WordCamp Wrocław 2026: Back on the Speaker Side for the Second Year in a Row

For the second year in a row, I found myself on the slightly less comfortable side of a WordCamp room. Not sitting in a chair with coffee in hand, but standing behind a microphone with my own talk to deliver.

And that is probably what I am happiest about after the whole trip. Last year I had my first chance to speak at a WordCamp, and this time I got to do it again at WordCamp Wrocław 2026. It was nice to see that the first time was not just a one-off and that I once again had the opportunity to talk about something I actually work with every day.

Ironically, the talk itself was not what stressed me out the most.

PKP stressed me out more than the stage.

Before the trip, I was not particularly worried about whether I would manage to get on stage and say everything I wanted to say.

I was much more interested in whether my train ticket would actually work.

The PKP app kept throwing an error, so somewhere in the back of my mind there was a very practical question: would the ticket inspector see my ticket, or would they just see a man giving a surprisingly convincing explanation that he definitely had bought one?

Then there was the usual travel checklist: are we getting on the right train, are we getting off at the right stop, and are we going to discover halfway through the journey that we are confidently heading in completely the wrong direction?

I was travelling with a colleague, so at least any potential logistical disaster would not have been a solo adventure.

Once we actually made it to Wrocław, things became much calmer.

The last Friday session. Would anyone still show up?

My talk was called “wp-admin, wp-cron, wp-agent” and started on Friday at 5:30 PM. In other words, I had the privilege of closing the first day on one of the tracks.

That led to pretty much the only thing related to the talk itself that I was wondering about beforehand.

Would anyone still come?

After a full day of conference sessions, people may reasonably prefer food, conversation, or simply stretching their legs over listening to yet another person talk about WordPress.

As it turned out, the room was almost full.

That was a genuinely good feeling.

The talk was about something I have been experimenting with quite intensively for a while now: AI agents working with a real WordPress site. Not a flashy seven-minute demo that works perfectly because it has already been rehearsed seven times, but everyday work, tasks, reports, mistakes, and checking where an agent is genuinely useful and where it is simply very confident while being wrong.

When I finished, there was no dramatic “well, I survived” moment. It was more straightforward satisfaction.

Another WordCamp, another talk, and once again I was happy with how it went.

And that was really the point.

WordCamp is still mostly about the people.

The talks matter, but the more of these events I attend, the more convinced I become that a large part of their value happens outside the conference rooms.

You get to meet people you already know from previous WordCamps. You finally get to talk face to face with people you previously knew mostly from the internet. You can sit down with a coffee and spend half an hour discussing something that was never mentioned anywhere in the official schedule.

I think that is one of the main reasons I enjoy these events.

I would rather not reduce a WordCamp to “networking”, because that word always sounds as if someone is about to pull out a stack of business cards and start hunting for leads.

It is much more about normal conversations between people who work in the same industry, run into similar problems, and often have similarly absurd stories from real projects.

AI did not stay on the stage.

Unsurprisingly, AI also kept coming up in conversations outside my session.

And I think that is a good sign, because we seem to be moving past the stage where everyone is impressed simply because a model can generate code or write some text. The more interesting question is becoming: what happens when we start letting these tools deeper into our everyday work?

So we talked not only about what AI can do, but also about the risks.

An agent that can perform a dozen operations on its own can save a lot of time. It can also very quickly do something we never wanted it to do.

That is the part I currently find most interesting. Not whether AI can do something, but when we should actually let it do it and how closely we still need to watch what it is doing.

But that topic definitely deserves more than one paragraph in a WordCamp recap.

Since I was already in Wrocław…

Of course, I would not really be myself if I travelled to Wrocław and did not check what the city had to offer from a geocaching perspective.

This time, however, I had no interest in clearing the map or finding everything that happened to be five metres away from my route.

I picked only a handful of highlights. Mostly larger containers and caches that had been recommended to me as particularly worth visiting.

I will stop there for now, because both the Wrocław caches themselves and the way I selected them deserve a separate post.

I can reveal one thing: a project called cachepilot helped me choose them.

There will be much more about that soon.

So, see you at the next one?

What I took away from WordCamp Wrocław 2026 most of all is the feeling that I would like to do more trips like this.

It was great to be among the speakers for the second year in a row. It was great to see an almost full room for the final Friday session. And it was even better to meet familiar faces again and finally meet in person some of the people I had previously known mostly through a screen.

The organisers of WordCamp Kraków have already announced the next edition for April 2027.

Will I be there? We will see.

Maybe even on this side of the stage again?

Perhaps I will see you in Kraków.