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Reach for the Sky: A Magical Transformation with Gutenberg
In late 2023, Disney Experiences unveiled Disney Connect, a spellbinding multi-site communication platform that transformed our segment’s public affairs and public relations content. We will discuss how we sprinkled pixie dust on Gutenberg, weaving together 50+ captivating pre-designed blocks for Gutenberg that capture the essence of our Disney magic, creating…
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Democratizing Accessibility: Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker
Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker is an accessibility testing plugin that scans pages and posts for accessibility problems and puts reports in the WordPress admin. It was a winner of a 2023 Gaady award for its innovative approach to improving accessibility (fellow winners were Unilever and Studio 24), and is used…
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Unlocking the Digital Evolution: Navigating the Gutenberg Era
In this technical workshop, we’ll explore Disney’s comprehensive strategy for leveraging Gutenberg to modernize our diverse platforms. Join us as we delve into the distinctive methods we employ, our overarching strategy, and how Gutenberg is instrumental in refining our websites for enhanced performance and user experience.
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Deeply Integrating AI with WordPress
In this showcase, James LePage, founder of WPAI, will dive into AgentWP, an AI agent built for WordPress. AgentWP functions as an expert AI assistant for individual user websites, performing tasks like writing blog posts, creating reports, and troubleshooting issues. James will explain the underlying systems enabling safe AI/WordPress interactions. He’ll demonstrate…
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The Power of Extending the WordPress Editor: A Block Visibility Showcase
Block Visibility allows users to conditionally display the content of any WordPress block according to various conditions, such as date, user permissions, location, and screen size. With over 20,000 active installs, the plugin integrates seamlessly with the WordPress Editor and has become an essential tool for building block-based WordPress sites.…
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How We Grew and Optimized RecipeTin Eats to Reach 45 Million Monthly Views (from 25M)
The team at Human Made inherited an authentic, content-focused website, but it wasn’t built to enterprise standards. They stepped in to make sure that the old worked seamlessly with the new. Although WordPress is great for content creation if users like the block editor,enterprise sites need far more than its…
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The News Never Sleeps: How WordPress Powers The New York Post
Discover how The New York Post harnesses the power of WordPress to deliver nonstop news to its readers. Linnea will showcase the use of Gutenberg blocks for the homepage and landing pages, allowing for real-time updates and customization. She’ll also dive into other block-based features including shopping modules, newsletter sign…
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Reinventing Vox Media’s CMS: A WordPress Migration Journey
In this session we will explore the strategic and technical processes behind migrating Vox Media’s extensive portfolio—including Vox.com, Polygon, and The Verge—from the proprietary Chorus CMS to a headless WordPress multisite. Attendees will learn about creating a new backend editorial workflow, managing extensive data migrations, and developing a custom GraphQL…
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Open Source Link Management for Modern Marketing
Learn how you can use Dub.co’s link & analytics infrastructure to transform every external short link shared in marketing campaigns (social media, email, SMS) into a powerful end-to-end attribution engine. By leveraging Dub’s deep integration with WordPress, marketers can gain valuable insights into how their efforts translate into revenue –…
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Breaking News: CNN’s Rise to Industry Leader in Brazil
CNN’s journey in Brazil involved critical decisions, from code architecture to development team culture, which enabled CNN to implement innovative and agile solutions. In this session, attendees will explore the technical strategies transforming CNN Brazil from a newborn company to a major player, becoming one of the top three Brazilian…
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Building a Block First Digital News Platform for Pew Research Center
This past spring, the Pew Research Center launched a new digital news platform entirely built with blocks to power their condensed multisite at www.pewresearch.org. This initiative goes beyond the mere use of blocks for content and page layout, building upon the Center’s work in drag-and-drop web app creation using the block…
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Mrs.Sporty’s 250 Synchronized Franchise Websites
In this session, Jessica will show you how Mrs.Sporty – Europe’s leading women’s fitness & health brand – managed to build a website system with 250 connected WordPress websites. As a franchise, Mrs.Sporty needs to be able to control some parts of these sites globally, while still allowing local franchisees…
