WordCamp Europe 2026 to Open in Kraków as WordPress Community Gathers

Thousands of WordPress users, developers, agencies, educators, marketers, business leaders and contributors are expected to gather in Kraków, Poland, for WordCamp Europe 2026, which will take place from 4–6 June at the ICE Kraków Congress Centre. The event is one of the largest annual gatherings of the WordPress community and is expected to attract more than 3,000 attendees.

The event will begin with Contributor Day on 4 June, followed by two days of conference sessions, workshops and community activities on 5 and 6 June. Organisers have scheduled more than 50 talks and workshops covering technical development, content publishing, business strategy, accessibility, security and community initiatives.

Artificial intelligence is expected to be a recurring theme throughout the programme. Sessions such as "Inside WordPress 7.0", "Agentic AI & WordPress: From Prompts to Tools & Systems", "Build Your First AI-Powered WordPress Plugin" and "The AI-First WordPress Site: Crawler to Citation" reflect growing interest in how AI is being incorporated into publishing workflows, developer tooling and content discovery. The event follows the release of WordPress 7.0 on 20 May, making it the first major in-person gathering of the community since the update became available.

Beyond artificial intelligence, the programme places significant emphasis on enterprise publishing, accessibility, security and open-source collaboration. Sessions will explore large-scale WordPress deployments, inclusive design practices, infrastructure resilience, plugin security and the evolving relationship between content platforms and AI-assisted search systems.

WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg is scheduled to deliver the conference's closing keynote on 6 June, concluding three days of discussions on technical development, publishing strategy, community contribution and the future direction of the WordPress ecosystem.