Growing a profitable business in the WordPress ecosystem can be hard. How do you combine real passion for open source with growing a successful business. IN this talk, we’ll share a view from the Yoast-rollercoaster: What were the highs and lows, how did we grow our audience and why is WordPress so immensely important?

We were told to learn Javascript, deeply... But if you are anything like me, still more comfortable in the backend, here are some tips on surviving in this strange new block-based word.

The good people who learnt JS deeply before us have created some nice tools that we can use from the comfort of our PHP, without venturing (much) into the realm of package managers, build processes, compilers, frontend frameworks and other newfangled creatures. And still create beautiful and functional things.

Let's talk about how you can build a static-ready WordPress site without much additional effort on your part.

This approach will open up more options and opportunities to you, your business, and your clients.

Web Vitals is an initiative by Google to help site owners improve user experiences. Moreover, it's an effort to simplify the metrics landscape. By measuring the right things it becomes much easier for you and other site owners to make meaningful change to improve the performance of a site and, therefore, the experience of everyone who uses that site.

WordPress Plugins are a vital part of WordPress that help to radically transform any site. This means developing your own custom plugins a powerful skill to learn.

With so many ways to build a plugin it can be hard to know where to begin. In this session we will focus on creating and using boilerplates to improve your development experience.

A boilerplate will help you easily understand plugin folder structuring, where to include your functions, and what to do next. It is, without a doubt, one of the easiest ways to begin your journey developing plugins for WordPress.

The internet has a deep-rooted trust issue. How do consumers know whether the information presented by websites can be trusted? How can website owners claim ownership over their content?

In 1991, blockchain was invented for timestamping documents. With a timestamp, you can prove that you didn’t tamper with your content. With timestamps, your readers, buyers, and search engines can prove your integrity. How are WordPress and blockchain timestamps building blocks for a better internet today? Is it too late to fix the broken web?

With his enthusiasm, Sebastiaan takes you on a 20-minute journey showing how we can truly fix the broken web with open-source code and community, together ❤️

Faced with little time to change course, event planners from all industries and communities have done their best to navigate the quick transition to virtual events.

Live streaming, user generated content, interactive experiences—we’ve curated a series of success stories, best practices, and recommended tools to help planners aim even higher for the next wave of virtual events, all using WordPress as a hub.

From online classes to the annual conference rush, the autumn events season is just getting started. If you’re looking for inspiration or new resources, join Shane Pearlman of Modern Tribe for a brief roundup presentation and open Q&A.

After several years organising WordPress meetups and WordCamps, as well as participating as a speaker, volunteer or sponsor, I learned about the human values of acceptance and inclusion in the WordPress community.

I learned to work with people very different than me. I learned new ways to work in a team and important take-aways for inclusion in everyday life as well.

I want to share my own experiences and how they helped improve my business and personal life, both inside and outside the WordPress ecosystem. If you are in a WordPress-related business – whether that's in agency, plugin development, hosting, you name it – this will be beneficial to you.

This will help you build trust and rapport, meet future clients and business partners, and see how your peers do work and share ideas. Best of all, all of this occurs in a non-competitive and very friendly environment. By the time we're finished, I want to inspire you to join the nearby WordPress meetup group (or create one if it doesn't exist) and enjoy the inspiring interactions.

I registered HowDoYou.Tech when I decided to port from being a Freelancer running a WordPress Website Agency business to a professional. So I got the business names registered, and only one thing was at the back of my mind while I did all these, and it was to keep doing WordPress. So in this talk, I will share how I got to achieve my company goals using WordPress, the tools (plugins & themes) we use, the solutions we came up with, how we kept iterating and are still doing so, the challenges we faced, and important points to note I believe would be useful for any other person out there about to launch their website design agency business with WordPress.

In this session you will learn what WordPress multisite is and how to get started using it. You will also learn how Sodiq reduced the operational cost of a network marketing business by more than 1000% by using a multisite installation.