1. WORDPRESS IN
AUSTRALIA & AROUND
THE GLOBE
Bronson Quick
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2. OVERVIEW
Who Am I?
WordPress.com & WordPress.org
The Australian WordPress Community
WordCamps
Sites Powered By WordPress
WordPress Businesses
WordPress Specialists
Getting Involved
WordPress 3.5!
I was gonna talk about code but decided that I might send you to sleep!
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3. WHO AM I?
Brisbane based WordPress Developer
Working with different CMS for 12 years
Die hard Smashing Pumpkins fan!
Organiser of the WordPress Brisbane Meetup group
Co-organiser of WordCamp Gold Coast
Just a guy who is obsessed with WordPress!
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4. .COM & .ORG
WordPress.com – Run by Automattic
WordPress.org – Open source project
WordPress VIP
Sometimes this is confusing to noobs!
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5. THE AUSTRALIAN WORDPRESS COMMUNITY
Meetups
o WordPress Melbourne
o WordPress Brisbane
o WordPress Sydney
o WordPress Tasmania
o WordPress Adelaide
o WordPress Canberra
o WordPress Wollongong
WPAustralia.org
All these new groups in the last two years!
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6. WORDCAMPS
WordCamp Sydney 2008
WordCamp Melbourne 2011
WordCamp Gold Coast 2012
WordCamp Sydney 2012
WordCamp Melbourne 2013
WordCamp Brisbane 2013???
A weekend to share the WordPress love!
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7. SITES POWERED BY WORDPRESS
WordPress powers 17.2% of the top 1 million
websites on the web!
Out of those top 1 million sites using a CMS,
WordPress powers 54.7%
Blogs
SMEs
Government
Corporates & Enterprise
We’re taking over the internets!
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http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/content_management
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8. WORDPRESS BUSINESSES
Freelancers
Agencies
Training
Theme Shops
Plugin Developers – Video User Manuals,
WooCommerce Subscriptions, Advanced
Custom Fields
WordPress Hosting
Open source software puts food on our tables!
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9. WORDPRESS SPECIALISTS
iThemes Builder
Genesis
WooThemes
Plugin Specialists – Wishlist Member,
WooCommerce
Bespoke Theme Developers
Bespoke Plugin Development
Share your leads with your Aussie experts!
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10. GETTING INVOLVED
Start a Meetup
Speak at a Meetup
Write tutorials on your blog
Guest blog
Answer questions on the WordPress.org forums
Contribute on Trac
6 Aussie contributors for WordPress 3.5 – Dion
Hulse, Gary Pendergast, James Collins, Japheth
Thomson, Ryan McCue & myself
Giving back is an amazing feeling!
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