurooba Ahmed, Allie Nimmons, and David Wolfpaw

    Do you run a WordPress event, but noticed only one type of person is attending? You’d love to have more diversity in your group, but folks are either not showing up – or they attend once and don’t come back. What can you do to foster, promote, and support diversity and an inclusive space? In …

    November 1, 2019 at 1:00 pm CDT in Community (Room 274)

  • How I Built WPBingo: a PWA That Uses Vue.js, Tailwind CSS, and the WP REST API

    Presented by Brian Richards

    Summary:In 2017 made a simple bingo game using Vue.js and the REST API and you can, too! This session provides an excellent primer on working with a new JS framework (Vue.js in this case) and extending the REST API. In 2019 I converted it into a Progressive Web App (PWA). The entire thing is lightning …

    November 1, 2019 at 1:00 pm CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 230)
    45 min. Regular Session

  • Making Your Website Work for Everyone: Accessibility and Inclusive Design

    Presented by Natalie MacLees

    Are people with visual impairment able to use your website? What about people with hearing impairment, mobility issues, or cognitive disabilities? 1 in 5 Americans has a disability of some kind, so it's important to make sure that your website is usable for everyone. An accessible and inclusively designed website respects the civil rights of …

    November 1, 2019 at 1:00 pm CDT in Workshop (Room 276)
    90 min. Workshop

  • WordPress with Friends: What Board Games Teach Us about Creating for the Web

    Presented by Taylor Morgan

    Board games aren't really about winning. They're about shared experiences. You can look at your opponent's brilliant, game-winning move and say, "Wow…that was awesome," because you're actually celebrating how they pushed themselves to think outside the box and overcome a tough challenge. (And besides, next time you'll use their own idea against them.) It doesn't matter …

    November 1, 2019 at 1:00 pm CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 240)
    15 min. Lightning Session

  • Code Like a Writer

    Presented by Alex Ball

    "Code like a writer" seems like a recipe for disaster on its face. But it's actually a helpful way for some of us to approach WordPress development. Many of us in the WordPress community didn’t necessarily start out as programmers or Computer Science grads. But most of us probably did some kind of writing before …

    November 1, 2019 at 1:15 pm CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 240)
    15 min. Lightning Session

  • Thinking remotely through games

    Presented by Tammie Lister

    Thinking and working collaboratively sometimes needs a little spark. Working remotely sometimes seems a hurdle to traditional team games; it doesn't have to be. From easy retrospectives to planning, you’ll get a few tried and tested options to ignite thinking in a remote team. Watch on WordPress.tv

    November 1, 2019 at 1:30 pm CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 240)
    15 min. Lightning Session

  • Securing WordPress in the age of 0-Day Vulnerabilities

    Presented by Rahul Nagare

    Securing WordPress can sometimes feel like a moving target. With 0-day vulnerabilities popping up even in reputed plugins and themes, you can't always 'beat the hackers to the draw'. While exploits target specific versions, strategies used by hackers to attack at scale remain the same. In this talk, We will review common approches used by …

    November 1, 2019 at 1:45 pm CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 240)
    15 min. Lightning Session

  • Privacy: How to Survive aCCPAcalypse 2020

    Presented by Rian Kinney

    We survived GDPRmmagedon and now we’re being warned about aCCPAcalypse 2020 when the California Consumer Privacy Act becomes enforceable on July 1st. Privacy and security are major concerns for consumers and it’s critically important you’re aware of how this law impacts you, your clients, and site users. In addition to the CA Attorney General prosecuting …

    November 1, 2019 at 2:00 pm CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 230)
    45 min. Regular Session

  • Technical SEO Checklist: How to Optimize a WordPress Site for Search Engine Crawlers

    Presented by Pam Aungst

    Tending to the technical side of SEO is crucial to ensure that search engine robots can effectively crawl, index, and understand your site. In this session, attendees will learn how to optimize WordPress sites for important technical SEO best practices. All levels of technical optimizations will be covered from basic to intermediate to advanced, including …

    November 1, 2019 at 2:00 pm CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 220)
    45 min. Regular Session

