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 forĀ policyĀ debates, projectĀ announcements, and status reports. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to comment on posts and join the discussion.
You can learn about our currentĀ 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 ā 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 theĀ first Thursday of every month atĀ 12:00 UTCĀ andĀ 21:00 UTCĀ in #community-team onĀ 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
.
WordCamp.org provides organizers with numerous tools for managing a 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 theyāve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more.. Using the custom plugins and post types, you can administer ticket sales, communicate with attendees, wrangle information on speakers, sponsors, and sessions; even on your organizing team. Then you can display it all on your public site using custom shortcodes and attributes.
When you’re in your admin panel, you’ll see several additional post types available: tickets, speakers, sessions, sponsors, and organizers. It’s important to fill them out for your event, since the collected data might be aggregated and used after your event is over. We even have a way to automatically create a grid schedule on your site! In this article, we’ll cover the basics of using these tools with your chosen theme.
In addition to these tools, if you look under the Posts and Pages screens in the admin panel, you’ll find some stubs for content that frequently appears on WordCamp sites. You can build off of these stubs, or trashTrashTrash in WordPress is like the Recycle Bin on your PC or Trash in your Macintosh computer. Users with the proper permission level (administrators and editors) have the ability to delete a post, page, and/or comments. When you delete the item, it is moved to the trash folder where it will remain for 30 days. them and start fresh with your own content.
Most WordCamps sell tickets and manage attendee information via the CampTixpluginPluginA plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. Check out our CampTix documentation for detailed instructions on using each of its features.
There are various shortcodes you can use to embed data from third-party services on your WordCamp.org site, such as Livestream.com, Google Forms, MailChimp, Campaign Monitor, and many more. Please refer to the Shortcode Embeds page for more information, and if there’s a third-party service that you think we’re missing, let us know at [email protected].
Start by adding a new speaker. Use the large title area for the full name of the speaker, and the content area for a short description or speaker bio. Youāll also see fields for āGravatarGravatarIs an acronym for Globally Recognized Avatar. It is the avatar system managed by WordPress.com, and used within the WordPress software. https://gravatar.com/. Emailā, and āWordPress.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/ Usernameā; make sure you fill them out with the speakerās e-mail address and username. Also make sure your speakers are published (as opposed to set as drafts, pending, etc), otherwise they will be hidden from the front-end. You can also create Speaker Groups, and add speakers to the different groups.
After you have filled out all the speakers, you can display them as a list or grid using the Speakers blockBlockBlock is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. (found in the WordCamp section). You can pick specific speakers to display, or speaker groups, or just list all speakers.
After youāve added all your speakerās bios, you can proceed to describing their sessions. Session info can be added in the Document Settings sidebarSidebarA sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme.. Donāt forget to specify the speaker for each session that you create. If a session is run by more than one speaker, like a Q&A, you can assign several speakers to it. If youāre running sessions in more than one track, like Users Track vs. Developers Track, make sure you assign the right track to every session. Tracks work the same way Categories do. After the event, you can add links to the slides and video on WordPress.tv, and they’ll be added to the session page.
You can display your sessions as a list or grid using the Sessions block (found in the WordCamp section). You can pick specific sessions to display, or tracks, or just list all sessions. These can be sorted alphabetically or by date/time (default).
When starting with sponsors, make sure you define your sponsor levels first, such as Gold, Silver and Bronze. By default, sponsor levels will be ordered by the level name, but you can set a manual order in Sponsors ā Order Sponsor Levels by dragging levels up or down.
When adding a new sponsor, the title is used the sponsorās name, and the content is used as the sponsorās description/blurb (keep it short ā people should be able to read these quickly!).
Sponsors can be displayed on your site using the Sponsors block (found in the WordCamp section). You can show sponsors by level, or individually, or all in one list.
If youād like to help attendees get to know the organizing team, you can add a bio for each members in the Organizers menu, and then display that content using the Organizers block (found in the WordCamp section).
The Speakers, Sessions, Sponsors and Organizers blocks all have similar options, so they’re all documented here. Ask in #wordcamp-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. if anything is unclear.
In the Block Toolbar, you can change between list and grid, and if your theme supports it, you can make the block wide or full-width.
A grid of items can be 2, 3, or 4 columns, this is changed in the sidebar under Grid Layout. If you don’t see a sidebar, click the 3 dots in the toolbar and “Show block settings”
Also in the sidebar, you can control the AvatarAvatarAn avatar is an image or illustration that specifically refers to a character that represents an online user. Itās usually a square box that appears next to the userās name. (speakers, organizers) or Featured ImageFeatured imageA featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or in a summary list of posts. (sessions, sponsors) for each item. You can show or hide the image, and control its size and alignment here.
Under Content Settings (still in the sidebar), you can control the content for each item. Try these out yourself, you can see the immediate preview in the editor.
After entering the sessions, you can use the Schedule block to display them in an easy-to-read table, sorted by the track and date/time.
You can also add breaks into the schedule by creating sessions and selecting the “Break, Lunch, etc” type from the Session Info metaboxMetaboxA post metabox is a draggable box shown on the post editing screen. Its purpose is to allow the user to select or enter information in addition to the main post content. This information should be related to the post in some way.. Once you assign the break to all of the tracks that it will cover (in the Tracks metabox), it will automatically show up in the schedule.
The Single-Column Layout block style can be useful on camps that have a lot of tracks, or have a narrow layout.
The Live Schedule block shows the sessions that are currently going on right now. Many camps add it to their homepage during their event, so that attendees can quickly choose which session to attend, without having to look through the full schedule.
If you’re streaming your sessions on YouTube, the YouTube Live Chat block can be used to embed the corresponding chat, so that you can foster community with people who couldn’t attend in person.
It’s recommended to have someone moderating the chat, in case any trolls try to disrupt it.
Some of the text on your site will be output by plugins and themes, andĀ it might not have been translated into your language yet. If you find words that aren’t translated, you can help fix that!
The translated strings should appear on your site automatically within 24 hours of being approved by an editor. If they don’t, leave a messageĀ inĀ the #meta-wordcamp channel on Slack and one of the developers will help.
Check out the WordCamp section of the block inserter for all of our custom blocks.
Embed a menu in a post or page with the [menu] shortcodeShortcodeA shortcode is a placeholder used within a WordPress post, page, or widget to insert a form or function generated by a plugin in a specific location on your site.