Organize

Triage Theme Check Issues and PRs

The Theme Check pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. validates themes against WordPress directory requirements, and every theme reviewer depends on it. Help keep it healthy by triaging open issues and pull requests: confirm bugs, test fixes, categorize enhancement requests, and flag stale items.

Volunteer for a Team Meeting

Help keep your Make WordPress team running by volunteering to facilitate a meeting or take notes. Most teams need volunteers for these roles every week, and it’s one of the most direct ways to contribute once you’ve joined a team.

Triage Gutenberg Issues

Triaging keeps the GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ repository healthy. You review issues, check whether bugs still happen, add labels, and organize reports so the right people can act on them. You do not need to be a developer or designer.

Become a GitHub Issues Coordinator

Take on the GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/ Issues Coordinator role for the WordPress Documentation team. Beyond labeling, you’ll assign contributors to issues, welcome them with the right resources, manage project board columns, and help prevent issues from going stale.

Label Documentation Issues

Help the WordPress Documentation team keep its issue tracker organized by labeling new issues. When issues have the right labels, they reach the right people faster and documentation stays accurate and up to date.

Volunteer at a WordPress Event

Sign up to volunteer at a WordPress event like a WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more.. You’ll help with registration, room support, or other tasks that keep the event running. Volunteering is a common first step toward becoming an event organizer.

Organize a Student Club

Start a student-led WordPress Student Club on your campus where members learn, build, and contribute to the WordPress open-source project. It’s a way to grow the community from the ground up while gaining real-world open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. experience.

Suggest a Pathway

Help grow the pathways index by suggesting a new contribution pathway. You can point to an existing process already documented in a team handbook, or share a contribution idea that’s supported by a team.

Organize

For people who like coordinating, triaging, and keeping things running smoothly.