  • Wrangling Multisite: Tools and Tricks to Tame Your Network

    Presented by Matthew Rodela

    WordPress is an often overlooked gem in the web designer world, but it's a powerful platform that can really help organize and streamline website development. Multisite can be an unwieldy beast if not tamed with the right tools and processes. In this talk I'll be covering: Plugins that can help you manage your network betterWorkflow …

    November 1, 2019 at 2:00 pm CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 240)
    15 min. Lightning Session

  • ROI of UX, How to Assign Money Value to Your Designs

    Presented by Olesya Boreyko

    Design has been synonymous with "making things pretty", more artificial than functional, but the popularity of UX and design thinking has done a lot to break that stereotype in the last few years. One of the ways to evangelize a better user experience to your product owners and managers is to assign money value to …

    November 1, 2019 at 2:30 pm CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 240)
    15 min. Lightning Session

  • Crafting an Effective Bio for Your Website and Social Profiles

    Presented by Bridget Willard

    We have a tendency to write our online biographies as if they are resumes. Even worse is when we write them full of inside jokes or self-deprecating humor.  We do business with people we know, like, and trust. Your online bios need to show your human side. Are you into golf? Let’s talk about it. …

    November 1, 2019 at 3:15 pm CDT in Workshop (Room 275)
    90 min. Workshop

  • Disrupting the Enterprise

    Presented by Nick Gernert

    As the CEO of WordPress VIP, Nick regularly gathers perspectives from analysts on market trends and synthesizes those trends for the enterprise WordPress market. These analysts acknowledge the expansion of WordPress in the enterprise. Fueling this market shift is a prodigious community, which has placed WordPress as a disrupter to the multi-billion dollar growing enterprise …

    November 1, 2019 at 3:15 pm CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 230)
    45 min. Regular Session

  • Everyone Can Help Make WordPress Better – How to Contribute to WordPress

    WordPress is an extremely flexible, powerful tool that millions of people use to do everything from make a living, to pursue their passions, to simply have a voice online and be heard. But possibly the most amazing thing about WordPress is that it's built and supported by a host of volunteers! People who, together, help …

    November 1, 2019 at 3:15 pm CDT in Workshop (Room 276)

  • Running a Successful Contributor Day

    Presented by Ptah Dunbar, Cal Evans, Milana Cap, and Remkus de Vries

    This interactive session and panel features helpful tips from experienced contributor day organizers from both inside and outside the WordPress community. Many WordCamps do not have contributor days or hackathons… many organizers hold back thinking they can't provide a "good enough" experience or maybe their local community isn't "developer focused." There are also camps that …

    November 1, 2019 at 3:15 pm CDT in Community (Room 274)

  • The Hacking Mindset: How Beating WordPress Hackers Taught Me to Overcome Obstacles & Innovate

    Presented by Kathy Zant

    Kathy has helped hundreds of WordPress site owners recover after a hack while working for Wordfence. In this work, she’s seen how far malicious actors will go to take over websites for profit. As WordPress now powers more than one-third of the web, it’s a big target and attracting the attention of more hackers. Learning …

    November 1, 2019 at 3:15 pm CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 220)
    45 min. Regular Session

  • The REST API and Authentication

    Presented by Jonny Harris

    The REST API is a powerful tool but is missing one key feature, authenticated requests. There are many options, on how to solve this problem for your use case. In this talk I will discuss the pros and cons these methods, best use case and pitfalls. Watch on WordPress.tv

    November 1, 2019 at 3:15 pm CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 240)
    45 min. Regular Session

  • Accepting and Applying to Speak at WordCamps

    Presented by Aaron Jorbin, David Bisset, Tessa Kriesel, and Carrie Dils

    This panel and audience discussion will cover (1) how organizers can effectively message, outreach, and select speakers for WordCamps and other events and (2) give practical tips and advice for those applying to speak at future WordCamps (including WordCamp US 2020), outlining expectations and considering some effective best practices. Topics will include:How to write an …

    November 1, 2019 at 4:15 pm CDT in Community (Room 274)

  • How to Leverage Your Online Presence to Get More Clients and Better Job Offers

    Presented by Andrea Zoellner

    We love to tell small business owners that without an online presence, they may as well not exist. But if we get honest about ourselves as professionals in the digital space, are we really doing all that much better? Are we making the most of the tools and strategies available to us to grow our …

    November 1, 2019 at 4:15 pm CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 230)
    45 min. Regular Session

  • Is Something Not Very Usable or Accessible? Change it!

