The WordPress Community

A brief overview of the WordPress Community - a presentation for the WordPress Charleston User Group

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1. The WordPress Community January 13, 2015 Karl hudson Phillips
2. Introduction to WordPress What is WordPress? • Software developed by people just like you • Distributed development (worldwide) • Distributed contributions (worldwide)
3. WordPress – 2 flavors Wordpress.org • Packaged software available for download • Allows lots of flexibility – custom themes, plugins, and so forth • Requires user to provide or find hosting • Requires user to manage updates, backups, security, and other maintenance
4. WordPress – 2 flavors Wordpress.com • Premium hosting, security and backups • Choose from hundreds of themes • Limited extensibility without payment • Must register an account • Supported by Automattic, Inc.
5. Automattic, Inc Produces: • WordPress.com • Gravatar • Polldaddy • Code Poet • JetPack • VaultPress • WordPress.com VIP • Simplenote • Akismet • Simperium • Longreads • Cloudup
6. Automattic, Inc WordPress Project • WordPress.org • P2 Theme • WordCamp • WordPress iOS • WordPress Android • BuddyPress • bbPress
7. The wordpress Project WordPress Project • Community-driven • Open Source • Distributed development • Distributed contribution
8. Wordpress Accounts wordpress.com vs .wordpress.org • No account necessary to download from WordPress.org • Account necessary to use WordPress.com and it’s related services.
9. Wordpress accounts .com account vs .org account WordPress.com • Gravatar • Polldaddy • JetPack • VaultPress • Akismet, etc. WordPress.org • Community Profile
10. Wordpress Your .org profile • Profiles.wordpress.org/username
11. Wordpress Community John Turner
12. Wordpress Community Zach schnackel
13. Wordpress Community Mannie Schumpert
14. Wordpress Community me
15. Ways to contribute
16. Thank you