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Enhancing Open Source Plugin Security: Establishing Robust Processes and Leveraging Bug Bounty Partnerships
Managing the security of a product with tens of millions of installations is challenging; add Open Source to the equation and the challenges become even more complex. This talk will showcase how Elementor has established internal and external processes to handle security and will highlight our partnership with Patchstack as…
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How to Use Humanity, the Open Source Theme from Amnesty
This year Amnesty International open sourced their WordPress theme and plugins. Amnesty International will discuss their journey to launching 45 WordPress sites on the Humanity WordPress theme and how they went about open sourcing their code. The talk will cover a demo, the challenges faced and most importantly information on…
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Highlights from the Automattic Special Projects Team
The Automattic Special Projects team helps interesting people, projects, and organizations have a great experience with WordPress. By connecting their partners with the best that the WordPress community has to offer, the team spreads enthusiasm for WordPress and open source in general. This session will showcase favorite websites and tools…
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Reinventing Gravatar: Profiles-as-a-Service
For two decades, Gravatar has quietly powered billions of avatars across countless websites. Dive into the latest evolution of Gravatar as we unveil how we are building a new open graph that intertwines domains, identities, and social connections, setting the stage for a more connected and personalized web experience. We’ll…
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Engineering for the Automattic Special Projects Team
The Automattic Special Projects Team helps interesting people, projects, and organizations to have a great experience with their WordPress websites. By connecting their partners with the best that the WordPress community has to offer, the team spreads enthusiasm for WordPress and open source in general. In this follow up to…
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Client-Side Media Processing in WordPress
The WordPress media library currently relies on server-side processing for tasks like image resizing. This can result in strained server resources and a subpar user experience. Client-side processing provides a solution to enhance both performance and UX by leveraging the user’s browser capabilities and technologies such as WebAssembly. This presentation…
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A Technical Deep Dive Into Our Favorite Features of the New Harvard Gazette Site
Human Made recently collaborated with the Harvard Gazette, Harvard University’s official news outlet, to transform and modernize their digital presence. The project team established a scalable design system, reduced training time by simplifying the editorial workflow, and engineered custom blocks to captivate the reader and tell new kinds of stories…
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Open Source Is Eating Software Faster Than Software Is Eating the World
This session will cover the OSS Capital thesis – why we believe open source is the most important trend in technology and the implications across crypto, AI and traditional software / tech businesses and markets.
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Unleash the Power of the Interactivity API: A New Era for WordPress
WordPress is evolving, and so should we. The Interactivity API opens up new possibilities for building interactive, dynamic, and engaging websites without sacrificing performance. In this session, we’ll explore what this API is all about, why it matters, and how to get started with it. By the end, you’ll have…
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Everything and Anything Content Marketing
The problem with traditional sessions and workshops + content marketing is it usually isn’t relatable to every participant that joins. Sometimes, they are more into technical SEO, or content creation, or just starting off. The Campfire session (first of all sounds really cool) is the perfect setup for the discussion…
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Custom WordPress Solutions for Educational Initiatives
Up against a challenge you don’t think WordPress can solve? Think again. WordPress functionality can be leveraged for so much more than blog posts. This talk will feature case studies on a wide variety of projects built in WordPress for the Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE). In the past three…
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wp-admin as Mission Control
In late 2023 www.nasa.gov re-launched on WordPress. This talk is a walk through of how the dev team cleaned up wp-admin to help the hundreds of users create the compelling content that won NASA a Webby award. From leveraging the dashboard as a 1-step setup, to creating content. Plus, modifying…
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Immersive Journalism, Syndication, and Content Analytics with WordPress: Behind-the-Scenes of an Award-Winning Publisher
Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to highlighting climate solutions and exposing environmental injustices. The session will showcase how WordPress is at the center of Grist’s innovative storytelling for bold and impactful journalism. It will also cover the integrated analytics experience provided by Parse.ly. This session is for…
