 All right. Hello, everybody. Officially welcome to all of you to this workshop or online workshop on the WordPress project. So as I was sharing here in this call earlier, there have been several workshops on WordPress, direction to WordPress, and different things about WordPress, but we've not had a ton of sessions on the project itself. So in this short one hour session, which I hope to end in 30 to 45 minutes, so giving you 15 minutes of your time back, I hope to share about the project in general, about the WordPress project in general, so that you get an idea of the project and is a space. We have some veteran contributors here, we have some fairly new contributors here, and this session is being held as part of the experimental contributor mentorship program. We have a few mentees, but it's open to all, so we have folks from all over the world here. All right. Without further ado, I'm going to share my screen so that we can quickly start the session. Just a second. I'm going to need a minute to do that. All right, folks. Can you see my screen? Excellent. So I'm going to quickly enter the slideshow mode. All right. So welcome once again to the session. We're going to talk about four main things here today. So first, I'm going to briefly introduce you to the project. So you all know what WordPress is. Before I go ahead, I want to make sure that you know what WordPress is. Can anybody tell me what is WordPress? You can just unmute and just share. What is WordPress? Anyone? It's an online open source project. It is a CMS, which is a content management system, and it just helps people in general do content better through a blogging platform or just web design. That is an excellent answer. That's right. Yeah. Anatoly, go ahead. WordPress is what you touch every day. So different explanations, but I think the short answer is WordPress is a content management system. It's an open source content management system. It is built by, it's an open source project. Riko here tells us that it's the largest open source project in the world. I don't know if it's the largest, but it's definitely the most popular content management system. It's definitely a big open source project. No doings about it. So today we're not going to talk about, so most of us know how to, at least the folks here, many of you, I'm assuming that you know how to use the software. Today we're looking, trying to take a look at the project planning. How does this, how do you build this project? So we take a look at that broadly. Then we look into the different sub-projects within this project. So there's a bunch of sub-projects that's been happened. That's over there. I'm going to give you all a very brief, very quick overview of the different sub-projects that make this huge thing that is WordPress. Thirdly, we will take a very, very quick overview of how WordPress is built. And finally, I'm going to share a bit of a case study of how a feature gets added into code. So there's a feature. If you use WordPress now in 2020, we got this feature called XML sidemaps. So my SEO friends in this call will know what I'm talking about. Sidemap is a very cool feature which collects all the links of the site. It's extremely good for SEO. WordPress has it built in code as of 2020. I think I believe the came in version 5.5. So we'll see, we'll see case study of how a new feature gets added into WordPress as an example to see how a new feature gets or how WordPress gets new features. All right. So without further ado, let's begin. So I'm going to quickly introduce you to the open source project before, and to do that, I must share this blog post. Pooja, if you can share the link inside, that will be created. So this blog post is written by a guy called Matthew Charles Malendryk, the co-founder of WordPress. He wrote this on July 24, 2003. It's a very interesting post. So this is actually how WordPress was born. So he was using a CMS called B2Cafelog. He was very frustrated by it. So he put out a post saying, hey, this does not work. I want somebody to help me fix this. Can somebody help me fix this? He put out a post like this. And this guy, his name is Mike Little. So Matthew Charles Malendryk, he lives in Houston, Texas. Still based out of there, more or less. This guy, Mike, he's from the UK. Mike Little, his name is Mike Little. So he commented on the post saying, hey, if you're serious about poking this, I'm happy to help you. Do you know what happened next WordPress was born? So this is exactly 20 years back. So 20 years later, we have WordPress now, which powers 40% of the internet. So the reason why I shared this is we saw how WordPress was born out of a blog post and a comment. So this, very interestingly, 20 years later, this is more or less how our project works. There's a bunch of people from all over the world. We communicate together in common platforms and we work together to build this open source out there. So I wanted to start with this post because it feels very poetic to start with the very post that created WordPress. All right, so let's take a look at WordPress itself. The first thing that I want to introduce you to is, of course, WordPress.org. WordPress.org is the website where WordPress lives. When you refer to the WordPress projects, you refer to WordPress.org. I'm not going to go into the .com or .org conclusion, but I will briefly share that WordPress.com is not what we are going to talk about today. That's an entirely different product that's created by a company called Automatic Incorporated. It's a web hosting company. It so happens that Automatic had this contact. Automatic was the, Automatic is the company where Matt Malinvig was the CEO. So they owned the copyrights of WordPress until 2010 when it was transferred over to the WordPress Foundation. So Automatic still owns the domain WordPress.com, but still today WordPress.org belongs to the community. It is built by a global community of hundreds of thousands of people who build this. So this website, WordPress.org, that is where the project lies and that's where we're going to start our journey. So you can see that this site has a bunch of links, this news, this download, this learn, this community. So I'm going to walk you through the different parts of the sites which is exactly what our project is. So when we refer to the WordPress project, we refer to WordPress.org. So let's start taking a deeper look at WordPress.org to see what's all available in this site. I'm sure if you use WordPress, you've seen