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FEBRUARY 24-28, 2025
ONLINE EVENT
2nd Annual
Gain high-impact insights and tools in short, intensive sessions that will empower you migrate to WordPress with a focus on data management, SEO, security, and scalability.
5 days of learning
Learn from WordPress and publishing experts and apply best practices to your digital property.
3 learning formats
The learning week features a variety of presentation formats: presentations, panels, and workshops.
200 attendees
Join your peers – fellow digital publishing and media professionals – and exchange experiences and best practices.
The New York Times, TechCrunch, BBC America – these are some of the most recognized names in digital publishing. And all of them are built on WordPress – a CMS platform that has a 43.1% market share.
WordPress dominates Google’s search engine results pages because it significantly simplifies the optimization process for its users. However, with competition for the audience’s attention and engagement at an all-point high, publishers have to go the extra mile and apply best practices in managing and optimizing the performance of their WordPress sites.
Join the 2nd Annual WP Publisher Success Week to learn exactly that – best practices from leading experts in the field of WordPress for publishers.
Grab your pass
This event is ideally suited for:
Founders/CEOs
Head of Digital/Publisher/COO
Editorial & Content Strategists
SEO Specialists
Audience Development Leaders
Ad Tech & Integration Professionals
The program features five days of sessions: presentations, panels, and workshops. You can register for a single session or for the entire event.
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KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Raelene Morey | The Repository
Vahe Arabian | State of Digital Publishing
CASE STUDY PRESENTATION
Aslam Multani | Multidots
PANEL
Kyle Sutton | The Points Guy
Shelby Blackley | The Athletic | WTF is SEO?
Bryan Davis | The Associated Press
Jessie Willms (moderator) | The Guardian | WTF is SEO?
PANEL
Pete Pachal | The Media Copilot
Matt Karolian | The Boston Globe
Vahe Arabian (moderator) | State of Digital Publishing
Industry experts who will share their success stories, predictions, and tips at WP Publisher Success Week 2025.
The Media Copilot examines how AI is changing media, journalism, and the news. While machine-generated content has been used by large newsrooms for the better part of a decade, generative AI effectively brought the technology to anyone and everyone. Newsrooms and media companies have been racing to understand and implement generative AI ever since.
That’s where The Media Copilot comes in. As journalists who have been studying, covering, and using AI for years, The Media Copilot’s team is equipped to navigate this new era that generative AI is enabling. The Media Copilot offers insights through its daily newsletter, conversations with thought leader via its podcast, and hands-on training with AI tools through courses and consulting.
Founded in 1925 in France, FIPP is one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious membership associations. Originally formed by a consortium of magazine publishers to enable them to share ideas, the organisation has grown over almost 100 years to include media owners and content creators from across the world.
FIPP exists to empower its members to build market-leading international media businesses through intelligence, solutions and partnerships.
FIPP does this through knowledge sharing, networking, training, lobbying, consulting, and promoting the industry. This year, FIPP is celebrating its 100th birthday.
The Repository is an independent media business dedicated to reporting news across the WordPress ecosystem.
Since 2019, it has served a WordPress-focused audience via its popular weekly newsletter designed for people who want their news fast. In 2024, it expanded its offering to deliver weekly news coverage for those wanting to dive deeper into the latest headlines.
WordPress is changing, and not just the open source software. The community, businesses, and ecosystem that support, contribute, and rely on it are also evolving. The Repository is committed to the stories, the people, and the economy that support and work with WordPress.
First on Storify then on a Gutenberg-driven website, Birgit Pauli-Haack has been curating Community voices about Gutenberg, the new visual editor for WordPress since June 2017, ever since she saw a demonstration of it at WordCamp Europe in Paris.
Birgit Pauli-Haack is a WordPress developer advocate, sponsored by Automattic. She curates community voices around Gutenberg, the WordPress editor on Gutenberg Times and co-host the Gutenberg Changelog podcast. Prior to working for Automattic, she helped organizations, corporations, and individuals create their online communication strategy and web presence at Pauli Systems, a web development agency she founded back in 2002.
WTF is SEO? is a newsletter for news publishers. It helps you – whether your publication knows all the things about search or it’s just you doing it all – understand, prioritize and make actionable growth for your outlet.
You won’t have to worry about missing anything. Every new edition of the newsletter goes directly to your inbox on Monday.
Why was it created?
One day, Jessie asked Shelby an SEO question. She was frustrated by the fact there were very few – if any – resources around SEO for news. Shelby worked at The Globe and Mail for three years as a newsroom SEO specialist, and Jessie is an audience editor at The Globe now. So they decided to take their knowledge and make WTF is SEO.
