Author: Thomas Patrick Levy

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Slideshows and pictures!

Here’s all the slides we’ve been able to acquire from presentations at WCLAX:

Our photography sponsor, Peter Minges, also captured a ton of incredible moments and shared them all with us for free! Here’s a few of our favorites:

Please head over to our photos page to to see all of the photos Peter took. Feel free to download the high-res versions and use them as you see fit and if anyone asks, let them know Peter took them!

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Sunday afternoon BarCamp

On Sunday afternoon in the Santa Monica Pier room we’ll be hosting the first ever WCLAX BarCamp.

The BarCamp is an open, participatory workshop-event format in which the content of the event is provided entirely by the participants.

This means that you the attendee will have an opportunity to contribute to WordCamp Los Angeles and make it your own!

Our BarCamp session will feature 10 attendees presenting short five-minute presentations on any topic even tangentially related to WordPress.

Here’s how it works:

Arrive at camp with your ideas for short five (5) minute lightning presentations. Find the BarCamp signup board and write down your ideas anytime before lunch on Sunday.

Check the board periodically and see what’s been posted. If you see anything you like, vote for it by writing a plus (+) sign next to the topic(s) you’re interested in.

We’ll tally up the votes on Sunday during lunch and round up the presentations. The 10 ideas with the most votes will have 5 minutes during the BarCamp session to present!

Maybe you’ve never presented at a WordCamp before or maybe you’re a veteran speaker. Perhaps you’re excited about a tiny subject that you just want to share with us, maybe you’re looking to provide us with a sneak peak of a larger concept you’re trying to flesh out. Anything goes but avoid self-promotion! Keep in mind that the WordCamp Code of Conduct remains in effect!

Get your ideas ready, we’ll see you on Sunday!

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Thanks to our Sponsors

WordCamp Los Angeles is just a few short days away and we’d like to take a moment to thank all of our sponsors! WordCamp Los Angeles is only possible thanks to contributions from our sponsors.

When you’re at Camp make sure to stroll through the main sponsor area and say hello and thank you to our sponsors. Many of them will have some incredible swag for you to stuff into your pockets and all of them are WordPress experts in their own right.

Los Angeles

DreamHost

DreamHost Since 1997 DreamHost has helped individuals, small businesses, entrepreneurs and developers the world over bring their dreams to life on the Internet. From domain registrations to traditional web hosting and highly-optimized managed WordPress hosting, more than 400,000 customers trust DreamHost to be their online home. DreamHost supports the WordPress project and community with dedicated resources and a passionate team. Packed with excellent value, DreamHost is a great place to launch a blog, website, or online application into the stratosphere!  Learn more at www.DreamHost.com

BoldGrid

BoldGrid

BoldGrid is a website builder powered by WordPress. It is a free set of WordPress plugins, themes, and other content that allows site creation and management similar to non-WordPress website builders. By placing WordPress more in line with DIY site builder solutions on the market, our mission is not only to make WordPress more accessible and easy for beginners to utilize, but also automate and streamline typical WordPress tasks to provide a fast, creator-friendly platform that even web professionals will appreciate.

Experience WordPress as a website builder, including: free pre-built themes, drag and drop editing, integrated image banks, simplified photo editing, built-in staging, automated backups, and so much more.

BoldGrid will have you creating professional looking WordPress sites in minutes!

www.boldgrid.com

WooCommerce

WooCommerce

28% of all online stores are powered by WooCommerce. Built on WordPress, WooCommerce is a fully customizable, open source eCommerce solution.

Whether you’re selling a few handcrafted items to a niche market, taking an existing business online, or going global with an enterprise level eCommerce business – WooCommerce will get you set up and selling fast and scale securely as you grow. Plus your content will be forever yours and customizable down to the finest button color.

Developed and supported by a distributed team, WooCommerce is powered by Automattic, the creators of WordPress.com.

Jetpack

Jetpack

Transform how you work with your WordPress sites and rest easy knowing they’re always firing on all cylinders. Jetpack connects your site to the global services, community, and support provided by WordPress.com so you can focus on the stuff that matters.

Jetpack automatically shields your site from the unwanted attention of spammers, hackers, and malware, while real-time sync and backup means you don’t have to worry about data loss. Straightforward traffic-building tools help you attract the attention of readers and search engines. Pages and videos are delivered at high speed from a global, ad-free content delivery network.