this sub-site called WordPress.org slash teams. You know what a WordPress team is because you're not going to learn WordPress today. I'm sure you know this, but yes, WordPress has a team directory and it is being maintained by a main WordPress teams team. We have around 11,000 teams. It's a very integral part of WordPress.org. Again, it's built by the community, much like WordPress itself. So it's a very active part of the site and we have a lot of block teams here. Blocks are the new paradigm in WordPress. So when we thought, when I refer to teams, I should definitely talk about plugins as well. As you all know, plugins extend the functionality of WordPress. We have around 60,000 plugins. So WordPress.org, teams and plugins, both these projects are integral parts of WordPress. So when we refer to the WordPress projects, it's not just the WordPress.org website from where you can download WordPress. There's this link, handy link on the top called downward. When you click on it, you can download it, but that's not just WordPress. You have teams with plugins and we have patterns. So patterns is something that it's a fairly new paradigm that came into WordPress. I believe in 2020, 2021, when blocks came in. So block patterns are essentially a group of blocks. You can actually create a design, like maybe like a testimonial page or maybe even like a I don't know, like a V card. It's a collection of blocks, which is available in the directory. So let's say you're building a site and you want to add maybe a testimonial section or I don't know, a hero section. You can just copy one of these, like you can take a look at this section. You can copy one of these and add it here. So again, this is also part of WordPress.org. So again, there'll be your teams, your plugins, your patterns. All these are part of the WordPress.org. So it's not, we're not just talking about the open source software that we download from WordPress.org. We have a bunch of things over here as well. We've taken a look at three of them. Moving on. We have WordPress mobile apps. How many folks here use the word to have you, how many folks use the WordPress mobile app? Can I see a show of hands? Anyone use the WordPress mobile app? I see one hand, even I raised my hand too. I think I saw two hands. So yeah. So the WordPress mobile apps, no points for guessing. It's also built by the community. Okay. One more thing that I forgot to share is all these things that you saw earlier. These are not built by a company. These are not built by an individual. They are built by the community. Similarly, WordPress mobile apps are also built by the community. So yes, you can use this to actually manage your WordPress website. Again, it's an integral part of WordPress. WordPress has a hosting page. So WordPress recommends some hosting providers. There's a hosting page which lists some hosts which work closely with WordPress. It's not really a part of it, but it's a place. It's a page in the website which lists some hosts. So it's not really relevant to our discussion, but I just want to share that this page exists. Now, this site, openverse.org, at a first glance, it may not seem very familiar, but I don't know if you can see my slides, but on the bottom right of this, you'll see a small section that says part of the WordPress project. I'll explain. To this site, openverse.org, it was previously known as Creative Commons Search. The Creative Commons was a website. It's a program or an initiative which licenses at work. There's a Creative Commons license, which means that it allows people to freely use software. Not software, what I'm talking about, like art. When I say art, it's about pictures, it's about audio, video. You can actually license your art with different ways. It's very similar to the GPL. You can call it the art equivalent of the GPL, like a free license that allows artwork to be distributed in a free way, not necessarily free, like in a licensable way. So Creative Commons, the search part of it, the search part of Creative Commons joined the WordPress project in 2020, and we rebranded that to openverse. We have this website called openverse.org. It's now a part of WordPress.org. It's a search engine which searches to around 700 million creative works all over the world. I'm going to share an exciting news with you. This is going to come into WordPress, so there's a team actually working on it. And again, this is not owned by a company. This is basically done by the community. So there's a community of folks who are working on it. So this is going to be a part of WordPress code at some point. Imagine when you, so if you know WordPress, you have to actually download a folder to actually add it. What if you could directly search the internet from your WordPress dashboard? You can search images and directly add it there. This is coming to code at some point. I don't know when, but it's going to happen. But this is an exciting project which tries to make that happen. And again, the images that you add using the site are completely licensable, they're completely open. That's the beauty of it. Now, this is an interesting site which, if you're interested, I'd like you all to follow. WordPress.org slash news. If you want to know what's happening with WordPress, this is the site you need to follow. All the updates about WordPress. So the latest post in this site is about the, about the six point, I can actually show it to you. Like the six point three beta four release. It does all the information, all the updates. So you can actually, you know, sign up on the site. You can actually sign up for updates. So if you're interested, I would strongly recommend that you do that. It's a great way to stay updated on where WordPress is headed. So it's a very interesting site. If you want to follow along the updates of WordPress, this is where you should take a look at. Now, I want to quickly talk about learn WordPress. I might probably ask Pooja to share a bit more. So learn WordPress. I mean, especially if you're new, I know some of you are fairly new to WordPress or you would like to learn WordPress. This is a resource that I would recommend you all to look at. Some of you, especially folks in our mentorship group, you may have already gone through some courses here. This is a new initiative that it's been part of WordPress for a while, but the communities started actually working on it in 20K. And my colleague Pooja over here, she's been working on it. She's literally the representative of the