March 24-26, 2017
Once again WordCamp Miami has sold out completely. Thank you to all of those who purchased tickets – and thank you to of course to volunteers and sponsors who made this possible.
We had available late admission tickets for the past week or so but those are sold out as well. Workshop and Kids tickets are sold out too. A waitlist is up right now. There are a few cancelations before the event and when a spot opens up we will let waitlisters now in the order they entered their names on the list.
Although there are one or two tickets floating in our system now, WordCamp Miami workshops have sold out with about a week before the conference. Thank you to all of those who purchased tickets – and thank you to of course to volunteers and sponsors who made this possible.
A waitlist is up right now. There are a few cancelations before the event and when a spot opens up we will let waitlisters now in the order they entered their names on the list.
We currently have closed down general admission tickets and replaced them with late admission tickets for Saturday and Sunday (March 25th and 26th). Late admission tickets still give you FULL access to the weekend, just like a general admission ticket. You still get food as well. What’s missing from a late admission ticket? You might not get a t-shirt and swag. Late admission tickets are still a great value, and these usually go out very quickly which leads to a SELL OUT.
If you are thinking about grabbing a WordCamp Miami ticket, be aware that you must do so by March 8th in order to guarantee yourself on our infamous (famous?) WordCamp Miami t-shirts. After March 8th, we send off our order to the t-shirt company who doesn’t guarantee any additional shirts on late orders.
This year, we have quite a bit of surprises for those who don’t wait until the last minute. Don’t be left out!
Get your tickets here (weekend tickets include the t-shirt).
Bluehost, a Gold sponsor for this year’s WordCamp Miami, is bringing BobWP and his podcast, the WP eCommerce Show, to WordCamp this year. Just recently, Bluehost committed to a 6-month sponsorship of the podcast. With this partnership, they are looking at some creative ways to take the podcast on the road.
Since the show is eCommerce-focused, Dunn plans on bringing on two of this year’s WordCamp Miami speakers to chat about WordPress and eCommerce: Christine Chirinos whose session is the Beginner’s Guide To WordPress and eCommerce, and Patrick Rauland, with Scoping eCommerce Projects. You will want carve out the time to attend these two sessions because you will have a chance to shape the content of the podcast by offering questions and topics you’d like to see addressed. Not to mention the opportunity to hear these entertaining, knowledgeable speakers. And if you aren’t able to make it, no worries. Just tweet your question to @wpecommerceshow with the hashtag #WCMIA before we start.
BobWP is excited to have a co-host join him for this episode, Devin Sears, Marketing Event Coordinator for Bluehost —as they hit the speakers with the hard questions. The podcast will be a recorded by live video stream on Facebook, 4pm EST, on Saturday, March 25th. And, as always, you can access the recording later if you miss the live event. So mark your schedules!
Haven’t you wished you could ask any question to an “expert” at WordCamp? Problem is that many talks have short Q&A sessions – and while we encourage speakers to visit the Happiness Bar after the talks, it’s still difficult to ask sometimes. Also there could be someone ELSE in the room that has a great answer, or would love to bond over the subject you’re interested in.
This is part of the reason why we are bringing “Ask The Expert” sessions to WordCamp Miami this year. In a nutshell:
Think of this as a mini-town hall or a Reddit “AMA”. It’s kind of on a trial basis – if we get good feedback we will bring it back next year.
Got a question about WordPress security? We have a person for that.
Got a question that touches on development? We have two people for that.
Although you can ask any legit question, we tend to suggest topics to help guide the conversation.
There are six “Ask The Expert” spots and they are all on Saturday, March 25th. We are updating our schedule page with the last of those as soon as they are confirmed. However we want to share with you three of the six experts we have lined up so far.
Mason James is a native Floridian who got his start volunteering for WordPress support in various forums in 2008. After freelancing and working for various other companies, in 2012, he started WP Valet. With a focus on first-class customer service and iterative, measurable improvements, Valet quickly gained a reputation for being a trusted partner to their clients. Today, Valet provides development, insights, and peace of mind to WordPress site owners around the world.
Suggested Questions And Topics: Mason is passionate about remote work culture and measuring support effectiveness. Mason manages customer expectations, troubleshooting, and consulting work with the same criteria – education to increase success.
Andrew (or Norcross, as most know him) is the founder and lead developer of Reaktiv Studios, an agency focused on solving complex problems with killer WordPress solutions. After quite a few years in the finance industry, Norcross switched to coding and hasn’t looked back. He’s got skin in both the service game — Reaktiv Studios is a WordPress VIP Featured Partner, helping top-tier clients with their WordPress development— and the product game, with Reaktiv’s flagship plugin, Design Palette Pro, continually being developed and supported. An organizer for WordCamp Tampa, Norcross loves to keep giving back to the WordPress community with free plugins, education talks at conferences, and core contribution to WordPress. Norcross lives in Tampa, Florida with his amazing son and a rescue dog that believes he’s a human.