    Presented by Tracy Apps

    WordPress is amazing. It caters to _so_ many people for _so_ many purposes in _so_ many contexts. There is seemingly no limit on what we can create with WordPress! On the flip side, this can be overwhelming to users who just want something simple and easy to use. Free and purchased themes have dozens of …

    November 1, 2019 at 4:15 pm CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 220)
    45 min. Regular Session

  • Using WordPress With Static Site Generators

    Presented by Muhammad Muhsin and Jason Bahl

    Static sites (or JAMstack sites) are all the rage now. In this talk, I want to discuss why you need to consider Static Site Generators like Gatsby. Are they eating up WordPress' market share? How can WordPress stay relevant in this age of Gatsby and other SSGs? I will talk about my personal experiences using …

    November 1, 2019 at 4:15 pm CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 240)
    45 min. Regular Session

  • Everyone Can Help Make WordPress Better – How to Contribute to WordPress

    WordPress is an extremely flexible, powerful tool that millions of people use to do everything from make a living, to pursue their passions, to simply have a voice online and be heard. But possibly the most amazing thing about WordPress is that it’s built and supported by a host of volunteers! People who, together, help …

    November 2, 2019 at 9:00 am CDT in Workshop (Room 276)
    90 min. Workshop

  • Morning Office Yoga: Second Floor Atrium

    Presented by Zac Gordon

    Come join in for some light stretching, breathing and meditation exercises for increased peace, focus and excellence. No mats, special clothes, experience or flexibility is needed. Zac is an experienced yoga instructor who has taught companies at work, practiced yogis in studios and children. The exercises we do will feel good while we are doing …

    November 2, 2019 at 9:00 am CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 220)
    30 min. Pre-Camp Session

  • The Gameshow!

    Come to Room 274 at 9:00am (and be on time!). WordCamp US is pleased to announce it’s first gameshow event! The WP Gameshow will happen on Saturday morning and is open to all attendees. This event is family-friendly and open to all ages – in fact, some of you might have already experienced a previous …

    November 2, 2019 at 9:00 am CDT in Community (Room 274)
    30 min. Pre-Camp Session

  • Feeling Fried? A WordPresser’s Guide to Preventing Burnout

    Presented by Sherry Walling

    You're a WordPress professional. And perhaps you lead other WordPress professionals. You're brilliant on a tight schedule- meeting deadlines with grace and ease. It is your job to keep a bunch of people happy: clients, team members, bosses… other designers, other coders. And what's that, you'd like you have a personal life? I'm guessing you’ve …

    November 2, 2019 at 9:30 am CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 230)
    45 min. Regular Session

  • How the WordPress Community Can Embrace the Next Generation (Talk + Panel)

    Presented by Olivia Bisset, Nathan Ingram, Natalie Bourn, Dina Butcher, Ema DeRosia, and Emily Lema

    Synopsis (Talk): This talk will explore ways the community can be more inclusive to the incoming generation of content creators and developers. Tips will be presented especially for parents and teachers how to incorporate WordPress into their home lives and educational curriculums. How local meetups, WordCamps, and contributor days can be more accommodating and inviting …

    November 2, 2019 at 9:30 am CDT in Community (Room 274)

  • How to Create Your First Business Plan

    Presented by Francesca Marano

    When I started my business in 2011, I didn’t think I needed a business plan. I only needed clients, tons of clients. Even though my title was Web Designer, I took every job that came my way. I made WordPress websites, of course, but also did graphic design, print design, social media management, training — …

    November 2, 2019 at 9:30 am CDT in Workshop (Room 275)
    90 min. Workshop

  • WordPress Automated Updates: A Panel Discussion

    Presented by Mika Epstein, Jake Spurlock, Andrew Nacin, and Jenny Beaumont

    Join an animated discussion on the hot topic of WordPress security and automated updates among longtime WordPress contributors. The panel will review recent conversations in WordPress Core on this issue, and discuss points for and against! What many people agree on:- Having the ability to opt-in to major auto-updates is a good idea- Sites running …

