Chetaru at WordCamp Europe 2024

Was Chetaru at WordCamp Europe 2024?

Yes. Chetaru took part in WordCamp Europe 2024 as a small business sponsor, joining the WordPress community in Torino, Italy, from 13 to 15 June 2024. As a company that has worked in the WordPress ecosystem for over a decade, attending WordCamp Europe is part of how we stay close to the platform our clients depend on. This post explains why we sponsored the event, what WordCamp Europe is, and what we set out to gain from being there.

Key Takeaways

• Chetaru sponsored WordCamp Europe 2024 as a small business sponsor, held in Torino, Italy, 13 to 15 June 2024.
• WordCamp Europe is one of the largest WordPress events in the world, drawing developers, designers, marketers, and business owners.
• We’ve worked in WordPress for more than a decade, alongside SEO, Shopify, and Magento.
• Sponsoring WordCamps keeps us connected to the community and current with where WordPress is heading.

WordCamps are the community events that hold the WordPress world together, and WordCamp Europe is the biggest of them on the continent. For an agency whose work centres on WordPress, being in the room matters: it’s where the platform’s direction is discussed, where you meet the people building it, and where you learn what’s changing before it reaches the wider web. The rest of this post covers our journey in the WordPress ecosystem and why this event earns a place in our calendar.

What is our history with WordPress?

Chetaru has worked in the WordPress ecosystem for more than a decade, building expertise across WordPress development, SEO, Shopify, and Magento. Over those years we’ve delivered digital solutions for clients across a range of industries, and WordPress has remained central to much of that work, from custom themes and plugins to performance and SEO.

Part of staying good at WordPress is staying close to its community, which is why we’ve taken part in WordCamps over the years, including WordCamp Europe 2023. These events are where the WordPress project’s contributors, agencies, and users come together, and attending regularly has helped us keep pace with the platform’s innovations and shifts rather than learning about them after the fact.

That continuity matters because WordPress itself keeps evolving, through the block editor, full-site editing, performance work, and changing best practices. An agency that only used WordPress without engaging its community would gradually fall behind. Showing up at WordCamps is one of the ways we make sure the advice and builds we give clients reflect where the platform actually is, not where it was a few years ago.

What is WordCamp Europe?

WordCamp Europe is one of the largest and most anticipated WordPress events in the world, bringing the European and global WordPress community together each year in a different host city. It gathers a broad mix of attendees, developers, designers, marketers, agency owners, and everyday WordPress users, for several days of talks, workshops, and networking, all centred on the open-source platform that powers a large share of the web.

What makes the event valuable is the range of people in one place. WordPress spans hobbyist bloggers and enterprise sites, so the conversations at WordCamp Europe cut across the whole spectrum: core development, design, accessibility, performance, SEO, business, and community. That mix is hard to find anywhere else, and it’s why the event draws people from across Europe and beyond.

For 2024, the host city was Torino, Italy, a fitting backdrop for a community known for combining serious technical work with genuine warmth. Beyond the sessions, WordCamps are social events, built on the open-source ethos of sharing knowledge freely, which is part of why they remain such a strong fixture in the WordPress year.

Why did Chetaru sponsor WordCamp Europe 2024?

We sponsored WordCamp Europe 2024 to invest in the community our work is built on and to meet the people who make WordPress what it is. Sponsoring, rather than simply attending, is a way of giving something back to an open-source ecosystem that has supported our business for years, and it reflects how much WordPress matters to what we do.

We went in with a few clear goals:

1. Networking. We wanted to connect with industry peers, potential clients, and collaborators, on the view that there’s always something to learn from others in the community, whether they’re seasoned professionals or just starting out.
2. Learning. With a programme of sessions and workshops, the event is a chance to deepen our knowledge of the latest WordPress developments, which keeps us competitive and helps us deliver better solutions for clients.
3. Sharing our experience. After more than a decade working with WordPress, we’re glad to discuss what we’ve learned and how businesses can use the platform well.
4. Community engagement. Being part of the WordPress community has always mattered to us, and WordCamps are where that participation happens in person.

Those goals come back to a single idea: the better connected we are to WordPress and its community, the better the work we can do for the businesses that rely on us.