Jetpack sends new content directly to your subscribers’ inboxes and shows readers related content, helping you increase page views per visitor and boost ad revenue. Whenever you need it, you can rely on priority support from our global team of WordPress experts to ensure a friction-free experience for your visitors — and for you.

Make your site work for you. Get your Jetpack today at Jetpack.com

Bluehost

Bluehost

Bluehost has been a WordPress partner since 2005 and powers over 1 million WordPress sites worldwide. Their objective is to help customers, whether novice or pro, create a thriving online presence at an affordable price. With a team of in-house tech experts available 24/7, Bluehost dedicates time and resources to providing the best support and services in the industry. Join millions of other site owners and see what Bluehost can do for you and your online presence.

WP Engine

WP Engine

WP Engine is the WordPress Digital Experience Platform that gives companies of all sizes the agility, performance, intelligence, and integrations they need to drive their business forward faster. WP Engine’s combination of tech innovation and an award-winning team of WordPress experts are trusted by over 80,000 companies across 135 countries to provide counsel and support, helping brands create world-class digital experiences. Founded in 2010, WP Engine is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and has offices in San Francisco, California; San Antonio, Texas; London, England; Limerick, Ireland and Brisbane, Australia.

SiteLock

SiteLock

Currently protecting 12 million websites daily with over 4 million of those powered by WordPress, SiteLock delivers a patented 360-degree website security solution to find, fix and prevent malware and other threats from affecting websites and their visitors. Services include WordPress database scanning and core CMS vulnerability patching, automatic malware scanning and removal, an advanced web application firewall, static application security testing, PCI compliance and website acceleration powered by a global CDN. SiteLock also offers phone, email and chat support, 24/7/365. With SiteLock, you can focus on what’s most important—your business, your passion, your word.

Defiant Inc (Wordfence)

Defiant Inc (Wordfence)

Wordfence is the most popular WordPress security solution, protecting over 2 million sites. It includes an endpoint firewall and malware scanner that were built from the ground up to protect WordPress. Our Threat Defense Feed arms Wordfence with the newest firewall rules, malware signatures and malicious IP addresses it needs to keep your website safe. Rounded out by a suite of additional features, Wordfence is the most comprehensive WordPress security option available.

Learn more at https://wordfence.com.

Pantheon

Pantheon

Pantheon is the website operations platform top developers, marketers, and IT use to build, launch and run all their Drupal and WordPress websites.

Pantheon includes all of the tools professional developers need to build best-practice sites—like staging environments, version control, backups, and workflows. Powering over 200,000 sites and billions of pageviews a month, Pantheon’s container-based infrastructure allows you to launch websites faster, without worrying about traffic spikes, security, or performance. It’s free to develop your site on Pantheon, you only pay once your site goes live. You can scale your site on the same infrastructure from day one, and never touch a server again. Create your free account now!

Long Beach

GoDaddy

GoDaddy

GoDaddy Pro is a free membership program for web developers, designers & agencies. It offers exclusive tools to help onboard, manage and maintain multiple clients and their sites fast and easy. With GoDaddy Pro tools, you can easily shop for your client, monitor their sites, and manage their products from a single dashboard. Additionally, your membership includes advanced 24/7 technical support and rewards for recommending GoDaddy to your clients.

You can use GoDaddy Pro with all of GoDaddy’s newly refreshed hosting products, including Managed WordPress, cPanel shared hosting, our brand new cloud product, and our virtual and dedicated solutions.

And, always get the best price on GoDaddy products with your “30% off list price” member benefit.

Learn more about GoDaddy Pro.

Hover

Hover

Everyone has their thing. Ours is domain names.
Whatever your thing is, your domain name is an important part. We want to make that part better.

We stick to what we know best – domains.
We’ll help you take care of your domains, and be out of the way when you’re on to whatever’s next.

You should decide what to do with your domain.
Point your domain to any service you want. Your domain is always free to go wherever you like.

If you have a question, you should get an answer.
We hate phone trees, too. Whether you like to talk, chat, email or tweet, we’re here for you.

