Celebrate 10 years of WPCampus and discuss the future of WordPress in higher education at WPCampus 2025!
The annual WPCampus conference will be held July 23 – 25, 2025, in Rochester, New York, United States at the Hilton Garden Inn, near the University of Rochester campus.
WPCampus 2025 is the twelfth annual conference for the WPCampus community, a gathering of web professionals, educators, and people dedicated to the confluence of WordPress and accessibility in higher education.
Theme for WPCampus 2025
This year’s WPCampus is the first time we’re focusing our call for proposals around a specific theme: The Future of WordPress in Higher Education.
Our call for proposals is open until April 30, 2025.
Changes to our event structure
There are two significant differences for this year’s event.
Our main event venue will not be on a university campus
For the first time in the history of WPCampus, we will not host our event in a campus venue (we will be down the street from the University of Rochester).
Since our first in-person conference event in 2016, we have hosted every annual conference on a different university campus. It has been a gift and a pleasure to visit each institution and use their beautiful facilities.
We planned to host this year’s event at the University of Rochester and worked with its excellent staff. Our decision to move off campus has nothing to do with the university. The decision to move off campus was made to support a scalable budget and simpler logistics of coordinating a conference event for our volunteer staff.
We will not provide on-campus lodging
Since the event is not hosted on campus, we will not provide on-campus lodging for this year’s event.
We apologize for any inconvenience or disappointment. On average, we had low turnout for the on-campus lodging. But for the few who always took advantage, it was a great experience and adventure. It also required a lot of planning overhead for our volunteer organizers. And we discovered the campus dorms don’t have air conditioning.
The event format or modality
Visit the event schedule to learn more about the event’s format and what to expect. Visit our “attending the event” section to learn about travel and lodging.
Visit the WPCampus conferences page to learn more about our previous conferences: WPCampus 2024 (in Washington, DC), WPCampus 2023 (in New Orleans, Louisiana), WPCampus 2019 (in Portland, Oregon), WPCampus 2018 (in St. Louis, Missouri), WPCampus 2016 (in Sarasota, Florida), WPCampus 2017 (in Buffalo, New York), and our annual virtual conference, WPCampus Online.
Who will be there?
We welcome members of the higher education, accessibility, and WordPress communities from all over the United States, Canada, Europe, and more. We welcome faculty, staff, students, and web professionals dedicated to accessibility and higher education.
How much will the event cost?
One of our highest priorities is working to keep the cost of our tickets as low as possible.
Visit the tickets page to learn more about event costs.
Event Safety and Responsibility
We are committed to providing a safer environment for conference attendees, especially regarding community and public health, and have implemented Event Safety and Responsibility policies.
Code of Conduct
WPCampus seeks to provide a friendly, safe environment. All participants should be able to engage in productive dialogue, share, and learn with each other in an atmosphere of mutual respect and adhere to our Code of Conduct. This applies to all community interactions and events.
Contact us
If you have any questions about the event, please do not hesitate to reach out using our contact form.
Why WPCampus?
Thus far, numerous niche WordPress conferences have been aimed at for-profit initiatives and geared toward businesses, marketers, or e-commerce site owners. The concept for WPCampus is an education-focused, non-profit event that allows people to share and learn about WordPress in the world of higher education.
Higher education has unique challenges, content, stakeholders, and target audiences. Higher education is WordPress at the enterprise level, but we don’t worry much about which e-commerce plugin is best. Instead, we’re more concerned with managing large-scale networks of faculty blogs, abiding with FERPA and accessibility regulations, and implementing tools to promote research data.
WPCampus members use WordPress to power their institutions’ learning management systems, intranets, large university websites, and other support systems.
The world of higher ed is a great candidate for utilizing WordPress to its full potential, whether using the powerful CMS to stretch limited resources or using its API capabilities to share information and break down silos.
About the WPCampus organization
WPCampus is a non-profit organization and community of web professionals, educators, and people dedicated to the confluence of WordPress in higher education.
Our mission is to support the growth of higher education by enriching its people and technology. We work to advance higher education by providing a support structure, a wealth of knowledge, and networking for anyone who uses or is interested in using WordPress or supporting web accessibility in the world of higher education.
This conference (and community) was the brainchild of Rachel Cherry, a web engineer passionate about WordPress, accessibility, and higher education. She loved going to WordCamps, but the content was never focused on the topics she wanted to discuss as a higher education web specialist. The idea for the conference started with a tweet in August 2015 and has grown into a widespread community. Learn more about the WPCampus organization
WPCampus is a non-profit organization. All WPCampus events are non-profit events planned by volunteer members of the community.
WPCampus events are not WordCamps and are not affiliated with the WordPress Foundation.
How to get involved
If you are not already a member of the WPCampus community, we invite you to visit the main WPCampus website to learn more about how to get involved. We also have a thriving Slack channel and would love you to join the conversation.