WordCamp Lithuania and WordCamp Gdynia 2025 recap

As you may know, we attended several WordCamps this September starting with WordCamp Vršac. This time, we’re recapping WordCamp Lithuania and WordCamp Gdynia that have just finished this past weekend so, buckle up and enjoy the recap ride!

In the span of a few days, two vibrant WordCamps – one in Lithuania and one in Poland – brought the community together with talks, workshops and late-night camaraderie (just sayin’..). As sponsors and speakers hopping from Kaunas to Gdynia (with a little FOMO on the overlap), we’ve got to witness how each event had its own flavor yet echoed common relevant themes and here are some written highlights – apart from the ones shared on our social channels.

WordCamp Lithuania 2025 recap

WordCamp Lithuania roared back to life in Kaunas, gathering around 200 participants from many parts of Europe, USA and beyond. Our team of 7 was happy to be there and experience Lithuania WP magic after quite some time.

Enjoyed and learned so much during the affiliate marketing talk that Zemyna Treidere held, where she taught us about a thing or two on how to utilize this no matter the role in WordPress we have. Christian Taylor did an amazing talk on how to be better and more convertible content and shared on-point tips so make sure to check it all out on WordPress.tv when it gets rolled out.

Later throughout the day, we got to enjoy hearing our Head of Product, Raitis Sevelis share his POV and insights around how to fight toxicity that is becoming an issue not just in WordPress. Attendees agreed with many points and were welcoming to his suggestions and recommendations. The lecture part ended with Remkus de Vries’s talk about authenticity and being taken seriously within WordPress.

And in between the talks and learnings, we’ve managed to catch up with the amazing Lithuanian community, make great connections, do an interview or two (three, to be exact!), so called Mini Excerpt Talks that you can keep track of on our Instagram and TikTok as we roll them out.

This was a short but packed with good time visit to WordCamp Lithuania 2025 as we were on our way to Gdynia the very next day!

WordCamp Gdynia 2025 recap

Come Saturday morning, WordCamp Gdynia started its official day 1 and we were there in a fuller capacity of 9 team members:

The one thing about this particular WordCamp: the organizers had set up two tracks – one delivering sessions in Polish, and one in English – for the first time and, as a result, both tracks attracted many visitors sparking many ideas and inspiration along the way.  It was like a buffet of WordPress knowledge and we wished we could clone ourselves to attend everything along being by our sponsor booth. Sadly, technology is not advanced that much so we opted for occasional visits to these great talks.

Saturday’s talks ranged from design and UX insights such as “5 UX Mistakes in WooCommerce Checkout,” to infrastructure-minded sessions like “The Dark Side of Automatic Updates” and a deep-dive on writing plugins and themes in modern PHP, alongside discussions on branding vs accessibility, scaling enterprise WordPress and performance-tuning with real-world case studies. Our Development Manager, Edgars Veidenbaums had an informative talk about engineering Custom Elements with WPBakery that sparked much interest, that you can look up in this link.

We were quite proud and honored to have so many people reach out to talk about it afterwards.

Sunday shifted into future-facing and people-focused conversations: how AI is reshaping developers’ roles, why caching isn’t a one-size-fits-all fix, and the impact of the Eu’s Cyber Resilience Act. The day ended with a few very anticipated raffles and, as you can see, our winners were more than happy with their prizes:

Of course, no WordCamp is whole without parties – and WordCamp Gdynia had quite a few of them – gathering people around not just WordPress but also music and karaoke (luckily, there are no videos about it!). All this made this Wordcamp that much more welcoming and better and we left Gdynia filled with good energy and memories, alongside so much conversation and ideas. And, just like with WordCamp Lithuania, we came home with more than a few Mini Excerpt Talks interviews – not revealing the names – follow us on socials to learn more 😊

Wrapping up

Ultimately, our presence at these WordCamps was more than having a logo on the sponsor wall or booth in the hallways. A big part of our team was on-site: working, yes and also joining hallway conversations, showing up at sessions – making it easy for people to connect with people behind the product. As Sebastian Miśniakiewicz rightfully pointed out: we’re in human-to-human business and this is what counts. With the community like this, WordPress is yet to thrive and do wonders!

Until next time, WPBakery team’s sending much love to all the organizers, volunteers and people that made these two WordCamps happen!