A2 Hosting Inc

A2 Hosting Inc

We support WordPress and the community of users that are around it! Host on our exclusive SwiftServer platform, with Turbo Servers featuring pages loads up to 20X faster than competing hosts! Our 99.9% uptime guarantee will see that your site will be visible for viewing at all times. The bundle of unique resources that our clients enjoy is immense. Just some of the services you will experience are outstanding customer support via our 24/7 Guru Crew support and developer friendly hosting featuring the best versions of PHP and MySQL!

Santa Clarita

SiteGround

SiteGround

SiteGround, with over 13 years in the business, provides managed WordPress hosting that does not miss a thing! Their servers, available in 5 data centers on 3 continents, are optimized for ultimate WordPress speed and security and they provide many goodies for the WordPress fans – automatic updates for the core WordPress and its plugins, WordPress SuperCacher for ultimate speed acceleration, staging tool for the coders and unique WordPress auto installer for the starting users – all crafted in-house by the SiteGround team. And still they do not forget the importance of the good old standard hosting features like the domain name registration, the email service, control panel and the reasonable pricing. They also have a support team that is not only available 24/7 by phone, chat and ticketing, but consists of WordPress enthusiasts who will help you with specific WordPress issues. SiteGround has been actively involved with the community speaking, supporting and attending various WordCamps around the world and by sponsoring WordCamp Los Angeles, they want to further contribute to the amazing WordPress community.

Pasadena

Yoast BV

Yoast BV

As the well-known saying goes; “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” That’s exactly what Yoast Academy is all about. Instead of fixing the SEO of your website for you once, we’ll teach you how to do it yourself forever. If you’re new to SEO, the best start is our Basic SEO course, followed by the Yoast SEO for WordPress plugin training with personal configuration review which teaches you how to configure our popular Yoast SEO plugin on your website. After mastering these basics, you can take the deep dive with Technical SEO, SEO copywriting, multilingual SEO and many other courses.
And the more knowledge you have, the better we can work together on making the web a better place for everyone!

LifterLMS

LifterLMS

LifterLMS helps online course creators convert their expertise and life experiences into income by creating impactful online courses. If you are an expert, teacher, coach, trainer or just interested in building an online business based on what you know, check out the engaging learning platform and coaching programs you can create with this powerful WordPress LMS.

Green Geeks Web Hosting

Green Geeks Web Hosting

GreenGeeks is an independently owned and operated green web hosting provider since 2008.

We specialize in managed WordPress hosting making deploying & managing WordPress websites on our platform easy with automatic 1-click install, managed updates, enhanced security, SSD RAID-10 storage arrays + advanced caching for blazing fast performance, choice of 3 data centers and 24/7 expert support.

GreenGeeks is actively engaged within the WordPress community and is a proud sponsor to various WordCamps around the world.

Beginner's Day Sponsor

DreamHost

DreamHost

Since 1997 DreamHost has helped individuals, small businesses, entrepreneurs and developers the world over bring their dreams to life on the Internet. From domain registrations to traditional web hosting and highly-optimized managed WordPress hosting, more than 400,000 customers trust DreamHost to be their online home. DreamHost supports the WordPress project and community with dedicated resources and a passionate team. Packed with excellent value, DreamHost is a great place to launch a blog, website, or online application into the stratosphere!  Learn more at www.DreamHost.com

After-Party Sponsor

GoDaddy

GoDaddy

GoDaddy Pro is a free membership program for web developers, designers & agencies. It offers exclusive tools to help onboard, manage and maintain multiple clients and their sites fast and easy. With GoDaddy Pro tools, you can easily shop for your client, monitor their sites, and manage their products from a single dashboard. Additionally, your membership includes advanced 24/7 technical support and rewards for recommending GoDaddy to your clients.

You can use GoDaddy Pro with all of GoDaddy’s newly refreshed hosting products, including Managed WordPress, cPanel shared hosting, our brand new cloud product, and our virtual and dedicated solutions.

And, always get the best price on GoDaddy products with your “30% off list price” member benefit.

Learn more about GoDaddy Pro.

Lightning Talk sponsorship

Twilio

Twilio

More than 2 million developers around the world have used Twilio to unlock the magic of communications to improve any human experience. Twilio has democratized communications channels like voice, text, chat, and video by virtualizing the world’s telecommunications infrastructure through APIs that are simple enough for any developer to use, yet robust enough to power the world’s most demanding applications.

