WordCamp Europe 2025 is set for 5–7 June in Basel, Switzerland at the Messe Basel and Congress center. With its riverside beauty, walkable streets, and beautiful culture, Basel offers the perfect setting for the WordPress community to come together. Whether you build sites, write code, design, or run businesses online, WordCamp Europe is where conversations start, ideas grow, and partnerships form. It’s not just an event. It’s a meeting place for people who care about building the open web, and you’re invited!
Why are WordCamps important and what are they?
WordCamps are informal, community-organized conferences that focus on everything WordPress. They’re where people come together to share ideas, learn new skills, and collaborate on the future of the platform we all love. Whether you’re a beginner building your first site, a developer contributing to core, or a business owner growing your online presence, WordCamps offer something valuable for everyone. They are a space for connection, inspiration, and action, and WordCamp Europe is the biggest of them all.
Contributor Day: How to get involved
Before the main event, WordCamp Europe hosts Contributor Day: A full day dedicated to giving back to the WordPress project. You don’t have to be a developer to contribute; there are teams for marketing, design, support, training, documentation, and much more. It’s a chance to work alongside other passionate folks and make a real impact.
If you want to be part of Contributor Day, signup forms will be shared soon. New to contributing? No problem! Check out the guides on WordPress.org to learn how to get started. Every contribution, no matter how small, moves the community forward.
Bluehost at WCEU 2025
We’re proud to share that Bluehost is a Proud Sponsor at WordCamp Europe 2025. If you’re attending, make sure to stop by our booth. We’re bringing a few things worth checking out whether you’re building your first site or scaling your business.
AI Site Generator
Build a complete, professional WordPress website by answering a few simple questions. Our AI handles the layout, design, and starter content so you can go from idea to site, fast, and without starting from scratch.
Bluehost Cloud
A new way to host WordPress sites that adapts as your traffic and workload grow. Faster performance, better uptime, and simple scaling for businesses and creators who are ready for more.
Agency Partner Program
Designed for freelancers, studios, and agencies, this program gives you tools to manage client sites, access to expert support, and resources to grow your business, all in one place.
We’ll have team members on hand for live demos, product walkthroughs, and real conversations about how we can support your work. Whether you’ve been with Bluehost for years or just want to see what’s new, come say hi.
Live Demos at the Bluehost Booth
Swing by the Bluehost booth for live, practical walkthroughs of tools designed to save you time and make building and managing a WordPress site easier.
- AI Website Builder – See how you can build a full WordPress site just by answering a few questions. No design skills needed. It sets up the layout, picks colors and fonts, and fills in content so you’re not starting from scratch.
These demos are short, useful, and open to anyone. Ask questions, try the tools, and see if they fit your process. Come meet the team and see what’s new!
Meet the Bluehost team
Leadership
- Mike Hansen – VP of WordPress Product
- Kevin Walker – VP of Marketing
Product & marketing
- Jocelyn Hendrickson – Product (Consumer research, demos, eCommerce)
Devin Sears – Marketing (Booth host, demos, competitive research) - Engineering & technical
- Jonathan Desrosiers – Engineer; Full-time WordPress Core Contributor
Abdulrahman Al Ani – Senior Software Engineer - We’re sending an amazing crew to Basel this year. Stay tuned to meet the faces you’ll find at our booth and around the venue!
Visit the Bluehost booth for a bit of fun (and a chance to win)
We’re keeping things lively at the Bluehost booth this year with a fun, interactive activity that’s equal parts game and community challenge. Stop by, play along, and you could walk away with some exclusive swag, or even something bigger. We’ll also be running a raffle during the event, so be sure to swing by, get involved, and get your name in the mix. We’ve got some incredible giveaways planned, plus a few surprises you won’t want to miss. Just good vibes, cool prizes, and great conversations.
Speakers, sessions & workshops
WordCamp Europe brings together some of the most thoughtful voices in the WordPress community. Expect talks that are practical, honest, and full of ideas you can actually use. Alongside the main sessions, there will also be hands-on workshops where you can dig deeper and learn by doing. Workshop spaces are limited and can only accommodate a certain number of people in each one due to how they’re set up. Details will be shared on WCEU webisite on how to register for workshops soon, so keep an eye out if there’s one you’re excited to join.
