Author: Dave Ryan

We can't wait to see you Friday morning! We've got a lot to share, so we'll get right to the pre-flight announcements:

Parking & Travel Information

Galvanize Phoenix
515 E Grant Street
Phoenix, 85004

Get to Galvanize by car, rail or local Grid Bikes share!

Limited free parking will be available at Galvanize on a first-come, first-served basis. Free on-site parking will also be limited for Saturday evening's afterparty (nearby street and paid parking is available). Learn more.

Schedule Updates & All-Star Keynote Crew

We've had a handful of adjustments to this year's schedule. Check out the session tracks and our updated All-Star keynote panel! Please note workshops are free but limited in size, so get there early to assure your seat.

Snacks & Food

Check out our Event Refreshments & Dining page for info on lunch on Friday & Saturday as well as refreshments. We also have a Local Guide of restaurants, bars and cafés in #DTPHX.

See you at Saturday's Afterparty

We hope you'll join us at Phoenix Public Market Café on Saturday evening after our last sessions wrap up! We've been there the past two years and it's been a blast.

Join Our Slack

Slack is a chatroom and direct message service where we collaborate and share info during the event. Join our community there (which stays open year-round for folks to stay in touch)!

Join: Click here

Enter: www.wcphx.slack.com

What to Bring

Present your name at check-in to receive your badge and goodies. We also recommend fully-charged devices and perhaps a light sweater if you get cold in AC'd environments.

Other Reminders

• Have you met our Wappuu?
• Our event hashtag is #WCPHX, our local community uses #WPAZ and we'll be in #DTPHX and #PHXWD (Warehouse District).
• On that note… follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for updates and information during the event.
• To make sure this is a safe and comfortable flight for everyone we have a Code of Conduct that applies at all related events and designated Safety Coordinator.

Flight Crew, Please Prepare for Departure!

See you Friday!

The WordCamp Phoenix Team

WordCamp Phoenix is an event that combines the resources of many partner airlines to lift a community. We're able to offer a high-quality, affordable, educational and fun event thanks to their generosity. Before we take off, our crew would like to take a moment to tell you about the new destinations you can reach with WooCommerce.

WooCommerce is the most popular e-commerce platform on the web for business to takeoff into ecommerce.

With nearly 17 million downloads, it powers over 37 percent of all online stores using open-source software to empower business owners to own and retain their data, customizing their store to reflect their vision and not just the template offered.

Founded in 2008, WooCommerce's team of WooNinjas are spread across 19 countries, providing top-notch support, building an extensive suite of plugins to integrate with popular shipping, payment and business services. The highly active project has great test coverage, documentation and tools for developers to dive into painless, secure and robust payments.

We're so thankful WooCommerce is supporting WordCamp Phoenix again this year!

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Learn more about WooCommerce.

WordCamp Phoenix is an event that combines the resources of many partner airlines to lift a community. We're able to offer a high-quality, affordable, educational and fun event thanks to their generosity. Before we take off, our crew would like to take a moment to tell you about the new destinations you can reach with Jetpack.

Jetpack brings free, powerful tools to your WordPress site, bringing jet engine speeds of WordPress.com-hosted websites to your self-hosted WordPress site.

Installed on over one million sites, Jetpack gives you the best of both hosting your own WordPress site and the worry-free, enhanced abilities and capacity of a WordPress.com site.

Jetpack serves as image-traffic control for over 30 million images each day,  helped share two million posts last week and has blocked billions of malicious attacks. With a team of happiness engineers and offerings for full site-backup, Jetpack lets you take off with the comfort of support and a backups.

Finally, Jetpack goes where you go, allowing native WordPress apps for iOS and Android to talk to your self-hosted WordPress sites. Try Jetpack risk-free with the comfort of a 30-day full refund on any of their premium tiers.

We're so grateful for Jetpack's support of WordCamp Phoenix this year!

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We have a slight change in our flight path we wanted to let you know about before camp on Friday.

A last minute scheduling conflict arose with our former keynote speaker, but with such a strong community of capable pilots we’ve lined up an All-Star panel to take us down their runway to success with WordPress.

Taking to the friendly skies on Saturday afternoon will be a conversation with:

• Sally Strebel, COO of Pagely
• Chris Lema, VP of Products at Liquid Web
• J.R. Farr, CEO/Co-Founder of MOJO Marketplace and VP of Product at Endurance International Group
• Moderated by: Chris Klosowski, Lead Developer at Sandhills Development

We’ll have more announcements about food, parking and other logistics later today!

Be sure to follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook for the latest announcements.

The WordCamp Phoenix Team

WordCamp Phoenix is an event that combines the resources of many partner airlines to lift a community. We’re able to offer a high-quality, affordable, educational and fun event thanks to their generosity. Before we take off, our crew would like to take a moment to tell you about the new destinations you can reach with Bluehost.

 

Bluehost is one of our newer hometown airlines, recently relocating their headquarters to Tempe, Ariz., from which they serve two million websites into the internet stratosphere every day. Get off the tarmac and onto Bluehost’s brand new Cloud Sites to soar above your competitors and fly direct to your target audience.

 

With powerful offerings like instant-scaling, rapid provisioning and automated failover, you never have to worry about taking to the skies with Bluehost. Bluehost has supported the greater WordPress community since our first years of flight, sponsoring WordCamps, open-source projects and have used their deep know-how to build every single server in-house for optimum performance and security.

 

 

We’re incredibly grateful for Bluehost’s continued support of WordCamp Phoenix and the greater Arizona WordPress Community. Through event sponsorship, meetup hosting, community speakers and contributors, they’re one of the airlines that makes our city world-class.