In-kind Sponsor

StickerGiant

StickerGiant

StickerGiant was founded by John Fischer in 2000. It all started from a single bumper sticker idea stating “He’s Not My President” in the aftermath of the 2000 Election. After several thousand sticker sales, StickerGiant was born with the goal of being “the Amazon of Stickers.” The company grew quickly, selling all sorts of stickers in an online retail store.

StickerGiant is a team of employees that love to make stickers and labels. We run our company using Open Book Management practices, and this creates a transparent culture where employees are invested in the goals of the business. Open Book Management has also created a fun environment where people love to come to work.

As a company, we focus on being a benefit to not only our customers, but also the community around us and the world as a whole. We utilize wind energy to run our operation and strive to be as sustainable and environmentally friendly as possible with our production process.

Microsponsors

Bodhi Tree, Bud Turner, Christopher Higgins, David Nuon, Erik Suhonen, Gregory Madore – TECH90, Jocelyn Hanc, Joshua Knapp, Marlon Baker, Rana Shahbaz, Ronald Lindeboom, Steve Shorr Insurance. WP Site Dr., XYZ

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Location, Directions, Parking, and WCLAX FAQs

Where is WordCamp Los Angeles?

WordCamp Los Angeles is taking place entirely at California State University, Los Angeles.

Our Beginner Day workshop on Friday will be held in the University Student Union Building on the 3rd Floor in the Los Angeles Room.

The general sessions on Saturday and Sunday will be held in the Golden Eagle Ballrooms.

Please check out the Location page for the address, directions, campus maps, and more.

Where can I Park?

All attendees are guaranteed free parking in parking Structure C.

On Saturday and Sunday you must print your parking pass and display it on your dashboard! If you do not print your parking pass and display it on your dashboard you will be ticketed! Visit the Location and Parking page and see the “Parking” section to download your printable parking pass.

The printable parking pass is not valid for Beginner Day on Friday. Beginner Day attendees should retrieve their parking pass from the the parking information booth. Provide the attendant with your name and let them know you are there for WordCamp Los Angeles Beginner Day. 

What time should I arrive?

Checkin and registration will begin at 8:15am on Friday and 7:45am on Saturday and Sunday.

Sessions will start at 8:45 am on Friday and 9:00am on Saturday and Sunday.

Check the schedule for detailed information.

Should I attend on Saturday and Sunday?

There is some terrible rumor or assumption spread around some WordCamps that all the important stuff happens on Saturday and Sunday is just a fluff day. 

THIS IS NOT TRUE!

If you decide not to attend on Sunday you’re missing out on half of the great speakers and half of the time you can spend getting to know your fellow WordPressers.

What about the After Party sponsored by GoDaddy?

Every single attendee is invited to party with us at Blue Cow Kitchen (right by Angels Flight in Downtown Los Angeles). Grab some appetizers, drinks, make a mess playing giant Jenga & Connect4, get your face painted, and hang out with fellow attendees, speakers, and sponsors all for free by GoDaddy, our after party sponsor!

Check out our blog post for details about the after party.

Can I attend Beginner Day sponsored by Dreamhost?

If you purchased a General Admission ticket you cannot attend Beginner Day and you will be sent away if you show up.

Only attendee’s who purchased a ticket which explicitly says “Beginner’s Day” will be admitted on Friday.

I am a Beginner Day Attendee, I have more questions!

Check out the blog post outlining everything you need to know about Beginner Day here.

Will there be WiFi?

WiFi is available on the CSULA guest network. You will have to sign in as a guest and provide your email address to gain access to the guest network. WiFi details will be posted at camp and if you require any assistance gaining access to the WiFi network please look for a volunteer!

Will there be Food?

Of course! Lunch will be provided according Saturday and Sunday according to your dietary preferences as specified during registration.

Coffee & tea, various drinks, water, and an abundance of snacks will be made available throughout the weekend.

All food and drink is included in the cost of your ticket price!

Code of Conduct

Remember that at all times we expect attendees to abide by the WordCamp Code of Conduct.

If you have any issues with anyone at WordCamp Los Angeles or experience a violation of this code, please locate a volunteer and ask to speak with Thomas Levy, the lead organizer of WordCamp Los Angeles.

