WordPress Leeds Online - Climate friendly WordPress

Our monthly meetup for WordPress users, bloggers and developers. The meetup has been running online since March 2020 and each month we have either a speaker, or run discussions where people can ask questions about WordPress.

Climate friendly WordPress: make your websites greener, faster and more user friendly all at once

The Internet accounts for more emissions than the entire aviation industry. WordPress accounts for more websites than any other platform. WordPress developers therefore have a huge opportunity, and responsibility, to make a difference. Luckily, greening our sites also makes them faster, more resilient, more scalable, and life better for the users (less cpu, battery use, more device compatibility, better offline/poor connectivity behaviour, less data consumed). That should be an easy sell to customers and management.

By default, we can admit that WordPress, as the grandparent of them all, wasn't built for modern standards and user expectations, let alone with the climate emergency in mind. The good news is that by integrating a number of optimisations, design principles and infrastructure choices, we can make WordPress stand proudly with the most climate friendly, inclusive and performant websites built on the latest stacks.

This talk will offer a roadmap for greening your sites, from easy wins (hosting, themes and plugins) to fine tuning and excelling (service workers, caching strategies, energy tracking, green mode design).

About our speaker

Ismael Velasco is a software engineer, sustainability expert and green web advocate. He has worked on a wide range of complex websites and SaaS applications over the years across commercial and social impact/tech for good domains. He is active in a wide range of communities and in Open Source, including the Green Software Foundation, ClimateAction.tech and the sustainable design group at W3C.

📣 Why not speak at a future event?

We are always looking for people to come and speak at our events. So if you have an idea for a talk, a discussion or just want to show folks what you have been working on, please get in touch. You don't need to be a professional speaker or even to have spoken in a group before.

❓Request a talk

If you don't want to do a talk, but are interested in hearing about a specific subject, or have an idea/problem, please get in touch and we will try and find someone who can help.