What’s WordCamp?
‘A Unifying Event’ for all WordPress enthusiasts & creators, WordCamp Uplifting the WordPress ecosystem to the Next Stage! Join WordCamp 2023 to immerse yourself in engaging sessions, hands-on workshops, and valuable discussions.
Driving the Future
A consortium of WordPress developers brigaded since 2006, pushing the boundaries of WordPress, through fundamental effectuations, radical approaches, and breakthrough solutions for critical issues plaguing the community!
Transforming the WordPress Terrain
From the very first WordCamp in San Francisco to the latest virtual events, WordCamps have evolved into a global phenomenon. This timeline showcases some of the most memorable WordCamps in history.
Giving back to the Community
Over the years, It has aided countless people through scholarships and fundraising for several projects that have brought WordPress into the Spotlight for its wide public appeal!
The WordCamp Legacy
2023
Transforming the WordPress Terrain
Considering Thailand lies right in Central Asia, WordCamp Asia hosted their first meetup in Bangkok!
2022
WordPress and the Five for the Future Initiative
Focus on ‘Five for the Future’, for consistent growth of open source WordPress development with increased web security and platform integration!
2021
WordPress Goes Virtual and Blocks Go Beyond
Events were limited to virtual WordCamps across the world due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Matt Mullenweg Demystified Gutenberg Blocks covering the symbiosis of Blocks, Patterns & Theme.json along with Rich Tabor. Additionally, Understanding React/Javascript for the future of emerging five years of WordPress development.
2018
WordPress Around the World and the Gutenberg Launch
WordCamps ran across San Francisco, Miami, London, Brisbane, and Mumbai.
Gutenberg scheduled to go Core in WordPress 5.0, after the WordCamp 2018 in Belgrade, Serbia! With further focus on REST API, Gutenberg groundwork assimilation, Autosaves & Search, Version 2.0 of WP-CLI with 2 new releases in July. Integration with Calypso.
2017
WordPress and the Future of Editing, Coding and E-commerce
Multiple scheduled events across Paris, Nashville, Berlin, Kuala Lumpur and Belgrade!
Nelio will be contributing to WordPress 4.9 code! Matt Mullenweg’s “The Gutenberg Project”. Upcoming effects of WooCommerce plugin platform
2016
WordPress and the Future of Web Development, Security and SEO
WordCamps took place in various locations, including San Francisco, Philadelphia, Vienna, Tokyo, Mexico City, and Bangkok.
Matt Mullenweg Interview opinion, “WordPress has the potential of becoming an actual operating system”.
Leading topic ‘Web security business development’, and ‘How SEO today must be “Holistic SEO”’.
Rhys Wynne spoke on ‘Top Tools for WordPress SEO to use as Well as Yoast Stuff’ along with useful tools in SEO work including, Majestic, SERPlab, and AnswerThePublic. Rhys also mentioned HARO (help a reporter out), CrystalKnows.com, The PageFrog plugin, Facebook Instant Articles (FBIA), and Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP).
2015
WordPress and the REST API Revolution
The camps grew, with events held in cities like San Francisco, New York City, London, Mumbai, Buenos Aires, and Seoul.
WordPress community’s hottest topics, the REST API discussed! Ryan unwrapped the basic concepts about REST API followed by how to implement this API into WordPress works wonders!
Adam Silverstein, introduced Backbone, a JavaScript library, which facilitates creating faster and more interactive user interfaces!
Adrian Zumbrunnen, Pascal Birchler, and Bryce Adams spoke about the radical, ‘FrontKit’.
2014
WordPress in Different Cultures and Browsers
WordCamps were held in numerous cities, including San Francisco, Seattle, Paris, Cologne, Cape Town, and Tokyo. Highlighted using BrowserSync instead of LiveReload, when developing front end elements. Improve WordPress site JavaScript performance using Object Literal, Immediately Invoked Function Expressions (IIFE), and jQuery plugins.
2013
The Year of WordPress Innovation with JetPack and Cart66
WordCamps worldwide including San Francisco, Miami, Austin, Sofia, Sydney, and Manila.
George Stephanis, from Automattic, shared JetPack plug-in suite, which includes rich analytics, specific to WordPress, further bolstered by Google Analytics!
Hot buzz, about ‘Google+’; Lee Blue, from ‘Cart66’, & his team developed ‘Cart66’ for WordPress, as a single-solution plugin for e- commerce, which visually integrates with existing WordPress web site.
2011
The 5th Anniversary of WordPress Conferences
Marks the 5th anniversary of WordCamp. WordCamps organized in San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, London, Montreal, and Melbourne.
2010
WordPress Goes Social, Ethical and Educational
WordCamps expanded across San Francisco, New York City, London, Vancouver, Buenos Aires, and Cape Town.
Social Media powered by WordPress, Blogging Ethics, Google University Talk.
2008
A Year of Growth, Innovation and Education
University of British Columbia & University of Calgary announced launching a hosted blog service for their student community. The Discovery Channel has an “educator network”.
Matt’s State of the Word, the testing of the new WordPress interface named “Crazyhorse”, and usability issues and marketing with Kathy Sierra.
Raised money for ‘826 Valencia’, an organization, offering free educational programs for encouraging students to improve their writing skills.
2007
WordCamp Goes Global: From San Francisco to Beijing
John C. Dvorak and Om Malik tackled the myth of journalism. Matt Cutts of Google helped dispel a lot of SEO and PageRank myths. Podcasting master Dan Kuykendall, the author of PodPress WordPress Plugin, shared insights about adding multimedia to blogs. Also, the first WordCamp outside San Francisco, was held in Beijing in September 2007.
2006
The Origins of WordCamp: San Francisco
The first-ever WordCamp was organized in San Francisco, California gathering over 500 people, organized by Matt Mullenweg, the co- founder of WordPress. In the first-ever workshop, Mark Riley the WordPress community. Mark Jaquith orated on WordPress as a CMS, leading requested discussion topics.