Development

Tips on how to reduce the carbon emissions of your WordPress website

Did you know that the internet is thought to produce about the same carbon emissions as the aviation industry? And if the internet was a country it would be the sixth biggest polluter in the world. Shocking isn’t it? With nearly 35% of all websites being WordPress websites, as a community, we have a fantastic opportunity to play a role in reducing emissions and spreading awareness of the impact of our online habits. In this … Continue reading

Nine ways to make WordPress better with AI

When we think about AI, it’s hard to tell hype from a genuine utility. In reality, AI is a bundle of over 25 different technologies, ranging from the ‘everyday’ to the cutting edge. This talk uses the blade of WordPress to slice through the hype and focus on practical, achievable ways to start leveraging AI technologies into your WordPress tech stack today. Today we see the primary use cases falling into three silos: AI Enhancement, … Continue reading

Code is Poetry, but your poetry is s**t

Code is Poetry is a dive in to good and bad programming principles, and how we can apply the good ones when using WordPress to make the most maintainable, scalable, and performant websites we can. The talk focuses on the learnings of being a WordPress-focused developer for over 5 years, and how embracing open source and the lessons of those that came before us can make us as developers, and the websites we produce better.

AMP at the speed of live

For years, the Liveblog plugin has been the go-to solution for WordPress sites looking for a live coverage tool to deliver fast updates to visitors. In this talk we’ll learn how and why Liveblog was enhanced with the added support of the Accelerated Mobile Pages technology to deliver live coverage even faster via WordPress.

Gatsby and WordPress: Keeping it Cheap and Staying in Touch

This will be a live demo, where we use a free WordPress.com blog and use it to create content for a static site using Gatsby. We’ll use Netlify to host the site for free. Finally, we’ll show how you can automatically rebuild the site when you publish a new post on WordPress. This is not another “let’s get rid of WordPress talk”, this is a way to demonstrate to clients the versatility of WordPress and … Continue reading

Transitioning to a block-based editor in a pre-Gutenberg world

How do we move towards a block-based admin UI in a pre-Gutenberg WordPress? With the rise of page builders and ‘block-based’ layouts, and the imminent arrival of Gutenberg – WordPress’ new block-based editor – we needed a solution for transitioning towards this new way of editing content while sticking with the mature and stable technology stack that we know and love. We, therefore, set out to find another solution and this led to the development … Continue reading

Developing for WordPress with WooCommerce

Introducing ways to use WooCommerce as a platform to build user experiences and business solutions that go beyond pure e-commerce/payment solutions in WordPress instances.

Why a greener web is good for everyone

The internet has huge potential to move us towards a sustainable future through dematerialising products and streamlining industries. Despite its many benefits though, it is not perfect. The storage, processing and transmission of data consumes electricity and that has an impact on the environment. The web may appear clean, but it has a real impact on climate change and its impact is growing as our hunger for data accelerates. The good news is that there … Continue reading

Introduction to Using Coding Standards in Your WordPress Project

Aimed at those who have never really looked into coding standards, Gary will give a broad overview to what coding standards are, how they apply in WordPress, what tools there are to check and fix violations and how you can integrate this within your workflow.

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