WordPress is built by volunteers, and the Contributor Track is one way that you can get involved and learn how to give back.
People of all skills and experience levels are welcome and needed. There are a wide variety of ways to contribute, most of which don’t require writing code.
There are 18 different teams that build and sustain different aspects of WordPress and the community surrounding it.
Get started by choosing a team that matches your interests:
Non-technical
- Support
- Polyglots (translation)
- Design
- Testing
- Accessibility
- Training
- Marketing
- Docs
- Community – Also check out the community table near escalators
- WordPress.tv – video captioning
Technical
- Core (WordPress the software)
- Meta – (official websites)
- Accessibility
- Theme Review
- CLI
- Mobile
- WordPress.tv – Video editing
Beyond Today
Here’s how you can continue contributing beyond today:
- Create a WordPress.org account.
- Create Slack account.
- Pick a team that interests you from make.wordpress.org.
- Subscribe to their blog (“P2”) to stay up to date.
- Join their Slack channel to talk to others and attend meetings.
- Ask what projects they’d like help with.