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Building a Customer Success Team
In 2018, one of the early Customer Success Departments in WordPress was started with one person, added to a team of nine developers and support techs. This tenth employee was viewed with some skepticism and a “let’s see how it goes” outlook. Within the first month, that new hire started…
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Building WordPress Websites with ‘Privacy by Design’ in Mind
Every year, new privacy laws are going into effect that impact WordPress websites. Three are going into effect in 2024, five go into effect in 2025, and we’re currently tracking a few dozen privacy bills that could also be added to the mix. Web Designers are busy enough without having…
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Over the Rainbow: Talking About Inclusivity for the LGBTQ+ Community in WordPress
We all dream of the Utopia that is a truly inclusive community or workplace. Somewhere where everyone feels valued and welcome no matter their background. The land where the dreams you dare to dream really do come true. The WordPress community is hugely diverse, and represents people from all sorts…
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Growing and Sustaining a Digital Agency in Uncertain Times
In today’s ever-changing landscape, digital marketers face unique challenges. Economic uncertainty has businesses tightening budgets, and the rise of AI brings robust DIY tools into the mix. How can digital agencies remain steady and even achieve growth in these uncertain times? In this session, we’ll explore key strategies for staffing,…
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Decoding the Woo and WordPress Strategies of Industry Giants
Join Travis, a seasoned online business entrepreneur and Customer Success Manager at WooCommerce, alongside Bryce Adams from Metorik, as they uncover the powerful strategies that industry giants use to scale their businesses with WordPress and WooCommerce. In this insightful session, they will delve into large companies’ real-world applications and success…
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Beyond the Playground: WordPress as a Tool and Product Builder
The architecture of the WordPress Playground provides unique opportunities to build new development and product flows that take WordPress into new domains: powering offline apps, normalizing testing and development environments, providing isolated containers in which to stage updates, and integrating WordPress with complicated software projects. This talk will survey several…
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Creating Client-Friendly Editing Experiences
When building WordPress websites, the front-end presentation, back-end functionality, and visitor experience seem to always take priority. But what about the editing experience for website owners and managers — the people who must work within the websites we build? Their experience using WordPress, completing website-related tasks, and managing their website…
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From Bottlenecks to Breakthroughs: How the New York Post Mastered Scalability
In this technical session, we dive into the challenges and solutions for managing a high-traffic, large-scale WordPress site. With a history of 11 years on WordPress, handling 10 million posts, and 38,000 terms, The New York Post has been a testing ground for scalability. In this talk, Linnea will share…
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WordPress Speed Build Battle: A Lightning-Fast Web Design Contest!
In the WordPress Speed Build Battle, participants have 30 minutes to recreate a famous website. This high-pressure competition tests participants’ ability to quickly adapt, think creatively, and demonstrate their technical skills within a limited timeframe. The website to be recreated is kept a secret until the start of the challenge,…
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WordCamp US Networking Block
Connect with fellow WordCamp US attendees and sponsors in the Sponsor Hall and adjacent Lunch Hall. WCUS Networking Block offers a unique opportunity to connect, share insights, and explore potential collaborations with other web professionals. Optionally, participate in themed networking tailored to your interests: Networking Topic Target Audience Location (Sponsor…
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Fireside Chat: How TIME Uses Patterns to Drive Recirculation and Engagement
Join us for a fireside chat featuring Burhan Hamid, CTO at TIME, and Tim Hossain, VP, WordPress VIP Growth and Demand Generation. They’ll share insights on how the TIME Product and Engineering teams replatformed time.com, focusing on building user-friendly, scalable components to enhance the customer and editorial experience. Learn how they…
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Uber for Nurses: The Power of WordPress
WordPress isn’t just for websites and blogs. It’s a powerful CMS that can serve as the backbone of complex web applications, portals, and intranets. Using WordPress saves development time on the backend, allowing you to focus on crafting front-end experiences that guide users through complex processes like applying to receive…
