WordPress Meetup Jeonju #1 - WordPress Overview

https://aaron.kr/content/talks/all-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-wordpress-in-ten-minutes-or-less/

For our first WordPress Meetup in Jeonju, here's a quick overview of WordPress. In this slide deck, I covered 4 points:

1. What is WordPress?
2. How big is WordPress?
3. Why should you care about WordPress?
4. What can you do with WordPress?

Transcript

2. What is it? How big is it? Why should you care? What can you do with it?
3. What is it?
4. What is it?
5. Content Management System What is it?
6. https://tldrlegal.com/license/gnu-general-public-license-v2
7. Mike Little Matt Mullenweg What is it?
9. 2003 2005 .COM 2005
10. What is it? www.yourname.net yourname.wordpress.com
11. How big is it?
12. 6 0 0 0 0 , 0 0 , 0 How big is it?
13. 23% of top 10,000,000 How big is it?
14. https://wordpress.com/notable-users/
15. http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/content_management/all/y
16. Why should you care?
17. Why should you care?
18. it’s powerful Why should you care?
19. Themes ~3,000 Free 4,000+ $$
20. Plugins 35,000+
21. it’s scalable Why should you care?
22. 0 0 0 0 0 , 0 0 , 0 5 one code base .COM Why should you care?
23. Why should you care?
24. it’s growing Why should you care?
25. http://ma.tt/2014/10/sotw-2014/
26. http://ma.tt/2014/10/sotw-2014/
27. it’s comparatively easy Why should you care?
28. http://ma.tt/2014/10/sotw-2014/
29. http://ma.tt/2014/10/sotw-2014/
30. Can you? Then you can -> Why should you care?
31. Why should you care?
32. http://chrismarlow.me/2013/07/the-dark-side-of-building-a-platform/
33. What can you do with it?
34. Teaching websites
35. Schools, Hagwons, Universities
36. Professional organizations
37. Platform building
38. Church websites + podcasting
39. Portfolio websites
40. Blogs
41. Develop your own Themes, Plugins, Networks, Communities, Platforms, Sites
42. What will you do with it?
43. QA &