Author: Marko Heijnen

I'm a software engineer from the Netherlands, bringing over a decade of expertise to the table. Specialising in PHP, DevOps, and WordPress development, I have spearheaded numerous successful projects for global clients through my own agency. My dedication to the WordPress community dates back to 2009, where I have since then contributed to 23 versions and served as the lead developer of GlotPress from 2013 to 2015. My contributions have been instrumental in expanding WordPress's reach across multiple languages, making GlotPress a cornerstone of its translation efforts.

Big thanks to our Silver sponsors

WordCamps are made possible by great sponsors who help us out by supporting the events. Without them WordCamp Belgrade wouldn’t happen and we would love to thank our silver sponsors for helping out.

AdriaHost
AdriaHost is a regional shared hosting and dedicated server provider, offering a wide spectrum of web hosting and cloud services including Shared Hosting, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Dedicated Server Hosting, Domain Name Registration and the managed WordPress service called WizzPress. WizzPress is a managed WordPress hosting platform built specifically for designers and creative agencies. WizzPress makes it simple to build, launch, and manage WordPress sites. With automated backups, blazing-fast load times, WordPress-specific security, and an awesome support team full of WordPress developers, WizzPress helps hundreds of designers launch their websites with WordPress.

DevriX
DevriX is a distributed WordPress development agency specializing in SaaS development, extensible plugins and frameworks, and software applications for the Web. Coming from the software engineering world, our team members have background in Java, PHP, Python and .NET development or practical experience in performance and security management.

At DevriX we put focus on business growth and invest in our customers’ success. We help our clients to increase their profits by crafting scalable platforms and automated systems that optimize their internal processes. Our core team is passionate about Open Source and we contribute back to the WordPress community on a regular basis.

WinningWP
WinningWP offers vast range of WordPress-related articles for people who love WordPress, however, that’s not all they’re about: they also regularly tweet WordPress news @WinningWP and offer both a particularly popular Guide to Choosing the Best WordPress Hosting Service and an awesome selection of deals and discounts on a number of outstanding WordPress plugins, themes, hosting, services and more! Seriously, if you haven’t already, check them out at WinningWP.

Siteground
SiteGround, with over 11 years in the business, provides managed WordPress hosting that does not miss a thing! Their servers, available in 3 different data centers across the world, are optimized for ultimate WordPress speed and security and they provide many goodies for the WordPress fans – automatic updates for the core WordPress and its plugins, WordPress SuperCacher for ultimate speed acceleration, staging tool for the coders and unique WordPress autoinstaller for the starting users – all crafted in-house by the SiteGround team. And still they do not forget the importance of the good old standard hosting features like the domain name registration, the email service, control panel and the reasonable pricing. They also have a support team that is not only available 24/7 by phone, chat and ticketing, but consists of WordPress enthusiasts who will help you with specific WordPress issues. SiteGround has been actively involved with the community speaking, supporting and attending various WordCamps around the world and by sponsoring WordCamp Belgrade, they want to further contribute to the amazing WordPress community.

Themes Kingdom
Themes Kingdom is a small group of dedicated Knights working hard around the table and the clock to make awesome WordPress themes.

We understand that entrepreneurs and startups have much more in mind that designing and creating websites. It doesn’t matter if you are a dentist, writer, developer, hotel owner, restaurant owner or an architecture studio owner as you will find the perfect WordPress theme with the right elements and color scheme suitable for your needs.

Big thanks to our Bronze sponsors

WordCamps are made possible by great sponsors who help us out by supporting the events. Without them WordCamp Belgrade wouldn’t happen and we would love to thank our bronze sponsors for helping out.

ThemeIsle
Need a WordPress theme that’s actually easy to use and to customize? Great, that’s what we’re here for! WordPress themes are our bread, butter, and rum! We know them. We live them.

We’re ThemeIsle. But hey, don’t take my word for it. Here’s something that never lies – raw numbers:

Ninet
Ninet is one of few hosting companies in Serbia which uses its own resources in rendering services. And that is why NiNet Company can offer their customers packages at considerably more favorable conditions than any other in this region.

Studio Raketa
At Studio Raketa we design and develop custom WordPress themes, specifically tailored for the needs of your business.

Gold Sponsor: WPZOOM

WordCamp Belgrade wouldn’t be possible without the generous contributions from companies like our Gold sponsors. And I’m proud to announce one of our Gold sponsor to be WPZOOM.

WPZOOM is a one-stop WordPress theme shop focused on developing modern, user-friendly WordPress themes. Some of our most popular themes are being used on education sites, blogs, business sites, magazines & newspapers, eCommerce sites, and many others.

They’re located in Chisinau, Moldova, but some members from their team are based in countries like USA, Serbia, Indonesia.

Visit their website to see the beautiful themes that we’ve created and are used on more than 50.000 sites.

MaxCDN is Attending WordCamp Belgrade 2015

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This year, MaxCDN is attending and speaking at WordCamp Belgrade 2015 as a Gold sponsor. Like all WordCamps held globally, this event will feature WordPress advocates who believe in a faster web that’s both open and secure.

What We’re Teaching Attendees
At WordCamp Belgrade, we will be representing MaxCDN’s Serbian team by doing a workshop on Day 2 of the event.

We’ll be bringing the reverse proxy logic close to people, showing attendees the reverse proxy caching system from the ground up. We’ll be demonstrating caching on a request basis (as we do in MaxCDN) and how it affects website speed.

