This document discusses contributing to WordPress in various ways such as fixing bugs, improving code quality, developing plugins, themes, and helping with localization and globalization. It emphasizes that every contribution counts regardless of size and that contributing can provide benefits like career growth, networking, and helping the WordPress community. It highlights that the future of WordPress depends on good plugin and theme developers as well as a diverse, global community.

2. 5 years in A hospital
2008
ART
2009 2014
Japan

3. ONE-WAY TICKET
Things Just got real
to Japan!

4. Things Just got real

5. I dON’T
SPEAK THE
LANGUAGE

6. I GET LOST
A LOT
I TAKE THE
WRONG BUS
I CLICK THE
WRONG BUTTON

7. KOGA Hiromichi OHTA Tatsuki KOGA Tatsuro JOTAKI Taisuke MIYOSHI Takayuki
OKAMOTO Wataru SUGIMOTO Jun
CEO
Theme & Code Wrangler Designer Support / Code Wrangler / Translator Engineer
Engineer Theme Developer / Director
MIYAUCHI Takayuki HORIKE Takahiro IGARASHI Kazue
NISHIMURA Shuhei SANTIAGO Kel NUKAGA Junko
WP Plugin Developer / Backend Engineer WP Plugin Developer / Frontend Engineer Code Wrangler / Frontend Engineer
Code Wrangler Writer / Evangelist Designer / Writer
OKAMOTO Hidetaka
Engineer
TSUNODA Tomohyco
Technical Support / Engineer
PILARSKI MaN
Technical Evangelist

8. CONTRIBUTING TO
WORDPRESS
BUSINESS • PROFESSION •
OUR COMMUNITY

9. 5 FOR THE FUTURE

10. MAKE.WORDPRESS.ORG

11. Every contribuAon counts,
no maFer what it looks like.
It takes every one of us to make
WordPress beFer.

12. CORE
CONTRIBUTION
1

13. GOOD FIRST BUGS • TEST PATCHES • CREATE A TICKET

14. 2.9
OH SO FINE
3.7
BASIE
3.8
PARKER
3.9
SMITH
4.0
BENNY
4.1
DINAH
4.2
POWELL
4.4
CLIFFORD

15. CODING STANDARDS
REWARDING
MOTIVATING

16. Plugins2

17. “If good plugin developers don’t grow,
the WordPress community will be weakened.”

18. GOOD FOR
THE COMMUNITY
FEEDBACK
GROWTH

19. THEMES3

20. WORDPRESS.ORG

22. EXPERIENCE
PORTFOLIO
CLIENTS

23. LOCALIZING +
GLOBALIZING
4

24. JOIN THE POLYGLOT TEAM

25. LOCALIZATION

26. GLOBALIZATION

27. DEEPER UNDERSTANDING

28. 5
DEVELOPMENT
& CLOUD
ENVIRONMENT

29. WORDPRESS DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT

30. WORDPRESS & WOOCOMMERCE
DEDICATED CLOUD ENVIRONMENT

31. COMMUNITY6

32. WordCrab Word Onsen
JAPAN WORDPRESS COMMUNITY

33. VOLUNTEER SPEAKPHOTOGRAPH

34. A DAY OF REST

35. GITHUB.COM/WP-API

36. + WORDPRESS USERS
INSPIRE
NETWORK &
INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

37. SUMMARY

38. AWARENESS
CAREER
GROWTH
WORDPRESS
FUTURE

39. FEAR NO
OBSTACLES
NO SMALL
CONTRIBUTION

40. CONTRIBUTING TO
WORDPRESS
FOR BUSINESS, PROFESSION
& THE COMMUNITY
KEL SANTIAGO
@i_Monkey_Robot