Category: Technical WordPress
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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…
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The Site Speed Frontier with Performance Lab and Beyond
The Core Performance team has been incubating enhancements for WordPress through the Performance Lab plugin. These have been available for a few years now; some have been merged into core (e.g. Speculative Loading) while others are more experimental and remain in testing (e.g. Optimization Detective). This talk will look at…
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Improving WordPress Multisite: Simplifying Features and Enhancing the User Experience
WordPress Multisite is a powerful feature for managing multiple sites within a single installation; however, its complexity often discourages developers and site owners from utilising it to its full potential. This session breaks down what makes Multisite useful and what makes it hard, then explores ways to simplify its features…
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Modernizing at Scale: How FSE Supports Wikimedia’s Evolving UX
Full Site Editing (FSE) is changing how teams build with WordPress — but what does this look like in practice for large, complex, and multilingual platforms? In this session, we’ll share the story of the Wikimedia Foundation’s user experience refresh. We’ll talk about how Human Made is using FSE to…