**On Saturday, 8 October 2022, after a break of almost three years, we meet at the Pomeranian Science and Technology Park Gdynia / Pomeranian Science and Technology Park Gdynia for the seventeenth time for WordUp Trójmiasto.It is a meeting of enthusiasts and users of #WordPress and #WooCommerce.**We will hear eight presentations + networking = It will be kosher!We expect a knowledge-thirsty Tricity audience in such beautiful natural and unique circumstances. If you would like to soak up the early autumn seaside breeze, rub your back in the sand, collect seashells and while talking about WordPress to the accompaniment of seagulls - book your time today and sign up for the event. When: 8.10.2022 (Saturday), 15:00-20:00 Where: Pomeranian Science and Technology Park Gdynia, Building III (CN Experyment), cinema room. Free admission, registration required: https://app.evenea.pl/event/wordup17/ WordUp is a gathering of the WordPress community that takes place all over the world. The meet-ups are dedicated to both creators (developers) and people who use WordPress daily as administrators, bloggers, SEOs or marketers. Lineup:
- Magdalena Paciorek - Block editor in a dedicated theme - a case study of cyberfolks.pl and kei.pl sites
- Maciej Kuchnik - Transferring WordPress better - about WP migration between servers.
- Tomasz Kołkiewicz - Canonical links and their significance for SEO
- Tomasz Palak - How not to get too inspired?
- Marcin Andrzejewski - The last mile in content delivery. Text readability in WordPress.
- Marcin Krzeminski - Introduction to WP-CLI
- Dawid Urbanski - 1.7 million in 45 months without your own product. How to earn better as a WordPress developer?
- Maciej Palmowski - Astro + WordPress =
- Panel discussion - moderated by Kamil Kawałko - Michał Strześniewski (300.codes), - Maciek Nowak (Osom), - Max Matłoka
- Fluid Talks - PIF PAF, Gdynia 10 February 23
How the day actually went
WordUp Trójmiasto is a local WordPress meetup that has been running on and off in Gdańsk, Sopot and Gdynia since around 2014. Edition #17 was the first proper return after the COVID gap, and the room felt like it: a few dozen familiar faces, plenty of “so what have you been up to for three years” conversations between sessions, and the usual mix of agency people, freelancers and a handful of marketers who deal with WordPress because somebody has to.
The venue itself, the cinema room in Building III at PPNT (CN Experyment), worked well for talks but was harder for networking, so most of the side conversations spilled into the corridor and later into the bar nearby. Free admission, Evenea registration, no fancy catering, and that suited the format.
A few notes from the talks. Magdalena Paciorek’s case study on the block editor in dedicated themes for cyberfolks.pl and kei.pl was the most useful one for anyone still building classic themes and wondering when to switch. Maciej Kuchnik’s migration talk was practical rather than theoretical, the kind of thing you take notes on if you have ever lost an afternoon to serialized data and search-replace. Tomasz Kołkiewicz on canonical tags was a good refresher; nothing groundbreaking, but a healthy reminder of how often canonical implementations are quietly broken. Tomasz Palak’s “how not to get too inspired” was the lawyer talk, and the room laughed in the right places.
The technical highlight for me was Maciej Palmowski’s session on Astro plus WordPress as a headless backend, partly because that stack is what we ended up using on this site. Marcin Krzemiński’s WP-CLI intro was a good entry point for people who still click through wp-admin to do bulk changes. Dawid Urbański’s revenue talk was the one everyone discussed afterwards, mostly arguing about how transferable the model is.
The panel, moderated by Kamil Kawałko with Michał Strześniewski (300.codes), Maciek Nowak (Osom) and Max Matłoka, drifted into agency hiring and where Polish WordPress work is heading. Useful, occasionally blunt, no surprises if you have been around the scene. After the official close most people moved on for beer and pizza, which is the part nobody puts on the agenda but is half the point of showing up.
Worth showing up
The Polish WordPress scene is small. The same names recur across WordUp events in Tricity, Warsaw, Wrocław and Kraków, and at WordCamp Poland. That is not a complaint, it is just the reality of a niche where serious practitioners can fit in one cinema room. If you build with WordPress in Poland and you have not been to a WordUp yet, the next one is the easy answer: low cost, no badge dance, and you will leave knowing more people than when you arrived.
Edition #17 was not a polished conference. It was a Saturday afternoon of talks, a panel that ran a bit long, and the usual after-talk conversations that are honestly the part most people came for. If you missed it, the talks themselves are the kind of thing you can mostly catch later on WordPress.tv or YouTube. The hallway track is what you cannot replay.
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