    November 2, 2019 at 9:30 am CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 240)
    45 min. Regular Session

  • Working with WordPress and External APIs

    Presented by Naomi Bush

    Connecting WordPress to the Outside WorldWorking with WordPress and External APIs Do you get asked about how to connect WordPress and [insert service] all the time? Want to build your own stable and secure external API integrations? What makes a good integration? Whether it's for the enterprise (Salesforce, Marketo), payments (Stripe, currencies, taxes), or other …

    November 2, 2019 at 9:30 am CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 220)
    45 min. Regular Session

  • How to Organize Events for Youths (Discussion)

    Presented by Nathan Ingram, Sandy Edwards, Shawn Hooper, and Michele Butcher-Jones

    How to start and effectively run an event for youths. This interactive workshop will cover outreach, child care, possible formats dedicated to youths (both younger and older age groups), and legal considerations (wavers, insurance). We will work through a fast-paced taste of what a youth event can entail. Watch on WordPress.tv

    November 2, 2019 at 10:30 am CDT in Community (Room 274)

  • Just Enough React for WordPress

    Presented by Shannon Smith

    We’re in the middle of the biggest change to the WordPress user experience in several years. It has modernized, streamlined, and simplified content creation. PHP theme and plugin developers are finding themselves needing to transition quickly. Come learn just enough React to take advantage of new features like colour palettes, meta boxes, and reusable blocks. …

    November 2, 2019 at 10:30 am CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 220)
    45 min. Regular Session

  • Responsible Tracking: Learning from Your Users Without Being Creepy

    Presented by Katherine White

    As site owners, it’s impossible for us to serve our users better without knowing a little bit about them — what’s working for them, and what isn’t. There are a number of high-impact but unobtrusive ways to learn more about how users interact with your site and your brand. In fact, you might be surprised …

    November 2, 2019 at 10:30 am CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 240)
    45 min. Regular Session

  • Templates & Plugins & Blocks, Oh My! Designing the Theme that Thinks of Everything

    Presented by Michelle Schulp

    When designing WordPress themes, one of the biggest challenges stems from a core component of WordPress itself: the ability for site owners to change, modify, and build new content themselves. This simple yet powerful capability was a driving force behind the adoption and popularity of WordPress, but theme designers are faced with a difficult task: …

    November 2, 2019 at 10:30 am CDT in Workshop (Room 276)
    90 min. Workshop

  • Unlocking six-figure eCommerce growth with automations

    Presented by Beka Rice

    To automate or not to automate? Is automation impersonal, ineffective, or overdone? Or is it the key to unlocking retention and efficiency? This discussion digs into how automation applies to online stores, and how it can influence sales, processes, and customer relationships — especially when it comes to retention. We’ll also review how to identify …

    November 2, 2019 at 10:30 am CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 230)
    45 min. Regular Session

  • Defining Fast: The Hardest Problem in Performance Engineering

    Presented by Zack Tollman

    We all want fast sites, but what is fast? What is performant? We may know it when we see; yet quantifying and communicating about web performance effectively is still a challenge. In this talk, we will discuss our ever-evolving set of standards for what comprises a fast site, how to measure it, and what to …

    November 2, 2019 at 11:30 am CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 240)
    45 min. Regular Session

  • Design Systems: Crafting For Crafters

    Presented by Jon Quach

    Design systems are so hot right now. And for good reason! They improve collaboration and creation amongst your crafters (designers, developers, product, and marketing alike). Despite popular belief, it’s more than just colors, fonts, buttons, and components – much more. In this session, we’ll learn how to think about design systems to explore how you …

    November 2, 2019 at 11:30 am CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 230)
    45 min. Regular Session

  • From Developer to Manager — How to Survive

    Presented by Brian Thompson

    It's Monday morning and you just got into your work emails, only to find one from your boss asking you to "chat" with him when you have a few free minutes. You've been doing a great job recently, so you're hoping this meeting is the one where your boss showers you with a substantial pay …

    November 2, 2019 at 11:30 am CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 220)
    45 min. Regular Session

  • Unconference!

