What we’re about
San Diego WordPress Meetup is where San Diego’s WordPress folks come to learn, share, and meet the people behind the sites, shops, and plugins you see every day. 🤝
Whether you’re brand new to WordPress or you’ve been building for years, you’ll find a friendly room full of people who like swapping ideas, solving problems, and leveling up together. 🌴
What we do
- Practical talks + demos on everything from block themes, design, and UX to plugins, performance, security, SEO, content strategy, and AI. 🎤
- Show-and-tell / roundtables where you can share what you’re building, get feedback, and pick up ideas from others. 🧠
- Networking that’s actually useful: find collaborators, freelance gigs, jobs, clients, and people who get it. 🔗
Who it’s for Site owners, freelancers, agency folks, developers, designers, marketers, content creators, and anyone curious about WordPress. Bring your questions, bring your wins, bring your stuck moments, bring your laptop if you want. 💻
If you’re into WordPress (or adjacent tools) and want a solid local community, come hang. 🙌
Huge thanks to Ansir Coworking, our venue sponsor, for hosting the meetup. 🙏
Thanks to our WordPress Global Community Sponsors who help support meetups and WordCamps worldwide, including WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack, Bluehost, Kinsta and Hosting.com. 💙
Featured event
WordPress + AI Night, What's Here, What's Next
We’re kicking off 2026 with our first San Diego WordPress Meetup of the year, and the entire focus is WordPress + AI 🚀
This meetup is all about what’s here today, what’s coming next, and how to optimize, capitalize, and streamline your workflows using AI across WordPress ⚡️
What’s special about this one: colleagues from Automattic, including leaders helping shape Automattic’s AI efforts and major contributors to the WordPress ecosystem, will be in San Diego 🌴. I’ve asked them to join us for insightful talks and demos covering MCP, Telex, Jetpack, and more 🧠
Thanks to Ansir Co-working (our wonderful venue sponsor) for hosting this month’s event 🙌
Drinks will be provided 🍻. If you can’t arrive right at 6:00 PM, that’s OK, but please plan to be there by 6:30 PM when we kick things off.
Space is limited to 35 attendees, so RSVP now to reserve your spot ✅
AGENDA
6:00 to 6:30 PM: Pre-Networking and Networking 🤝
- Food and drinks.
- Meet other attendees and organizers.
- Bring your laptop if you’d like. Experts will be around and happy to answer questions during networking.
6:30 to 6:40 PM: Welcome 👋
- Devin Walker: early community member, San Diego native, former WordCamp SD organizer, co-founder of GiveWP, now Automattician.
- Thanks to Ansir Co-working and WordPress for support.
- Overview of tonight’s format.
6:40 to 7:30 PM: Featured Talks and Demos (WordPress + AI) 🎤 We’ll have a couple featured talks and demos from Automattic guests covering what’s happening in WordPress + AI right now, what’s coming next, and how to apply it in real workflows.
Likely themes include:
- MCP and how it fits into modern workflows.
- Telex, what it unlocks, and what to watch for.
- Jetpack AI surfaces and where things are heading.
Final talk titles and speaker lineup may shift slightly as schedules finalize.
7:30 to 7:55 PM: Q&A, Panel Style 💬
- Bring real questions, real constraints, and real workflows.
- We’ll keep this open and interactive.
7:55 to 8:00 PM: Community Announcements and Closing 🎉
- WordCamp updates.
- Job postings and collaborations.
- Open shoutouts.
- Optional: quick WordPress trivia with plugin license prizes.
SPEAKERS 🧑💻
James LePage (Automattic, AI Product) James works on making AI genuinely usable inside WordPress products, focusing on product experience, guidelines, and patterns that help teams ship AI features with clarity and consistency.
Jason Adams (Automattic, AI and Developer Experience) Jason focuses on developer-facing AI workflows, helping builders adopt practical patterns and tooling so AI features can be integrated cleanly and reliably.
