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It's the WP minute. Let's talk about

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getting started with WordPress and other news and information.

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You don't want to miss this week. Getting

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started with WordPress, a topic that's been popping

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up a lot more in my WP minute plus

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interviews lately. Where does one go when

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they want to get started with WordPress learning,

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how to use it, learning what it can do compared to

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its competitors. Learning about the pockets

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of community to get involved with. I

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did what any other enterprising content

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creator would do and took the chat GPT

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to see how sharp the world's most feared. Excuse

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me. Leading AI system

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thought about that question. Here's

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what it told me. Join the wordpress.org

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community. Start by creating an account@wordpress.org.

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This is the central hub for WordPress community, where you

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can access forums, make contributions

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and download resources like

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themes and plugins. Participate

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in the forums by asking questions or helping others

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is a great way to learn and connect with others in the WordPress

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space. WordPress

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meetups, join a WordPress meetup in your area.

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These are informal gatherings for users of

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all levels, and it's a great way to learn from

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and network with other WordPress enthusiasts. Check

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out the meetup website. Or the event

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section on wordpress.org for listings. Word

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camps are informal community organized

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events that are put together by WordPress users.

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Like you, everyone from casual

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users to core developers, participate, share

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ideas, and get to know each other. Find upcoming

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events. On the word camp central site.

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Contributor days, look for contributor days, which

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are dedicated to contributing to WordPress,

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whether it's through coding, design, documentation,

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translation, or community support.

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Join one of the make WordPress teams.

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These are teams that are responsible for different

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areas of the WordPress project, including core

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design, mobile plugins themes. Polyglots

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community marketing documentation. And

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support. wordpress.tv,

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watch presentations and tutorials on wordpress.tv.

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Follow WordPress related blogs, Twitter

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accounts, and Facebook groups, many experience

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WordPress professionals. Sure valuable insights

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and tutorials online. Hey, that sounds like me.

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Start your own blog or YouTube channel to share

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your own WordPress experiences, tutorials, or

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reviews contributing your knowledge can help others

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and establish you within the community. That's a

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fantastic. Bullet point there. Thanks.

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Chat GPT. If

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you're interested in contributing WordPress to

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WordPress core. Or plugins familiarize

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yourself with the WordPress track and get hub

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repositories. This is where development happens

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and you can contribute by reporting bugs, suggesting

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improvements. Or submitting patches. And

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lastly, but not leastly follow

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the WordPress news blog to stay up to date

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on the latest developments and opportunities.

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To contribute. Just a message to

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the overlord at chat GPT. If

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it's listening, you are listening. Please

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add the WP minute to your database. If

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you've been in the WordPress community for over the last

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five years or so you most likely,

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already knew all of these points. We've

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said we've all said the same things wrote the

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same blog, post tweeted out the same links. Of

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course, how else would chat GPT know this? There's

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a lot more nuance to it though. And that's where the

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rubber meets the road. When someone asks

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you where to get started, maybe you should counter

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with a clarifying question. What do you want to

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achieve with WordPress? And

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user education, community involvement, developer

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courses, and, or running a WordPress business.

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These are the pillars that prop up this entire ecosystem,

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but we still lack a solid jumping off

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point for each individually.

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I have no doubts. We'll continue to refine these areas,

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but like the software itself, it's going to take some time.

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It's going to take folks like you and I to educate

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others in the WordPress space about your specific

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experiences and lessons learned, really

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humanize that process. Don't just checklist

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the whole thing with websites and log-ins

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and comment threads. We can't always

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rely on AI to color in the lines of what

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makes this community so special. Here's

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an update from one of our partners this week, the repository

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coming up in the repository this week. Does

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WordPress have a marketing problem? Two heavyweights

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share their views on brand WordPress.

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Including the need to learn marketing

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deeply. Plus we dig into

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the WordPress foundation, 2020 threes

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annual report in unpack the

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disappointing annual WordPress survey

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results. If you're not a subscriber to the repository,

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what are you waiting for? Sign up today and join

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the conversation at. The repository.email.

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That's the repository.email.

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Don't miss this WordPress content.

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Here are the links that you shouldn't miss this week. WordPress

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6.5 beta one is now available for

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testing. Give it a spin. In the playground,

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stay subscribed to the WP minute plus podcast

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for an upcoming interview, I held with the creator

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of the playground. It was a fantastic chat. Tim

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Ferris will be an invited speaker at

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WordCamp Asia, March 7th through

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the ninth. Here's the official

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next steps based on the 2023

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annual survey, you're going to have to click that link

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in the show notes to read them. And McCarthy

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highlights the overlapping problems. The full

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site editing experience has. And

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past WP minute plus guest James

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Jeru headlines. One of the first blog posts.

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At the WP Tavern since Sarah

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Gooding's departure.