WordPress Campus Connect

WordPress Campus Connect, initially launched in October 2024 as a pilot program, is an official global community program designed with the goal of helping the next generation of WordPress users and developers by providing valuable, free, and easy-to-access learning for everyone. The inaugural program, spearheaded by Anand Upadhyay, garnered immense enthusiasm from 400 Indian students who were eager to engage in hands-on WordPress training.

The program hosts events around the world to introduce students to what WordPress can do through engaging, hands-on workshops, classes, and training.

Outlined below is information on how to setup an email address for a WordPress Campus Connect Event.

For Program Managers

Organizing a WordPress Campus Connect event is an exciting opportunity to empower students with valuable WordPress skills. All the information regarding how to organize can be found here.

Here’s what you need to know:

• Creating an Event Email Address
  Each event should have its own dedicated email address for communication with attendees, speakers, and sponsors.
  
  Preferred option:
  Organizers are encouraged to use an existing institutional or .edu email address where possible (for example, an address provided by their university, college, or organization).
  
  If that isn’t available:
  We can create a dedicated email address for the event in the @events.wordpress.org domain. To keep these addresses readable and practical, we’ll use one email address per event.
  
  For events with long names, we may abbreviate the address while keeping it clear and recognizable. For example:
  
  Instead of:
  campusconnect-rcc-institute-of-information-technology-kolkata@events.wordpress.org
  
  We might use:
  campusconnect-rcciit-kolkata@events.wordpress.org
  
  This approach helps ensure that event email addresses are easy to share, remember, and manage.

WordPress Campus Connect Student Clubs

Campuses that have hosted a WordPress Campus Connect, and those which have not, may form a WordPress Student Club. Forming a WordPress Student Club allows students to sustain on-campus activities and events, encouraging ongoing engagement and education around WordPress. Forming an on-campus club gives students who missed the initial event the opportunity to learn more about WordPress, while also empowering student organizers to grow and build their local, on-campus community group. WordPress Student Clubs may host events like monthly meetupsMeetup Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once a month). Learn more about Meetups in our Meetup Organizer Handbook. and support recurring WordPress Campus Connect events. 

When submitting the WordPress Campus Connect form there is a question “Would you like to create a WordPress student club site?”. Saying “Yes” to this question signals to the Community Program Managers that you’d like a WordPress Student Club site created for the educational institution where the event is to take place.

To create a new WordPress Student Club, Community Program Managers can create the related site via the same event tracker as the original WordPress Campus Connect event. By default, these sites will have GatherPress enabled so students can create their own, on-campus events. The original WordPress Campus Connect event organizer will automatically be added to the student club site as an Admin.

(For Program Managers) Creating a WordPress Student Club Site

1. Edit a campusConnect event: https://central.wordcamp.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=10575895&action=edit
2. Scroll down to Secondary Site
3. Add the URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org for the school group (Ex. https://campus.wordpress.org/{city}/{school-name})
4. Update
5. Check the create-network-site checkbox
6. Update