Contributing to the WordPress Repository in a smart way
I am a Computer Science and Engineering post-grad. I have been working with PHP based application development since 2007. I have started working with WordPress since 2012 and since I have fallen in love with it.
Being a former lecturer in the University of Information Technology and Sciences (UITS) here at Bangladesh, I love to share my knowledge. I have been a speaker at various local events and conferences.
I am also an official WordPress Meetup Organizer for the city of Chittagong, Bangladesh. I am working and contributing towards making WordPress more popular in my city.
Here is the link to the meetup.com group: https://www.meetup.com/Chattagam-WordPress-Meetup/
I am always open towards new opportunities to share and gain knowledge.
Code is poetry and I am constantly trying to be a great poet.
Topic Description: WordPress is world’s most popular Content Management System and it has a market share of over 25% of the World’s website. WordPress.Org community is by far the best in the web industry. WordPress.Org repository is maintained voluntarily by the contributors around the world. So, sometimes it is quite difficult to sync everything together. WordPress.Org item submission needs some extra care. In this talk, I would like to share a guided walk through how to submit an item to the WordPress repository so that it doesn’t stick a long time for reviewing and when it is reviewed it will be live with less or no effort. I will mention the most common mistakes done by the submitted both in theme and plugin repository. I will also encourage the developer to join the review team in order to shorten the waiting period of time. Reviewing is fun and educational. We learn a lot by reviewing others code and analyzing them will help us to grow also. I will also cover the basics and common issues that a reviewer should know. How do I know the most common mistakes? I have submitted my items without any prior repository knowledge. I got plenty of rejection and educative explanation from the reviewer which helped me to learn things. Some of them are so silly that I now laugh at myself. And I thought I am the only one doing those. But as I am reviewing items now, I have seen that those are commons. So I can definitely give a good talk on it which might help the community.
Intended Audience: Developer, Support Stuff, Community