I’m Luigi Teschio, a developer living in Naples. I work at Automattic, where I contribute to open source projects and the web ecosystem. I’m passionate about creativity, technology, and productivity, and I write about these topics on my personal website.

WordCamp Pisa 2025: Interactivity API and community

Last week I joined to WordCamp Pisa as speaker with a talk about Interactivity API. My talk aimed to show the benefit about the Interactivity API and hope that developers will start to consider this new API instead of vanilla JS or jQuery code. You can checkout the slides and the code in this repo.

In addition to my own session, I had the pleasure of attending several inspiring talks throughout the event. Two talks captured my attention since the beginning:

  • From zero to WordPress: Personal Story and Resilience: After being diagnosed with a serious illness, the speaker turned to learning WordPress as a way to stay focused on something positive rather than on the “bad things.” Stories like this always touch me deeply and make me proud to be part of the WordPress community. Although my contributions are only a small part of the whole, I’m grateful to help move this project forward. WordPress truly democratizes publishing and empowers people in ways that go far beyond technology.
  • How make WordPress powerful with AI and n8n: I’m very interested in the intersection of AI and engineering. This talk showed how easy it is to integrate WordPress with n8n through the REST API. The speaker even built a few custom external NodeJS services to create an MCP server. After the session, I had the chance to chat with him and introduce the Ability API: so external services may no longer be necessary in the future.

The Contributor Day was another highlight. As always, it created the perfect environment to collaborate, share knowledge, and contribute directly to the project. I helped to Core table to onboarding folks and help to work on Gutenberg repo.

Contributor Day also gave me the chance to meet developers both experienced and new and that exposure to different perspectives was valuable. I even got to do some mentoring, which I really enjoy.

After every WordCamp, and really, any event organized by a community, I’m reminded of just how powerful a community can be. Being part of one remains one of the most meaningful parts of my professional journey.