Suggested Questions And Topics: Andrew is not only an accomplished developer but also runs Reaktiv Studios. So developers who have questions related to plugins or perhaps have a question regarding having a business around WordPress plugins might want to see Andrew on March 25th.
Suggested Questions And Topics: Victor is from one of the best WordPress security companies out there – Sucuri. Questions related to security – especially to security of WordPress sites – would be recommended.
Suggested Questions And Topics: Mark is a lead developer of WordPress core – not to mention a developer who has covered advanced topics in both freelancing and other WordCamp talks. Got a deep development question? Mark might be the guy to either give some advice or point you to someone who might have the answer you’re looking for.
Speakers are being confirmed now in the above lineup and they’ll be announced in a few days, and we’ll have updated information right up until the conference.
To build upon last year’s effort, Matt Mullenweg (CEO of Auttomatic) reaffirms his commitment to learn JavaScript deeply during his “State of the Word” (click here to watch the video – the mention is 20:44 minutes into the video).
An interesting fun fact: the WordPress codebase is 28% JavaScript. Matt claimed that it’s the future of the web, and WordCamp Miami believes that as well. To that end, WordCamp Miami is devoting it’s entire developer’s track on Sunday to JavaScript education.
In a nutshell:
The “Learn JavaScript Deeply” track will be on Sunday, March 26th. It is a full-day track.
Nizar Khalife is the Lead Instructor at Ironhack in Miami and has been a Web developer for over 9 years. He teaches tech-literacy and the craft of coding. Nizar also writes software for the Web, usually in his preferred language: JavaScript.
Aside from that, Nizar is from Puerto Rico and enjoys video games, film and cookies.
Talk: “Callbacks, I promise to explain.”: Ever try to integrate 3rd party code and it didn’t work because callbacks? Callbacks are probably the most treacherous concept in all of JavaScript. Join us in exploring the theory behind callbacks and asynchronous code while we try to integrate with YouTube’s IFrame Player API.
One of Josh’s favorite things to do is to share what he has learned about WordPress plugin development, business and community. He writes regularly for Torque Magazine and has contributed to other top WordPress tutorial sites including, Smashing Magazine, Tuts+, and WPBeginner. He is also the author of the book The Ultimate Guide to the WordPress REST API.
Talk: “Exploring The WordPress REST API WiIth VueJS”: Learn how to make use of post endpoints of the WordPress REST API using the VueJS framework. This talk will provide an introduction to VueJS, a relatively simple, yet extremely powerful JavaScript framework. We will use WordPress data, via the WordPress REST API, to create practical examples of how to use VueJS to edit and show a post, create posts lists and switch between them using the Vue router.
Talk: “Tricky Things About JavaScript Explained Simply”: In this talk, WordPress educator Zac Gordon goes over many of the popular JavaScript libraries and frameworks (jQuery, Backbone, Ember, Angular and React) and discusses various use cases for each one. Of course, the talk also includes emphasis on some vanilla JS knowledge a WordPress dev should have.
Auston is a self-taught programmer, polyglot (PHP, Ruby, Python, JS) & 2x CTO. He’s currently the head instructor at Wyncode Academy, where he helps people develop and refine programming abilities over 10 weeks.
Talk: “Getting Started with React”: React is amazing” they said. “It makes front end so much simpler”. These are the kinds of statements you hear about React. We will go through a few basic ways to set up your React tool chain & the basics of React via a todo app.
Jonathan began tinkering with WordPress websites and plugins eleven years ago, taking the plunge into full-time freelancing shortly thereafter. He has collaborated with the distributed team at Modern Tribe for six years, and currently leads a team of developers to build delightful and creative solutions on top of the WordPress platform. When he’s not coding, Jonathan is busy homeschooling his two children and enjoying the beautiful weather of Northeast Florida.
Talk: “A PHP developer’s adventures in React : building plugin admin interfaces”: Just about any moderately complex WordPress plugin requires some sort of administrative interface. In many cases, your code for this UI could benefit from the flexibility and power provided by the React JavaScript library, but integrating React with the WordPress admin brings its own set of challenges. From developer tools, to data persistence, to extensibility, we’ll explore some of these challenges and the solutions we’ve developed at Modern Tribe as we’ve used React to build elegant administrative user experiences in WordPress.
Making React applications play nicely with the WordPress admin involves a number of tricks and workarounds. I’ll cover topics such as integration with the TinyMCE editor, communication with WP’s existing JS libraries, setting up developer tools such as hot module reloading, and persisting data in the WP database.
Speakers are being added to the above lineup and they’ll be announced in a few days along with our weekend schedule.
