Tag: talk

  • Boosting Performance with Optimization Detective

    Boosting Performance with Optimization Detective

    At WordCamp Asia 2025 today in Manila, I gave a talk about the future for how performance optimizations can be implemented in WordPress today via the Optimization Detective feature plugin. This project has been the focus of my work for the past 1½ years on the WordPress Core Performance Team. Here’s my talk from the…

  • AMP for JavaScripters

    AMP for JavaScripters

    Today at the JavaScript for WordPress Conference (#JSforWPConf), Felix Arntz and I gave a talk called AMP for JavaScripters about implementing interactive interfaces in AMP. Here’s the abstract we submitted for the talk: As we all know, adding JavaScript to a web page allows for dynamic page modifications. However, with that flexibility comes great responsibility:…

  • “Building with JavaScript in the Customizer” at WCUS 2017

    At WordCamp US 2017 I gave a talk on “Building with JavaScript in the Customizer”. I was happy to have the opportunity to share the technical details on the Customizer’s architecture and JavaScript API, which saw many improvements in 4.9, in addition to being able to share the Customizer’s new user-facing features during State of the Word. The…

  • Presenting WordPress 4.8 & 4.9 at State of the Word 2017

    Presenting WordPress 4.8 & 4.9 at State of the Word 2017

    At WordCamp US 2017 last week, Mel Choyce and I had the opportunity to present the new features in WordPress 4.8 and 4.9 which we co-lead with Jeff Paul. We start presenting ~17 minutes into the State of the Word: State of the Word, 2017 (Photos courtesy of Jeff Golenski and Post Status.)

  • Slides for “Building with JavaScript in the Customizer” WCUS 2017 Talk

    Here are the slides from my WCUS 2017 talk “Building with JavaScript in the Customizer”

  • WordCamp Sydney talk: Customize all the things!

    Today at WordCamp Sydney, I speak on The Customizer: The Customizer is one of the least known yet most powerful features of WordPress. We need to get past thinking of it as the “Theme Customizer” which only good for tweaking colors and a limited number of settings. No, the Customizer provides a framework for live-previewing any change…

  • Open Scriptures Presentation at BibleTech:2009

    As previously announced, I had the privilege of presenting the Open Scriptures project at BibleTech:2009. Multimedia of the talk is available: