WordPress is built by people who decided to show up, and you can be one of them. The best place to start is Make WordPress. It’s the hub for every contributor team, and there’s almost certainly one that fits something you already know how to do.
You don’t need to be a developer to contribute to the WordPress project. If you like to write, the Documentation and Marketing teams need you. If you speak another language, Polyglots translates WordPress into more than 200 of them. Designers work on everything from the core interface to WordPress.org itself. Developers can dig into Core, themes, plugins, or Gutenberg. If you’re the person friends text when their site breaks, the Support team lives in the forums. And if you love bringing people together, the Community team runs WordCamps and meetups all over the world.
A few ways to actually get started this week:
- Make a WordPress.org account.
- Join the Making WordPress Slack and hang out in a team channel for a bit before saying anything. Lurking is allowed.
- Browse the WordPress GitHub for issues tagged “good first issue.”
- Go to a contributor day at your nearest WordCamp. They’re built for first-timers and someone will walk you through it.
If you work somewhere that runs on WordPress, ask about Five for the Future. It’s the pledge to give 5% of your company’s time or resources back to the project, and it’s how a lot of the work actually gets sustained.
Start small. Translate one string. Answer one forum question. File one good bug report. That’s how nearly everyone begins. And if you don’t know where to start, find a local meetup and connect with a community.
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