 

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Learn more about Bluehost.

WordCamp Phoenix is an event that combines the resources of many partner airlines to lift a community. We're able to offer a high-quality, affordable, educational and fun event thanks to their generosity. Before we take off, our crew would like to take a moment to tell you about the new destinations you can reach with Qualpay.

Qualpay provides a modern REST API based payments platform, paired with a merchant account, that is easily adaptable to the unique needs of your business. Store Builders, Developers and ISV’s can join Qualpay's Partner Program and provide value to their customers while enjoying a competitive revenue share.

They help merchants find the right pricing that is best for their business by offering either the typical fixed-rate market pricing or a variety of options including interchange pass-through. In 24 hours Qualpay can provide a cost savings analysis that can usually save a merchant over 30% off their processing costs.

Use their free WordPress Plugin or create your own and support Embedded Fields, Payment Gateway and Checkout or refer to their ready-to-use Virtual Terminal, Customer Vault, Recurring Billing and Account Updater. Qualpay supports business-to-business customers, foreign currency processing as well as convenience and surcharge fees. All available to you at zero cost.

Alternatively use a third-party payment gateway or offer plugins and extensions to a variety of e-commerce platforms and shopping carts, all integrated with a QualPay merchant account.

Learn more about Qualpay.

WordCamp Phoenix is an event that combines the resources of many partner airlines to lift a community. We're able to offer a high-quality, affordable, educational and fun event thanks to their generosity. Before we take off, our crew would like to take a moment to tell you about the new destinations you can reach with Pantheon.

WP Engine is a managed WordPress host with the lift your website needs to reach the stratosphere. Founded in 2010, WP Engine serves WordPress customers of all sizes, markets and global locations, with high-performance scaling and monitoring so you always have the go-ahead from air-traffic control to take off.

With tailored solutions for agencies, enterprise, marketers, developers and small business, WP Engine is more than a parking space for your website: it’s a partner airline helping you reach the places you need to go. With industry-leading backup, staging and CDN/caching offerings trusted worldwide by brands big and small, WP Engine continues to set the standard for Managed WordPress solutions.

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, WP Engine is a big community supporter of WordCamps, as well as sponsor for vital community resources like WP-CLI. We’re grateful to WP Engine for their continued support for WordCamp Phoenix.

Learn more about WP Engine.

WordCamp Phoenix is an event that combines the resources of many partner airlines to lift a community. We're able to offer a high-quality, affordable, educational and fun event thanks to their generosity. Before we take off, our crew would like to take a moment to tell you about the new destinations you can reach with Pantheon.

Pantheon’s Managed WordPress solutions put your WordPress website on the first-rate Google Cloud platform with enterprise-grade performance, security and monitoring. Trusted by Cisco, Salesforce, The United Nations and Arizona State University to deploy WordPress and Drupal sites, Pantheon is a market leader in high-performance, large-scale WordPress hosting.

Like an exclusive airport lounge, hosting your site on Pantheon's infrastructure adds a degree of comfort, speed, consistency and privacy. Their new Google infrastructure is 2.5x faster than their old servers and still paired with easy professional management tools. Beyond comfort, Pantheon’s first-rate crew are quick to respond and education leaders in the WordPress community at WordCamps and related events.

Pantheon saves significant time and money over traditional DIY cloud solutions and a level of reliability that keeps your internet runway clear for takeoff. Find out why so many companies fly with Pantheon.

We’re grateful to Pantheon for their continued support of WordCamp Phoenix!

Learn more about Pantheon.

We’re excited to host our afterparty at Phoenix Public Market Café again on Saturday, February 17 following WordCamp Phoenix 2018.

 

Phoenix Public Market is a Downtown Phoenix staple from local chef Aaron Chamberlin serving farm-to-table, scratch-made dishes with seasonal ingredients along with handmade cocktails and craft brews (Chamberlain recently opened Tempe Public Market Café, operates St. Francis and is opening Taco Chelo with Chef Suny Santana in the coming weeks).

 

With a beautiful patio and dining room, The Café is the perfect spot to unwind and connect with fellow campers. We’re also shutting down the parking lot where the Downtown Phoenix Farmers Market typically takes place for a video game truck and expanded patio space.

 

 

Each attendee will receive a drink ticket and Phoenix Public Market prepares a beautiful spread of hearty appetizers including vegetable platters, pretzels & cheese, pulled pork sliders, chips & house guac and more.

 

This year’s WordCamp Phoenix lineup features creative professionals from all over The Valley and the world, dozens of amazing sponsors and hundreds of attendees. We can’t wait to celebrate WordCamp weekend with you all!

 

The WordCamp Phoenix Team

WordCamp Phoenix is an event that combines the resources of many partner airlines to lift a community. We're able to offer a high-quality, affordable, educational and fun event thanks to their generosity. Before we take off, our crew would like to take a moment to tell you about the new destinations you can reach with Pressable.

Pressable puts the luxury back in the journey to reach online customers and audiences with premium managed WordPress hosting solutions for agencies, enterprise and ecommerce. With standard premium features other airlines charge fees for like CDN, load-balancing, daily backups, Pressable is like signing up for pre-check for fast, worry-free web travel.

Pressable's flight and ground crews actively involve themselves in the positive experience and forward momentum of customers, working to understand the people and the needs behind technology, providing on-call, round-the-clock support. No one can guarantee smooth skies, but Pressable has the experience to make the choppy skies of viral content and Cyber Monday smooth and comfortable.

We're grateful to Pressable for being a First-Class Partner in making WordCamp Phoenix 2018 a comfortable and awesome flight for everyone!

Learn more about Pressable.