Lock in $30 Savings on PRO—Offer Ends Soon! ⏳

Contributing to WordPress - Manchester

Avatar for Jenny Wong Jenny Wong
June 18, 2014
Technology
0
180

Contributing to WordPress - Manchester

Avatar for Jenny Wong

Jenny Wong

June 18, 2014
Tweet

More Decks by Jenny Wong

See All by Jenny Wong
The Road Taken
Avatar for Jenny Wong missjwo
0
210
Why and how to do a Site Health Check
Avatar for Jenny Wong missjwo
0
90
Getting ready for PHP7.2
Avatar for Jenny Wong missjwo
0
2.5k
is it possible to build a truly diverse community?
Avatar for Jenny Wong missjwo
0
390
Going Backstage on Community Trends: Bug or Feature?
Avatar for Jenny Wong missjwo
1
250
We Didn’t Care About Diversity — What Happened Next Is Amazing!
Avatar for Jenny Wong missjwo
0
270
Building on WordPress for Enterprise
Avatar for Jenny Wong missjwo
0
110
Building an Accessible Community - AlterConf Dublin Edition
Avatar for Jenny Wong missjwo
0
110
Building an Accessible Community
Avatar for Jenny Wong missjwo
2
240

Other Decks in Technology

See All in Technology
Product Engineer
Avatar for Resilire resilire
0
140
その設計、 本当に価値を生んでますか？
Avatar for akshimo shimomura
3
190
生成AI時代の自動E2Eテスト運用とPlaywright実践知_引持力哉
Avatar for LegalOn Technologies, Inc legalontechnologies
PRO
0
110
直接メモリアクセス
Avatar for KOBA789 koba789
0
140
形式手法特論：CEGAR を用いたモデル検査の状態空間削減 #kernelvm / Kernel VM Study Hokuriku Part 8
Avatar for y_taka_23 ytaka23
2
250
Noを伝える技術2025: 爆速合意形成のためのNICOフレームワーク速習 #pmconf2025
Avatar for Aki / @LoveIdahoBurger aki_iinuma
2
1.2k
セキュリティAIエージェントの現在と未来 / PSS #2 Takumi Session
Avatar for GMO Flatt Security flatt_security
3
1.4k
なぜ使われないのか？──定量×定性で見極める本当のボトルネック
Avatar for KAKEHASHI kakehashi
PRO
1
800
Oracle Database@Google Cloud：サービス概要のご紹介
Avatar for oracle4engineer oracle4engineer
PRO
0
650
eBPFとwaruiBPF
Avatar for Satoru Takeuchi sat
PRO
4
1.6k
Introduction to Bill One Development Engineer
Avatar for Sansan, Inc. sansan33
PRO
0
330
Introduction to Sansan, inc / Sansan Global Development Center, Inc.
Avatar for Sansan, Inc. sansan33
PRO
0
2.9k

Featured

See All Featured
The Power of CSS Pseudo Elements
Avatar for Geoffrey Crofte geoffreycrofte
80
6.1k
GraphQLとの向き合い方2022年版
Avatar for Yosuke Kurami quramy
50
14k
The Web Performance Landscape in 2024 [PerfNow 2024]
Avatar for Tammy Everts tammyeverts
12
960
Connecting the Dots Between Site Speed, User Experience & Your Business [WebExpo 2025]
Avatar for Tammy Everts tammyeverts
10
700
JavaScript: Past, Present, and Future - NDC Porto 2020
Avatar for David Neal reverentgeek
52
5.7k
Designing Dashboards & Data Visualisations in Web Apps
Avatar for Des Traynor destraynor
231
54k
GraphQLの誤解/rethinking-graphql
Avatar for sonatard sonatard
73
11k
4 Signs Your Business is Dying
Avatar for Josh Pigford shpigford
186
22k
Let's Do A Bunch of Simple Stuff to Make Websites Faster
Avatar for Chris Coyier chriscoyier
508
140k
The Art of Delivering Value - GDevCon NA Keynote
Avatar for David Neal reverentgeek
16
1.8k
Imperfection Machines: The Place of Print at Facebook
Avatar for Scott Boms scottboms
269
13k
The MySQL Ecosystem @ GitHub 2015
Avatar for Sam Lambert samlambert
251
13k

Transcript

  1. Contributing to WordPress Jenny Wong Web Developer


  2. Hands up if you are a WordPress user.

  3. Keep them up

  4. Keep your hands up if you are contributing to WordPress

  5. Look around

  6. I don’t want to code when I come home after

    a day at the office.

  7. I can’t contribute to open source.

  8. WordCamp London

  9. Everyone CAN contribute!

  10. How?

  11. Non Coding Ways

  12. Community Working to support events, creating outreach & training programs,

    and generally support the community

  13. Support Everyone knows the answer to something!

  14. Documentation Helping people to help themselves when they get stuck

  15. Polyglots Translate WordPress & create tools to make translations easier.

  16. Coding Ways

  17. Themes Review and approves every Theme submitted to the WordPress

    Theme repository

  18. Accessibility Make sure that WordPress core and all of WordPress’

    resources are accessible.

  19. UI Designing & developing the user interface. A home for

    designers and UXers alike.

  20. Mobile Builds the iOS, Android, Windows, and Blackberry apps.

  21. Mobile Needs: designers, UX experts, and testers

  22. Core Write code, fix bugs, debate decisions, & help with

    development.

  23. Core Need: patch testers & bug replicators

  24. Meta Help make WordPress.org better, provide support, & build tools

    for use by all the contributor groups.

  25. BuddyPress Support the tool which builds communities

  26. Plugins Discuss any issues around Plugin development and the Plugin

    repository

  27. Result

  28. WP Contributor Days

  29. WordCamp Manchester

  30. 29th June [ 10:00 - 17:00 ]

  31. What will happen on the day?

  32. Running Order

  33. Running Order 09:30 - 10:00 Registration 10:00 -10:30 Intro &

    Groupings 10:30 - 13: 00 First Session 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 17:00 Second Session

  34. Sessions

  35. Sessions Core BuddyPress Accessibility Mobile Support Polyglots Themes Community Documentation

    Meta Dev Environment Setup

  36. Homework

  37. Go to make.wordpress.org

  38. Look for the Handbook or Get Involved section

  39. Should be a page titled “Getting Started at a Contributor

    Day"

  40. Get Contributing

  41. Remember

  42. We’re all in this together.

  43. If you’re not sure ask around.

  44. Feel free to switch between sessions.

  45. Any Questions? Ask me later : @miss_jwo

  46. Thank You Jenny Wong Web Developer