make WordPress training team, which works on learn WordPress. They have a bunch of learning materials. They have tutorials, they have lesson plans, they have courses, and they're adding more and more content over there. So, and some of them is like really interesting. It's coming from the best WordPress teams in the world. And you know what the best part is? It's completely free. So Pooja, do you want to maybe share something about learn WordPress? Anything more other than what I've shared? Maybe? Yes, actually, you can get learn content in your local language. And if you want to contribute to translate the content in your language, you can do so. So it will be helpful to others who in your in your country in your reason to understand and learn about the WordPress from the learn content. So yes, you can find content in your language and in the everything is available on learn WordPress website, what you want to learn. Yes, exactly that. So to summarize, there's a bunch of exciting content and this is not just in English. You're trying to add content in different languages. So if you speak German, I'm not sure the number of German content over there, but we at some point will have content in as many languages as possible. So that's where the site is headed. So keep an eye out on learn.wordpress.org. Moving on, I want to quickly introduce you to the WordPress documentation site. It's a very, very powerful site. So the Learn WordPress website has courses. But where do you look for documentation? Documentation is different from learning, so maybe you want to look up a specific function like if you're a developer, or maybe you want to learn more about a feature. So you've just found out about a new feature that came in with WordPress and you'd like to know more about it. This is where the WordPress.org documentation page comes in. Just go here and search for whatever you want. It will return information on what you want. So there's an active docs team working on keeping this updated. So this documentation, it has both developer documentation and user documentation. There's a bunch of exciting things happening here. Keep an eye out on the documentation site for everything that you need. And everything that I shared about right now, it's not made by a company, it's made by the community. It's like folks like you and I, we work on this on all these projects. Moving on, I'm sure you all asked for WordPress help at some point. So for you, I'd like to dedicate the WordPress.org support site. This is where this is the official WordPress support forum. It links to documentation which we just saw. Additionally, it also has a bunch of forums like this one where you can ask questions. So there's a bunch of different types of forums. You may not be able to see this in my screenshot, but there's a bunch of different forums where you can get answers to different types of questions. So if you are looking for answers to your WordPress questions, this is where you should go. It's the WordPress support forums. Now WordPress is a very powerful tool for developers as well. If you are a developer who wants to get better at what you do, I would recommend that you take an eye out. Take a look at developer.wordpress.org. So especially if you're building something using WordPress, there's a bunch of things that you need to follow. This is the site where all those information is kept. We have a code reference. So WordPress has very strict coding standards. It's over here. If you're building teams or plugins or blocks, there's different things that you need to keep in mind. All of these live here. While we are talking about the developer sites, I also want to quickly talk about this very exciting initiative called the developer.wordpress.org slash news. It's, sorry. Yeah. So this is a new blog that the team working on this site was made. So if you follow this, these people come up with so many excellent posts on, especially on the latest happenings of WordPress. If you want to follow what's happening in the world of WordPress development, this is the site that you need to head to. And I would recommend that you subscribe to it. I'm going to quickly show you the site because I think it's very powerful. I think you all need to take a look at it as well. So yeah, this is the site. And yeah, you can definitely subscribe to it. It has a bunch of exciting content, exciting learning content over here. And it's mainly aimed at developers. So if you're a developer or if you're trying to learn development, if you want to keep up. And I know WordPress is changing at this point because WordPress of 2017 or 2016 is not the WordPress of 2020. We have blocks now. The team paradigm has changed. There's so much of changes. So if you want to keep up with that, this is the site. This is the blog that you need to follow. I want to quickly share this tool with you all. Before I do that, I'm going to ask you a question. Have you heard of this tool, the WordPress playground? Anyone? Oh, I'm so sorry. It looks like something happened. Our screen share broke. Sorry to interrupt you, but your screen sharing stopped. Yes. I just saw the chat. Let's go back. When was the last place where you were able to see my screen? Actually, we never seen your screen, I think. I'm so sorry. Wow. All right. So I'm going to quickly, I don't know what happened. I think there's some weird things going on. It's okay. I'm going to try quickly. Can you see my screen now? Yeah. Finally. Thank you for raising this. I want to share something which Matt keeps talking about mostly. If you see something, say something. This definitely applies in WordPress as well. Thank you, Rico, for pointing it out and thank you, Pooja, for sharing it. If you see a bug, report it. If you see a problem, say it out loud. I mean, I actually want to thank you for saying this because if you had not seen, said this, I would have not done this as well. But I'm going to quickly walk you through everything that I just spoke of. So this is WordPress.org, the main site. And this is the theme site that you spoke of, WordPress.org, such themes. This is the plugins site, WordPress.org, such plugins. Pooja has been sharing this. So you already have some idea. And this is the pattern site. We spoke of block patterns. This is the site where we talk a lot about patterns. The WordPress mobile apps page, this is where you get access to WordPress mobile apps. Hosting. So WordPress has a couple of recommended hosting providers, which I referred to