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Learning WordPress as a Neurodivergent Person
This talk is for people with ADHD who want to learn WordPress. Eduardo Telaya, a tech expert with lots of experience, will share simple strategies to help you focus better and use your creativity in WordPress. You’ll learn how to make your work area less distracting, choose tools that help…
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How the Wikimedia Foundation Uses WordPress to Run an Open Community Blog for the Wikipedia Community and Beyond
The Wikimedia movement is the global community of contributors to the Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit that supports these contributors and projects. For the last four years the Foundation’s Communications department has built and supported an open – anyone can edit – style blog using…
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Empowering Black-Owned Businesses: The iOne Digital Story
iOne Digital was created to democratize publishing by showcasing and empowering Black-owned businesses. Leveraging WordPress, iOne has launched over 70 platforms, including BlackPlanet, the original social network predating Facebook. This extensive use of WordPress underscores their commitment to creating accessible and cost-effective digital spaces for the Black community. Join Markus…
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From Passion to Profit: Strategies for Developing Successful Online Courses with WordPress
Explore the journey from content creation to monetization within the WordPress ecosystem, giving you actionable insights to design, market, and sell online courses effectively.
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Releasing a Version of WordPress in 8 Hours or Less
Last September, a small but nasty bug was added to the WordPress Core code base and remained undetected until 6.4 was released in November. Once the severity was clear, Core contributors worked around the clock to determine the appropriate fix, getting a new release out to the world in less…
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How to Grow and Protect Your Brand
Regardless of whether you have a blog, a website, or online store, you have a Brand. In this talk, we will share the most cost-effective ways to protect and grow that brand. We will talk about how to choose a name that sends the right signals about what you’re offering…
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Scaling Your Agency: Lessons Learned the Hard Way
Are you thinking about growing your agency? Do yourself a favor and learn from our mistakes! In this talk, we’ll focus on bringing real world insights into the growing pains of agency life. Whether you’re a solo consultant dreaming of building a team or a small agency aiming for expansion,…
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WordPress Bootcamp for Educators: Turn Your Knowledge into Engaging Courses
Interested in creating online courses to sell or share online? Join me for this session as we go from that spark of an idea, to writing a course brief and outline, to hitting publish. We’ll dive deep into the process of course creation and touch on the related topics of…
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200,000 Games and Going: The Pandemic Kept Us Apart, But My WordPress Project Brought Us Together
At the start of the pandemic, I built an online version of the dominoes-based game Mexican Train so my family could keep playing while staying safe. 200,000 games later, it has become my most successful “startup” to date, despite doing no marketing and being donation-based. It has also helped tens…
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Enhancing WordPress Accessibility: Tools, Techniques, and Real-World Solutions
Getting started with digital accessibility can seem overwhelming; join us in this session where we’ll cover various testing methods such as automated tools like WAVE and AxeDev, manual testing with keyboards, and strategies for reviewing and enhancing existing code. Making a website accessible to all takes work and doesn’t happen…
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Leveraging AI to Accelerate Your Digital Workflow
AI is a blazingly fast-paced world and its impact on digital workflows has been significant, particularly in the realms of social media, newsletters, and websites. We will explore several AI tools and their applications in digital marketing. Learn how AI tools can assist in curating content, scheduling posts, analyzing engagement,…
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Innovative Pricing Strategies to Grow Your WordPress Business
This session will discuss the intricate world of pricing strategies, a critical factor in the growth and success of WordPress-based businesses. It is ideally suited for freelancers and small web agencies that focus on WordPress and related web services such as online marketing, SEO, and security. Discussions will focus on…
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Let’s Talk Hosting
The WordPress Hosting team invites you to join this Campfire Chat around hosting best practices, the test reporters of the Hosting team and how to improve your customers’ WordPress experience.
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An In-Person Q&A With Matt Mullenweg
In this session, Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress, will answer live questions from WordCamp US attendees.
