Arguably, the best (and bittersweet) part of the conference is what everyone learned and gathered. Here are some recap photos, blog posts and links to some of the presentations.

If yours is missing, please comment below.

Attendee Recaps

• WordPress Ya’ll! A Social Media Roundup of WordCamp Birmingham on Al.com
• Storify (social media and photos) from Wade Kwon
• WordCamp Birmingham 2014 Recap on Who Ate My Blog?
• How I Spent My Saturday on Philly Girl in the South
• WordCamp on a Budget Y’all on Jami Mays
• 11 Ways to Write Good Content for Your Blog on Chanda Temple Writes
• WordCamp Birmingham 2014 Resource List on Archer Creative
• WordPress Blogging (And Panel Moderating!) Tips on My Freelance Life

Speaker/Workshop Presentations

• Building Accessible Websites in WordPress
• Sanitizing, Validating and Escaping in WordPress Themes and Plugins
• 3 Sites in 6 Weeks? WordPress Can Do That!
• Freelancing – Getting Started Without Losing Your Shirt
• SEO Workshop – Best Practices for Better Website Traffic and Leads
• The Super Easy Guide to Video for Content Marketing
• Blogging With WordPress
• Temporary Cache Assistance (Transients API)
• Why We Publish
• Typography and User Experience
• Even You Can Debug

Clearly, we learned a lot and had a great time. Thank you to our organizers, volunteers, sponsors and attendees. We will see you next year!

It has been so much fun finding out when folks mention WordCamp on their blogs! Here’s where we’ve been featured so far.

We will update this list and if you’d like to do a recap post, we will feature it after WordCamp is over.

• Al.com: Do You Want to Build a Website or Blog? Check out WordCamp Birmingham

• Chanda Temple Writes: How WordCamp Will Rock Your Blogging World

• See Jane Write: 5 Reasons You Should Attend WordCamp

• Birmingham Appraisal Blog: So You Want to Start a Real Estate Blog?

• 10up: 10up at WordCamp – #wpyall

• Infomedia: Who Should Go to WordCamp? Everyone!

Thank you so much!

For anyone that’s interested or in the Media, below is the press release with information about WordCamp this year. We’re willing to give out press passes to any outlet that is willing to do a write up for us and help spread the word.

Official Press Release Document

Continue reading Official Press Release for 2014 →

This year is gearing up to have some really great content. We had a ton of speaker submissions this year and we’re excited to about all of them.

Just wanted to let everyone know that the schedule, speakers and sessions are all up on the website. This year we’re also doing a series of workshops that will be geared more for those people that are wanting to get their hands dirty. The workshops will be longer than the regular sessions but they’ll have breaks in-between. There’s a limited number of spots in each workshop so if you’re interest hurry on over to the tickets area and reserve your spot now and if you haven’t bought your ticket yet, you can do that while you’re there.

Submissions are Closed. We’ll be notifying Speakers and we’ll have the schedule up on the site soon. Thanks to everyone that submitted.

Planning for this year’s WordCamp is coming along smoothly, but now it’s time to hear from you. Are you interested in being a speaker? It doesn’t matter what your experience is, we want to hear your stories and share in your experience. We are looking for people who can share how WordPress has helped them to accomplish their goals, to talk about favorite plugins, themes, or functions, or to tell how you fit in to the WordPress community.

Presentations are typically 30 minutes with a Q and A session at the end. We’re looking for topics that revolve around the following topics.

• WordPress for your Business
• Developing with WordPress
• Designing themes
• Writing and Blogging
• Getting Started with WordPress

We’re also looking at having a few workshops with smaller groups for 2-3 hours. These workshops would be focused on learning a specific thing about WordPress like “Creating your first WordPress site” or “Creating your first plugin”. If you’re interested in leading a workshop please note it in the form below.

Final Deadline: Fri, July 18th 2014

Let me be the first to welcome you to WordCamp Birmingham 2014. We’ve got a lot of exciting things planned for this year. We’re currently in the planning stages now. If your looking for dates and tickets to the event, sign up to receive an email whenever we have updates.

Note to Volunteers: Since we’re in the middle of the planning stage, this is the perfect time to get involved. If you’re interested in helping we have lots of ways to get involved. Take a look at our organizers page to see what we need help with. If one of those areas doesn’t interest you, send us an email and we’ll find a way you can help.