We’re busy preparing for a WordCamp next weekend! WordCamp Lancaster returns on Saturday, March 14th, and tickets are still available. As organizers, we’re closely monitoring the COVID-19/Coronavirus news and its impact on Lancaster County. We expect to continue as planned and are excited to host another WordCamp in central Pennsylvania.
To be sure, we arrived at this decision after much deliberation and consultation. The health and safety of this community is of utmost importance. WordCamp Lancaster draws a largely-local crowd of around 200 attendees, many who do not travel far to attend. As of Friday March 6th, the CDC, the Pennsylvania Department of Health, local Lancaster County emergency officials, or our conference venue have not suggested that events like ours cancel or postpone. Should the situation change, and that proceeding will put our community at risk, we will reevaluate our live event.
Of course, we encourage our attendees, speakers, and volunteers to do what’s best for them in considering their own safety and risk factors. We also echo the PA Department of Health suggestion, “If you are sick, stay home.” Should you decide you won’t be able to attend, please cancel and refund your ticket using the link in the confirmation email. If you need assistance, we are glad to help.
We still need a few volunteers to help us run the show. If you are interested in helping the event, please fill out this short form.
We have an opt-in Attendees page that showcases the names and photos of ticket holders. The photos are provided by Gravatar, a free, personal avatar service.
Create a Gravatar profile with the email address you used to register for our event, and upload a photo.
If you expect to see your name and photo on our Attendees page but do not, perhaps you did not opt-in during registration. Search your inbox for the confirmation email and look for the link that allows you to edit your registration details.
A majority of our tickets have been sold! We must limit the number of attendees to make sure we can cater lunch. Register now for $25.
If you would like your name and Gravatar printed on your conference badge, please register now. Time is running out to send items to print, and we’ll place our order for event badges soon. Blank badges and markers will be available for any late registrations.
WordCamp Lancaster will again host two concurrent tracks of presentations throughout a full day of learning and celebrating WordPress at IU13 Conference & Training Center in Lancaster Pennsylvania.
We decided to maximize the number of speakers at this year’s one-day event. Instead of a keynote, we’ve invited a total of 20 presenters to provide attendees with as much content as possible.
If you would like your name and Gravatar* printed on your badge, now is a great time to obtain a ticket. Printing takes time, and last minute registrants will be invited to apply their names to their badges with markers.
* Gravatar.com is also the source of photos on our Attendees page.
WordCamp Lancaster proudly announces the third wave of confirmed speakers. Join us March 14th in Lancaster, Pennsylvania for a full day of learning and celebrating WordPress, the software that powers 33% of the web. One ticket is $25, and two tracks of presentations deliver value to web professionals of all skill levels.
AJ Morris is the Product Innovation and Marketing Manager for iThemes, a WordPress plugin and training company that helps businesses, bloggers, and freelancers protect their investments in their sites. He spends most of his time helping store or site builders solve challenging problems through online education and consulting with businesses build digital storefronts.
Erik has been a freelance WordPress developer since 2008, with a specialty in helping nonprofits tell their stories. He currently works as a WordPress developer with Inverse Paradox of Langhorne, Pennsylvania.
Senior Digital Marketing Strategist Jonathan Bentz leads vital SEO projects for Direct Online Marketing (DOM) in Pittsburgh, PA.
Jonathan’s journey as a thought leader in SEO began back in his West Virginia University (WVU) days, where he received a degree in journalism. Following a decade of experience running digital marketing campaigns in agency settings and competitive industries like hospitality and cloud technology, Jonathan signed on with DOM to significantly contribute to its growing SEO client services.
Immediately after his arrival, he integrated corporate branding and voice with SEO. Jonathan’s SEO approach isn’t near-sighted or trapped in any trendy bubbles. It’s an all-encompassing strategy devised to bolster each brand with natural web authority.
Over the years, Google has evolved into an artificial intelligence-driven trust machine. If your site isn’t building brand trust with Google, it’s probably dying.
Jonathan believes strongly in technical analysis, but not needlessly complicated site renovations. You’ve built a fantastic product or service; our team’s job is to ensure that your site’s SEO technical attributes are on point.
