Category: Technical WordPress
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How We Revamped the Jim Joseph Foundation Site Without Disruption
In May 2025, the Jim Joseph Foundation found itself in a quandary. Their outdated, low-performing website needed updates and a redesign to better engage their audience. Using theme switching technology, we found a way to transform their website quickly, align with WordPress’s block-based architecture, enhance the user experience, and support…
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Coding the Magic: A Developer’s Journey Through Aloha
In this session, Stephanie Stelzer will share how her team at Disney leverages WordPress and Gutenberg to craft immersive digital experiences across Disney’s platforms. She’ll showcase custom features that bridge design and development, offering a behind-the-scenes technical look at the tools her team has built to elevate storytelling. Attendees will gain…
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Confident Consultations: Qualify and Close with the SCOPE Strategy
Has a client ever wasted your time in a consulting session? Ever had a one-hour consultation turned into 3? Have you experienced the sinking feeling that comes when you leave the consultation and realize you failed to ask a key question? This talk provides answers to these issues and more.…
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WordPress in the Newsroom: Tech That Supports Real Journalism
As misinformation spreads and resources shrink, local and independent news organizations are under more pressure than ever to do impactful work with minimal support. WordPress is playing a vital role in helping these publishers stay online, stay fast, and stay independent. Its flexibility, openness, and community-driven development make it a…
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Tag Team Your Blocks: Customizing Gutenberg with WP_HTML_Tag_Processor
Ever wished you could add a little something extra to a Gutenberg block’s HTML without resorting to hacky workarounds? Meet the WP_HTML_Tag_Processor – a powerful yet approachable tool in WordPress core that lets you modify HTML tag attributes on the fly. We’ll explore how to harness this new API to…
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Contributing by Testing WordPress
I’ll cover testing in WordPress and guide attendees on how to get more involved with testing. We’ll discuss what testing is and why it is done. The types of testing in WordPress and an overview of each: Automated testing (unit and end-to-end tests), User testing (how to get involved in…
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Creators around a Campfire: How WordPress YouTubers Are Shaping the Ecosystem
YouTubers are increasingly becoming influential voices in the WordPress space—onboarding new users, spotlighting features, discussing the latest trends, and telling the story of open source in dynamic, accessible ways. But who are these creators? What drives them? What feedback loops can we create with them? And how can the broader…
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Beyond the Build: The 3E Framework for Scalable WordPress Platforms
WordPress is a powerful CMS, but without the right structure, even great builds can buckle under the weight of scale. In this session, Meeky Hwang, Co-Founder and CEO of Ndevr, introduces the 3E Framework—Audience Experience, Creator Experience, and Developer Experience—a model that helps teams align cross-functional priorities and build resilient…
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The Block Developer Cookbook
Direct from appearances at WC Asia and WCEU, the Block Developer Cookbook is coming to America! In this fully interactive workshop, attendees will vote on which recipes to explore, and we’ll work through them together. Each iteration of this workshop expands with new recipes and content, leveraging the latest features…
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What Top WordPress Product Companies Do Differently — Masterclass for Product Builders
This 2-hour masterclass is for anyone building or growing a WordPress product – current founders, aspiring product creators, and developers transitioning from services to products. Led by Katie Keith (Barn2 Plugins) and Matt Cromwell (GiveWP / StellarWP), we will present practical lessons from our own product businesses and from 40+…
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Data visualization the easy way (National Marine Sanctuaries has got your back)
Creating websites stuffed full of cool data visualizations for an entire government agency usually requires a large technical team (read: expensive). But what if you don’t have the in-house capacity? That’s the situation for National Marine Sanctuaries, the arm of the US federal government that protects two million square kilometers…
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Using Low Vision As My Tool To Help Me Teach WordPress
With all the talk about the importance of making WordPress Accessible, how does someone with low vision teach and work with WordPress? I will share the tools and techniques I have used for years as a WordPress instructor at Pratt Institute, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and elsewhere in New…