earlier. This is where you can learn about them. Openverse.org, I spoke a bit about this. So this is the tool which you can use to get access to different creative works and things like that. It's a search engine for WordPress, which is part of Creative Commons, but it's joined the WordPress project now. This is the WordPress.org-new site. I want to quickly show you that link. So this is the WordPress.org-new site. Please follow it for all the latest updates. I believe Pooja shared the link. It's an exciting site. So I would recommend all of you to follow that. Learn.wordpress.org. Pooja did a great job explaining what Learn.wordpress.org is. So it's an excellent site, which is a bunch of content. So I believe some of the folks here in this session, they've already pursued this website. So it's a great website. You can actually use it. There's a bunch of amazing learning contents. So if you're learning WordPress, it's completely free. It's a great opportunity for all of you to learn. We have the WordPress documentation. So this is where all the technical and non-technical documentation of WordPress lives. So you can actually use this for following content. We have the support forums, which I touched upon briefly. This is where you can ask for help. You can also give help. And there's a forum for different types of topics. What you can see on the screen is a fixing WordPress forum. We have developer resources site, which I quickly touched upon developer.wordpress.org. It's the site where you can actually get help. We don't get help. It has different developer resources. So if you are a developer, if you want to really follow certain standards of working on things, this is the site that you can take a look at. You have the developer blog, which I touched upon. So if you're learning development or if you're following development, it's a great site. So this blog, the folks working on it, they keep adding a bunch of exciting content. If you want to follow development, this is the resource that you want to look at. And okay, we were talking about this when I actually realized that my slides were not being shared. But again, thank you so much, Rico. Thank you, Pooja. Thank you, everybody, for actually sharing about it. And I will say this again. If you see something, say something. I mean, Sheila, I would know you are based in the US. It's a very common thing. Whenever I travel to the US, I've seen folks say this. If you see something, say something. It's set in a different context. But in open source, it's a very good paradigm. If something is broken, just report it. It gets fixed. So I think we've learned in a very poetic way, we learned an open source lesson here. So coming back, so who here has heard about the WordPress playground? Anyone? Yeah, I know. Yes. Thanks so much. So do you want to quickly talk about it, Sumit? You've used it, I'm guessing. Actually, playground is, you know, every kind, you know, it was previously, you know, we need to set up the WordPress and then we need to hosting or set up the local host. But you know, after come the playground, anybody can come on this URL and, you know, test any of the small block code or something like that. In two minutes, he can test everything on the playground. Exactly. So Sumit, you summed it up really well. So to explain, this is a very new project. This was actually released last year. It's an official WordPress project. So previously, if you wanted to test something out, like if you are to run WordPress, you need a server or you need a tool like local by flywheel or WAMP or XAMPP, et cetera, like you need to actually install a local development tool. But right now, the WordPress core theme, they've actually built this tool, which actually runs WordPress in the browser. So you do not need to install anything. You don't need to install a server, you don't need to install a local development tool. You can actually go to this link, which I believe is playground.wordpress.net. I'm going to quickly share that in chat, playground.wordpress.net. So over here, if you want to try it out, just follow that link. I'm going to show it live in this call, like as a conversation for not sharing my screen. So let's take a look at it. So I've just clicked on it, like I'm not doing anything. So it says preparing WordPress. Let's see how this is going to happen. It so happens that whenever I test it, sometimes it doesn't work. Maybe I'm on a slow connection, but let's see. So what this actually does is it actually creates a test site for us in the back end. It is painfully slow. It usually is faster, probably because of my internet connection. Let it load for a bit, but I think you got the idea. Like if you want to play around with it, just follow the link that I've shared in chat, playground.wordpress.net. If you visit there, it creates a WordPress site in the dashboard in the browser without having to install anything. So as it loads, let's go back to our slides. Maybe we'll come back and hopefully by then we'll have loading. All right. So coming back, so this is a very cool tool if you want to test different things. So do you know why this is relevant? So this is especially relevant if you're contributing to WordPress. If you want to test something like a patch or something, it's a very cool tool because it runs in the background. It runs in the browser. You can directly use it to test things. So it's a very cool tool. Please play around with it. So this is a very interesting site, WordPress.tv. It's also part of our ecosystem. The beauty of WordPress.tv is it has a bunch of exciting sessions on different topics. So we have WordCams and WordPress Meetups held all around the world. So sessions from these, they get recorded here. Additionally, we just saw Learn WordPress. Learn WordPress is a bunch of exciting online content, all that gets stored here. So if you want to follow the latest, I mean, if you're interested in video lessons on WordPress, this is the site you should go. I mean, just search for it. It has like several terabytes of video content. So basically any WordPress content that you're looking for, it's probably here. So this is a bunch of, it's a great repository of content. It's not just from WordCams or Meetups. It's from like, it has instruction with learning content. And in fact, this video will go there to Learn WordPress. That's where I'll send it. Sorry, not Learn WordPress, to WordPress.tv. And hopefully someday in Learn WordPress as well, because it's an online workshop. So