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Lightning Talks with Learn Teach Code presented by Twilio

This year at WordCamp, we are excited to announce a special event in partnership with Learn Teach Code, the largest learning-focused tech meetup in SoCal, with over 8,000 members in LA!

On Sunday afternoon at 1:30pm in the developer track, 16 speakers will talk for 3 minutes each on a wide variety of tech topics: everything from how they learned to code, to geospatial mapping software, game development, and much more.

The line-up for the lightning talks will be:

  1. Getting started with webVR (Aframe) – Alex Edward Ball
  2. Active Listening – Amit Routh
  3. First Timers: Automating contributor issues on GitHub – Angelica Gonzalez
  4. CDNs: Optimize You Site With Faster Content – Cameron Manavian
  5. FLIPping Awesome Animations – Edward Ulick
  6. Programming Power Up! – Glenn Cravens
  7. Taking A Leap and Breaking Boundaries – Jane Aileen Manavian
  8. How East Los Angeles College Changed My Life – Lisa Watanabe
  9. Learning a New Language: JavaScript – Luiz “MICHAEL” Lopez 
  10. How baking helped me learn to code – Michelle Brenner
  11. Productivity: Completing Technical Tasks with Deliberate Work – MoJen Jenkins
  12. Under the Hood of My Laptop, Literally – Natalie Vindivich
  13. How to Choose an Open-Source License – Sean Marquez
  14. What I Learned from 300+ Days of Algorithm Challenges – Tinuola Awopetu
  15. Where is LAX, anyway? Entity mapping and geospatial data engineering in the wild. – Valerie Burchby
  16. Flex(box) Your CSS Muscles – Wendy Gwo

About Learn Teach Code

Learn Teach Code has the largest learning-focused tech meetup in SoCal, with over 8,000 members in LA and another chapter in Seoul, South Korea. Our mission is to create a more diverse tech community by empowering both aspiring and professional developers to lead their own local tech events, where anyone (especially beginners) can learn and teach together.

https://www.meetup.com/LearnTeachCode/

About Twilio

More than 2 million developers around the world have used Twilio to unlock the magic of communications to improve any human experience. Twilio has democratized communications channels like voice, text, chat, and video by virtualizing the world’s telecommunications infrastructure through APIs that are simple enough for any developer to use, yet robust enough to power the world’s most demanding applications. By making communications a part of every software developer’s toolkit, Twilio is enabling innovators across every industry — from emerging leaders to the world’s largest organizations — to reinvent how companies engage with their customers.

Visit Twilio’s Website

 

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Get pumped for the WCLAX 2018 After Party hosted by GoDaddy at Blue Cow Kitchen

After Camp on Saturday, September 22, all event attendees are invited to join us for a legendary after party sponsored by GoDaddy.

The party will be held at Blue Cow Kitchen and will start at 7:30pm. All attendees are invited! The after party is a great way to meet and connect with other attendees and speakers in a casual environment.

Blue Cow will be serving various appetizers from their seasonal menu featuring organic and sustainable ingredients sourced from local farms. Options will be available for everyone regardless of your dietary preferences. We’ll have meat for the omnivorous as well as selections for vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free. We sampled the food a few weeks ago and all of it was delicious. The vegan pizza broke my meat-eating mind a little bit (in a very good way).

While food is being served, it’s not a dinner so we do recommend you grab yourself a bite to eat between closing remarks at camp and the start of the party.

Of course we’ll have drinks too! Each attendee will get a free drink ticket (thanks again GoDaddy!). Please bring your ID and your WCLAX name tag (provided at registration in the morning) so you can get the ticket you’re entitled to.

Finally, we’re planning this to be a party that’s fun for everyone regardless of age! We’ll have non-alcohol related fun for everyone in attendance!

Where & When

Blue Cow Kitchen
350 S Grand Ave,
Los Angeles, CA 90071
Saturday, September 22, 2018
7:30pm – 10:00pm

Parking

California Plaza Underground Garage
350 S Olive St,
Los Angeles, CA 90071

This is a secured parking facility located below the restaurant!

Thanks to our Sponsor

Be sure to thank GoDaddy for supporting WordCamp Los Angeles as our exclusive After Party Sponsor. Without their support we would not have been able to make this party a reality for you!

