{"id":404,"date":"2014-06-19T17:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.bournemouth.wordcamp.org\/?page_id=404"},"modified":"2014-07-19T13:54:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T12:54:03","slug":"what-is-a-wordcamp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bournemouth.wordcamp.org\/2014\/what-is-a-wordcamp\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a WordCamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a>. WordCamps are informal, community-organised events that are put together by WordPress users like you.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other.<\/p>\n<p>WordCamps are open to <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.com\/\">WordPress.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress.org<\/a> users alike.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-422 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/2014.bournemouth.wordcamp.org\/files\/2014\/06\/WC-Session.jpg\" alt=\"WC Session\" width=\"720\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bournemouth.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/06\/WC-Session.jpg 720w, https:\/\/bournemouth.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/06\/WC-Session-300x99.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bournemouth.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/06\/WC-Session-500x165.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>So what is a WordCamp?<\/strong> WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress, the free and open source personal publishing software that powers over 25 million sites on the web.<\/p>\n<p>WordCamps come in all different flavours, based on the local communities that produce them, but in general, WordCamps include sessions on how to use WordPress more effectively, beginning plugin and theme development, advanced techniques, security, etc.<\/p>\n<p>WordCamps are attended by people ranging from blogging beginners to professional WordPress developers and consultants, and usually combine scheduled programming with unconference sessions and other activities.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-423\" src=\"https:\/\/2014.bournemouth.wordcamp.org\/files\/2014\/06\/Lancaster-beers.jpg\" alt=\"Lancaster beers\" width=\"350\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bournemouth.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/06\/Lancaster-beers.jpg 350w, https:\/\/bournemouth.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/06\/Lancaster-beers-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>If you\u2019ve never blogged or built a website then please don\u2019t be put off or intimidated, you\u2019ll find lots of people happy to show you how to get started.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely if you\u2019re a dyed in the wool coder or developer then you\u2019ll find like-minds who you can chew the syntax with over a beer or three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress. WordCamps are informal, community-organised events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other. WordCamps &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bournemouth.wordcamp.org\/2014\/what-is-a-wordcamp\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is a WordCamp<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8255162,"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-404","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4AHlF-6w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bournemouth.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bournemouth.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bournemouth.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bournemouth.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8255162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bournemouth.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bournemouth.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"https:\/\/bournemouth.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/404\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bournemouth.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}