Finding Your Place in the WordPress Community

The WordPress community is big - very big. Whether you're new to the community, or you've been around for a while, it can be tough to find a place where you feel comfortable. Let's have a look at what the WordPress community is all about and how you can find your place within it.

This talk was given as part of the Great WP Virtual Summit: https://summit.wpvirtualsummit.com/

Transcript

1. Finding Your Place in the WordPress Community
2. What does open-source mean? Let’s talk about cake
3. What does open-source mean? Let’s talk about cake
4. What does open-source mean? Let’s talk about cake
5. What does open-source mean? Let’s talk about cake
6. What does open-source mean? Let’s talk about cake
7. Where do I fit in? I like cake open-source! How can I make it contribute?
8. Where do I start?
9. Where do I start? make.wordpress.org
10. Where do I start? Building Core / Design / CLI / Accessibility / Test / Mobile
11. Where do I start? Extending Themes / Polyglots / Plugins / Tide
12. Where do I start? Supporting Community / Support / Documentation / Training / TV
13. Where do I start? Operations Meta / Marketing / Hosting
14. How do I start?
15. How do I start? Join Slack: make.wordpress.org/chat make.wordpress.org/meetings
16. How do I start? Team Handbooks: make.wordpress.org/core/handbook make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook make.wordpress.org/community/handbook make.wordpress.org/tv/handbook etc...
17. Jump in and have fun!
18. Hugh Lashbrooke @hlashbrooke hugh.blog automattic.com make.wordpress.org