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Brooke Dukes: Help Me, Help You: Things to know from inside support.

I’ve been on all sides of support; first as a WordPress user, then a freelancer, theme shop employee, and currently as WordPress.com staff. In that time I’ve learned a lot of the dos-and-don’ts of...

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Patrick Garman: Preparing for and Dealing With Websites Imploding

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Meg Delagrange: I Started Telling the World I was Born Amish

I used to be really embarrassed of my story. I worked really hard to learn what “normal” looked like so I could act that way. I lived from the webpages of Urban Dictionary, hours of MTV’s reality shows...

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Josh Pollock: Five Attitudes Stopping You From Building Accessible WordPress...

This talk will be given in a room that is specifically designed – as mandated by law – to be accessible to those with disabilities. Like our physical spaces, the web has accessibility standards too,...

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Kathryn Presner: CSS Secrets for Beginners

Discover ten handy tips in as many minutes for customizing your WordPress site with CSS. From quick techniques to hide elements you’d rather not see – to sneaky ways to add in extra bits of text, this...

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Jason Bahl: Evolving WordPress with GraphQL

WordPress has successfully transitioned from a Blog to a CMS and now is becoming a platform for which anything can be built. However, the evolution is still continuing, and GraphQL is part of the...

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Nathaniel Schweinberg: Scalable, Highly-Available WordPress on AWS

WordPress at its heart is a blogging platform, designed to serve a site that’s largely read-only. Logging in isn’t necessary unless you’re an admin looking to write a blog post or adjust settings. This...

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Bianca Welds: PAH! Jamaican Sign Language and WordPress

The Deaf community is marginalized in most countries around the world. Using WordPress, one couple is trying to increase understanding of and participation in the Deaf community in Jamaica. This...

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Ryan Markel: Security, the VIP Way

Every WordPress user is a VIP, and part of that VIP experience is knowing their installation, data, and user accounts are secure. WordPress.com VIP hosts and secures sites for some of the pre-eminent...

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Andrew Roberts: Lessons Learned Trying to Commercialize a Major Open Source...

TinyMCE is the world’s most popular open source library for online WYSIWYG editing of HTML. It is used by millions of applications, including WordPress. Although first established in 2004, it was not...

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Christie Chirinos: Financial Forecasting for WordPress Businesses

You’ve heard of financial forecasting, but you’re not really sure what it entails. However, you do know one thing: planning is good. Planning allows you to grow strategically, be prepared for setbacks,...

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Francesca Marano: Standalone Contributor Days: help make WordPress with your...

The Italian WordPress community was dormant for years, until a bunch of people got together at WCEU Contributor Day in Seville, in 2015, and decided it was time to revive it. After months of online...

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Tracy Levesque: Diversity Works

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Mika Epstein: Lesbians, Damn Lesbians, and Statistics

Using WordPress to queery (not a typo) data and generate statistics based on the entire history of television and understand the impact of fictional death in the media on real life people. As seen on...

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Andrew Nacin: What It Means To Be a Developer

Building software means much more than writing code. In fact, you can make a bigger impact with people skills and thoughtful human-centered design than simply with code. After running WordPress...

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Brianna Privett: The Story of Your Life: Using WordPress as Your Memory...

The Personal Web of the 1990s/early 2000s was the first wave of online diarists and bloggers who use the web as a platform to chronicle and share their our daily lives. WordPress came out of this...

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Weston Ruter: Building with JavaScript in the Customizer

This year’s heavy focus in core has been on WordPress’s next generation Gutenberg editor. With the call to learn JavaScript deeply, it’s no surprise that Gutenberg is written in a JavaScript-first...

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David Laietta: Running Your Service Business on WordPress

There are a lot of things that go into running a service business beyond finding clients and building things for them. You’ve got to manage contracts, invoices, estimates, proposals, and more. You need...

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Sarah Benoit: How to teach clients to effectively use WordPress.

As web designers and developers one of the keys to our business success is retaining clients over time and generating client referrals. If we build strong supportive relationships with our existing...

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Aaron Douglas: How Working Remote Saved My Life

Growing up I was that kid always taking appliances apart trying to figure out how they worked. I was also that kid that only tended to focus on things that were sciency and nerdy. I missed a lot of...

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