Welcome to the official blog of the community/outreach team for the WordPress open sourceOpen SourceOpen Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. project!
This team oversees official events, mentorship programs, diversity initiatives, contributor outreach, and other ways of growing our community.
If you love WordPress and want to help us do these things, join in!
Getting Involved
We use this blog for policy debates, project announcements, and status reports. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to comment on posts and join the discussion.
You can learn about our current activities on the Team Projects page. These projects are suitable for everyone from newcomers to WordPress community elders.
You can use our contact form to volunteer for one of our projects.
Communication
We have Office HoursOffice HoursDefined times when the Global Community Team are in the #community-events Slack channel. If there is anything you would like to discuss – you do not need to inform them in advance.You are very welcome to drop into any of the Community Team Slack channels at any time. four times a week in the #community-events channel on Slack: Mondays & Wednesdays 22:00 UTC, Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:00 UTC.
We also have regular Community Team meetings on the first and third Thursdays of every month at 12:00 UTC and 21:00 UTC in #community-team on Slack (same agenda).
Events WidgetWidgetA WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most WordPress events are online. Please refer to our
online events handbook.
For communities where COVID-19 has been more effectively contained or have easy access to COVID-19 vaccination and/or testing,
returning to hosting an in-person meetupMeetupMeetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once a month). Learn more about Meetups in our Meetup Organizer Handbook. event is possible, with caution, using
the resources provided.
If you plan to move forward with an in-person meetup, you must use
the provided checklist
.
Do you have an idea to improve one of the custom tools on WordCamp.org? Do you want to report a bug? We welcome contributions from the community!
If you’d like to contribute a bug fix, then please follow these steps:
Step One: Search the Meta Trac to check if a ticket already exists. If there is one, you can catch up on the progress of it and collaborate with those who are already working on it.
Step Two:Â If you want to contribute a bug fix, and there wasn’t an existing ticket, then create a new ticket. Describe the problem or idea you have in detail, and assign it to the “wordcamp.org” component.
Step Three: Gather feedback on the ticket and build a consensus for what action should be taken. The Community team is the stakeholder for WordCamp.org and decides what contributions to accept, and the Meta team handles the technical implementation. You can ask for feedback on the ticket in their respective Slack channels.
Step Four: Setup your local development environment.
The easiest way to do this is to install the WordPress Meta Environment, which is an add-on for Varying Vagrant Vagrants that automatically provisions a local copy of WordCamp.org’s source code, along with some sample data.
In addition to the code on GitHubGitHubGitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the �?pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/, there are also a few plugins that live elsewhere. CampTix, addons for CampTix, and Tagregator are available in the WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ repository, and SupportFlow is available on GitHub.
Check out the provision folder in the MetaMetaMeta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. Environment for a sample database, wp-config file, and other useful code/scripts.
Step Five: Send a pull request on GitHub that implements the decisions reached in step three.
Step Six: Your patch will be reviewed by a developer on the Meta team, and they’ll either go ahead and commit the patch, or give you feedback on aspects that need to be improved before it can be committed.
If you have any questions or run into any problems, you can ask for help in the #meta-wordcampWordCampWordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. channel on Slack, or e-mail [email protected].
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