Jamie Marsland

As Head of WordPress.com YouTube at WordPress.com, I leverage my extensive experience in building online businesses and educating others about WordPress. With over 200,000 subscribers on my YouTube channel, I’ve established myself as a leading voice in the WordPress community.

My career spans board-level technical and commercial roles, including Managing Director at Pavilion Publishing Ltd and CTO at Documedia PLC. As the founder of Pootlepress, I’ve developed WordPress plugins used by thousands worldwide and trained over 5,000 individuals in WordPress over the past decade.

My expertise lies in digital strategy, online business development, and WordPress education.

Visit https://www.youtube.com/@jamiewp. Also, catch me on Twitter @pootlepress.

  • WP 101: Build a Real Website, Today

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    Have a portfolio, a small business, or a side project that needs a home online? Bring a laptop and open your browser — by the end of this session you’ll have a real WordPress site built with your own hands: pages, a post, a logo, a menu, all live in the room. Every attendee also…

  • Office Hours: Take Your Site Live

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    Bring your laptop, charger, and the site you built in WP 101 – along with your complimentary year of hosting and domain. Drop in anytime and work one-on-one with volunteer mentors to get your site onto that host, connect your domain, and publish it to the world – your portfolio, your business, your project, live…

  • How to Vibe Code in WordPress for Non-Techies

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    I want to talk about what happens when non-technical people start building with WordPress and AI. For years, if you wanted to create a plugin, customise an editing experience, build a lightweight app, or connect WordPress to another tool, you usually needed to understand code, or hire someone who did. That is starting to change.…


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