For the first time this year, WordCamp Europe will have more than two tracks. With the conference expanding almost twice since 2015, we decided to add more content and most of all – experiment with formats and topics.
Our third track is going to be in the beautiful Leopold Museum, just a 2 min walk from Halle E+G and it will host all our networking activities (link), three highly targeted, focused content tracks (development, business, and community) and for the first time for an event of this side – unconference (more information coming in the next few days).
Today we’d like to introduce the third and final of our three focused tracks: “WordPress Development for Beginners”. The speakers in this focused track are successful developers with tons of experience in all areas of WordPress. They’ll get you familiar with some important concepts in WordPress development – from theme and plugin development to setting up your dev environment and working with Multisite.
Please welcome Marcos Schratzenstaller, Jeremy Felt, Edmund Turbin, Aaron Campbell, Matt Geri and Ulrich Pogson.
Marcos Schratzenstaller
Working at Rainmaker Digital as a SysAdmin focused on WordPress hosting, Marcos is a System administrator focused on WordPress hosting, developer in languages: Python, Bash, PHP, C/C++, Informix 4GL, Java, HTML, JavaScript, C#, Visual C++ (with large experience in this field) with large knowledge in databases (SQL and No-SQL).
Jeremy Felt
Jeremy is a senior WordPress engineer with University Communications at Washington State University, where he helps power the web on an open source, multi-network, multisite platform.
He describes himself as an Open Source Student. Is a WordPress core committer. Maintainer of VVV. Thankful community member of all the above.
Edmund Turbin
Edmund Turbin is a London based Solutions Engineer at WP Engine originally from New York. He has been developing websites for over 10 years.
He’s worked with proprietary and open source CMS platforms at media, publishing and ad tech companies and is passionate about optimizing workflows.
When the laptop is closed, he enjoys producing tech house in the studio, cycling and spending time with his family.
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Aaron Campbell
I’ve been doing web development professionally for over 16 years.
I’ve been a core contributor to WordPress since 2007 (WordPress 2.3), co-led the WordPress 3.6 release, am a part of the WordPress security team, and have commit access to WordPress core.
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Matt Geri
My name is Matt, I’m a full time WordPress Engineer at XWP. I’ve been a WordPress developer since 2005 and have loved the platform ever since.
I run a WordPress development blog at http://mattgeri.com where I post daily articles and videos on WordPress development.
The ultimate WordPress development environment
Ulrich Pogson
Have been teaching myself web development with WordPress since January 2012. I moved from support to theme development to plugin development to developing a site with custom features. I would like to show what I have done as there are not many resources how to develop and deploy small/medium sites. Hopefully, this will start a discussion and sharing of other solutions.