An SEO campaign isn’t about traffic volume; it’s about traffic volume that creates revenue. For Jonathan, this means a sophisticated site analysis that extracts data and metrics about backlinks, competition, and revenue-oriented keywords. Through a discerning look at these factors, Jonathan and his team can forge a sensible way forward for the brand.
Jonathan’s expert SEO analysis has been published in prominent publications such as Entrepreneur.com, Ecommerce Times, and CIO Online.
In his free time, Bentz serves on the leadership team at his church. He is committed to creating new economic opportunities for underserved communities and uplifting those areas for children and future generations. He also enjoys spending time with his young children and family.
He grew up in Lancaster, PA, and graduated from Penn Manor High School prior to attending WVU. He returned to the area in 2008 as the second outside hire for Grant Street internet marketing agency Lupeer and also served as the first in-house marketing manager for Harrisburg IT services provider Netrepid before relocating to the Pittsburgh area and leading the SEO team at DOM.
Kim White has been a web developer for over twenty years building websites and web-based applications for advertising agencies, non-profit organizations as well as small to medium-sized businesses.
Kim has been using WordPress since 2008 and is the Co-organizer of the Lehigh Valley Meetup and Lehigh Valley WordCamp. She has been part of the organizing team of WCUS for the last 3 years.
Recently, Kim joined the support team at Paid Memberships Pro.
Mike Auteri (@mauteri) is a Senior Software Engineer at Penske Media Corporation (PMC) who leads development for many well-known publishing brands on WordPress.com VIP. He’s contributed a few lines of code to WordPress core, written a couple plugins, presented at meetups/WordCamps, and is a co-organizer of the WordPress Montclair Meetup and lead organizer of WordCamp Montclair 2020. A New Jersey native, Mike lives not 4 blocks from a house featured in the Sopranos. Mike is a fan of good beer, hot sauce, and an avid fencer.
Stephen has been involved with WordPress for over 10 years and has experience with web development and management for 20. He also has experience in video and audio production and editing. His passion and expertise are in strategic business planning and digital brand building. He is a graduate of the Disney Institute and a WP Elevation member for WordPress consultants. He also has his own Digital Media consulting agency, Stag Media Consulting.
Tara Claeys began her career in advertising and marketing in the early 1990’s. After her first child was born, she supplemented her full-time job as Mom with illustration and stationery design for clients around the world. Her extensive marketing background and understanding of business quickly became her focus. Founded in 2010, Design TLC, specializes in websites and digital marketing for small schools, enrichment programs, camps and education-focused nonprofits.
Stay tuned, our full event schedule will be released later this week!
WordCamp Lancaster proudly announces the second wave of confirmed speakers. Join us March 14th in Lancaster, Pennsylvania for a full day of learning and celebrating WordPress, the software that powers 33% of the web. One ticket is $25, and two tracks of presentations deliver value to web professionals of all skill levels.
Austin Ginder is a Lancaster, Pennsylvania local seen frequently working out of coworking spaces and coffee shops. He’s a husband, father of six children and runs Anchor Hosting, a hassle-free WordPress hosting service for web professionals. He helps agencies and freelancers keep their customers WordPress sites running smooth.
Eric Karkovack is a freelance web designer and writer. A 20+ year veteran of the industry, Eric both works with and writes about his journey in using WordPress to tackle everyday challenges for clients.
He is constantly amazed at the kindness and generosity of the WordPress community. It has inspired him to pay it forward through writing, speaking and sharing what he has learned.
In addition, he enjoys writing about his adventures, including a lot of ups and downs, in running a freelance design business.
Eric resides in Carlisle, PA, with his wife and daughter. He enjoys cheering on his New Orleans Saints and Baltimore Orioles, along with seeing how many types of birds he can feed in the backyard.
He writes for several online publications, including Speckyboy Web Design Magazine, 1stWebDesigner, Envato Tuts+ and the Advanced Custom Fields blog.
Kerch McConlogue, retired ADHD coach and frontend developer, has been writing code by hand for 20 years and using WordPress since version 1.5.