Additionally, we’ll be describing DNS (focused on Anycast), showing network debugging methods and performance measuring methods.

What Else You Will Learn
In addition to learning about reverse proxy logic at WordCamp Belgrade, attendees will also learn about things like HTTP/2, usability testing on WordPress, and building SaaS with WordPress. For a list of topics being presented, feel free to visit the official speakers page.

As the general manager of our Serbian office, I’m very excited to be attending and conducting a workshop. I also look forward to answering any WordPress-related questions.

If you have questions about any of the topics mentioned above and want to get things started early, feel free to leave a comment below. See you in Belgrade!

Schedule is up

Our schedule is up.

Registrations starts early Saturday morning at 8:00 and every attendee will get lanyard with his name on it and free T-shirt.

From 9:00 till 18:00 we will have 1 track with 10 awesome speakers. Every talk will take around 25 minutes with another 10 minutes questions. Between sessions we have 10 minutes so the next speaker can set everything up.

We will have 2 longer breaks of 15 minutes to grab coffee and a long lunch between 12:55 and 14:00 where we will serve a great lunch.

Checkout the schedule

 

Contributors day

Contributor day will be on Sunday from 11:00 till 17:00 for all WordCamp Belgrade attendees. We are still working on the details but we would like also to organize a few workshops which extend the sessions of our conference.

If you have comments or ideas then please let us know in the comments.

Thank you Comtrade

A conference starts with finding a venue and we are thrilled to have the offices of Comtrade as our venue. They have been kind to sponsor their space and have been very helpful with making WordCamp Belgrade possible / awesome.

Also, the venue is not the only thing that Comtrade will provide. Our attendees will enjoy coffee prepared in Comtrade’s bar, use it’s WiFi and for those who didn’t make on our Attendees list, Comtrade will provide Live streaming, more details about that one are coming soon!

All of these are coming completely free of charge and there is no words for us to describe how thankful we are to Comtrade.

About Comtrade

Established in 1990, ComTrade is a leading IT company in the region with offices in 11 countries across Europe and North America. Our technology centers are located in three major cities – Ljubljana (Slovenia), Belgrade (Serbia) and Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina).

Comtrade is a system of companies that operate in the field of software solutions, system integrations and hardware distribution. With a proven track record of delivering industry-leading IT solutions and software engineering services, ComTrade has become a trusted developer of end-to-end technology products and solutions in various industries.

Read more about Comtrade and check out couple of images of our awesome Venue on our page Location.

We are SOLD OUT

As some of you have already seen, the first WordCamp Belgrade is completely sold out. It was a bit nervous in the beginning but we are happy to see so many people registered and we can’t wait to welcome you all next weekend.

Hope for tickets

If you missed out on tickets, watch this site (while people can cancel), subscribe to blog post updates by email in the site sidebar and keep an eye on @WPSerbia. We make no promises but if we’re able to release a few more tickets it’ll be announced there.

Big thanks to our community sponsors

Some sponsors sponsor the WordCamps they picked out them self but others sponsor just all of them. These are the community sponsors and in this case they provide funding for every WordCamp in Europe. They do a great work by providing support this way to our great community.

A huge thanks to WPML, Bluehost, Jetpack and PlanetHoster for all of their support in making our event the fantastic WordCamp that it is! We are counting down the days, and looking forward to seeing you all there.

WPML

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WPML turns WordPress websites multilingual. It works with caching, SEO and E-Commerce plugins, and allows the building of complete multilingual sites. WPML powers simple blogs as well as corporate and enterprise sites.

WPML allows users to translate everything in the site, including content, menus, widgets and even theme and plugin texts. WPML powers over 400,000 commercial websites from all over the world.

More information about going multilingual can be found at WPML.org.

Bluehost

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Bluehost has been a WordPress partner since 2005 and powers over one million WordPress sites. Their goal is to provide outstanding hosting services and customer support for the best possible price. Bluehost is also constantly innovating and upgrading their services and infrastructure at no additional cost to their customers. Join the millions of other website owners that have already chosen Bluehost and see how they can help you with your site.

Jetpack

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Jetpack can supercharge your self-hosted site with a suite of the most powerful WordPress.com features.

PlanetHoster

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PlanetHoster offers premium hosting solutions to WordPress users worldwide. Whether it’s shared hosting, managed VPS, dedicated servers and much more, PlanetHoster’s customers report that these affordable, feature-packed hosting solutions exceed their expectations. Their certified engineers are very experienced with WordPress. They work hard to assure that your WordPress site will run very fast and will be hosted in a secure, 24/7 monitored environment. If you want to offer the best latency to your visitors by being hosted whether in Europe or in North America, PlanetHoster might be right for you.

Platinum Sponsor: WPMU DEV

WordCamp Belgrade wouldn’t be possible without the generous contributions from companies like our Platinum sponsors. And I’m proud to announce our second sponsor to be WPMU DEV. They have been a part of WordPress since 2005 and it’s awesome to have them at board.

WPMU DEV is the leading provider of premium WordPress plugins on the web – including plugins for eCommerce, membership sites, marketing, SEO, Multsite, BuddyPress, and more. Plus, we have the most active community of WordPress experts, support team, designers, and users around.

The WPMU DEV Blog provides daily news and tips so you can keep up with everything WordPress. Kicking it since 2004, with over 300,000 members strong, WPMU DEV is truly your WordPress team.

WordCamp Belgrade is over. Check out the next edition!