October 27 & 28, 2018
Following the sessions on Saturday, October 27, we invite you to attend the official WordCamp Philly After-Party!
This year the After-Party will be held at Clarkville, a restaurant known for slinging homespun comfort food out of a giant double-decker pizza relic while serving craft beer and wine.
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Contributor Day will take place on Sunday, October 28, at University of the Sciences, in the same location as the day before. We will be in the main building. Doors open and check-in starts at 12:30 pm. Contributor Day activities begin at 1 pm and conclude at 5 pm.
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Within the WordPress community, we are beginning to see a need to better support our children with the challenges of autism and related issues, particularly as they grow into adults.
At 1:30 pm October 27, the WordCamp Philly panel “Creating Inclusive Workplaces: What Tech Communities Are Doing to Support Employees with Autism and Related Challenges” will focus on how the tech community can create systems that enable people with autism and related challenges to flourish professionally.
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How do ethics apply to official WordPress-related events and to the businesses and individuals affiliated with those events? What happens if the businesses or individuals promote or earn income from groups whose mission is incompatible with the Code of Conduct? Where is the line for WordCamps when it comes to “providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all”?
WordCamp Philly 2018 will explore the issue in its panel, “Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Ethics, Values and the WordPress Community”. The panel will be at 10:50 am Saturday, October 27.
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WordCamp Philly isn’t just for experienced WordPressers. Newbies can find something worth their while, too: a walk through the basics of the CMS from experienced users. From installation and settings to creating posts, choosing a theme and plugins to maintenance and troubleshooting, we have beginners covered.
Continue reading “The WordPress 101 Track: Introducing the Essentials”
Let everyone know you’ll be at WordCamp Philly with a badge! Put it on social media, your website, or anywhere your heart desires.
WordCamp Philly 2018 is almost upon us, and we are in need of a volunteer photographer or two! We want to bring a new perspective to the event by offering the opportunity to capture the talks, panels and overall atmosphere. If you are a highly motivated individual with a lens, please get in touch via the contact form if you are interested!
WordCamp Philly has three themes this year: Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection, Independence, and City of Firsts. We invite volunteer photographers to use their cameras to capture these themes at WordCamp Philly. (To be clear, we’re not photographers so we have no idea how to do this. We’re hoping our volunteer photographers will!)
As a volunteer photographer, you will need to publish your photos online under a Creative Commons license.
In the grand tradition of the Philly Wapuu, we’re proud to introduce three new Wapuus. Our theme this year is Philly firsts. We choose just a few that were a surprise to us, but with a city whose history is as rich as Philadelphia’s, it was hard to choose!
Never heard of a Wapuu?… you can read all about how Wapuu came about here and then promptly fall in love like the rest of us. Read on to see our 2018 creations!
For WordCamp Philly 2018, the talks tackle aspects of what business owners are interested in: traffic. How to plan for it, how to drive it, how to measure it, how to serve it. We’ll have talks on preparation and feature selection for your audience; project management; the security of email marketing; sites for non-profits; and Google Analytics and driving traffic to your site.
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The WordCamp Philly 2018 Developer track will offer lots of useful talks for more experienced developers, but it will have topics for relative newcomers to WordPress development as well. Learn how to leverage the inspector, find out more about testing, get workflow tips, tackle Gutenberg development, see what you can do with post meta and learn about e-commerce plugin development — all part of the Developer track.
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