How Literally Anyone Can Become an Open Source Contributor

You discovered the WordPress scene a couple of years ago, you attend meetups and WordCamps and you are on all the Slack channels. You want to be more involved, but you feel like an impostor because you have a dirty secret – you can’t code and you have no idea what Git is. Or maybe – you do know what Git is, but you’ve only ever used private repositories and your coding is limited to a bit of HTML & CSS and you think contributing is only for ‘real’ developers.

Whatever the reason, I’m here to share with you my journey towards becoming a contributor to WordPress and how you can too, even if you don’t know a single character of code. I’ll cover: – Git basics (what you need to know to get started) – The many channels for becoming a contributor – Some suggestions for where to start!

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