{"id":879,"date":"2016-01-05T17:47:16","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T17:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.london.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=879"},"modified":"2016-06-12T17:00:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T16:00:24","slug":"from-blogger-to-wordpress-core-committer","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2016\/session\/from-blogger-to-wordpress-core-committer\/","title":{"rendered":"From Blogger to WordPress Core Committer"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"session-speaker-meta\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/2016.london.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/pascal-birchler\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pascal Birchler<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Saturday 9th April<\/li>\n<li>9.40am<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll talk about my humble beginnings as a WordPress user and how I eventually got commit access to WordPress core. By telling my unique story I want to show how rewarding contributing to an open-source community can be and inspire people to do the same. I&#8217;ve been using WordPress since 2006, but only in the last three years I&#8217;ve been contributing heavily to the open-source project. I began attending the local meetup and the very first WordCamp in Switzerland. I attended WordCamp Europe 2013, where I submitted my first patch to WordPress core. Fast-forward to 2015, when I decided to develop a feature for embedding WordPress posts on other websites that made it into WordPress 4.4. How do these embeds work and what is it like to lead such a project? What\u00a0does breaking the web by introducing bugs feel like? At the end of 2015, I attended WordCamp US where I was announced as one of seven new guest committers to the WordPress project. It wasn&#8217;t always an easy journey, but it has always been rewarding and I could always count on the helpful people around me. I will talk about the various ways people can contribute to WordPress and what it takes to be a core committer. 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I&#8217;ve been using WordPress &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2016\/session\/from-blogger-to-wordpress-core-committer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From Blogger to WordPress Core Committer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368236,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1460191200,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[1143],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[13411],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-879","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-track-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VVdi-eb","session_date_time":{"date":"09 Apr 2016","time":"09:40"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"1143","slug":"pascal-birchler","name":"Pascal Birchler","link":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speaker\/pascal-birchler\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4677,"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/879\/revisions\/4677"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1143"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/swissspidy"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}