yeah. Oh, Playground had a hiccup. I can share if you need to. Yes, Sumit, I'm going to quickly make you a co-host. Yeah, I'm going to end my screen chatting for a second, just a second. I will need to do that so that you can share. I am able to share the screen. Okay. Go ahead, Sumit. So let me know when you can see it. Yes. Yes, we can see. Yes. So can you quickly show it around? Yes, this is the Playground. And here are the main things you can, you know, without set up any of the local server, you can test the different, different type of the version of the PHP and also WordPress. So this is very good, you know, without setting anything, you can test your develop plugin theme instantly on here with different, different version of the PHP and WordPress. Go to the dashboard. This is a temporary. So if you, you know, reload anything, then you can load. There are three options. Paramount, store the browser history, just temporary. So it makes sure what you are done and apply. Then you can change everything on the backend. So right now, working fine. I think Sumisu was the loading. Yeah. It actually loaded for me now. Yeah. So right now. Yeah. Yeah. It's working fine now. So there is the all of a sudden, there's not, you can't able to install the WordPress for a new plugin, but you can upload your own develop plugin theme, everything here. So this is the Playground and, you know, if anybody beginner or, you know, something blocked, you can quickly test anything on there without any setup. So this is a very helpful for the beginner at least that this platform. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly that. So folks, I think I believe the link is already there in chat, playground.wordpress.net. Just a second, I'm going to, I'm going to do it again. Playground.wordpress.net. All right. So I'm sharing it again. So feel free to try it out. It's a cool tool. So as you folks who are doing the management program, if you go through it, I mean, it will be very helpful as you work with the group, but even otherwise the cool tool to test things out as well. All right. So I'm going to quickly stop, stop your sharing so that I can. Yes. But thank you so much for sharing. I really appreciate it. And as you can see the playground, this works for me now. I had to match. I had to just stop the screen sharing for that to work. Yeah. Hey, this works for me now. Yeah. I guess I jinxed it. But yeah. Coming back to my slides. So we spoke of WordPress.TV. It's an excellent resource. Do take a look at it. I want to quickly talk about this side as well. So we, I'm just going to go back a few slides. Actually, actually, yeah, we spoke of Openverse. So this is a search engine which looks at 700 million creative works all over the world. This is what was that all such photos. It is WordPress's own photo directory. So, I mean, you all know different types of photo sharing sites. Like, I mean, it's a once like there's a bunch of them out there, right? Like, you can actually get royalty free photos. So this is actually a project by the WordPress community. So this is built all these photos that you see here. You can see a bunch of like photos of flowers and everything. So there's a bunch of cool photos. All these pictures are from the WordPress community. Every single picture that you see here is from a WordPress contributor. And you know what the best part is? Literally, anyone can do it. They have some guidelines. But if you, if you, if you have a mobile phone, if you take photos, go for it. You can just, you can just support it here. So there's a bunch of exciting photos and your photo doesn't need to be like picture perfect. If it's, if it's decent enough, if it's fast, like it fits some basic criteria, like in terms of resolution. I mean, any, any, any picture that you take with a modern smartphone is enough. It's enough to be featured here. So it's a great way to one, have your cool photos. And secondly, like your photos could be used by a bunch of people. So it gets automatically licensed in a Creative Commons license. Again, like Openverse, you will be able to add photos from the photos directly directly to your WordPress site. So right now it has, as you can see, more than 8,000 pre-photos and the team wants to hit 10,000. So everybody in this call, here's an open invitation to all of you. Please, please support photos here. All you need to do is support those.org account. For our mentees, like we have a, we have a dedicated learn-up session on this. So, but like, if you want to jump the gun and go ahead and take your photos, go for it. Yeah. So just wanted to quickly introduce the photosite. I'm very excited about it. I have submitted a few photos. I hope to submit more. Okay. Let's talk about WordPress events. So WordPress is a very, very vibrant community. At one point in 2019, we had a, we had, so there are two types of WordPress events. It's called WordCamps. WordCamps are conferences and WordPress Meetups. WordPress Meetups are like small city-based events which are held in a city, but WordCamps are more like conferences. So there's a team called the Make WordPress Community Team, which manages events. So we have a site called WordCamp Central, which lists all these WordCamp conferences. So as you can see, there's a bunch of WordPress events, literally like all over the world. We have a bunch of Africa. We have one India. We have a couple of them in the US. So we, WordCamp Europe just got over, WordCamp Asia was held earlier this year. You can actually see the picture from WordCamp Asia in this site. This site, WordCamp Central, that's where like, it has all the information about, you know, WordCamps. So I think I'll take a few moments to quickly talk about WordPress events because like WordPress, the reason why it is so successful is because of the WordPress community. We still have a very successful in-person events program. COVID kind of like brought us down. So, but in 2019, we had 140 of these WordCamps all over the world and we had around 800 Meetups. Even during COVID, a lot of these WordCamps moved online and the Meetups, they were organizing events online. So at this point, I will say that we have around more than 700, I mean, city-based Meetup groups. Whichever city you are in, there's probably a Meetup group there. I'm going to share a link which will help you find if you have one. To do it in that one, it's like, it's a great opportunity to meet folks. I mean, the fact, you're actually, I mean, if you follow the Meetup.com link, you