1. WordPress KL Meetup
24 March 2018

2. About Us
(We love WordPress!)

3. History
Early beginnings...
Rejuvenation
● WordCamp Malaysia
2010
● 3 MeetUps in 2016

4. 2017
Growing our strength
● 2 MeetUps, plus
● WordCamp KL 2017!

5. WordCamp KL 2017

6. 2018
Big plans!
● More MeetUps!
● Speaker Training
Workshop
● WordCamp KL 2018

7. The Community is You
Our success depends upon our mutual collaboration.

8. About WordPress

9. 30%of the top 10 million websites use WordPress
https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management/all

10. Open Source
● Free Software is a philosophy
● Computer user rights
● Control of our own tech
● General Public License (GPL)The importance of
Free Software
Read more at Free Software Foundation:
https://www.fsf.org/

11. WordPress.org WordPress.com
● Source Code
● Do It Yourself
● Need your own web host or
local environment
● Install any plugin
● Change code as you wish
● Commercial service of
Automattic company
● Free website, free hosting
● Easy to start
● Easy to export and migrate to
your own host
● No control of plugins or code
● Paid add-ons available

12. State of the Word
Annual address from Matt Mullenweg
Summarizes progress and lays out future plans
https://wordpress.tv/2017/12/04/matt-mullenweg-state-of-the-word-2017/
https://mekshq.com/state-of-the-word-2017-matt-mullenweg/

13. Code of Conduct Survey
WordPress strives to keep an open, inclusive, and welcoming environment,
whether in live events or in online communications.
The Community team has put together a short survey on this, please take it!
Open until 13 April:
https://18422602.polldaddy.com/s/community-code-of-conduct-survey

14. What’s New in WordPress
Topics for discussion...

15. Help Desk
Let’s help one another!