The WordPress Open Source Project

A bit about Michele Butcher
❖ WordPress Specialist at WP Security Lock
❖ Lead Organizer for Southern Illinois WordPress Meetup
❖ Designer and Content Creator at 13 Core
❖ Blogger for Can’t Speak Geek
❖ Community and Teaching Contributor for WordPress
❖ WordCamp Speaker
❖ JALC Beginner’s and Intermediate WordPress instructor

Over 60 Million sites are
Powered by WordPress
About one-fourth of all the websites
are running WordPress
Almost 50% of all CMS ran sites are on WordPress

WordPress Core is written and used
in over 180 different languages.

It is NOT just for bloggers

Vouge
The New York Post
Time Magazine
Sony Music
Wil Wheaton
Georgia State University
Flickr

There is virtually no limit to what
you can build.

Built with MySQL and PHP it’s origins lays with
b2/cafelog.
Using W3C standards for XHTML and CSS
ensures sites are easily rendered across most
platforms.

WordPress Core is licensed under
the GNU General Public License.

Being OpenSource means more can work
on the Code and Core is ever evolving.

Anyone can copy, edit, or
distribute the Core files.

Great tutorials for most anything
WordPress related codex.WordPress.org

The Codex can show how to dig deeper
as a developer for the WordPress Project

Anyone can request features and report bugs.
This is how many of the lead developers start
out. core.Trac.WordPress.org

Constantly being updated:
3 major releases to Core in the past year.
785 people helped contribute to these updates

Over 34,000 plugins and 2,700 themes
for site customization in the repo alone.
This is not counting premium plugins and themes.

The WordPress community is one
of the largest international
professional communities.

Anyone can join, help out and
contribute to WordPress which is
why it is the most popular.
Anyone is able to work on the core
code, API, mobile responsiveness,
support and documentation

make.WordPress.com

WordCamps. The best $20-$40
spent for any conference.
Upcoming WordCamp Schedule at
central.WordCamp.org

Over 20,000 people make
their living using WordPress
and that number is rising.

What does all of this mean to you?

There are at least 4 companies
just in the Carbondale area that
make WordPress based sites.

WordPress is one of the most
requested skills in the world.
Just behind knowing MS Office

Companies both big and small are
looking for designers, developers,
and content creators to help them
stay in competition.

It is not a build it and forget world
for websites anymore.
Many clients now want access to their
website for content creation.

Most bloggers, freelancers, and
small businesses chose WordPress
over Joomla and Drupal.

Most designers make $100k a year designing a
WordPress website.
Most developers make between $300k and
$400k per year.

Community support when you can
get answers 24/7/365
Code or a forum post has already
been made for most issues.

Most answers can be found in the forums.

Answering the Forum questions is easy to.

The users, developers, and
community is always growing.

Building one simple plugin or
theme build can change a future.

Getting started now in Contributing to
WordPress can lead to many great things
after graduation including remote
positions with a high starting pay.

Southern Illinois WordPress Meetup
http://www.meetup.com/Southern-Illinois-WordPress-Meetup/
Next Meetup will be December 9, 2014 at Pagliai’s Pizza from 6pm-8pm

Questions?