There were many excellent photographs taken at WordCamp Toronto 2018. One of our volunteer organizers, Kiera Howe, took these excellent pictures on Flickr.
And on Meetup.com these candid shots were shared by attendees.
If you have some feel free to share in the comments below.
With WordCamp Toronto 2018 in our rear view mirror we celebrated another milestone in the WordPress community: WordPress 5.0 was released on December 6, 2018. The new editor (aka Gutenberg) has now been deployed widely and being used around the world!
We hope you enjoyed WordCamp Toronto 2018 themed “Gutenberg and the WordPress of Tomorrow”. The WordPress Toronto organizers have been busily planning next year’s event already. We are hoping to have a fall event in 2019, so we have started planning already! At this point you probably have had a chance to think about your experience, and we want your feedback.
Please complete this survey which will help us decide on how to improve next year’s event!
And as a special treat – videos from all of the talks are up on WordPress.tv too! And the slides from most of our sessions are up on the WordCamp website.
Thank you to all the volunteers and organizers for such a great event. And a special thank you to the sponsors, without which the 2018 event truly would not have been possible.
If you have kudos (or issues) please leave them in the comments below or just leave them on the survey.
ps. We have issued all ticket refunds so you should receive your refunds within the next few days. Sorry about the delay!
Dear Alex and Kristine (and the rest of the WordCamp Toronto organizers),
I just wanted to send you a note to thank you for all your hard work planning WordCamp Toronto. It was heartwarming to finally see a lot of people at a local WordPress event. Up until Saturday, I wondered who was in the Toronto community.
The quality of the speakers was excellent, and the sessions were timed nicely. The after party was close by and you had great food. Overall the team did an excellent job. Thank you!
Heather M – Burlington, ON
The WPToronto and WordCamp Toronto logos were both originally designed by Gurcharn Birdi at Kobayashi + Zeitguys.
If the WordCamp Toronto logo looks familiar, that’s because it first appeared as the branding for WordCamp Toronto 2015.
Our talented co-organizer Dan Stramer tweaked the logo for 2018 and used it as the inspiration for this year’s branding. (Dan was also responsible for all the site and print design.)
A big thanks to Gurcharn, Kobayashi + Zeitguys, and Dan Stramer for offering their creative chops as in-kind support to #WCYYZ.
If you’re interested in contributing, consider volunteering – we’re always looking for more people to help out!
Ryan’s session is Growth and the future of SEO using Gutenberg.
Ryan has managed web design and marketing projects for global enterprise brands as well as small business. In 2014, he launched Tastic Marketing, a boutique agency that has built a reputation based on partnering with client businesses and driving exceptional growth with lead generation campaigns and techniques.
Why did you choose your topic?
I want people to understand how web design and SEO are connected. If I can help educate them, they can make better decisions.
Continue reading Featured speaker: Ryan MeghdiesThanks to Hover for helping make WordCamp Toronto 2018 possible.
Hover sells domain names and email – that’s it.
With over three hundred domain extensions, no heavy-handed upselling, and best-in-class support, Hover makes it easy to spend less time on finding your perfect domain and more time on your big idea. Domain name your passion.
Thanks to Weglot for helping make WordCamp Toronto 2018 possible.
Weglot is the best WordPress multilingual plugin to translate and display your website in multiple languages.
Founded in 2016, Weglot is trusted by more than 40,000 websites owners and developers, with an average rating of 4.9/5.0 (700+ reviews).
Key benefits include:
Thanks to Major Tom for helping make WordCamp Toronto 2018 possible.
Major Tom is a full-service agency that’s been purpose-built to help clients thrive in today’s increasingly complex marketing landscape.
Our team of more than 86 industry-leading specialists have been hand-picked from across the globe and cover the full spectrum of strategy, marketing, development, and creative. We’ve been serving our partners from our offices in New York, Toronto, and Vancouver since 2000. We combine the top-level strategy you’d find at an established consultancy with the implementation and technological capabilities you’d find at a leading agency.
Made up of some of the brightest minds on the web, we humanize modern marketing, cutting through the noise to bring clarity to our clients.
The following is a guest post on behalf of our sponsors at GoDaddy. GoDaddy Pro provides free tools like delegated account access and a single dashboard to manage all your WordPress sites (no matter where they’re hosted).
Let’s go back in time to 2004 when WordPress was first spun out of b2/cafelog.
In these early days, a website was your online presence.
Social media wasn’t really a thing yet. Facebook wasn’t conceived until a month after WordPress 1.0 shipped, MySpace didn’t take off until 2005, and Twitter came along a year later in 2006.
Nobody was vlogging on YouTube or streaming on Twitch or posting stories to Instagram because these things didn’t exist yet.
But blogs existed, and the web was full of them. They were tomes of digital text, powered by a plethora of platforms.
In time, WordPress came to dominate. It gobbled up market share as bloggers moved away from the likes of Movable Type (and others).
WordPress was great because it provided an elegant writing experience and was open to customization through themes, plugins, and post types.
Thanks to those capabilities, WordPress eventually grew beyond just being a tool for building blogs – it became a full-blown CMS.
That’s great for building information-dense, text-heavy websites.
But the web is so much more than that now.
Continue reading Gutenberg & the building blocks of an online presence.
Andrea’s sessions are Copywriting for better UX and Storytelling with Gutenberg.
Andrea is the Chief Content Creator at SiteGround and the lead organizer for WordCamp Montreal. She trained as a broadcast journalist and worked in corporate communications before trading it for a career in tech. Now she spends her days developing brand messaging, copy editing and blogging. When she’s not at home in Montreal, she’s sampling the digital nomad life and documenting her adventures on her travel blog. Follow @andreazoellner on Twitter to connect.
Why did you choose your topic?
I love good content and think it’s an important part of building successful websites. I also believe improving the communication value of your site is something everybody can achieve.
With a growing interest in accessibility and user experience, my talk on microcopy provides easy-to-implement tips that can help any web interface be more effective.
My talk about storytelling with Gutenberg comes at a time when many bloggers and content creators are wondering just what to expect with the new editor and if they’re going to have to change their workflow. The answer is yes, but the payoff is huge. In my talk, I hope to encourage and inspire content creators to embrace the multimedia opportunities of Gutenberg.
Thanks to Jetpack for helping make WordCamp Toronto 2018 possible.
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