Category: Long Talk
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Building and Leveraging Your Reputation
In today’s highly competitive job market, building a strong reputation is crucial to achieving your career goals. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, freelancer, or working in a corporate environment, your reputation can make or break your success. In this talk, Aaron will share his insights on: You’ll learn practical strategies for: By the end of the…
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Insights from WordPress Contribution: What Makes Us Impactful
Join me on a journey of exploration within the WordPress community as we uncover the qualities and practices that underlie impactful collaborations. Drawing from both data and the real-life stories of WordPress contributors, we’ll dive into the essence of meaningful contributions. This session isn’t just about gaining insights into the current state of WordPress contribution;…
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From Meh to Memorable: Your Public Speaking Masterclass
Public speaking is a universal fear. If you’ve ever wished to speak to an audience, or improve your presentation and public speaking skills, this session will put you on a fast track to success. Here, we’ll tackle a range of common concerns: You will learn these and many other secrets: While you won’t emerge as…
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The elements of WordPress
WordPress is made of blocks, but that’s just the start. The system starts with blocks, that combine to form patterns, template parts, templates and then styling unites everything. This evolution is growing in pace and even more critical to understand not just for those creating designs, but those even looking to extend the interface and…
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How to achieve an efficient workflow with the Site Editor
From its initial release back in 2018, the Site Editor has had its fair share of growing pains as users adjusted to the change. Recently, WordPress has made significant strides in improving its page-building experience and has tremendously grown since its inception. The shift from the Classic Editor to the Site Editor has provided users…
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Properly Recognizing Contributors in Large Open Source Projects
Ensuring contributors feel appreciated is essential to the success of any open source project. In its 20+ year history, there have been over 5,400 unique contributors listed on the Credits pages for each version released. But even as one of the largest current FOSS projects powering 43%+ of the Internet, this number is inaccurate and…
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Fighting the JavaScript Fatigue: Picking the right framework for Headless WordPress
Headless WordPress provides the flexibility to bring your own frontend stack to use, but how do you choose a framework that works for your team? Luckily, we’ve used them and we’ll get you up to speed! Let’s explore the vast landscape of frontend frameworks in 2023, such as Astro, SvelteKit, Nuxt, Next, and the strengths…
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How to counter arguments from developers, designers and managers against accessibility
Do you get an aggressive, dismissive or defensive reaction from your design or development colleagues, your marketing department, your managers, or even from your full-service advertising agency as soon as you start talking about accessibility? Want to learn how to counter and motivate? Come to my talk, and you will go home with some great…
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Getting Ready for the Deprecation of 3P Cookies
The web has brought a wide range of free services and capabilities to users such as email, social media, online shopping, streaming video, and many others. These services rely on an economic model that depends on tracking users and identifying audiences for targeted advertising. Today, increasing concerns about user privacy, data breaches, and the misuse…
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【Ctrl+Hack+Delete】 Uncover the dark side of WordPress from a hacker’s perspective
This plan explores WordPress vulnerabilities from a hacker’s perspective, highlighting risks in plugin development. Beginning with common WordPress functions, we unveil issues arising from misuse and share secure coding practices. We delve into a WordPress plugin source code parser’s journey, detailing how hackers decipher source code to find security flaws. This initiative enhances understanding of…
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WP-CLI for PHP developers
When was the last time you tested code in production? Your own website doesn’t count. WP-CLI for PHP developers is the sequel of WordPress through the Terminal talk, focusing on a set of commands and tools useful for PHP developers. This is not just a live demo of WP-CLI commands. This is zooming out and…
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From independence to integration: The journey of being acquired
Tales of startups and scale-ups are something you hear a lot in the WordPress ecosystem. Stories of innovation, challenge, and success are celebrated and serve as beacons of inspiration. However, there’s an uncharted narrative many shy away from, often only whispered about: the journey of being acquired. I present a talk that seeks to demystify…