Speakers will be sharing all the code online. For this unique and exclusive track, there will also be a Q&A for those with questions. It’s a perfect time to get the feedback and suggestions from a group of experienced developers. No question is too basic or small! There will also be a section of the schedule dedicated to speakers sharing the best resources so you can continue your education after the conference. A Slack channel (click here to signup) will be provided exclusively for developers at the conference so you can virtually meet developers before the conference… and follow up with them after the conference as well.
More information and surprises concerning WordCamp Miami’s “Learn JavaScript Deeply” track will be announced the closer we get to the conference. We are looking forward to educating the local community and hope this starts a trend of knowledgable workshops and tracks in future WordCamps in 2017!
Grab your weekend ticket now to make sure you can attend. Developers should also come to our BuddyCamp Developers workshop on Friday, March 24th.
The time has finally arrived!
You can now purchase your tickets for WordCamp Miami!
We’re offering several ticket types:
If you applied to speak or volunteer and wondering if you need to buy a weekend ticket now – don’t worry. We are holding weekend tickets in reserve for speakers, sponsors, and volunteers. If you want to attend a workshop, you can grab your ticket now if you’re sure you want to attend that workshop and we will refund you if appropriate.
We’ll be posting information regarding speakers and schedules, so please be sure that you’re subscribed to our mailing list to get ticket updates via email. Or join us in our Slack channel. These are the best ways to be the first to be notified of future announcements.
With our early bird tickets sold out, regular tickets will be on sale in a few days. In the meantime, we want to tell you about some changes to the WordCamp Miami lineup, workshops, and some other cool things.
Our Focus This Year
This is the 9th year of WordCamp Miami, but we are still experimenting with new formats, tracks and lineups. Here are some previews:
We have several “focuses” this year in our main weekend schedule:
We will be selling tickets and announcing our first wave of speakers NEXT WEEK.
More information will start pouring in now, so make sure you are following us on Twitter, in Slack, or on our mailing list.
Some pics of BuddyCamp Miami 2016 from @foundartphotog https://t.co/R0PWHx76Mp #wcmia pic.twitter.com/kGeQYDlNg6
— BuddyCamp Miami 2017 (@buddycampmia) March 4, 2016
BuddyCamp is a mini-conference (or a workshop) that focuses on the BuddyPress and bbPress plugins. This unique conference focuses on how you can use these plugins as you use WordPress to build SOCIAL or COMMUNITY sites and web applications for you or your clients.
As of now, the schedule follows a traditional WordCamp format, with beginner sessions along with designer / developer presentations. Key people and contributors will be speaking, answering questions, and hanging out.
Would you like to learn more about the WP-REST API. Perhaps you want to prepare for the day when BuddyPress has it’s own REST API. Either way, if you want to lean about the WP-REST API we are planning on including some instruction into this workshop for developers!
BuddyCamp Miami has been happening for FOUR years. Attendance has been strong every year, and we’re happy the community has supported the longest running BuddyPress event. Seriously 4 or 5 years is sometimes remarkable for a plugin to exist, let alone have a conference for it.
Lead organizers of BuddyPress even call Miami the unofficial home of BuddyCamps (are we misquoting? probably). Please check out BuddyCamp Miami videos on wordpress.tv from our last WordCamp Miami.
What is the date for BuddyCamp Miami 2017?
Our confirmed date is March 24th, 2017 (a Friday).
Some of our confirmed speakers include…
John James Jacoby: One of the core contributors to BuddyPress… he will be talking about the current state of the plugin and answer questions.
Tara Claeys: Will be reviewing case studies and helping attendees appreciate how they can use BuddyPress for their own projects.
Tanner Moushey: Will be covering how to use BuddyPress to build a successful community site, and at the same time not just focused on features.
…and more speakers talking about the WordPress/BuddyPress REST API!
Tickets coming soon!
Watch this site for ticket announcements, which are coming IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS. You can also follow us on Twitter at @wordcampmiami and @buddycampmia for more details.
Please spread the word, and we look forward to seeing many of you at the fourth BuddyCamp in Miami!
We broke records once again with our speaker call which ended last month. We are confirming final speakers now with emails going out to everyone – regardless if they were chosen or sadly not able to be selected this year.
But now it’s time for us to open a new speaker call…. for kids. We are looking for two or three kids who want to give a 5 minute presentation at WordCamp Miami on March 25th/26th. The young person must be between ages of 7-18 (and if under the age of 16, with their parent or guardian present).
Possible topics:
– How I Use WordPress
– How I Publish Content Online (Even If They Don’t WordPress)
– How Can WordPress Be Better/Easier For Youths My Age
…and those are just suggestions. We would love to see what our youths have to talk about.
WordCamp Miami is known for it’s events specialized for young people. We have had young people speak in previous years. Plus in 2016 we had two full days of activities for the younger generation, plus our first Kid’s Panel. We are looking to expand and give youths their time to shine.
Please ping us with any questions. The deadline for applications is February 10th. And remember… no adults please! 🙂
WordCamp Miami 2017 is over. Check out the next edition!
