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WordCamp for Publishers starts tomorrow!

The 2nd annual WordCamp for Publishers starts tomorrow morning! Registration opens at 8:30AM CT and opening remarks start promptly at 9AM CT. The full schedule is available on the website and please check our Slack and Twitter for updates throughout the conference, and don’t forget to use our hashtag #wcpub.

If you have any questions while you’re at the event – where to find something, WiFi, or anything else – don’t hesitate to ask one of our volunteers in the brown t-shirts.

See you all tomorrow in Chicago at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Arthur Rubloff Building. And if you can’t make it, we’ll be livestreaming all of our sessions on the main track starting at 9AM CT.  Stay tuned for the link!

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Thank you to our Silver and Bronze sponsors!

A big thank you to our Silver and Bronze Sponsors who are helping to make this amazing event possible!

Silver Sponsors

GoDaddy

GoDaddyGoDaddy Pro offers a robust suite of free tools to web developers & designers to help them save time managing all their clients and sites. With GoDaddy Pro, you can easily shop for your client, monitor their sites, and manage all their WordPress websites from one place. Exclusive time-saving tools let you update WordPress core, plugins and themes with one click, as well as automate WordPress backups, cloning and migrations. Get real-time performance, security and uptime monitoring across all your websites. Additionally, your free membership includes advanced 24/7 technical support.

When you pair GoDaddy Pro with GoDaddy hosting products, the benefits are even greater.

Check out the Free Tools

 

DreamHost

DreamHostSince 1997 DreamHost has helped individuals, small businesses, entrepreneurs, and developers worldwide bring their dreams to life on the Internet. A leader in Managed WordPress hosting, over 400,000 customers trust DreamHost to be their online home. Supporting the open source community with dedicated resources and a passionate team, DreamHost believes in the power of the Open Web and the people that make it happen. Learn more at DreamHost.com.

 

Shifter

ShifterShifter is the WordPress hosting solution that brings static site generation and serverless architecture to the world’s most popular CMS. Using Shifter, create always-on static sites with WordPress that load at lightning speed via free and automated HTTPS, Integrated CDN, and automated scaling.

 

10up

10up10up is a web agency that makes the internet better with consultative creative and engineering services, innovative tools, and dependable products that take the pain out of content creation and management, in service of digital experiences that advance business and marketing objectives. We’re a group of people built to solve problems, made to create, wired to delight.

 

WPEngine

WPEngine

WP Engine is the world’s leading WordPress digital experience platform that gives companies of all sizes  the agility, performance, intelligence, and integrations they need to drive their business forward faster. WP Engine’s combination of tech innovation and an award-winning team of WordPress experts are trusted by over 80,000 companies across 130 countries to provide counsel and support, helping brands create world-class digital experiences. Founded in 2010, WP Engine is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and has offices in San Francisco, California; San Antonio, Texas; London, England; Limerick, Ireland and Brisbane, Australia.

Human Made

Human MadeWe are Human Made. A WordPress.com VIP partner and one of the leading providers of WordPress platforms and solutions for enterprise.

We’re building powerful digital solutions for enterprise and big publishers: delivering technically complex WordPress instances at scale and transforming the way people interact with some of the most visited websites in the world. We have extensive experience consulting for and implementing large WordPress projects for internationally successful organisations such as News UK, USA Today, Capgemini, Fairfax Media, and TechCrunch.

Our collection of services represents the breadth of our experience; our projects are at the forefront of enterprise-level development; and our people are some of the most highly-skilled professionals in the industry.

 

Setka

Setka

At Setka, we believe that every piece of content deserves to be beautiful. When a great story is combined with high-quality design, its true potential is unlocked. But after years of working in a complex digital publishing environment, we know how hard this can be day after day, story after story. 

So, we created the Setka Editor (and its WordPress plugin) to empower editorial teams to unlock the true potential of digital design. It brings the elements we all love about print design into the interactive environment of the screens we use today. It allows for creativity in the hands of editors and designers, helping you create beautiful features every day without much extra effort or cost. It seamlessly integrates into both editorial processes and scaling technical infrastructures to keep everyone and everything moving efficiently. 

We love WordPress users because you value design, too—that’s why we’ve worked hard to become a WordPress VIP technology partner and making sure Setka Editor is Gutenberg ready (and since we know you value speed, it’s AMP ready, too). We are honored to support WordCamp for Publishers in Chicago this year and be a part of this community. 

