Category Archives: Speakers & Tracks

Don’t Let the Acronyms Scare You: the Developer Track Is for Many Levels

The WordCamp Philly 2017 Developer track talks include several long titles, but don’t be intimidated. The track contains a little something for everyone regardless of skill level. Find out more about WordPress security, grasp the basics of creating a shortcode, learn about translation strategies and plugins or dive into more advanced WordPress development on October 28.

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Tech and Art Mingle with the Practical in the WC Philly Designer Track

Seven speakers will share their expertise in WordPress techniques, creative tools and processes, not to mention evolving CSS, as part of the Designer track. Both designers and power users who want to build their skillsets will find useful topics at WordCamp Philly 2017 on October 28.

The talks include unraveling the mysteries of the WordPress theme template hierarchy; learning the proper way to add scripts and stylesheets; and learning the basics of CSS grids.

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From SEO to Hosting to Customer Service: WC Philly Has Business Covered

WordCamp Philly 2017 will cover a wide variety of topics essential to freelancers and business owners who create, manage or support sites. The October 28 talks, which range from SEO and analytics to choosing web hosting and avoiding customer service disasters, are useful to anyone with an interested in web business, regardless of the platform they use or their experience level.

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The WordCamp Philly Session and Schedules are Posted

They’re ready! We have the 21 sessions that comprise the Designer, Developer and Business/Freeelance tracks up on the Sessions page for everyone to peruse.

If you’d like to compare them side by side to start planning your day, check out the Schedule. We’ll be announcing our keynote speaker, panelists and more about our 101 track soon, and you’ll see that information added to the schedule as the month progresses.

We’ll have lots more to tell you as the big weekend approaches. Follow @WordCampPhilly on Twitter or subscribe to our site to keep up with the latest on WordCamp 2017.

Introducing our WordCamp Philly 2017 Speakers – Round 1

Sharing knowledge is what WordCamp is all about, and it is thanks to many exceptional people in the community who volunteer their time to speak that makes a great WordCamp. This year we received submissions on many great topics making the selection process extra challenging.  It’s our pleasure to introduce round one of this year’s speaker lineup. Stay tuned for our next announcement!

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