WordCamp San Diego In Photos

This past weekend WP Engine ventured to sunny California for WordCamp San Diego. The two-day event was filled with WordPress related speeches and was surely a success. Here’s a recap of the event in photos:

WordCamp San Diego, you were a beautiful one!

The conference was held at the NTC at Liberty Station, which used to be a Naval Training Center in Point Loma.

First thing Saturday morning, the crowd started to pour in!

Russell Aaron and Ben Weiser were first in line for free coffee (a reoccurring theme at WordCamps for these two).

Part of the team: (from left) Rachel Graham, Dustin Meza, Marisol Trevino, Whitley Broders. It was Marisol and Whitley’s first WordCamp!

Taco, anyone?

Long time WP Engine customer Priscilla Christian showed the WP Engine team up with her vintage WP Engine t-shirt!

Steven Bennett, Joel Worsham, and Kyle Maurer with Real Big Marketing stopped by to say hello. “The single sign on feature switch makes it seamless to switch from my account to my clients. We take advantage of all the developer tools on WP Engine–especially staging. The biggest thing though is talking with support. It doesn’t matter what the problem is–we know they will help us no matter what.”

“Staging is the best feature on WP Engine, but we also love the 24/7 support and being able to reach out any hour of the day. And we are so excited to now have backups in staging on the WP Engine platform!” (Lynne Chauncey, Kristin Long, and Lauren Addicott with web development company Mighty Minnow, based in the Bay area.)

WP Engine Andy Perez with part of the Tiny Frog team. Andy has been with WP Engine a little over two years, and Tiny Frog has been a customer going on three years. They go way back!

Russell Aaron led an open discussion on WordPress. In this forum any topics are on the table for discussion. A wide range of viewpoints in the community are shared in this format, which is so valuable for those that attend! Why an open format? Russell explains, “Sometimes time doesn’t allow for many questions after presentations. That can sometimes be frustrating for new users. This is designed for everyone- new and advanced to talk to each other.”

Some people’s entire livelihoods exist online. Dustin Meza walked the crowd through a five step testing plan so their sites were ready to upgrade and be a top performing, well oiled machine. You can check out his slides here.