The document discusses how to get involved in the WordPress community. It notes that the WordPress community includes bloggers, designers, developers, and others. It emphasizes that WordPress powers over 63% of the top million websites. The document outlines several ways to connect with the community through events like WordCamps, meetups, Twitter, and forums. It encourages collaborating through troubleshooting, feedback, testing, and organizing events. People can contribute by creating themes, plugins, tools, providing support, writing, translating, testing, organizing meetups, donating, or sponsoring. Useful links are provided for the WordPress codex, meetup.com, and Twitter hashtags.

1. GETTING
INVOLVED
THE WORDPRESS
COMMUNITY
PRESENTED BY DEE TEAL - THE WEB PRINCESS

2. WHAT IS THE WORDPRESS COMMUNITY?
It’s us...
and we are...
Freelancers and Developers
Bloggers
Designers Administrators
Supporters
Opensource Enthusiasts
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3. WE’RE
MAKING
WordPress
WHY IS IT
IMPORTANT?
WordPress
IS MAKING
THE
WEB
(ok not all of it, but quite a lot of it , actually)
,
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4. WordPress powers 63.06% the
top 1 million sites on the web with a cms
THE
NUMBERS
http://trends.builtwith.com/cms
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5. and 12.44% the top 1 million sites
as a whole
THE
NUMBERS
http://trends.builtwith.com/cms
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6. HOW TO GET INVOLVED
CONNECT COLLABORATE CONTRIBUTE
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7. CONNECT
WORDCAMP
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8. CONNECT
MEETUPS
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9. CONNECT
TWITTER
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10. CONNECT
Support Forums
WORDPRESS
ORG
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11. CONNECT
IRC
WORDPRESS
ORG
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12. CONNECT
Mailing Lists
WORDPRESS
ORG
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13. CONNECT
PRODUCT
FORUMS
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14. COLLABORATE
TROUBLESHOOTING
FEEDBACK (SOLICITED)
TESTING
BLOGGING/REVIEWS/TUTORIALS
WHERE CONNECTION
MEETS ACTION TRAINING
WORKING TOGETHER
PLANNING MEETUPS/WORDCAMPS
REFERRING WORK
GETTING EXCITED AND MAKING THINGS
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15. CONTRIBUTE
1 MAKE THINGS
• Themes
• Plugins
• Tools
2 SHOOT TROUBLE
• wordpress.org support forums
YOU HAVE • Meetup discussion groups
• Twitter/Quora/Stack Exchange
SOMETHING • Your fave theme/plugin forums
TO OFFER
YES, YOU 3 TALK/WRITE/SHARE
Blog
•
AND YOU • Review - theme-review team
• Documentation
AND EVEN.. YOU
• Translate
• Test/Bug Report - wp-testers
• Speak at WordCamps/Meetups
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16. CONTRIBUTE
4 ORGANISE STUFF
Meetups
•
• WordCamp
• Twit/Chat/Skype in/G+ Hangout
YOU HAVE
SOMETHING
TO OFFER 5 COUGH UP
• Paid Plugins
YES, YOU • Premium Themes
• Donate/Sponsor/Subscribe
AND YOU
AND EVEN.. YOU
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17. WORDPRESS
1 http://codex.wordpress.org/Contributing_to_WordPress
http://codex.wordpress.org/Mailing_Lists
http://wordpress.org/support/forum/meetups
http://wordcamp.org
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_IRC_Live_Help
http://codex.wordpress.org/IRC
WHERE TO MEETUP.COM
FROM HERE?
USEFUL LINKS
2 http://wordpress.meetup.com/all/
TWITTER
3 Useful hashtags - #wordpress - #wcnz #wcsyd
#wpmelb #wpsyd
http://tweetchat/room/wpmelb
https://twitter.com/#!/wordpress/lists/memberships
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18. QA
&
GO AHEAD, MAKE MY DAY
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19. THANKS.FOR YOUR
ATTENTION
FIND ME
& CONTRIBUTION
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