 

Bronze Sponsors

BoldGrid

BoldGridBoldGrid is a website builder powered by WordPress. It is a free set of WordPress plugins, themes, and other content that allows site creation and management similar to non-WordPress website builders. By placing WordPress more in line with DIY site builder solutions on the market, our mission is not only to make WordPress more accessible and easy for beginners to utilize, but also automate and streamline typical WordPress tasks to provide a fast, creator-friendly platform that even web professionals will appreciate.

Experience WordPress as a website builder, including: free pre-built themes, drag and drop editing, integrated image banks, simplified photo editing, built-in staging, automated backups, and so much more.

BoldGrid will have you creating professional looking WordPress sites in minutes!

www.boldgrid.com

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Thanks to our scholarship sponsor, Pantheon!

We want to give a big thanks to our Scholarship Sponsor, Pantheon. Their generous donation allowed seven people to attend this year’s WordCamp for Publishers who otherwise couldn’t make it.

Pantheon is the website operations platform top developers, marketers, and IT use to build, launch and run all their Drupal and WordPress websites.

Pantheon includes all of the tools professional developers need to build best-practice sites—like staging environments, version control, backups, and workflows. Powering over 200,000 sites and billions of pageviews a month, Pantheon’s container-based infrastructure allows you to launch websites faster, without worrying about traffic spikes, security, or performance. It’s free to develop your site on Pantheon, you only pay once your site goes live. You can scale your site on the same infrastructure from day one, and never touch a server again. Create your free account now!

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The full schedule is now available!

The schedule for WordCamp for Publishers is now final and we’re very excited about the program we’ve put together for you. Oh yeah, and if you haven’t gotten a ticket it, do it today! We’re almost sold out!

We have a few additional sessions and workshops to announce:

Sessions

Lessons Learned from Managing Large Site Networks
David Parsons, Senior Software Engineer, USA Today Sports Media Group

Meta and Schema: Defining the Content about your Content
Jim Birch, Senior Digital Engineer

Workshops

Silos are for wheat: facilitating communication between the tech and editorial teams
Ernie Hsiung, CTO, WhereBy.Us

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Ticket update and more sessions

We’re just about a month away from WordCamp for Publishers 2018, which means we’re finalizing logistics for events and swag. If you want to guarantee yourself a spot at our evening events and swag, please sign up by Friday 7/13! 

We’ll still have some extras after that date, but we’ll need to start finalizing details to ensure things go smoothly. Get your tickets today!

We also have a few more sessions and workshops to announce:

Sessions

Panel: Experiments That Local Newsrooms Can Learn and Profit From
Sarah Schmalbach, Entrepreneur in Residence at the Lenfest Institute

Workshops

Security for Newsrooms
Paul Schreiber, Staff Web Developer, ESPN

Lightning Talks

Is WordPress a Product or a Community?
Boone Gorges, WordPress core contributor and consultant

AMP+ or How Forbes combined AMP and Mobile Templates
Vadim Supitskiy, VP of Software Engineering, Forbes

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Announcing more sessions!

We’re excited to announce more sessions and lightning talks. Read more about them at the links below and of course, get your tickets today!

Sessions

Dual Session
Reader revenue and the (less) open web: What happens when we all have paywalls
Why Paywalls Are Good for the Open Web
Eric Ulken, Digital Strategy Consultant
Nick Johnson, Founder and Engineer, Sabramedia

“Decisions, not Options” in the Age of Gutenberg
Chris Van Patten, Founder and Creative Director, Tomodomo

Lightning Talks

Wednesday Talks

#CodeDys
Jeannette Washington, M.Ed., Founder, Bearly Articulating

Solving Content Reuse and Syndication
Jake Goldman, Founder and President, 10up

Making Images Smarter
Russell Heimlich, Lead WordPress Developer, Billy Penn

Thursday Talks

Trust Project: News with Integrity
Sally Lehrman, Director, Trust Project

The Easy (and Sane) Way to Create Responsive HTML Emails
Mike Auteri, Senior Software Engineer, PMC

How to Increase Your Email List Without Selling Your Soul
Angie Meeker, Founder, Three Cans

Using Amazon Translate to Turn Posts into Audio
Susan Price, WordPress theme designer and developer

 

Excited about the event after seeing these amazing sessions? Get a ticket today!

WordCamp for Publishers - Chicago is over. Check out the next edition!