Contributing In WordPress: My Presentation On WordPressians MeetUp

We had an amazing MeetUp of WordPressians Group (6th meetup) at Dhaka, last Saturday (June 28th, 2014). It was our first meetup at HubDhaka, a great place of my dear friend Sajid. It was a super great meetup with all of our guys in WordPress Community.

I spoke about “Contributing In WordPress”. Here are the slides –

Adding photos of the events, courtesy to all our talented Photographer buddies, adding as gallery below. Also adding details about my presentation, and all resource inside.

MeetUp Image Coverage:

Link to all slides from the event:

http://wpressians.net/meetup/wordpressians-28th-jun/speakers/

Contributing In WordPress

How about Contributing in WordPress? Giving back to the community? But you think that’s very difficult? You need to be a developer, a master programmer? It must be! Contributing means you have to able to find mistakes by genius programmer, and solve it! ♠

You are wrong! It’s a myth most people think, but to contribute in WordPress, you don’t have to have any of those skill. Here In this presentation I tried to break the myth, I have shown how anybody could contribute, weather you are a developer, or a designer, or just a user, or a person who just like blogging, anybody could help-out.  Hopefully you will be interested to contribute after going through this.

I have shown 8 ways you could contribute. Lets see after following it, if you contribute at least once.

And this is a pure resource, you could follow the slideshow presentation on top of the page, here I will add all resource for easy access.

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How You Could Contribute?

1. Help In Support Forum
2. Translation & Localization
3. Documentation
4. Testing WordPress
5. Theme Review & Unit Test
6. Help In UI Group
7. Reporting Bugs
8. Fixing Bugs & Submitting Patch

Resource:
# https://codex.wordpress.org/Contributing_to_WordPress
# http://make.wordpress.org/

 

1) Help In Support Forum

Start Here!
# http://wordpress.org/support/
Learn More: http://make.wordpress.org/support/

 

2) Translation & Localization

Start Here!
# http://translate.wordpress.org/getting-started

Get Involved!
# http://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/

Handbook &Tools!
# http://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook/

Resource!
# https://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress

 

3) Documentation

Start Here!
# http://make.wordpress.org/docs/

Update & Edit The Codex.!
# http://make.wordpress.org/docs/handbook/projects/codex/

Help In Building Handbook!
# http://make.wordpress.org/docs/handbook/projects/handbooks/

Devhub – developer.wordpress.org
# http://make.wordpress.org/docs/handbook/projects/devhub/

 

4) Testing WordPress

Projected Release Date August 27th, 2014
First Beta: July 9th, 2014

Have Test Environment Ready
# http://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/installing-wordpress-locally/

WordPress Beta Tester Plugin
# http://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/installing-wordpress-locally/

 

5) Theme Review & Unit Test

Start Here!
# http://make.wordpress.org/themes/

Join The Theme Review Team!
# http://make.wordpress.org/themes/about/how-to-join-wptrt/

Unit Test Data!
# http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test

 

6) Help In UI Group

Start Here!
# http://make.wordpress.org/ui/

UI Ability Test
# http://make.wordpress.org/themes/about/how-to-join-wptrt/

 

7) Reporting Bugs

Start Here!
# https://core.trac.wordpress.org/

Open Ticket!
# http://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/trac/

Reporting Security Vulnerabilities!
# http://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/reporting-security-vulnerabilities/

 

8) Fixing Bugs & Submitting Patch

# Creating A Patch With TortoiseSVN
http://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/working-with-patches/create-a-patch-using-tortoisesvn/
# Creating A Patch File With SourceTree
http://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/working-with-patches/create-a-patch-using-tortoisesvn/

 

And Yes, Get An Account At WordPress.org

# SignUp
http://wordpress.org/support/profile/

 

Use IRC, Connect To Freenode

Channels: #WordPress, #WordPress-sfd, and #WordPress-contribute

# Resource
https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/other-support-locations/introduction-to-irc/

 

 

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