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What’s WordCamp Dublin?

WordCamp Dublin 2017 will include sessions on how to use WordPress more effectively, how to get security and SEO right, how to drive more traffic and sales to your website and, finally, we’ll be learning techniques such as PHP/CSS customization, plugin development and theme design.

Last but not the least, additional presentations and workshops will cover blogging, coding, branding, and freelancing.

WordCamp Dublin 2017 is perfect for any level of WordPress knowledge. We have specific tracks for those brand new to WordPress, business sessions for WordPress users and deep dives for the experienced developer.

The 2017 event has finished, but you can get a ticket for WordCamp Dublin 2019.

What’s WordPress?

WordPress is open source software used to create beautiful websites, blogs or apps. 28% (and growing) of the web uses WordPress, from hobby blogs to the biggest news sites online, such as the New York Times.

The thing about being open source allows anyone to create WordPress extension, known as “plugins”. Over 45,000 plugins help your website meet your needs – you can turn a basic WordPress site into an ecommerce store, display photo galleries, add contact forms, embed forums, track analytics, and much more. All without touching code.

Finally, WordPress is well known for its sense of community. Hundreds of thousands of developers, content creators, site owners and curious people gather at monthly meetups and yearly WordCamps in 436 cities worldwide. And WordCamp Dublin 2017 is the proof!

What to expect?

Dress like it’s casual Friday…

WordCamps are truly casual conferences – rarely you’ll meet people wearing a tie! So, dress comfortably and plan for any possible weather – we’re in Ireland after all!

As a participant (got your tickets yet?), you’re going to get the free, official WordCamp Dublin 2017 t-shirt, as well as additional swag kindly offered by our sponsors.

The atmosphere is quite relaxed, and you can even hang out with your new friends away from the two stages while sipping coffee and sneakily eating yet another chocolate-covered digestive.

Presentations and workshops are held by some of the most successful, passionate, knowledgeable, local and non-local WordPress experts out there. They do it for free, they spend hours and hours to put together great contents – and then they show up so to make WordCamp Dublin 2017 happen. Fair play!

WordPress is about people. And WordCamp Dublin 2017 is about people, too. Some attendees might be running million euro businesses, but you’ll never know that. We’re all the same “thing”: beginners, newbies, experts. We’re WordPress. Finally, we strive to make inclusivity a priority of WordCamp Dublin 2017. Want to speak or check the line-up? See here.

And don’t forget – the afterparty will be epic. Nothing is better than a long day of sessions at WordCamp than meeting new and old friends and having a chance to network afterwards. Be sure to bring your badge in order to get in!

Who are we?

You’ll meet us at WordCamp Dublin 2017. Or maybe you’ve already met us at one of our past Meetup events.

Well, we’re a group of local WordPress enthusiasts who have decided to give away weeks and weeks of work to make WordCamp Dublin 2017 possible!

However, we’re pretty shy 🙂 Better to talk to us in person at the event, or maybe feel free to join the volunteer team to help us out. No skills required. Just a smile or two!

Mark Smallman

Mark has been working with WordPress since 2009. Creating WordPress powered sites for companies and corporations of all sizes. When Mark started out with WordPress, he was living Scotland, and attended a few of the Meetups in Edinburgh. After returning to his native Northern Ireland in 2013, and having found there wasn’t an existing WordPress Meetup there, he set about creating the WPBelfast Meetup group, which still meet monthly. Mark was also lead organiser for the inaugural WCBelfast 2016.

Colm Troy

Colm has been building web stuff since the web was a wee lad. When not deep in hooks and filters you’ll find him running around a mountain or making pizza. Co-Founder of Create & Code and CommerceGurus.

Rodolfo Melogli

Author, WooCommerce expert, Web Developer and Internet marketer, Rodolfo is the organiser of the Dublin Ecommerce Meetup, the Dublin WooCommerce Meetup and the Dublin WordPress Meetup.

He enjoys interacting with people, running on the beach and chasing tennis & soccer balls. Of course, he loves pizza too.

Marcin Kilarski

Marcin is a front-end developer and a technical SEO geek at Web Innovation. He enjoys optimising websites for performance, users and search engines. Marcin wasn’t born in Ireland, but he has spent almost a third of his life on this amazing green island.

Amit Wadhwa

Amit Wadhwa The #WNTDWWP Guy – Self-taught WordPress expert who has broken it and put it back together. Amit started his own agency in 2012 and believes in creating beautifully engaging and effective websites that become powerful sales tool for his clients. Amit is also the lead organiser for the very first WordCamp Dublin, co-host of the Dublin WordPress Meetup group, WordCamp EU Volunteer and WCBelfast speaker on ‘What not to do with WordPress?”