Category: Technical WordPress
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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 become fragile under pressure. In this session, Meeky Hwang, Co-Founder and CEO of Ndevr, introduces the 3E Framework—Engineering, Editorial, and Experience—a model designed to help teams scale WordPress platforms sustainably. Drawing from 20+ years of experience with…
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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…
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Building Experiences: Design Systems, User Experience, and Full Site Editing
It’s been over a decade since Atomic Design brought the world of digital design systems into the modern era. With the introduction of the block editor, and further expansion into Full Site Editing, WordPress has never been better suited to delivering modular, systemic, and consistent content editing experiences. However, without…
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A PHP Developer’s Guide to ReactJS
If you’re a PHP developer who’s curious about ReactJS but not sure where to start, then this is the perfect talk for you.In this presentation, we’ll break React down into concepts you already know from PHP, like templates, routing, and state, and show how these translate into React’s component-based approach.Along…