actually follow the WordPress Meetup. Because like, Learn WordPress, it's actually hosted in the WordPress Meetup.com platform. So WordCamps are bigger events. These are conferences, which are hosted by WordPress folks. Yeah, so these are conferences hosted by WordPress folks. Those are bigger events. We have a bunch of them coming up. The second, yeah, this is the site that I spoke of. Meetup.com pro slash WordPress. Yeah, so you can see a bunch of events all. As you can see, there's like 707 groups. And look at the number of members we have, like 498,000 members. So these are people who work with WordPress in one way or the other. And 107 countries. So this is how big our community is. So just, so you're a part of this huge community. And I think you all should be proud about being a part of this amazing community. So, all right. So if anyone here is looking for a job, did you know that we have a dedicated job site called jobs.wordpress.net? So here's where you can actually search for a job or post a job. So it's a dedicated site, dedicated exclusively for WordPress group. It's very active. It has a bunch of jobs posted there. So if anyone here is looking for a job change, so if you want to post a job, do this at the site. Now this site, WordPress.office.showcase, it's going through, you know, what I've seen in the older version, but it lists the best WordPress sites in the world. So I'm sure like if you use WordPress, people would say, hey, tell me, like tell you which some of the, tell me some of the names for some of the most popular WordPress sites in the world. So if you want to do that, just go to this site, which lists some of the top WordPress sites in the world. And you can go there and find out what, you know, the top WordPress sites. So it's a really cool site. Yeah, so did you know, did you know, I did touch on this a bit when I started the session, but did you know that we just completed the 20th anniversary of WordPress? So this is the microsite that we made to celebrate this. We had a bunch of celebrations. I was part of a local celebration. I think a couple of people in this group already, also were part of it. So we're celebrating our 20th anniversary this year. WordPress is 20th. So and we hope it will be there for the next 20 years. I just want to share this about this site. So if you want to read more about that, it will be great. I want to quickly introduce you to the WordPress foundation as well. So you know the WordPress logo, right? This logo, the WordPress logo, the name WordPress is actually trademarked by an organization called the WordPress Foundation. So it's a non-profit. It's a 501c3 non-profit, which is a non-profit. So this organization, it's Manuel Lundwig is the founder of the organization, but it owns the trademarks of WordPress. So it's a non-profit. The purpose of this organization is it protects the trademarks and it has some funds. It uses these funds to support WordPress. So WordPress is not directly run by the foundation. It's supported by volunteers all over the world, but this organization holds the trademarks and the objective of the foundation is to ensure that not one company does not take WordPress. So it supports the trademarks, protects the trademarks. This is the organization, this is the foundation that really makes sure that WordPress is open, that one company or a group of companies cannot take over WordPress. So they do that amount of good work. And they do a bunch of like non-profit events as well. They do hackathons and so the events program that we saw like work camps and WordPress meetups, they come under the WordPress. So this is the organization that kind of runs it. So they have a subsidiary called WordPress Community Support PVC. It's a subsidiary of WordPress Foundation. So the WordPress Community Support PVC, it's a public benefit corporation which it's funded by a bunch of global sponsors like SiteGround and GoReady, Bluehost, etc. So these people, they put some money to the foundation and the foundation uses that money to help volunteers organize events all over the world. We just had WordCamp Europe, WordCamp US is coming up. So all these events are supported by the WordPress Foundation through its subsidiary WordPress Community Support PVC. You can read all about it. There's a website, I'm not sharing the link, but put it out if you can paste it in the chat. It was going to quickly do that. WordPressFoundation.org, if you want to read about it, here's the link. All right. Yeah. So we are nearing the end of my slides. Did you know that there's a WordPress book? Yes, there's actually a book on WordPress. So it's called My Stone's The Story of WordPress. I have not shared the link. Yeah. Let me see if you can share the link. I'll find the link and I'll share it with you. So there's actually a WordPress book which is available, like it's an open source GPL license book. If you want to learn the story of WordPress, do check it out. You don't need to pay any money to anybody. Like pretty much like GPL itself, it's available. Yeah. So yeah. Thank you for sharing the link with us. This is the first part of the book, My Stone's The Story of WordPress, which covers the first 10 years. So as part of the 20th anniversary, we just released a second part of the book. So this book, the second part, My Stone's Volume 2, it talks about the next 20 years of WordPress. So if you want to really learn about WordPress, the history, what has happened, you might want to check out these books. I'm in the process reading this one actually. It's very interesting. So if you enjoy WordPress and if you like reading books, I would strongly recommend it to you. I'm like around 15% at this point right now. I hope to finish it in the next few weeks. Yeah. Now, if anybody here is interested in podcasts, WordPress is an official podcast. It's called WP Briefing. So you can listen to it using a favorite podcast or I've shared the link here. But if you, whatever podcast tool that you use, the Apple podcast, Google podcast, whatever, whichever tool that you stitch up, just search for WP Briefing and you can find this podcast. Every month, we have an episode from our executive director. So the latest episode is a Polygonx WordPress. If you want to access it, just go to this link. Again, you can listen to it in the web if you don't have access to a tool. It's a great way to stay in touch with where the project is going. Okay. We've seen, we sawed the different aspects of the project. So I'm going to pause for a bit. I'm going to quickly take a look at chat. I see a bunch of people who actually shared the issue with the screen sharing. