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WordPress: A Story
Job Thomas
@jobtex | job.blog
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• 2000-2009:
• 2007-present: 

• 2010-2016:
• 2014-present:
All about the bands
Sharing and
connecting
Reviews
eCommerce
Why do I want web
presence?
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• Manual labour
- Raw HTML
- Macromedia Flash
• FTP every single detail
• Hosting
Bands: Before CMSs
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Bands: Before CMSs
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• MySpace
• purevolume
• Facebook
Sharing & 

Connecting:

Insert CMSs
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• Personal sharing
• WordPress.com
WordPress Hello World
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• Youth Organisation “Breeze”
• Typo3 & the 14 page manual
• Reviews
• Tested WordPress
• We were sold
Reviews: Typo3 … uh,
WordPress
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CULTUURSHOCK
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• eCommerce
• Education
• Internal communication
• Public communication
• Product information
• User management
• Personnel database
• Goals setting and tracking
• Customer Relationship
Management
How does Automattic use
WordPress?
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• Automatticians on make.wordpress.org
• Hosting
- WordPress.com
- VIP
• WooCommerce
• Jetpack
• …
How does Automattic
contribute to WordPress?
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AUTOMATTIC.COM
We are passionate about making

the web a better place.



We don’t make software for free,
we make it for freedom.
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• Use WordPress

WordPress.com / WordPress.org
• Contribute to WordPress

make.wordpress.org
• Work with WordPress

automattic.com/work-with-us
How about you? $
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