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The WCLAX 2018 Schedule

On Saturday, September 22 and Sunday, September 23 you’re invited to join us for two full days of WordPress presentations, workshops, and discussions covering the WordPress basics, the power of the community, advanced and intermediate theme and plugin development, accessibility, and of course Gutenberg!

There’s 33 total sessions this and there will be nearly 50 speakers, panelists, and presenters in attendance to share their experiences, knowledge, and expertise.

Check out the Schedule

In the coming weeks we’ll introduce you to all of these incredible speakers and help you get to know them in advance of camp. It’s up to you to decide your journey during camp but we’re going to ensure you have everything you need to know about our speakers and sessions to help you plan that path before your arrive.

Are you excited about a speaker? Tweet them and let them know!

Tickets are still on sale! Grab one while they last or apply to volunteer.

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Tickets are on sale!

Here we go! The final round of tickets is up for sale. If you haven’t already bought your ticket yet, you’re wasting time because, they’re moving fast!

TLDR; I want my ticket now

What Kind of Ticket Should I Buy?

We have three options for you when you get to the ticket screen. What’s the difference?

All Tickets

You get lunch on Saturday and Sunday. T-Shirt & Swag. Attend the awesome after-party on Saturday Evening. All the coffee, tea, snacks, and drinks you can handle (within reason).

Beginner’s Day (Friday) + General Admission (Saturday & Sunday)

Attend the Second Annual Beginner’s Day on Friday, as well as Saturday and Sunday sessions. Attendance is LIMITED and these tickets will sell out fast!

General Admission (Saturday & Sunday)

Attend Saturday and Sunday sessions only.

Microsponsorship

Attend Saturday and Sunday sessions and have your name listed on the website as a Microsponsor. If you want to attend the Beginner’s Day let us know after purchasing a ticket.

Get a Ticket

After you’re all set and registered let us know your excitement level by tweeting us @wordcamplax! 

Next on the agenda (we’re a bit behind schedule)

Speaker announcements are imminent (but we’re late, we know, we’re sorry). If you applied to speak and you’re waiting to get a ticket because you know you’ll get it free as a speaker please buy one anyway and we’ll get you a refund if you are chosen to speak!

Check our timeline of important events that will occur leading up to camp in September. Take a look and mark your calendars!

We’re looking forward to seeing you all at Camp and online!

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Early Bird Tickets are Gone but Don’t Worry You’ll Have Another Chance

Those early bird tickets went fast and we’re sorry if you missed your chance.

Don’t worry though, more tickets will be released on July 10, 2018.

If you can’t wait until then you could grab one of the few remaining Micro-Sponsorships. A Micro-Sponsorship gets you a General Admission ticket for Saturday and Sunday and well personally thank you (or your business) on social media, in a blog post, and from stage at camp.

Alternatively, why not apply to speak at WCLAX 2018? We’re currently accepting submissions and, if you’re accepted, you’re guaranteed a free ticket, you’ll join us at a special Speaker and Sponsor pre-camp event, and you’ll get some exclusive swag! Whether you’re a veteran presenter or you’ve never been on stage before we want to hear from anyone passionate about anything WordPress!

Submit a Talk

To ensure sure you don’t miss out on the final release of tickets in July, subscribe to the newsletter using the form in the footer of the site. We’ll send out an email as soon as the tickets go on sale and you’ll be among the first to know!

All you early birds that did grab your tickets thanks for your support and we’ll see you in September!

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Early Bird Tickets Now on Sale!

early bird tickets

Are you ready for WordCamp Los Angeles 2018 even though we’re still a quarter of a year away!

We are too! And we’re excited to announce that early bird tickets are now on sale.

Today, we’ve released 70 General Admission and 20 Beginner’s Day tickets.

The $40 General Admission tickets will give you full access to WCLAX on Saturday and Sunday, t-shirt, swag, coffee, snacks, and lunch.

The $50 Beginner’s Day tickets will — in addition to providing you with General Admission on Saturday and Sunday (and all the swag and eats that come with it) — will get you into the limited seating Beginner’s Day on Friday!

We’ll release more tickets in June but if you grab em today you’re guaranteed a ticket and some early-birds-only swag!

Get Your Ticket Today

WordCamp Los Angeles 2018 is over. Check out the next edition!