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Brizy: Thank you to our new Silver Sponsor!

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Big thank you to our new Silver Sponsor: Brizy, for supporting WordCamp Bucharest 2018.

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Unlike other WordPress visual page builders, Brizy’s interface shows only what’s needed for the task at hand and hides everything that’s not. Simple, non-distracting, yet very powerful.

Here is how it works

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Meet our host for WordCamp Bucharest

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Hello dear friends. It’s our great pleasure to introduce you our host for this year. Marius is an entrepreneur, the organizer, and host of the Bucharest WordPress Meetup, and a dear friend of us.

Let’s get to know him a little bit more.

  • When and how did you start working with WordPress?

I started using WordPress back in 2007 when I started blogging about entrepreneurship. Fast forward to 2014, I was freelancing and helping my first clients build their WordPress websites. In 2015 I scaled up the freelancing activity, and now I’m running a ten people agency called wpriders.com

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Get to know George Gkouvousis, speaker

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Hello and welcome! Today we want to present to you our newest friend George, who will join us for WordCamp Bucharest in less than a month, talking about “Setting up the ideal web server for WordPress: from zero to hero!“.

  • When and how did you start working with WordPress?

I remember myself navigating through a horizontal dashboard menu with 1kb stylesheet file. Tested a few CMS and ended up with WordPress, which fit perfect, a project’s needs.
That was it. Could see it coming, overriding Joomla and other popular ones, ending up today in powering 30% of the internet!

  • Why did you choose this topic for your presentation?

I felt like explaining the key points of having a fast WordPress web server that runs WordPress CMS, because it used to be a pain for me as well, during my first years. Been there, done that, so I felt like sharing it.

  • What will we learn from your presentation?

You will be able to identify the bigger pains of a WordPress website when it comes to performance and will learn how to apply extra performance boost at your WordPress web server.

  • What do you like to do when you’re not WordPress-ing?

Helping others WordPress-ing 🙂

  • Few words for the WordPress Bucharest community

Haven’t met the local community in the past, so I’m more than happy for my upcoming visit. Looking forward to enjoying the technology event of the year 🙂

Want to meet George? Get your ticket now and meet us on October 27 – 28th.

Check out the other interviews in the series dedicated to our speakers.

Get to know Ivana Ćirković, speaker

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Hello, WordPressers 🙂 Meet Ivana, who will start WordCamp Bucharest with her awesome talk about “What’s your story?“.  Let’s get to know her a bit more.

  • When and how did you start working with WordPress?

Let me see.. it was around 2014/2015 that I began transferring all my websites from Joomla to WordPress. Only because Joomla became outdated and WordPress exploded in all the positive ways and started to make much more sense for me to use it. Pretty soon, I got familiar with the platform and began to love it, to learn from the content side of it as much as I can and started teaching others, and the rest is – as they say – a history 🙂

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Get to know Aleksandar Savkovic, speaker

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Hello lovely people! This is our third article in a series dedicated to our speakers. Today is all about Aleks, who has a really interesting WordPress journey.

At WordCamp Bucharest, he will talk about “Agile habits not frameworks“. Let’s get to know him a bit more.

  • When and how did you start working with WordPress?

As a matter of fact, this is the most interesting part of my WordPress journey. I was a construction site supervisor for 13-14 years and I owned a company for interior design. However, during the World financial crisis, I needed to shut that business down and computers were always my hobby from Spectrum 48K. I decided to enroll for some course and I decided to learn HTML, CSS and WordPress theme development which was apparently the great choice 🙂

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Get to know Andrey Savchenko, speaker

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Hello and welcome to our second article in a series dedicated to our speakers. Today we are happy to present you Andrey Savchenko ( or Rarst as he’s called by his friends 🙂 ) who will talk to us about how WordPress breaks time (and how to fix it).

  • When and how did you start working with WordPress?

I have started with WordPress ten years ago for my Rarst.net blog. It began as a freeware review site and these days it’s more of a personal blog.

Later I built up a reputation for WP development at WordPress Stack Exchange. Which led me to leave my day job and become a WordPress contractor.

  • Why did you choose this topic for your presentation?

Date/Time in the core was one of those developer’s nightmares for me. You pull on a string of something looking not right and watch in horror as the whole codebase unravels.

Over years I had spent a lot of time to understand, write up, and code around the problems with the component. So I had great material for a good, scary, entertaining, and informative talk.

  • What will we learn from your presentation?

How WordPress Date/Time implementation is alien from the entirety of the tech world. And how to cope with it in practical ways.

  • What do you like to do when you’re not WordPress-ing?

Read science fiction. Work to keep my bachelor pad presentable. And fridge filled with something edible and healthy.

  • Few words for the WordPress Bucharest community

Come to the WordCamp. Have fun. Take naps. Eat your vegetables. Don’t trust WordPress core code.

Want to meet Rarst? Get your ticket now and meet us on October 27 – 28th.

Last Call for the Official WordCamp Bucharest T-shirts!

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Hello lovely people!

We want to let you know that after October 7 at 11:00 a.m. you can still register for WordCamp Bucharest 2018. But we won’t be able to order an official WordCamp Bucharest 2018 T-shirt for you.

But why?

We have to order all the T-shirts for this event by October 7. Yes, we do order a few extra T-shirts. But they go fast. If you don’t register by October 7 you might not get one, or the one you get might not be the right size.

Get the T-shirt you deserve

There’s only one way to reserve your official WordCamp Bucharest 2018 T-shirt, and that’s by registering before October 7 at 11:00 a.m.

Get your ticket now

Get to know Mitko Kockovski, speaker

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This is our first article in a series dedicated to our speakers. Today is all about Mitko. He started working with WordPress in 2010, is a Codeable expert and founder of webpigment.com.

At WordCamp Bucharest, he will talk about “AJAX-ing your ( Woocommerce ) website”. Let’s get to know him a bit more.

  • When and how did you start working with WordPress?

I started working with WordPress almost 10 years ago, I was out of a job and started looking for some freelance gigs. Using the most popular freelancer methodology ( First come, first served ) I got a project ( keep in mind that this was 10 years ago ) about adjusting the search functionality of a website, so it will show the products in the search result page. So because of that gig, I become familiar with WordPress and since then I’m working with it on daily basis.

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Tickets extended and one month to go!

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Hello, lovely WordPress people! 👋 We have some exciting news for you!

One month from today we’ll get together for the biggest WordPress event in Romania and we are happy to announce that we’ve extended the number of tickets to accommodate everyone.

Some stats for the coming event: one great venue (The Chamber of Commerce and Industry), 2 busy days with presentations, workshops, and networking, 14 speakers from different countries, 250 participants and 14+ sponsors supporting #wcbuc!

But you must hurry up, there are less than 140 tickets available for sale! Buy your ticket before October 1st to be sure you get your awesome #wcbuc t-shirt.

Just check out how great the schedule is. From Gutenberg, AMP and SEO to GDPR, there is something for everyone. You can’t miss out on this!

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WordCamp Bucharest final speakers announced – Let the show begin!

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Let the drum rolls begin! We are so excited to introduce the last batch of speakers that will join us at WordCamp Bucharest this October!

With more than 35 presentation proposals from 20 different countries, it wasn’t an easy decision to make. But starting now, we can finally present you our full line-up, which is looking greater than ever.

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