Category: Community

You don’t have to be a developer to contribute to WordPress and have an impact. There are many ways a non-developer can contribute via the GitHub repository. Learn some lingo, creating and commenting on issues, search labels and work on finding solutions by commenting on design, and functionality. You will also learn how to test upcoming changes in your browser. The talk is aimed at the enthusiastic, yet critical WordPress user, who has fun testing the software, is opinionated and discuss the findings with the team. No coding skills required.

After an amazing WordCamp, you might wish to bring the WordPress community home with you. If so, join this session to learn how! 

Local WordPress communities around the world are created by people like you: they love WordPress so much that they want to connect with other WordPress enthusiasts locally. 

In this session, panelists will share their experience of building their local WordPress community and inspire you to start or get involved with yours.

Five for the Future is the official contribution program of WordPress (available at https://wordpress.org/five-for-the-future/) which encourages individuals and companies to pledge up to 5% of their time to give back to building WordPress. As WordPress scales up, this program will play a major role in helping WordPress grow with the times, and in taking our favorite open-source software to the next level.

Through Hari’s session, he will give an introduction to Five for the Future, and provide some practical tips and guidance for organizations and individuals on how they can make the most out of the contributor program.

Here’s a brief overview of my planned session:

• Brief intro and history of Five for the Future
• What constitutes a Five for the Future contribution?
• Tips and strategies for Individuals on how to contribute to Five for the Future
• Tips and strategies for Companies on How to contribute to Five for the Future
• Ideas on making the most out of your contributions and using them as a way to grow

HeroPress is full of great stories of people leveraging WordPress to make their lives better. Does this really make the world a better place? We’ll review several stories of people who’ve been impacted by the HeroPress project and look at what positive things have come from it.