From Blogger to WordPress Core Committer

At WordCamp London 2016 I talked about my journey from being a blogger and WordPress user to becoming a WordPress Core Contributor and eventually receiving commit access. By sharing my story I want to encourage people to do the same and help give back to the community.

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1. From Blogger to Core Committer
2. Pascal Birchler @swissspidy
4. Make WordPress great again
5. Core Committer?
6. My beginnings
7. Baby steps into WordPress
8. Swiss WordPress Magazine
9. The ins and outs of WordPress
10. It was great!
11. Events
13. WordCamp Switzerland
14. WordPress Zurich Meetup
15. Just do it
16. My first core contributions
18. WordCamp Europe
19. core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/25725 “props swissspidy”
20. It felt amazing
21. WordCamp Europe by night
22. Breaking things
23. WP_User_Query
24. That was easy!
25. Except it wasn’t
27. You learn from failure, not from success.
28. On Feature Plugins
30. 20 contributors. 500 commits.
31. Breaking things again
32. if ( targetHost === sourceHost && activeElement === source ) { window.top.location.href = data.value; }
33. if ( targetHost === sourceHost && activeElement === source ) { window.top.location.href = data.value; }
34. if ( targetHost === sourceHost ) { if ( activeElement === source ) { window.top.location.href = data.value; } }
35. Backwards compatibility
36. Swiss chocolate
37. WordCamp US
42. Committing in 3… 2… 1…
43. core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/35795 “Author: swissspidy […]”
44. Looking back
45. Why you should contribute to WordPress
46. make.wordpress.org/ great-again
47. Because WordPress
48. It makes you a better developer
49. It makes you a better designer
50. It makes you a better project manager
51. Swiss chocolate
52. WordCamp US The people are awesome
53. Thank you!
54. Questions?
55. Tea time! Photos: Silvan Hagen Florian Ziegler Sheri Bigelow Petya Raykovska Andrey Savchenko Stefan Pasch Marco Hartmann