Category: Community Building

Our local Aussie WordPress communities copped a fair bashing during the COVID-19 pandemic and have been slow to recover.

Recent upsets in the WordPress community haven’t helped either.

Our panel will discuss ways to reinvigorate and rebuild local communities to their pre-pandemic state – if possible!

Our organiser Dee Teal will MC and share her thoughts as well.

In a nutshell, I would like to highlight the importance of non-Coding or non-Technical contributions to the WordPress community as a whole.

These include but is not limited to documentation, translation, testing… but for me quite importantly, community building.

– discussing mentorship between working WordPress professionals and people new to WordPress
– a touch of diversity of inclusivity of interacting and engaging with other WordPress communities outside your local bubble
– share experiences from back in the Philippines on how individual WordCamps and WordPress meetups culminate with WordCamp Asia 2025 Philippines
– encourage people from different professions that there is space for them in the WordPress space, coding or otherwise

And then a special call to action for everyone to take on responsibility of leading WordPress towards its 3rd decade.

I have been teaching PHP application development for over a decade to various organisations, government departments, and the public. In 2022 I officially became a teacher and joined a local college. Over the next 12 months I taught programming languages (PHP and others), frameworks and content management systems to different student cohorts. I’m going to share a number of exciting and concerning takeaways I learnt while teaching PHP (with focus on WordPress).

The goals of my session are to strengthen the link between the WordPress community and academia, to question a few educational institution stigmas, and to improve the way we as a community present WordPress to teachers and students.

I will touch upon important topics such as Artificial Intelligence AI (the good and the ugly), open source indifference, proprietary software vendor dominance, quality documentation, student reflection on real life projects, and how different content and context can change student perception of the technology.