Her passion is helping WordPress novices to understand the basic care and feeding of their own sites and to get past their fears of breaking the internet. A one-person shop, building sites mainly for small to midsized businesses, she handles a lot of the design work.
Kevin Kresge is the Digital Marketing Director at Visual Impact Group based in York, PA where he manages all digital marketing projects like search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing (SEM) and social media marketing (SMM), as well as other pay-per-click campaigns (PPC) for clients from a large variety of industries.
Sal is a WordPress developer at WebDevStudios who is passionate about code and web development. He has contributed repeatedly to WordPress Core, Genesis, and is the author of the Bootstrap Genesis Theme.
Sal’s previous experience as a Magician/Juggler, Computer Science & Mathematics teacher, and Radio DJ makes him an entertaining and engaging speaker. He has spoken on a wide variety of topics including object-oriented PHP programming, enforcing code standards with PHP Codesniffer, WordPress Post Meta, and avoiding the pitfalls of DNS.
Sal is also a proponent of developers blogging and shares his development notes and tips at salferrarello.com as well as on Twitter at @salcode.
We are working to confirm the rest of our presenters and will release a full schedule as soon as possible.
WordCamp Lancaster proudly announces the first wave of confirmed speakers. Join us March 14th in Lancaster, Pennsylvania for a full day of learning and celebrating WordPress, the software that powers 33% of the web. One ticket is $25, and two tracks of presentations deliver value to web professionals of all skill levels.
Laura began her career with non-profits, where marketing the mission was part of everyone’s job. After dabbling in FrontPage for a few years, Laura found WordPress in 2006 when she and a friend unexpectedly created a viral website. Thrust into a vortex of website management meets Hollywood, her marketing arsenal exponentially grew with new skill sets in SEO, social media strategy, podcasting, event management, and more. Today, she’s Bet Hannon Marketing’s content specialist. NewYorkerLaura.com Laura currently resides in Philadelphia, PA with her husband, Kevin, and dog, Scully.
Tracy Rotton (she/her) is Founder and Principal of Taupecat Studios, an independent WordPress development agency based near Washington, D.C. She has been a web developer for over twenty years, and a WordPress developer for ten, specializing in custom theme and site development for nonprofits and the enterprise. She has spoken at WordCamps throughout the eastern United States and has been a core contributor to WordPress and related projects.
Matt has a WordPress consultancy business offering custom website development and monthly website maintenance and help desk services. Originally from Baltimore, MD he now calls Sadsbury Township, PA home. He is back into coding after a long hiatus having survived for a time as a network project manger and software channel manager. He has become an avid Phillies fan, but tends to favor the minor league teams in Reading (Fightins) and Lehigh Valley (Iron Pigs). He and his wife are empty nesters, with a brand new grand-daughter. You can find Matt on Twitter at @ryancommamatt.
Joe Casabona is an accredited college course developer and professor.
He also has his Master’s Degree in Software Engineering, is a Front End Developer, and hosts multiple podcasts.
Joe started freelancing in 2002, and has been a teacher at the college level for over 10 years. His passion in both areas has driven him to build Creator Courses, a school for those who want to create online businesses.
As a big proponent of learning by doing, he loves creating focused, task-driven courses to help students build something. When he’s not teaching, he’s interviewing people for his podcast, How I Built It.
Pam is a major SEO nerd, a huge fan of WordPress, and a Slayer-loving metalhead. She was named one of the “Top 10 Women in SEO for 2019.” Pam offers SEO consulting and training, as well as white-label services for agencies that want to provide high-quality SEO services to their clients.
Jason is co-author of Building Web Apps with WordPress and CEO of Paid Memberships Pro, the 100% open source membership plugin for WordPress. He has been pushing WordPress to its limits for many years and is an advocate for using WordPress as an application framework to build web sites and apps that go above and beyond the typical blog of CMS site. Jason works out of his home in Reading, Pennsylvania where he lives with his wife and business partner Kimberly Coleman and their two children.
