Category: Sponsors

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This post is a serie of interviews of our sponsors.
All of our sponsors get an interview on this site, even a video-interview depending on the chosen sponsorpackage. Interested in sponsoring?

Weglot

Website: weglot.com
Twitter: @weglot 
Facebook: facebook.com/weglot/ 

What do you or your company do and how is it connected to WordPress?

I’m the co-founder of Weglot, a multilingual plugin to translate and display a WordPress website in different languages. With human and machine translations, our service automatically detects and translates you content, while letting you easily manage your translations via a dedicated dashboard.
With 75-80% of our 20,000+ users WordPress is our main integration (libraries), even if we’re also available in other technologies. It’s also the first one we launched when starting our company, almost 2 years ago.

What topics can our visitors ask you about during WordCamp?

Multilingualism and translations management obviously :). More seriously, we’re passionate about technologies in general, entrepreneurship and startups. We love sharing tips and ideas about actions to grow companies, or to improve users experience.

We’ll also be pleased to discuss plugin development, and the importance of the community within WordPress.

Last but not least, SEO for the translated content. Thats’ something we’ve spent some time on, so we’re happy to share our insights.

How long have you been working with WordPress?

It’s been almost 2 years, it all started with Weglot.
Actually, during the very first days of Weglot, neither Rémy, nor me, did hear about WordPress. Our first integration (library) was a JavaScript snippet (we still have) and when we discussed with users a big part of them just replied: do you have a WordPress plugin to add it? We did not have any plugin, and we did not really know about WordPress.

So Rémy started digging into WordPress documentation and build a first version of the plugin. We iterated with users, released a news version and so on. Then we decided to sponsor the WordCamp Paris to officially launch our plugin and discuss with users. That was the very first beginning of our journey within WordPress.

Why are you sponsoring WordCamp Antwerp?

For us, the sponsoring goal has always been twofold.

First, it’s a great way to give back to the community and make it possible to gather all kind of the WordPress players during 1 or 2 days. It’s the only opportunity to have WordPress users, agencies, core contributor, plugin or theme developers, services, speakers, media in the same room. Technologies last if they are used and animated, both online and offline. I think WordPress is one of the most incredible communities for that.

Secondly, WordCamp allows companies generating revenues within WordPress to get exposure and exchange with their end-users.

So we’re sponsoring to both support the community, exchange with our users and get some exposure within the community.

What would be the next big trends within WordPress in 2018-2019?

To keep competing and increasing its market share WordPress needs to be able to serve more and more higher end users and customers.
With that in mind, it means agencies, freelancers, developers, service providers will also need to increase the proposed value and match higher standards.

Ultimately, it will benefit end-users, with fewer solution providers offering higher quality, and actively developing and supporting products.

This post is a serie of interviews of our sponsors.
All of our sponsors get an interview on this site, even a video-interview depending on the chosen sponsorpackage. Interested in sponsoring?

Dailybits

Herman Maes of Dailybits was the very first Bronze sponsor of WordCamp Antwerp 2018. The Bronze sponsorpackage aims at freelancers and small companies who want to contribute and give back to the WordPress community.
We were very happy that Herman was the very first one to reach out. Thanks Herman!

Dailybits: www.dailybits.be // @dailybits

Hi Herman, what do you do and what is the connection with WordPress?

I’m working as the teamlead of a marketing technology team at the big Belgian agency Intracto. I’m balancing my time between SEO, API’s, GTM, GDPR, WordPress websites and all other fun technical marketing things. As a freelancer I’m already for 13 years a techblogger and I’m helping smaller companies with their digital landscape/marketing. Next to that I’m enjoying speaking at conferences.

I started blogging in 2002 and used B2 CMS (which was used by Matt as foundation for WordPress). After B2 I’ve built my own CMS (everybody has to do this once) and in 2010 I switched back to WordPress 2.1 and started using WordPress since then.

About which topics can you help our visitors during the WordCamp?

I’m a technical marketing guy who speaks SEO code and dreams every night of marketing integrations with HubSpot, Mautic, CRM systems,…

Next to that I’m digging into the wonderful world of GDPR consultancy and can help you with all practical questions around this topic.

When entering Intracto WordPress was still a forbidden thing with the heads of all the existing Drupal developers at that time. I can always help you how you can convince your colleagues with learning to love WordPress since we now have a dedicated WordPress team within the agency.

How long do you work with WordPress?

Unofficially already since 2002 with B2. Officially since 2010.

Why do you sponsor WordCamp Antwerp?

WordPress got me into the blogging world and after waisting my time as an SAP consultant my WordPress experience helped to get into the technical marketing field.
As a freelancer this small sponsorships is my way to pay back for this help from WordPress.

Why should people come to WordCamp Antwerp?

Antwerp is really one of the most fascinating cities in the world. 😉

What do you want to learn at WordCamp?

I’m not a developer. I can hack things together and change existing code, so I’m looking forward to some real devtalks. next to that I’m now focussing a lot on security and talks around security, pentesting, malware discovery,… is something I’m really hoping for.

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Thanks Herman for your interview and support!
Do you wanna hear/read more about Herman Maes, check his amazing blog at dailybits.be.