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Inside WordCamp Pisa 2025

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Inside WordCamp Pisa 2025

WordCamp is the global series of community-organised conferences and meetups focused on WordPress, the open-source platform powering a significant portion of the web.

Unlike traditional big tech conferences, WordCamps are grassroots events; they are organised by local volunteers, serve a mix of developers, designers, marketers, content creators, freelancers, agencies and business owners, and often run at modest cost.

The goal isn’t just learning new technical skills, but to strengthen community, share knowledge, and spark collaborations across backgrounds and expertise levels.

For a company like ours, working deeply with WordPress sites, custom post types, forms, integrations, and front-end interactions, WordCamp isn’t just “a conference”. It’s a chance to reconnect with the broader WordPress ecosystem, spot new ideas, and benchmark our practices against the latest trends.

What happened at WordCamp 2025

Last week, three of us represented COMMpla at WordCamp Pisa 2025, held on 21-22 November at the University of Pisa. The event was much more than a handful of talks:

  • Contributor Day (Friday): a “get-hands-dirty” day where attendees, from complete beginners to seasoned contributors, collaborate on the WordPress project itself. This includes activities such as improving documentation, testing plugins, working on accessibility, helping with translations, or contributing to community tools.
  • Conference Day (Saturday): a lineup of sessions covering a variety of topics, from advanced development to design, accessibility, performance, content strategy, business & agency workflows, and more. Talks, panels, lightning sessions, and informal discussions made the day rich in content.
  • Networking, community & social moments: coffee breaks, lunch, sponsor booths, informal chats, and the evening After-Party gave us time to meet people, freelancers, agencies, plugin developers, community contributors, exchange ideas and discuss real-world challenges.

Though the exact session list varied, the general themes echoed what WordCamps worldwide are known for: accessible content for all levels, practical takeaways, and opportunities to connect.

What we learned

Attending WordCamp Pisa 2025 gave us several concrete ideas and takeaways that can directly benefit our company’s projects:

  • Fresh architectural & development ideas: Exposure to modern WordPress practices, whether in plugin architecture, clean code, custom post types, API integrations, helps us reflect on how we design our own custom solutions.
  • Better awareness of accessibility and inclusivity: Several sessions and community discussions emphasised web accessibility, inclusive design, and WCAG-compliant practices. Given our work on front-end timelines, dynamic forms, custom post types and multi-role workflows, this renewed focus can drive improvements in usability and compliance.
  • Inspiration for collaboration & open source contribution: Seeing how even non-core contributors can meaningfully help WordPress made us rethink whether we want to contribute, maybe by sharing some of our custom code, documentation, or even ideas back to the community.
  • Networking with the wider ecosystem: Meeting other developers, agencies, freelancers, and potential collaborators broadened our perspective; maybe there are tools or plugins we haven’t yet discovered.
  • Better user-centric and business-oriented mindset: Talks about content strategy, user experience, performance, and web-business workflows reminded us that building a website isn’t just about “making it work”, but also about usability, maintainability, scalability, and long-term sustainability.

Where we go from here

At COMMpla, we often build complex WordPress setups: custom post types, front-end ACF forms, dynamic data export, interactive UI, and integrations. Attending WordCamp reinforces that:

  • We are part of a living, evolving ecosystem. What we build matters and might even benefit others.
  • There’s always room for improvement in architecture, design, accessibility, collaboration, and workflows.
  • Contributing and staying connected with the community is not just altruistic: it’s a way to learn, grow, adapt, and gain visibility.
  • Fresh ideas from the conference will influence our upcoming work, from code structure to UI/UX, from WordPress best practices to new plugin adoption.

In the end, WordCamp Pisa 2025 was not just a “nice event,” but a strategic investment in our knowledge, network, and vision. We came back with energy, new contacts, and concrete ideas, and we’re excited to apply them in our upcoming projects.