Every year I am amazed by this event and how WordPress professionals gather every year from different parts of the world to talk about this wonderful CMS. At the marketing agency we use it every day in our websites.
This year it was in Basel, Switzerland. A very nice country but enormously expensive. But in the end you forget about it when you have a few beers.
The first day was about landing and getting together for a picnic, which was not possible because I arrived late, but we soon found a solution with the Galician community. And we came up with a plan for later which was to invite me to the Codeable party, of which Carlos Longarella and Jorge Gonzalez are part of. Also of course with Juan Hernando and Wajari.
The place was very nice, and it was funny because you had three countries in sight: Germany, France and Switzerland.
And on Thursday the WordCamp started with the Contributor Day. A day where teams are organized to contribute to the WordPress project in its different options, in this one, I was co-leading the table with my partner Fran Torres. My part was focused on showing how Plugin Check Plugin works, a tool created by the community to analyze the code of plugins for vulnerabilities and security holes and how to contribute.
I also had the chance to meet with Nilambar Sharma, another major contributor to the Plugin team, and Felix Antz, now on the WordPress.org AI team.
Photos taken by Paco Marchante at the Plugins table presentation.
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Days of Talks
For me it was a mixed day of a lot of learning, meetings with different WordPress contribution teams, and also a lot of discussions.
The advantage of WordCamp is that you can watch the content of the talks on WordPress.TV. I encourage you to visit it, as there are many very interesting ones.
Sponsors Booth
If you want to meet the most important companies in the WordPress world, this is the WordCamp. And of course, the Hostinger booth was packed to the raffle part.
Q&A Matt and Mary
For me, this was a moment where after all the effort of a year is rewarded, and is that in the Q&A, Matt Mullenweg (co-founder of the WordPress Project) and Mary Hubbard (President of the WordPress Foundation), asked me live how much had increased the number of new plugins in the directory. It had doubled and the wait for the first revision is about a week. In this post I explain a bit more about this.
And on the last day in Basel, besides sightseeing, we had the chance to meet with Matt.
Parties
In conclusion, a very complete WordCamp where there has been work, training and leisure. Next year we will see you in Krakow, Poland.
