{"id":2248,"date":"2018-07-23T14:21:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T18:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.montreal.wordcamp.org\/?page_id=2248"},"modified":"2019-04-28T17:52:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T17:52:18","slug":"what-to-expect","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/what-to-expect\/","title":{"rendered":"What To Expect ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WordCamp Montreal<\/strong> is a conference about the world\u2019s most popular blogging and CMS software: WordPress. For two days, developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and bloggers will come together for WordPress-related talks, workshops, and networking.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>In 2017, 41,000 WordPress fans attended 128 WordCamps in 48 different countries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>WordCamps are held all over the world.\u00a0 Closer to home, along with Montreal there are WordPress communities holding WordCamps in Ottawa, Toronto, Halifax, Niagara, and Rochester.<\/p>\n<p>These conferences are a global phenomenon and have existed for 10+ years thanks to volunteers in the WordPress community.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery alignnone columns-2 is-cropped\">\n<li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2018.montreal.wordcamp.org\/files\/2018\/07\/36323334190_f0d748e04b_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2018.montreal.wordcamp.org\/files\/2018\/07\/36672493496_1493cd2d01_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2018.montreal.wordcamp.org\/files\/2018\/07\/36580021991_a924e3dda8_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2018.montreal.wordcamp.org\/files\/2018\/07\/19711070011_89b3b989ee_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why should you go to WordCamp Montreal?<\/h2>\n<p>The #1 reason people love WordCamp is the opportunity it provides to connect with other people who are working with WordPress in different ways.<\/p>\n<p>There are many sessions and workshops on different topics related to WordPress and website development. Experts in blogging, marketing, SEO, theme-building, plugin development, and freelancing will be giving presentations with Q&amp;As over the course of the two-day conference.<\/p>\n<p>You also can get one-on-one support at the &#8220;Happiness Bar&#8221; with specific issues related to your website. In between sessions, you can network with professionals in the web industry and take a look at or share an announcement on our job board.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2274\" src=\"https:\/\/2018.montreal.wordcamp.org\/files\/2018\/07\/20861738_10155696738552769_1746871284946824019_o-2000x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<h2>Who should go to WordCamp Montreal?<\/h2>\n<p>Anyone who&#8217;s working with WordPress in any way can enjoy WordCamp.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve got a company website that you&#8217;d like to take to the next level, this is a great place to gain new ideas and see what others are doing.<\/p>\n<p>If, on the other hand, you&#8217;re a seasoned developer, we&#8217;ve got talks on new and shiny tools such as React, Gulp, Rich Snippets, and more.\u00a0 Along with sessions on how to make your workflows better, how to troubleshoot sites,\u00a0 and how to customize WooCommerce.<\/p>\n<p>We also have talks relevant to a wide variety of people and very relevant to the Montreal context, such as the requirements of managing websites in two languages, creating a bilingual social media strategy, the\u00a0\u201cFran\u00e7ais du Canada&#8221; within the WordPress eco-system, and setting up a multilingual site.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2264\" src=\"https:\/\/2018.montreal.wordcamp.org\/files\/2018\/07\/20863490_10155696742272769_3916029854511741387_o-2000x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<h2>How can you get involved?<\/h2>\n<p>The first thing you can do to get involved with WordCamp Montreal is to <a href=\"https:\/\/2019.montreal.wordcamp.org\/tickets\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">buy your ticket<\/a>.\u00a0 The ticket includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/2019.montreal.wordcamp.org\/schedule\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">2 full days of talks<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2 lunches<\/li>\n<li>1 after party<\/li>\n<li>Swag<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After that, signup on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/en-AU\/wp-mtl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Meetup.com<\/a> to get invitations to our free monthly meetups!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordCamp Montreal is a conference about the world\u2019s most popular blogging and CMS software: WordPress. For two days, developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and bloggers will come together for WordPress-related talks, workshops, and networking. In 2017, 41,000 WordPress fans attended 128 WordCamps in 48 different countries. WordCamps are held all over the world.\u00a0 Closer to home, along &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/what-to-expect\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What To Expect ?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14231116,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2248","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PaIveb-Ag","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14231116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2971,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2248\/revisions\/2971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}