Implementing Gutenberg on older sites can be a daunting task with sites using custom field managers. This talks describes two different migrations, each with very different approaches to migrating “legacy content” to Gutenberg.

The vast majority of site owners live in fear of the day their site breaks. Performing a site audit can ensure you understand the current state of your site, from the back end to the front end. It can also help you anticipate potential problems as there are new opportunities to add features.

If you’ve never gotten a call about a slow site, can you really say you’re building websites ? This talk steps-through real WordPress examples and suggests how we can speed up our websites. Presentation Slides » https://drive.google.com/file/d/12eD9wQpchNuO1XgMcmwfNeg_wGlk_fJa/view?usp=sharing

Web Vitals is an initiative by Google to provide a great user experience on the web with measurable quality signals. This talk explores how WordPress developers and website owners can check, monitor and improve Web Vitals metrics. Presentation Slides » https://bit.ly/web-vitals-links

Do you want your site to be blazing fast? Optimizing your images is one of the easiest and most effective ways you can speed up your site, improve user experience, and help your SEO. (lightning talk) Full presentation slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aDZnrezu93N14Mt9fNZlkbZIkBQPBDx0/view?usp=sharing

Cypress is a JavaScript-based automated end-to-end testing framework. It can act like a user on your website by visiting pages, filling out forms, and clicking buttons. Learn the basics of how to use Cypress as well as some of the nuances of testing WordPress plugins, themes, or websites. Full presentation slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1izAWDX5D5cT7ScLhKJijvjf7KD8OCxNdIRlpXe6J2k0/edit?usp=sharing

This one hour workshop explains why AMP is an interesting option for creating web applications. It includes some practical examples for learning more about how to use AMP.

Use Ansible for task automation to manage WordPress sites. This includes automating plugin and theme updates/installs/uninstalls; deployments, manipulating files, and running WP-CLI.

If you’ve ever wanted to build your own plugin for WordPress, this is the session for you. We’re going to start from scratch and work our way up. First, we’ll take a look at the basic requirements of a plugin. Next we’ll take our example plugin idea and break it into the various components and steps that we’ll need. We’ll code up the plugin together and install it on our sites, debugging any problems that arise. Finally, we’ll look at ways that we could further extend our plugin. This tutorial assumes some HTML and CSS knowledge, but you don’t already need to be familiar with writing PHP or JavaScript.

React.js has become one of the top players in the JavaScript libraries world. WordPress has rebuilt its WYSIWYG editor using React. Drupal has recently adopted the library to create admin interfaces. This session aims to explain the basic concepts of React outside of the context of any particular CMS implementation. Many examples will be presented to help you understand it and why it is so powerful. Full presentation slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L71658TjDp9epjAYuYZhYTfp1sZg1GgR/view?usp=sharing