 You just grab someone from the street and then you say hey, what is WordPress all right And then what is the most likely answer that you're gonna get from the person from the someone from the street? So most of the people they gonna say oh what press that is the thing that you use to block Right. Yeah, use the press to do block. That's the most common answer that you get that's what WordPress is most famous for and Yeah, if you get more people you can ask more people about hey, what is WordPress people gonna tell you like Oh, I use WordPress to power my company website and yeah in my company I use it to put in my marketing contents SEO and things and some people say oh I use WordPress and I'm gonna install things like WooCommerce and make it into my WooCommerce e-commerce online store And I use it to sell stuff and t-shirt or homemade cookies and things some people use it Okay, we press put in a plug-in Like WooCommerce bookings then you can you can do You can use the website and allow people to do booking for your service like let's say yoga You brought yoga service and things like you install a plug-in you do like a learning management system you You provide you you are like a teacher you teach people you provide courses online people Access your online courses via your website But if you think about it right all these use cases all these are public external basic websites, right and So these are the common very common use case other people use WordPress now the thing I'm going to talk about today is that How about internal facing websites? So let's say things like you are running a company. You're running a business where there's a small business a team of marketing Just you have ten people or a big company, right and you think about hey I want to have an intranet right intranet put in information and project things So I want to have an intranet for my own company and when people think about intranet now I'm from Malaysia I don't know about the Landscape in Hong Kong. So but in Malaysia when we talk about intranet we think of all these big names, right? You think about Oracle or Microsoft But those things we talk about Microsoft share point server and think you have you think about you think about intranet system like SAP but so these things they are famous and they're also famous for being not cheap. They're expensive and so today I'm here to tell you to share experience where how you can build an intranet with WordPress and So this is the title of my talk today my learning talk Running a remote distributed company powered by WordPress My name is gun. I'm a senior software engineer. I work with automatic So a little bit a little bit of background about automatic automatic is a fully remote distributed company Yeah, we have about 200,000 automaticians work from around the world and we have our own Unique intranet system and our internet is it consists of more than 1000 WordPress sites running a custom team, which we call P2 running on WordPress.com and WordPress.com is actually the world's largest multi-site network. So How do we do it? All right. Oh, yeah, automatic intranet more than 1000 WordPress P2 team size Okay, it's a little bit complicated. Okay, WordPress.com is the world's largest multi-site network And this is actually a public product page. So You can actually get more info from our website here WordPress.com slash P2 and this is the system. What is the What is the system that powers how we work within the company, right? And you have this little bit of snapshot over here And then we also have a demo website if you want an access to see how it kind of works within our company So it is automatic P2. That's what automatic P2 demo dot WordPress.com and this is kind of like a deal the main page So we have all these posts over here and yeah So you can go to this website and take a quick quick look quick example and so we hit this this like a Imagining something like an inbox if you open up your email or gmail or something it looks very similar to me, right? And so it is like a list of emails and then if you click on to it like I said this one It says priority one large new version of P2 and team directory So if you click onto it, this is the contents of your post And then you can put your header key updates design updates You can bring a screenshot you can put it and that's a YouTube video or Twitter feed and things like that and this is another example is kind of like a use case or Yeah, a use case example how news you take how news you can do this internet with P2 and Yeah, this this something in our website over here P2 guides dot WordPress.com how organizations use P2 So we have this this guy real world scenario real world usage example Real company using P2 to build its own internet So and this how we actually within automatic how we use P2 we use these Custom WordPress site to do to basically powers our whole entire company operation and Every time we have a company news we have a cut important announcement when we want to make we make a post on our website and All the employees all the automations. We all know about it We all have access to it and things you want you want to do things like a hr hr things Post it one in our P2 you have a legal We have a legal we have a dedicated P2 site about legal stuff We have a yeah legal issues you can post that and then the lawyers will come in and Have it with it finance things all about all things about money. So yeah Finance employee handbook leave application. Yeah, someone wants to take a leave. I want to be away for work Yeah, you can make a post in there and then everyone will be informed that you'll be away and And you have a company partnerships, so Partnerships with Google partnerships with Facebook. You make a post everyone will know about it You can put in the contracts partnership contracts Security incident. Yeah, so some sort of a little bit somewhere early mention stuff. We have all those plug-ins Sometimes we have all those points. We have a security incident and this is the place where you can post about it Oh, how do you want to respond to it? What are the public communications? You how do you want to do the public communication? You do all the discussion in this P2 and everyone is aware of that Team website. We have many teams and each team has their has their own dedicated P2 sites and then that's where the discussion happened. How is your weekly progress thing? The things happening in the week. Yeah, of course your status date status updates Project management. You have a project. We have a you can have a dedicated project management sites And you post update about a project the risk in the project SWOT analysis makes knowledge sharing a hobby and special interest group your Any kind of a let's say you are interested in photography. You have you can have a photograph be dedicated sites and many more So you are you think of something you want to do a P2 site? You can spin out P2 site and then anyone can participate in it So that is the how and then next I'm going to talk about why like why do we do this? Why do you want to go through the hassle of doing all this thing? So here are the benefits. So when you run a company people often say that when you're running a company What is your biggest asset? Your biggest asset is actually the people in the company the employee and by doing by having something like this in this In automatic by having something like this We encourage open honest and transparent communication because when so all these sites does