The official schedule for WordCamp Europe 2025 is live, so I can finally share that I’ll be speaking at WCEU in Basel, Switzerland this June. 🇨🇭🎉

My talk, How a WordPress Core Committer Thinks: Making Decisions for Millions will shed light on how the primary maintainers of the WordPress software decide what ships and what doesn’t.

Every line of code added, removed, modified, or intentionally left unchanged in WordPress impacts millions of websites and hundreds of millions of users worldwide. But who decides what changes make it into Core, and how are those decisions made?

This talk takes you behind the scenes of WordPress Core development, shedding light on the decision-making frameworks, philosophies, and trade-offs that shape the platform. We’ll explore what factors determine whether a feature gets merged, a bug gets fixed, or a change is too risky—all while balancing backward compatibility, security, stability, and long-term maintainability.

Whether you’re an aspiring Core contributor, a plugin or theme developer, or a business owner curious about how WordPress evolves, this session will give you a deeper understanding of the thought process behind decisions that impact an entire ecosystem from a 6+ year Core committer with over 12 years experience contributing to WordPress.

I’ve spoken at WCUS and WordCamp Asia multiple times leaving WordCamp Europe as the only flagship WordCamp that I have yet to speak at. I was accepted to speak in Porto in 2022, but unfortunately COVID had other plans and I ended up quarantined in my hotel room. Here’s hoping for better luck this time around!

Will I see you in Basel? I’d love to connect!