Too many WordPress sites work at launch but break during updates or extensions, causing extra work and frustration for clients and developers. In this session, we’ll explore practical ways to engineer WordPress sites for long-term maintainability, covering development practices, documentation, plugin choices, and workflows that make sites easier to update, extend, and trust.
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Toru Miki
Toru is a Web Developer/Engineer, currently working at the Tokyo-based company Tarosky. At Tarosky, we engineer mid- to enterprise-scale WordPress websites, where my current focus is on server-side development and exploring ways to improve our developer experience, teamwork, and output quality. A WordPress user since 2005, Toru has supported the Japanese WordPress community through translations, organizing meetups and WordCamps—including serving as lead organizer of WordCamp Tokyo 2011, and more recently as an organizer of WordCamp Asia 2024 and 2025. He has spoken at several WordCamps and meetups in the past, including WordCamp Taiwan 2023, and also contributes code from time to time.