Additional Automattic guests (TBA) More speakers may be announced as schedules finalize. We may also add 1–2 community mini-demos if time allows. Reach out if you’re doing something cool with WordPress + AI and want to share it.
GET INVOLVED ✨
- Want to present on WordPress + AI? Drop a note in the Meetup comments (or reach out to Devin) with your topic and what you’d like to demo.
- Have questions you want covered? Post them in the Meetup comments ahead of time so speakers can come prepared.
- Interested in sponsoring a future meetup? Say hi. We’re always looking for great community partners.
Upcoming events
1
WordPress + AI Night, What's Here, What's Next
Ansir Coworking, 7670 Opportunity Rd #255, San Diego, CA, USWe’re kicking off 2026 with our first San Diego WordPress Meetup of the year, and the entire focus is WordPress + AI 🚀
This meetup is all about what’s here today, what’s coming next, and how to optimize, capitalize, and streamline your workflows using AI across WordPress ⚡️
What’s special about this one: colleagues from Automattic, including leaders helping shape Automattic’s AI efforts and major contributors to the WordPress ecosystem, will be in San Diego 🌴. I’ve asked them to join us for insightful talks and demos covering MCP, Telex, Jetpack, and more 🧠
Thanks to Ansir Co-working (our wonderful venue sponsor) for hosting this month’s event 🙌
Drinks will be provided 🍻. If you can’t arrive right at 6:00 PM, that’s OK, but please plan to be there by 6:30 PM when we kick things off.
Space is limited to 35 attendees, so RSVP now to reserve your spot ✅
AGENDA
6:00 to 6:30 PM: Pre-Networking and Networking 🤝
- Food and drinks.
- Meet other attendees and organizers.
- Bring your laptop if you’d like. Experts will be around and happy to answer questions during networking.
6:30 to 6:40 PM: Welcome 👋
- Devin Walker: early community member, San Diego native, former WordCamp SD organizer, co-founder of GiveWP, now Automattician.
- Thanks to Ansir Co-working and WordPress for support.
- Overview of tonight’s format.
6:40 to 7:30 PM: Featured Talks and Demos (WordPress + AI) 🎤 We’ll have a couple featured talks and demos from Automattic guests covering what’s happening in WordPress + AI right now, what’s coming next, and how to apply it in real workflows.
Likely themes include:
- MCP and how it fits into modern workflows.
- Telex, what it unlocks, and what to watch for.
- Jetpack AI surfaces and where things are heading.
Final talk titles and speaker lineup may shift slightly as schedules finalize.
7:30 to 7:55 PM: Q&A, Panel Style 💬
- Bring real questions, real constraints, and real workflows.
- We’ll keep this open and interactive.
7:55 to 8:00 PM: Community Announcements and Closing 🎉
- WordCamp updates.
- Job postings and collaborations.
- Open shoutouts.
- Optional: quick WordPress trivia with plugin license prizes.
SPEAKERS 🧑💻
James LePage (Automattic, AI Product) James works on making AI genuinely usable inside WordPress products, focusing on product experience, guidelines, and patterns that help teams ship AI features with clarity and consistency.
Jason Adams (Automattic, AI and Developer Experience) Jason focuses on developer-facing AI workflows, helping builders adopt practical patterns and tooling so AI features can be integrated cleanly and reliably.
Additional Automattic guests (TBA) More speakers may be announced as schedules finalize. We may also add 1–2 community mini-demos if time allows. Reach out if you’re doing something cool with WordPress + AI and want to share it.
GET INVOLVED ✨
- Want to present on WordPress + AI? Drop a note in the Meetup comments (or reach out to Devin) with your topic and what you’d like to demo.
- Have questions you want covered? Post them in the Meetup comments ahead of time so speakers can come prepared.
- Interested in sponsoring a future meetup? Say hi. We’re always looking for great community partners.
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Past events
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