Bronson Quick's slides from the WordPress Adelaide Meetup in November 2012

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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11. THANKS ALOT
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/13237
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