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for actually pointing that out. Sorry about the trouble. Hopefully you can all see the screens now. I'm going to pause for a minute. Does anybody have any questions on the project so far? I know we spoke of a bunch of stuff because what is this really big? You know, it's not a small project. It's power 40% of the internet. And there's still more things that I need to cover, which I have not because of lack of time. But does anybody have any questions at this point? You can also ask anything if you want to chat. Yeah. And it's only yes. Unfortunately, it's only available in Pay. Like you can actually read it in Kindle. I'm actually reading it in Kindle. So if you have a Kindle or an eReader or an iPad, you can actually get the PDF or the EPUB version and read it. Hopefully we'll be able to release the content someday. All right. So I think we can quickly move on because I know unfortunately we took a lot more time than I thought. I won't wrap this up earlier. But anyway, let's quickly see how WordPress gets built. I'm sure like we've seen how big this open source policy, we've seen multiple parts. Don't want to quickly share with you how it gets built. So there's a few pieces here. The first one is this site called make.wordpress.org. I mean, I did not share about this earlier, but I just want to quickly share about this. This site that you see, make.wordpress.org, it has a bunch of teams. It has code, it's designed, it's mobile, it's activity. There's a bunch of teams out there, and each of these teams focuses on a particular aspect. So the core team focuses on core, the teams team focus on teams. There's a training team which Pooja here represents that works on training. So there's around 24 teams at this point which work on different aspects. So each team has its own site. So this is the make.wordpress.org slash core. This is the site, this is the sub-site. So it's actually a blog. As you can see, it's a blog. Folks can actually write posts and can actually make comments. So all the updates about each project, like the core development happens in the core blog. If you're on a follow-up training, which is the team that builds the learn.wordpress, you can go to make.wordpress.org slash training. This is the team that builds training programs, like learn.wordpress.org. So similarly, each team has its own site. And we have the make.wordpress Slack, I believe many of you are there already. And each team has its own channel. Each team has typically at least one channel. Some teams have multiple channels, but typically each team has at least one channel. So the discussions about the teams happen both in the site and in the Slack. For example, the training team, they talk about things in their... They try to keep all the discussions in their sites, and they also follow along with discussions in their own channels in Slack. So that's how things happen. Now, if we talk about the development of WordPress, as in the core development, it mostly happens using a tool called Track. So Track is a version management tool. So WordPress uses... Well, the WordPress core uses Track for most of its development work, but off late, most many teams have been embracing GitHub as well. So there's a bunch of GitHub repositories over here, like with different teams working on different repositories. So the Gutenberg, the block editor of WordPress, that's one of the most popular repositories in this. So Gutenberg development happens exclusively here, but other than that, many teams, like the... What is the training team? Yeah, Puja, can you actually share the link of the training team repository in chat, if you don't mind? Thanks. So yeah, similarly... Oh, fantastic. Similarly, yeah. So different teams have their own repositories over here. So work on WordPress happens in all these centers. So if you want to report an issue with core, or if you want to help build core, you can do that using Track and GitHub. So these are the places where development happens. So talking about this in detail is out of the scope of this short one-hour session. I just want to introduce you to the whole process. So yeah, this is Track, essentially, which we just saw the link to, and this is the official WordPress GitHub repository. Now, while we don't have the time to actually go in detail, I can actually share with you, like using an example. I did mention this in the beginning of the session. So the process of how WordPress got XML sitemaps in core. So by sharing this story, you get an idea of how WordPress development works. Now, there's a bunch of things here, so for my friends in the mentorship program, you get a chance to actually see this happen, and even others join along in the public channel that we have in Slack. But I'm going to use this as an example, a very short example to explain how WordPress got XML sitemaps in core, and by following that, you can actually see all of the process of how this gets looked. So how this started is, this guy, Kiri Munmula, he's a WordPress core contributor. He works in Google. He created a proposal. I can actually share the link to that proposal as well. He created a proposal, like he published this in the make code blog saying, hey, this would be a cool feature in WordPress core. So previously, I mean, if you've been working on WordPress, you know that there were plugins for this. He actually shared the problem, he shared the proposed solution, even made like this really cool four chart and everything. And he shared goals and things like that. This, as you can see in the comments, was a huge hit. Everybody says, yes, let's do this. This is amazing, this is amazing. Some people did chat feedback, but like overall, folks decided, let's go ahead with this. You can see the entirety of comments. So like overall, folks are very positive about it. And you know what they did? They moved ahead. So at this point in core development, and this is something that project leadership also likes folks to do, if you want to build something new, create a feature plugin for it. So what these folks did it, once they got the positive sign, they actually sat together, they built this feature as a plugin, and they released this as a feature plugin. So you can still see this plugin. Like, yeah, this is the post that announces it. And I think they've closed this plugin by now, but