WordPress is the most popular content management system in the world. What makes it great is the community which maintains it.
There has been an active WordPress community in Switzerland for many years, with the first national event taking place in 2014. Since then, activity has increased exponentially, both nationally and in exchange with colleagues from all over the world. This website is both a showcase and resource for the Swiss community.
What is WordPress?
WordPress is an open-source piece of software, which users can download and use to build websites and web apps. The software, its plugins and its themes — with which site owners can use to control the style of their website — have been continually maintained since 2003. Because WordPress is open-source, there is no license fee to pay: the downloadable version of the software is free to use.
Centre Loewenberg in Murten
WordCamp Switzerland 2026
Following WordCamp Europe in 2025, the Switzerland Community Day in 2024, WordCamp Switzerland returns to Murten / Morat on 11th and 12th September 2026.
WordCamps and meetups
Regular meetup events and conferences around topics relevant to WordPress take place all over Switzerland. Most events are free of charge and run by localised groups, who meet to talk about everything to do with WordPress. We’re a diverse, friendly and welcoming community, and everyone – with any level of knowledge – is welcome to join us.
Blog posts
This is a collection of recent articles and blog posts we’ve collated from a number of third-party websites, all of which relate to WordPress.
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#225 – Milan Petrović on the Risks of Legacy PHP in WordPress and Why Upgrading Matters for Security
Read this post: #225 – Milan Petrović on the Risks of Legacy PHP in WordPress and Why Upgrading Matters for SecurityToday, I’m joined by Milan Petrović, and the podcast is focused on the impact of PHP versioning in the WordPress ecosystem, emphasising the risks of running outdated PHP and the security and performance benefits of PHP 8.x. We get into the challenge of supporting legacy code versus urging progress toward modern standards. And the importance…
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Schluss mit zerschossenen PDFs: pressdify 1.0 ist im WordPress-Plugin-Verzeichnis
Read this post: Schluss mit zerschossenen PDFs: pressdify 1.0 ist im WordPress-Plugin-VerzeichnisDas WordPress-Plugin pressdify ist offiziell in Version 1.0.0 auf WordPress.org gelandet! Erfahre, wie du mithilfe von PrintCSS und einem ressourcenschonenden Rendering-Service aus der Schweiz im Handumdrehen professionelle, druckfertige PDFs direkt aus deinen WordPress-Beiträgen und Custom Post Types erstellst, ganz ohne Code-Chaos. Dieser Beitrag erschien auf dem publishing.blog, geschrieben von Brian Boy.
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Beyond SEO: How AI Is Changing What Websites Need to Be
Read this post: Beyond SEO: How AI Is Changing What Websites Need to BeEpisode 18 explores how AI search is reshaping what websites need to be, from why discovery no longer starts on Google to how brands stay visible when 85% of citations come from outside their own domain. The post Beyond SEO: How AI Is Changing What Websites Need to Be appeared first on Greyd.Suite.
Slack discussion channel
In order to give WordPress developers, designers and content creators a free virtual place to hang out between meetups, we started a free Slack channel for WordPress Switzerland in 2016. Slack is a chat room in which members exchange knowledge, share links, and get to know other developers across Switzerland.
To join the channel, first sign up on the WordPress community website at make.wordpress.org/chat/ and register your account. You’ll automatically receive a free email address @chat.wordpress.org – with it, you can then register for the WordPress Switzerland channel at wpch.slack.com.