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M I C H E L E B U T C H E R

• WordPress Specialist, Site Cleaner, and Trainer for WP Security Lock

• One Woman Wonder at Can’t Speak Geek

• WordPress Evangelist for InMotion Hosting

• WordPress Website Designer

@michele_butcher

T H E R E I S A L O T M O R E T O W O R D P R E S S T H A N C O R E

Y O U C A N B E A C O N T R I B U T O R !

@michele_butcher

I F Y O U C A N L O G I N T O T H E D A S H B O A R D , Y O U

C A N C O N T R I B U T E

@michele_butcher

MAKE .WORDPRESS .ORG

@michele_butcher

WORDPRESS . S LACK .COM

@michele_butcher

I B E T N O W Y O U A R E W O N D E R I N G J U S T H O W Y O U C A N C O N T R I B U T E

@michele_butcher

1 . FORUMS

• The most popular way to contribute • Anyone can ask and answer tickets • Can respond to any tickets • Can choose which tickets to answer • Spend as much or as little time as you want

WordPress.org/Support

Forums Chat Thursdays 16:00 UTC #forums

@michele_butcher

2 . C O M M U N I T Y

https://make.wordpress.org/community/

• Community Outreach Team Projects • Meetups • WordCamps • WordPress.TV

Meetups and Volunteering Tuesdays 1500 UTC WordCamps and Finances Thursdays 1500:UTC

#Events

@michele_butcher

C O M M U N I T Y O U T R E A C H T E A M P R O J E C T S

@michele_butcher

Thursdays at 19:00 UTC #outreach

https://make.wordpress.org/community/team-projects/

• Diversity Outreach • Mentorship Programs • Academic Programs • Public Service • Training (more on this soon)

MEETUP.COM/SF -WORDPRESS -USERS /

Y O U R L O C A L W O R D P R E S S M E E T U P

Davie Location: Nova Southeastern University, Carl DeSantis Building

Every first Thursday of the month, we have the WordPress User Meetup. Every third Thursday of the month, we have the WordPress Developer Meetup.

Miami Location: Miami Ad School | 571 NW 28 Street, Miami, FL 33127

@michele_butcher

N O T I N S O U T H F LOR IDA?

See meetup.com for your local WordPress Meetup Group and times.

@michele_butcher

MEETUPS

@michele_butcher

• New Meetup Application Review • Existing Meetup Transfers • Co-Organizer for local Meetups • New Meetup Starter Pack

https://make.wordpress.org/community/meetups/

Weekly Office Hours Tuesday, May 26, 2015 15:00 UTC-5 and Thursday, May 28, 2015 15:00 UTC-5 in the #events

WORDCAMPS

@michele_butcherWordCamp.org

• Organize a WordCamp • Volunteer at a WordCamp

• Setup/Takedown/Venue • Happiness Bar

• Speak at a WordCamp • Sponsor a WordCamp

https://make.wordpress.org/community/wordcamps/

WorCamp Sponsorship Office Hours Wednesdays at 17:00 UTC #events

WORDPRESS . TV

Thursdays at 17:00 on #WPTV

@michele_butcherWordPress.tv

• Editing Video • Uploading Video • @brashrebel plugin that brings WP.tv to

the dashboard • https://github.com/brashrebel/wptv

• Captioning of videos • Documentation

3 . T R A I N I N G

Tuesdays at 1800 UTC #outreach on Slack@michele_butcher

Making reusable lesson plans for Meetups, community groups, and others to use to teach WordPress

• Slides, • Documentation • Printables

4 . D O C U M E N TAT I O N

@michele_butcher

Thursdays 19:00 UTC #docs

• Updating and editing the Codex • Helping out with the Handbooks • Upating WordPress’ inline docs • Helping to build developer.WordPress.org

https://make.wordpress.org/docs/

F O R T H O S E W H O D O L I K E A L I T T L E C O D E

B U T N O T M U C H

T H E R E I S A L I T T L E S O M E T H I N G F O R E V E R Y O N E

@michele_butcher

5 . A C C E S S I B I L I T Y

@michele_butcher

Mondays 18:00 UTC #accessibility

Help to make WordPress available to everyone

• Accessibility Testing • Accessible Theme Pattern Library Ideas • WP Accessibility Plugin

https://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/

6 . P O LY G L O T S

@michele_butcher

Europe, South America, Africa & West Asia Wednesdays 10:00UCT

Asia, Australia, New Zealand 16:00UTC #polygots

Help translate WordPress into all the languages.

https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/

A N D I F Y O U J U S T A B S O L U T E LY L O V E C O D E …

There are a few places for you.

Plus, if you are wanting to learn more about PHP, CSS, and HTML, what better way than to write your own

plugin or theme?

7 . D E S I G N

@michele_butcher

The design and development of the user interface

Thursdays 17:00 UTC #design

https://make.wordpress.org/design/

• Image Flow Links • Dashicons Posts • Core CSS Roadmap

8 . M O B I L E

@michele_butcher

Mondays 16:00 UTC #mobile

iOS and Android app for mobile devices

• Design • Development • Documentation • Handbook updates

https://make.wordpress.org/mobile/

9 . M E TA

@michele_butcher

Meta is where all the WordPress.org projects happen. For a list of current projects

https://make.wordpress.org/meta/project-queue/

#meta on Slack

1 0 . T H E M E S

@michele_butcher

Every theme is reviewed and approved by the Theme Review Team before going onto the

WordPress Theme Repository.

Tuesdays 18:00 UTC #themereview

https://make.wordpress.org/themes/

1 1 . P L U G I N S

No Office Hours or Slack meetings

@michele_butcher

Contribute to WordPress by taking your function idea and turn it into a plugin

https://make.wordpress.org/plugins/

1 2 . C O R EY O U C A N A LW A Y S C O N T R I B U T E T O

W O R D P R E S S C O R E . T H E R E W E R E O V E R 2 8 0 C O N T R I B U T O R S F O R W O R D P R E S S 4 . 2

Y O U C A N B E O N E O F T H E M A N Y O N W O R D P R E S S 4 . 3 O R 4 . 4

@michele_butcher

Wednesdays 20:00 UTC #core

https://make.wordpress.org/core/

QUEST IONS?

@michele_butcher

T H A N K Y O U F O R ATTEND ING!

Slides can be found at https://mlb.pw/wcmia15

Michele Butcher @michele_butcher

http://wpsecuritylock.com http://cantspeakgeek.com