like, yeah, this plugin still exists. You can still find that this is the plugin that these folks worked on. So they published a post announcing the plugin, they put out this plugin, and then they used this to test this feature. They used to test bugs. And again, all the development, for creating this plugin, of course, they didn't turn their own, but they put out this plugin and they tracked everything. So what you can see here is, all these posts, they are in the make core blog, and they have a hashtag, they have a specific hashtag, XML site, so they use this hashtag to follow all the updates there. So they followed up the discussion on the former post, which I closed for some reason. They followed up the discussion on this post, with this post, and they created a feature plugin. Now, by now, it was very clear for folks that, okay, this is good. This seems like a good feature to come into code. So how did they arrive at that? Because everybody commented on the post. The feedback came in through the post. That's how they were aware, that's how they were aware of it. So do you know what happened? They actually started meetings to talk about this. So weekly meetings in Slack, and not video calls, like chats. They actually created a way to kick this off, and they announced meetings. So since this is a dedicated topic, they decided that maybe there's a need for a dedicated Slack channel for this. So they created a dedicated Slack channel to discuss core site maps. So this is actually in the makeover for Slack. And they kept on meeting, they kept on chatting, there was a bunch of discussion. So if you're in the makeover for Slack search for core site maps, you can find this Slack channel. Yeah, it's probably still around. I think Pooja has already shared the link himself. Yeah, so if you follow that channel, you can actually follow along what happens, what was the discussion. But they kept chatting about it. They kept discussing this. So there was a bunch of discussion. They improved on things. So every time there's a chat, some folks would raise an issue, some folks would raise a bug that gets fixed. It kept iterated and iterated. Eventually, this got merged. So what they first did is they had their own GitHub repository for this feature plugin, which you can see in this link. They merged that. They first merged that. And then they raised an issue in the core track, which said, hey, this is a ticket to merge this into core. And they worked together and eventually got merged in the track. And finally, we have the announcement post, which I think I've shared here. Yeah, so we have the announcement post, which says, hey, core now has an excellent site map functionality. So this is announced and it was shipped in 5.5. So this is the process. I just want to quickly share about the process of what this does. This is a general way things work in WordPress. So as you can see, a couple of things to note. All community members are included in this announcement. So nobody is left out. Anyone can be a part of it. So that's the beauty of this process. Folks in the Contributor Working Group, you actually get to see this whole process as part of the 6.3 weeks, which is coming up very soon. You just have the beta 4 go out and we'll be having the release candidate. So to briefly explain the release process, Pooja, do you want to quickly talk about what we have mostly at the end of the time? But do you want to very quickly chat about how the release process works because you're in the detail? Yeah, definitely. Like in the release coordinators try to release coordinator, create a list of bugs and new features and enhancements that is going to be included in the upcoming release. Then that is bug scrubs is going on every week in different time zones. So people will chat about the new issues and move forward to the release. And the test team works on creating all the issues and the enhancement features are coming into next release. And they share a post regarding the test, what is going to include it in the upcoming release. And the people are joining together to help us in testing, in submitting their code and all. Like it's a collaboration of all people, all the contributors, all the testers, and all the people. It is basically a release squad working hard behind any WordPress release. Right, exactly that. So if you want to learn more about the release process and please join the there's a contributor mentorship channel in our Slack, which is where we are trying to replicate this mentorship program. So which I think, let me see if I can share the link to that in our Slack. Just a second, second, probably link. Okay. So we have a public channel for a mentorship group. If anybody wants to follow along, then please join the channel. I mean, for our mentors, you're already there, you need to follow anything. Like mentees, sorry. So, but yes, absolutely. I can definitely share my slides, which are public anyway. I will do that in fact, right away. Let me quickly check if they are public. Yes, they are. I'm going to share this here. Yep. I can also email this to all the attendees, but I think, yes, yes, exactly. So we'll add all the settings or whatever as well. So I think we can wrap up maybe this time for one or two more questions. I know there was a lot that was covered. I mean, you need at least two hours to talk about all of this. I don't want to take a bunch. I actually wanted to wrap this up earlier, but we took a lot more time than we thought. Does anybody have any questions? Any, anything that they'd like to share? All right. So in the case, thank you so much once again for joining. And I hope to do this session at a different time so that folks can join. And we definitely have this recorded. So we'll be starting the recording later as well. And I hope you all got a very brief idea of how the elephant works in WordPress and the different products that you have. If there's one thing that I'd like you to take away, use WordPress Playground. It is the coolest tool ever. Make, feel free to use it for testing. It's amazing. It's amazing. There's a bunch of things that you can use with it, especially if you play around with WordPress. I'm going to share the link again if anybody missed it. It's playground.wordpress.net. Just Google WordPress Playground. You'll find it. It's a great way to test this out. It's really cool. All right. Thank you so much. Have an amazing day. I'll see you around. Bye. Thank you, Hedy. Bye. Bye, everyone. Thank you. Bye-bye. Bye.