WCEU 2025 roundup

Held in the picturesque and vibrant city of Basel, this year’s WordCamp Europe focused on innovation, leveraging AI, and the investment in future WordPress contributors. With over 1,700 WordPress enthusiasts attending to collaborate and celebrate WordPress, the three – day event saw attendees from over 84 countries head to Basel’s Messe Centre to hear from a global lineup of speakers and see the latest WordPress innovations first-hand. A firm favourite in the Big Bite calendar, our team loved exploring Switzerland’s cultural capital at this year’s WCEU and reconnecting with the WordPress community.

Collaboration is key

As always, Contributor Day kicked the week off and offered up over 27 contributing teams to join. From fixing bugs and testing features to working on design and UX, 640+ professionals from the WordPress space, including five new contributors to core, joined the session to work together and help shape the future of the platform. The day concluded a great success with significant progress being made on six tickets, four of which were successfully fixed.

In addition to Contributor Day, we loved heading to a bunch of exciting talks and workshops to see the latest innovations in WordPress, exchange ideas on how to further enhance the world-leading platform and of course witness the annual WordPress Speed Build challenge! We also heard from Mariya Moeva, Senior Product Manager at Google, who shared her team’s journey building Site Kit and how the plugin can seamlessly sync key Google products to WordPress, enabling teams to collaborate with ease across both platforms.

Fireside chats

The week ended with the highly anticipated fireside chat with Mary Hubbard and Matt Mullenweg who received over 9,000 questions from attendees. Working their way through as many critical questions as they could in the allocated one hour slot, Matt and Mary addressed many hot topics including regulation in the EU, the Federated and Independent Repository (FAIR) announcement and the new education pathways for future WordPress talent – including the announcement of a 150-hour university credit pilot launching this year to help students contribute to the WordPress project.

The conference closed with the exciting announcement of WordCamp Europe 2026, taking place 4-6 June in the Royal Capital City of Poland – Krakow. The call for organisers is already open for those to wish to be involved and will close on August 31st 2025. We can’t wait to see you there!