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11 years. That\u2019s how long I\u2019ve been using WordPress to create websites as a part of design and development teams. 2017 was the first year I started giving any real contribution back to the WordPress project. Before that I tried. I kept looking at this thing called Trac, I even created an account and followed some of the development tickets. But I felt blocked since my primary background is in design. I didn’t know how to get started.<\/p>\n

All that changed last year when I was given a unique opportunity by my company to donate time to helping in the make.wordpress.org<\/a> work. In this talk I’ll share the process I went through from not knowing where to get started, to jumping into a few tickets, to helping lead parts of the work being done in WordPress.<\/p>\n

If you’re curious about giving back to WordPress, but don’t have a ton of development experience, then this talk will be for you. Let’s go through this journey together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

11 years. That\u2019s how long I\u2019ve been using WordPress to create websites as a part of design and development teams. 2017 was the first year I started giving any real contribution back to the WordPress project. Before that I tried. I kept looking at this thing called Trac, I even created an account and followed … <\/p>\n

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