Category: Development

Technology is changing at a phenomenal rate. If you’re involved in any way with WordPress you see the evolutionary process coming. How do you blend the power of AI, VR and the Metaverse with WordPress. Taking you on a digital exploration of discovery and adventure as the digital worlds blend and evolve.

This is presentation on how I as a single person agency manage (and grow) 450+ websites and things I’ve learned after 20+ years of website development and business management.

In ‘How to Break the Internet: Lessons from the Support Desk’, attendees will gain a deeper understanding of the multifaceted nature of web development support. This presentation delves into the challenges and solutions inherent to managing WordPress sites – emphasizing the crucial role of effective customer support. Drawing from real-world case studies, we will also…

The maturation of the block editor brought with it a major shift in how WordPress theme development was expected to work. For many independent developers and small agencies, this shift seemed like an huge disruption to their workflow – a once-reliable codebase now in flux, entirely new coding languages and tooling to learn, and layers…

In today’s fast changing digital terrain, software testing has emerged as a critical aspect of ensuring a consistent user experience. This holds even more true within the WordPress ecosystem since many websites rely on an intricate mix of third party plugins, themes, and custom code. This makes it crucial to validate a website’s performance beyond…

Wpgen is a free, open source CLI utility that helps you to rapidly develop WordPress plugins. After building hundreds of client plugins throughout the years, I created wpgen to avoid common, repetitive and boilerplate tasks associated with WP development (such as managing plugin architecture, creating and querying custom post types/taxonomies, creating, saving and securing custom…

Prepare to make the journey from endpoint to endpoint of the WordPress REST API. All thru-hikers must make the proper preparations for their hike so we will go through some general basics of APIs, fill the proper permits (authentication), explore the trail and stop at several WordPress endpoints along the way, and learn how to…

Wins and pitfalls of creating decoupled websites using WordPress as a content management system for front end JavaScript websites written in Gatsby, Angular and NextJS. Will be presenting lessons learned and tools used.

WordPress 6.4 is targeted to be released in early November 2023, and should be full of a plethora of exciting new features and enhancements. Let’s dive in and explore the beta features of WordPress 6.4 and all that it has to offer.

Know some WordPress? Want to take it to the next level? Do you know what you would like to do with WordPress but unsure as to where to start and what to learn about? In this talk we are going to over 13 years of experience, summarized as best as possible into a single session.…