not dimension Like all these security incident or finance or legal or fish are everything it's Everyone within the company we are able to access it So we always know what is happening within the company and by doing that yeah, you are encouraging open honest transparent communication and Once you have this you will have you will build trust within the company because the employee trust the company the company Trust in the employee is a two-way relationship and when you have that a Strong trust in the company. You are building a culture a very unique company culture and With all this And this this relates to the culture that I mentioned about this What we have this what we call the automatic cream what we believe in Yeah What we believe in the automatic free automatic culture and you can see that over here One of the things that we always believe in is that I will communicate as much as possible because it's the oxygen of a distributed company Because we're running a distributed is running a remote distributed Distributed company. It's not easy because I say oh you're not in Hong Kong And then you you could have a teammate in Argentina in Brazil in Spain like what I have in my team and So to come across that kind of time zone issue the yeah the time time issue You need to communicate as much as possible And that's how we do it with our custom P2D more press website And once you have that the things that I mentioned us now open honest transparent crack transparent communication You have the trust you build a culture and eventually if you think about it Would you like to work in this kind of company and that's actually what what we have achieved like Automatic explains at number 20 in the global most loved workplace list and this is the the URL the source of it New sweet account rankings global most loved workplace. It looks Google search Most loved workplace. We are part of the ranking and if you look into the detail over here why people love looking at automatic we have the reason is here and If you go into the detail Some of the points that it's repeated repeated again and again. We always see people talk about So over here we tried about 70% of our projects on P2D wordpress blocks 25% in private chat rooms and the rest on Slack. So you can see 70% of our communication is on our work press websites And this does this the first point system And it enables your last systemic collaboration in the distributor company where everyone works from anywhere And at point number two This is company practices love and it's somewhere somewhere here. And where is it? Yeah, we cut over here We encourage a culture of constant feedback and transparent communication via our P2 messaging public publishing software now because so in a way even think about it because of this system that we have it in the company and We are able to build the company into a work most loved workplace by the employee and So just now the thing that I mentioned does not it those are the people aspect right the greatest asset in the company And then that next you're gonna ask like, okay So what if I have all these people who love my company, but in the end for a company the most important A very important thing in the company is the in the end is the bottom line, right? It's still gonna be a company gonna make money So how does having all these bring benefit to my business? And this is the product we'll talk about next the impact on your business because our important communications happen in P2 the the effect of it is that Because we communicate why all these P2 posts everything is public and open we don't reuse emails in the company to communicate all these all these Project decision all the things we don't use emails. We don't use things like a what's that messages? I mean what's that message is becoming very common especially since the COVID pandemic right sometimes Oh, you might be communicating. Let's say I have my some of my friends working in some local companies You'll be like communicating with their boss right what's up, and then all those Did all those business decisions could be communicate must have but then the problem with those things like emails or what's that? They are creating information silo And what it means that it looks information silo can it can be costly because the thing is what if we say one day This employee leave the company and then the next day the boss leave the manager leave the company And then after that you as a business owner you won't you won't be you won't be able to access hey Why did we make that decision? Right that last year why do we make the decision to to this product? We don't know because the information is lost in the email in the what's that messages and then those what's that messages ID? I don't devise of that manager and employee who now left the company We don't know what happened, but then if we are documenting all these things in a in a system in a system like a in P2 or any kind of system that you use so you don't you you eliminate the information area and That is very helpful for your business in the long run because you're always able to Trace back and then find out hey Why did you make the decision that last time that you're three years ago five years ago? So every decision are documented and traceable and then because of that you are able to make better informed future decisions based on mass decisions and This is the experience that I have also my personal experience. I'm a I'm an engineer, right? So sometimes I look into the piece of code like I said by my bug in code and I see that hey This thing this code it doesn't make sense. Why why is it being done this way? But when I trace back into the code, I can I can look into the code history and then from the code history I'll I'm able to go back to there's a link where I can trace back into why we made a decision many years ago That was like 2015 2017 and there's a post for it where I can where I can see oh Thanks, the reason why this is why they made that decision because of this reason that circumstances that kind of situation and from there I can judge whether hey Should I change this or should I not change this because it's for my technical development point of view But yeah, the thing is with all these things being documented. We are able to do better decisions Okay, this is the last part of my presentation And who who can who can use this who can use this thing of this kind of a system or can I use this? The way I would like to to say is that you can use WordPress to democratize Internet Internet It's just like how would press they want to democratize publishing you can use this democratize Internet You can use this for small business. You can use for large business Yeah, because for small business is easy. I mean WordPress is not expensive and for large business is Is how we use it in automatic? So we have to we are two thousand people and then we are able to use it And this is how you can you can do this also and lastly and it is especially useful for a developer agency So if you run running a WordPress development agency, it's particularly useful because you are able to do your own workflow I mean because it's you're able to customize it to your need your developer agency need and from there you are dog-fooding WordPress you are able to contribute to WordPress you're learning from the press and that's how you You can sharpen your WordPress knowledge and technical skills and things So that's all from me My name is gun. I'm from automatic test. Oh, yeah