WordCamps are locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. The first event was WordCamp 2006 in San Francisco. In 2007 the first WordCamp outside San Francisco was held in Beijing.
Since then, there have been WordCamps in 65 countries on six continents. The events, which are coordinated by local organizers with the assistance of WordCamp Central, vary in format based on the interests of the communities that present them.
A Brief History of WordCamp Philly
In Philadelphia, the first WordCamp was in October 2010 at Temple University. The talks covered topics as diverse as e-commerce, writing style, BuddyPress, enterprise authentication, using Ajax, creating custom navigation and getting involved in the WordPress community.
Temple hosted the event again in 2011 and 2012. WordCamp Philly shifted to the summer and a new venue — the University of the Arts — in 2014, then to the University of the Sciences in 2015.
The local event went on hiatus in 2016 for a good reason: Philadelphia hosted the inaugural WordCamp US in December 2015, and the national event returned to Philly in 2016. Local organizers were fully immersed a couple of the largest WordCamps held to date.
After the national event moved to a new city, WordCamp Philly returned. The University of the Sciences hosted the 2017 and 2018 events. With this year’s move to The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, WordCamp will be across the street from the scene of the first national event.