One of our team members will also be speaking:
Jonathan Desrosiers, Principal Software Engineer, Bluehost
Talk Date: 6 June 2025
Topic: How a WordPress Core Committer Thinks: Making Decisions for Millions
Jonathan, a Senior Software Engineer at Bluehost and WordPress Core Committer, will walk us through the decision-making process behind WordPress Core development. He’ll break down how choices are made, what trade-offs are considered, and what it means to shape software that powers over 40% of the web.
Matt Mullenweg
Topic: Keynote address – Fireside chat with Mary Hubbard and Matt Mullenweg (Track 1)
Matt, co-founder of WordPress, will open the conference with insights into the present and future of WordPress, open-source software, and the web at large alongside Mary Hubbard, the WordPress Executive Director.
Milana Cap
Topic: WordPress gems for devs: Interactivity API
Milana will share practical ways to empower you to create dynamic, interactive user experiences with ease and clarity. Showcasing fresh new features in real-life examples during a live coding session, who knows what we might end up with by the end of it
Adam Silverstein
Topic: Modernizing WordPress with new Web Platform Features
Adam will will explore how developers and site owners can leverage cutting-edge web platform capabilities to create next-generation WordPress experiences.
Mariya Moeva
Topic: What we learned from building Site Kit and how you can apply this to your WordPress site
Mariya will unpack how WordPress site owners can find these nuggets of insight in a sea of information, without needing to be an SEO expert or a developer.
Taco Verdonschot
Topic: Live website reviews by industry experts
Taco will bring a team of up to four experts to join him, creating a multi-disciplinary team experienced in various aspects of building a website. In a panel-like setup, the team will invite the audience to share their websites with them. They’ll review a few sites live on stage.
Petya Raykovska
Topic: Social Entrepreneurship in Bulgaria – Driven by Humans, Powered by WordPress
Petya will explore how organizations like Teenovator, Animal Rescue Sofia, and Mediapool.bg leverage the Open-Source power of WordPress to drive volunteerism, lead teenage entrepreneurship educational initiatives, rescue animals, and champion independent journalism.
Jamie Marsland
Topic: WordPress Speed Build
The WordPress Speed Build Challenge is a fun live challenge, where two people battle it out against the clock and each other to replicate a website design in just 30 minutes.
Birgit Pauli-Haack
Topic: From Zero to Demo: Mastering WordPress Playground Blueprints
Birgit will give a deep dive into how to transform WordPress Playground into a powerful demonstration tool for your plugins and themes.
Noel Tock
Topic: WordPress without Borders — The Fight for Digital Freedom
Noel will share how our open-source work impacts global resilience; this keynote’s goal is to reinvigorate our community’s sense of purpose and unity — inspiring contributors to see their work as part of something far greater than ourselves.
Pride Party – Hosted by Yoast & Bluehost
We’re proud to be co-hosting the Pride Party at WordCamp Europe 2025 alongside our friends at Yoast. Join us on Friday, 6 June, from 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM at Sandoase, a stunning lakeside venue in Basel, for an evening of connection, celebration, and community. This event is open to all WordCamp Europe attendees and celebrates the values of inclusion and diversity in tech. Keep an eye on our channels, space may be limited.
WordPress by day, party by night
WordCamp Europe isn’t just about the talks, it’s also about what happens after. The after party is where conversations keep going, new friendships start, and yeah, there might be dancing. Join us in Track I to unwind, catch up, and celebrate with the WordPress community.
See you there!
WordCamp Europe isn’t just another event. It’s where people who build, write, design, and tinker with WordPress get to meet face-to-face. You learn some things, have some laughs, and leave with a few new friends. We’re glad to be part of it again, and even more glad to see you in Basel. Come for the talks, the hallway chats, or just to feel part of something bigger. You’re welcome here. 💙
Get your tickets here.
P.S. Keep an eye on our social channels for more updates as we get closer to the big day!