I’m a designer and developer of user experiences and interfaces for WordPress websites and products. With over seven years experience building WordPress solutions, I currently put my skills to work for clients and agencies as cofounder at Sidetrack Studio and WPBlockShop and as the User Success Advocate with Castos and the Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin.
Dan is the Chief Operating Officer of DigitalCube, a company committed to supporting WordPress and its communities. He’s a web developer, AWS superfan, JAMstack advocate, and design thinking enthusiast.
Donna is the owner of Delos Incorporated, a website development and digital marketing company in the Philadelphia area. Donna has been working with WordPress since 2010, creating websites and applications that help businesses grow and improve their processes. Donna frequently speaks to business organizations on how to make the web work for them. She enjoys hanging out with her family, the outdoors and Italian wine. Connect with Donna on Twitter @DonnaBotti
We are working to confirm the rest of our presenters and will release a full schedule as soon as possible.
The WordCamp Lancaster 2020 logo began at the end of the 2019 summer, was launched in a tweet on December 5th, and is based on the Flower of Life, a sacred geometry symbol that was drawn by humans as early as the 7th century BC.
To be clear, I’m not a designer by trade. I’m a coder. Graphics projects wreck me emotionally, and I can’t find a way to charge for them and maintain my health. I choose a couple passion projects each year, and WordCamp Lancaster has been my muse for these two years that I’ve been the lead volunteer.
Lately, I’ve pushed myself to design in monochrome and only consider one or two colors after the shapes are complete. You can see this trend in the pieces I’ve shared at coreysalzano.com, and I believe the two WordCamp logos I’ve made have benefited from this discipline.
The wordmark came first. I find it valuable to decide on a typeface for the words or at least the most important words early on during a design.
Last year, Dustin Leer gave me great feedback while I was working on the 2019 logo. He suggested that I limit the number of typefaces in a logo to two. In a draft, I used a third for the digits of the year. It’s clear Dustin was right, I changed “2019” to use the same typeface as the word “Lancaster,” and I believe that’s what pushed 2019’s logo from good to great.
This year, “WordCamp” and “2020” both use a typeface called Moon that reminds me of the engraved wood signs used in Pennsylvania state parks.
The typeface used for the word Lancaster is Lovelo Inline. Lovelo Inline has uncontained inlines and rounded terminals that complement Moon and reveal pairs of lines. Each time slot at our event offers two presentations from which attendees can choose, and much of our local landscape is carved into parallel rows of crops.
I intended to create a round hex art logo containing the WordPress “W” logo from the beginning because I am a huge fan of annual traditions, and it’s worked so well for our event. My decision to use the Flower of Life didn’t come until Saturday, November 9th while listening to Eric Claypoole speak at the Lititz Library about the history of hex sign art. Claypoole is still painting barns after his father, Johnny, and there is more history on our Art page.
Here’s what my November looked like.
The move that made this logo was excluding lines belonging to circles on the perimeter that did not completely fit inside a surrounding circle. Only after this was it clear to me that this design was also going to be my nod to the most captivating logo that features overlapping circles, Lance Wyman’s Olympic Games Mexico 68.
The light blue on dark blue color combination was chosen by my teammates. I wanted to use a pink or a creamy off-white on blue. Dustin suggested we use the 2020 Pantone color of the year, Classic Blue, and away we went. The logo was public less than 24 hours later.
Thank you, Eileen, for your kind words and encouragement to share this.
Thank you, Dids, for sharing these striking photos of your paintings: 1, 2. They’re the best part of these compositions I made to share the event’s announcements.
WordCamps are some of the most valuable tech conferences available. Sponsorships enable low ticket prices, and low prices allow almost anyone to attend a full day of educational sessions and networking. It’s almost unbelievable that a twenty-five dollar ticket to an all-day event could include lunch, but here we are getting ready for another WordCamp Lancaster in 2020.
We are excited to bring back a sponsorship tier that we first used last year with some success. Anyone can support WordCamp Lancaster by paying the actual cost of the ticket instead of the list price of $25. Our lowest sponsorship level available to individuals at $100 and includes one ticket to the event. We are grateful that sponsors allow us to offer such affordable tickets, and we will appreciate anyone who can afford to pay the full price.
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