Luc De Brouwer gave a presentation on evangelizing WordPress at a WordPress meetup in Eindhoven. He discussed how the WordPress community has contributed to its success and encouraged attendees to get involved by submitting plugins and themes, contributing code, helping with translations and documentation, or assisting other users on support forums. De Brouwer emphasized that evangelism through helping others use WordPress is very powerful.

1. WordPress Evangelism
WordPress meetup Eindhoven
06/22/2011

2. Luc De Brouwer
Webdeveloper who loves WordPress, Magento,
PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, jQuery, good food and
Nine Inch Nails.
• lucdebrouwer.nl
• hello@lucdebrouwer.nl
• linkedin.com/in/lucdebrouwer
• twitter.com/ldebrouwer

5. What makes WordPress so successful?

6. The community!

7. But that’s us!

8. © Anne Helmond

9. But what can we do to make
WordPress even better?

10. Submit your own plugins
to the plugin directory!

12. Submit your themes to the theme directory!
( and have them reviewed by the theme review team! )

14. Read Trac, participate in discussions and
develop core patches

16. Develop patches for plugins
by other developers
( or notify them about bugs through Twitter as long as it isn’t a security issue )

18. But what if you’re not a developer?

19. Speak another language?
Help us translate WordPress!

21. Help us with expanding the
documentation and the codex

22. Help us with improving the UI,
suggest tweaks to make it even better

23. But most important..

24. Help other WordPress users!

25. © Luc De Brouwer

26. Ask and answer questions
on the support forums

27. Help friends build their website
with WordPress

28. Evangelism is very powerful!

29. Thank you for your attention!

30. Want to contact me or ask questions?
• lucdebrouwer.nl
• hello@lucdebrouwer.nl
• linkedin.com/in/lucdebrouwer
• twitter.com/ldebrouwer