    Presented by Joe Simpson

    Update: Selected Topics Chris Wiegman, Chris Wiegman and David Johnson – Practical Privacy Protection: How to Keep Your Data SafeChloe Chamberland – Nomadic/Remote WorkingJeff Gamet – How To Get Journalists And Bloggers To Read Your Press ReleaseJohnni Fazio – Learning From Failure Experiences Is there a topic you are itching to discuss but it didn't …

    November 2, 2019 at 11:30 am CDT in Community (Room 274)

  • WebWeWant

    Presented by Helen Hou-Sandi, Alain Schlesser, Rich Tabor, and Carie Fisher

    If you build websites, you inevitably run into problems. Maybe there’s no way to achieve an aspect of your design using CSS. Or maybe there’s a device feature you really wish you could tap into using JavaScript. Or perhaps the in-browser DevTools don’t give you a key insight you need to do your job. We …

    November 2, 2019 at 11:30 am CDT in Workshop (Room 275)
    45 min. Regular Session

  • Confidently Testing WordPress

    Presented by Steve Grunwell

    WordPress is a tightly-coupled system, representing over a decade and a half of ideas, decisions, technological shifts, and ideological struggles. There's a lot of history to be parsed and often the simplest task can have unintended consequences. Meanwhile, automated testing is one of the best ways to ensure software can be released regularly with high …

    November 2, 2019 at 1:30 pm CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 240)
    45 min. Regular Session

  • How to Disagree on the Internet

    Presented by K Adam White

    In distributed companies and global open-source communities alike, diversity makes our teams stronger. But how do we reconcile diverse opinions to move forward productively as a unified team? In this talk I will share prioritization and team management tools I've used as a senior engineer and team lead in a distributed agency-tools that help us …

    November 2, 2019 at 1:30 pm CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 230)
    45 min. Regular Session

  • Organizing a WordCamp While Staying Sane

    Presented by Jenny Wong, Brad Morrison, and Winstina Hughes

    This session will focus on practical tips that attendees can walk away with in the form of a list of tools, software, and techniques. These will be listed in advance online with the URL shared at the beginning for attendees to follow along and not have to write excessive notes. This session will also focus …

    November 2, 2019 at 1:30 pm CDT in Community (Room 274)

  • Structuring Modern WordPress Sites for Scale

    Presented by Chance Strickland

    WordPress as a platform is growing and changing at a pace we haven't seen in quite some time. This evolution presents huge opportunities for taking WordPress and our projects to new heights, but change can be hard to navigate. This workshop will showcase some of the different approaches we might take to building resilient, scalable …

    November 2, 2019 at 1:30 pm CDT in Workshop (Room 275)
    90 min. Workshop

  • The Building Blocks of Building Blocks

    Presented by Rich Tabor

    Let’s dive in and learn how to build Gutenberg blocks for WordPress with Javascript. We’ll explore the foundations of the block development, how to setup a local block development environment and actually build a block or two using the latest techniques, block controls and settings panels. You’ll leave the workshop with a clear understanding of …

    November 2, 2019 at 1:30 pm CDT in Workshop (Room 276)
    90 min. Workshop

  • How to Beat Technical Writer’s Block

    Presented by Carl Alexander

    Alright, so you're a WordPress developer who wants to share his technical expertise with the world. Maybe you want to write on your own blog. Or maybe you want to try to write a guest post for one of the larger WordPress publications. A common hurdle when you start writing (and even when you've been …

    November 2, 2019 at 2:30 pm CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 230)
    45 min. Regular Session

  • Take Back Your Web

    Presented by Tantek Çelik

    We used to control our online identities, content, and experience. We now share Twitter names instead of domains; even web developers tweet and post on Medium instead of their own sites. We scroll social media and feel empty instead of reading news & blogs to feel informed and connected. Algorithmic feeds amplify rage & conspiracies, …

    November 2, 2019 at 2:30 pm CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 240)
    45 min. Regular Session

  • State of the Word

    Presented by Matt Mullenweg

    WordCamp US 2019 will again feature the State of the Word by WordPress co-founder, Matt Mullenweg. In the State of the Word, Matt will share his thoughts on where WordPress has been, where it’s going, and take questions from the audience. Watch Part 1 on WordPress.tv Watch Part 2 on WordPress.tv

    November 2, 2019 at 4:00 pm CDT in Regular Sessions (Room 220)