Attended my first WordCamp this year. Why Madrid? Well, I have personal interest but that’s a conversation for another day.
What I loved about WC Madrid?
Seeing people I know, sharing time and conversations with old friends and meeting new people will always be the thing I love most about WordCamps.
Talking to sponsors about new things they are doing and playing the awesome games is always fun.
And the talks were great. I saw a couple I want to write about.
Talks
Since it is hard for me to focus on one single thing, I rather watch the talks via WordPress.tv, still, I do make an effort to attend a few.
Developer Tools by Joan Vega
So the full name is “Conoces las «Developer tools» del navegador … pero ¿nunca las has usado para analizar el rendimiento,” it translates to “You know the browser’s developer tools but you have never use them to analyzed performance?” by Joan Vega (links to X.com.)
When I read that title I raised my hand as high as I could as I am guilty sinner. Well, Joan and his masterful teaching-skills, managed to explain what do those little numbers mean and how to take advantage of the data to improve our sites. We had lots of technical issues (it was the first talk of the day,) but Joan made it easy and continued with his talk without losing his cool.
I have walked out of “developers” talks before because the level of knowledge needed is too much for me. Joan explain something difficult for non-developers, in a very simple and practical way. I understood everything.
The next talk was Traducir para vender: Cómo un sitio web multilingüe puede aumentar tus conversiones with Jesus Amieiro (opens in WordPress.org) and it was a very comprehensive talk about why we want to have a website in a local language.
After lunch I saw Storytelling, copywriting y humor para que tu ponencia WordPress se recuerde mejor with Jaime Bauza. Never saw a talk by him before but it was the most hilarious learning experience. I even learned a new word in Spanish “batamanta”, it was even funnier when I had to ask what that is.
My last talk was MESA DE DEBATE: «El Futuro de WordPress», a panel about the future of WordPress. This question ha been popping out in our heads more often than don’t lately for may reasons, not only the pending litigation.
But the highlight of the day was celebrating Women’s Day with my Spanish female friends and colleagues.
Looking forward to WordCamp Madrid 2026.