wordpress meetup in vientiane laos 16 jan. 2016
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a start guide for
How WordPress changes your life.
WordPress Meet-upon 2016/01/27in Vientiane, Thailandby Shinichi Nishikawa
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about Me
❖ Shinichi Nishikawa
❖ I have lived in Bangkok for 2 years
❖ I am building themes and plugins for clients
❖ I write blogs with WP, I write books of WP, I ran WP events in Thailand and in Japan
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My challenges today
❖ Very slow English with really easy words
❖ Presentation will be uploaded later
❖ A follow up blog post will be published afterward
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Your challenges today
❖ Don’t hesitate to ask questions, any time!
❖ You’ll get WordPress sunglasses :D
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Menu
❖ How WordPress changed my life and people’s lives.
❖ Asian people/company running business in the World has sent you messages.
❖ What is WordPress?
❖ How to learn and contribute.
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After this session, you will…
❖ want to write your own blog.
❖ want to create your own themes and plugins.
❖ want to run WordPress meetups.
❖ be able to imagine your future with WordPress.
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Enquete
❖ Have you ever installed a WordPress?
❖ Who has WordPress blogs or sites?
❖ Who can make WP Themes?
❖ Who can make WP plugins?
❖ Who knows php?
❖ What programming languages do you know?
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Enquete (answers)❖ Have you ever installed a WordPress? 20%
❖ Who has WordPress blogs or sites? 10%
❖ Who can make WP Themes? 0
❖ Who can make WP plugins? 0
❖ Who knows php? 10%
❖ What programming languages do you know?html, css, javascript, VB .net, Java
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Other conversations
❖ From the conversation with the students, what they really want to learn is,
❖ how to install a WordPress and set up their websites
❖ What some of them want to learn are,
❖ how to create an original themes
❖ how to create plugins
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WordPress as a people’s lives changer.
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WordPress.org/about/testimonials
People love WordPressAnd I love WordPress. Let’s see what people talk about it.
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People have their stories with WordPress
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Shin in Japan and Thailand
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starts in 2008
❖ I lost my job in 2008 and studied html/css, photoshop/illustrator and WordPress at a cafe, everyday for 1 month.
❖ After 1 month, as the first project of mine, I built an e-commerce website. I sold things to the world you can’t buy outside of Japan.
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My first personal project.- List products of other e-commerce shops in Japan.- Once sold, I bought and shipped.- Not sustainable at all and fell down in 2 months.- But a lot of learning.
- how to create themes- how to use plugins
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My first client work.
• The budget was 14000000 KIP• It was my mother’s friend’s company
website.• I payed the half of it to a friend of
mine who was a developer and asked: “I’ll do everything and you don’t do anything. Please teach me when I need help.”
• I did the same things until I feel confident.
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My second project.- Private parents blog- Contents shared only with user’s family- Learned how to php
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Meetups❖ You can learn,❖ share,❖ make friends,❖ drink,❖ get feeling of learning
together.
While learning how to create themes I was joining
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I learned a lot …
❖ at the Support forum
❖ from People’s blogs
❖ by writing everything on my blog
❖ by asking questions on twitter
❖ at the meetups
❖ through all my client / personal projects
I’m calling all of them “WordPress community”.
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And now
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I’m doing the same thing in Bangkok, Thailand.
WordPress meetup in Bangkok
I definitely recommend you to do the same!
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Sakin from Nepal
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From Nepal
Sakin Shrestha From Nepal@ WordCamp US 2015
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Sakin Shrestha❖ The founder of 4 companies
❖ Catch Themes: Simple and Elegant theme shop
❖ Theme Palace: theme marketplace to help Nepalese theme developers
❖ Catch Internet: custom WordPress site development company
❖ DevotePress: Tutorials and resources of WordPress
❖ Co-owner of ThemeReivew.co
❖ Themes and Plugin Reviews
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Catch Themes
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Theme Palace
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Catch Internet
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1 of top-5 downloaded theme“I got my first taste of meaningful success because of WordPress, when the first free theme I uploaded became one of the top-5 most downloaded themes on the WordPress.org.”
“Since then, WordPress has become a major part of my life. “
Read more at HeroPress
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Sakin grabbed the chance
❖ He uploaded a theme and it was downloaded a lot.
❖ He grabbed the fact and built theme business.
❖ Now he has his employees.
❖ He contributes back to the WordPress project.
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Message from Sakin
“Today, 25% of the world’s websites are in WordPress, and anyone can contribute to the ecosystem,
from anywhere in the world.”
“You don’t have to be a hard-core programmer to be successful. You don’t need an academic degree. The barrier to entry is very low.”
“All you need is lots of passion, and the willingness to learn.”
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Menn from Thailand
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From Nepal
Chakkrisn Menn Talawat From Thailand@ WordPress meetup in bkk
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Chakkrisn Menn Talawat❖ Had developed his own CMS since 2004
❖ Tried a lot of CMSs such as Drupal, TextPattern, Mambo, Typo3, etc.
❖ Through his experience, he found out that “Everything is about content”.
❖ WordPress is the easiest for his clients who want to create their contents.
❖ He concentrated in WordPress and started his business.
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Chakkrisn Menn Talawat
❖ Now he is the owner and co-owner of
❖ http://mennstudio.com
❖ http://tigeridea.com
❖ http://vaivaisoft.com
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Menn Studio
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New project Seed Themes
❖ Funded 2.5 million baht from an angel and he got the time to concentrate on this.
❖ It’s a Theme publishing platform.
❖ Everything will be _s based so that the team can maintain & support.
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Message from Menn“ I've written a lot of tips both technical and business how-to.
You can read Thai, I recommend read them for the first resource.”
http://mennstudio.com/blog/
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Perth from Thailand
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From Nepal
Woratana Perth Ngarmtrakulchol
From Thailand@ WordPress meetup in bkk
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Woratana Perth Ngarmtrakulchol
❖ He is a designer and a theme developer in Thailand.
❖ I work with him a lot in my client works.
❖ Began blogging with WordPress from 2009, which brought him a lot of reputation, friends, colleagues and jobs.
❖ Now runs a web school too.
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his blog Designil.com
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Message from Perth
“WordPress is quite a versatile platform for website development. Please try it.”
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Hiromichi from Japan
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From Nepal
Hiromichi Koga From Japan
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Hiromichi Koga❖ CEO of DigitalCube
❖ Started from consulting and moved to theme business.
❖ His focus was on automation of websites creation and recurring incomes.
❖ Found that hosting was the key for it.
❖ Now they are AWS advanced consulting partner and he connects it with WordPress.
❖ They now creates high traffic websites and hosts them on AWS.
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digital cube
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Message from Hiromichi
“Learning AWS and WordPress is acquiring worldwide common skill.
I’m waiting for you to make the world better with your great ideas.”
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It’s your turn.
WordPress has changed my life and other people’s lives.
We share similar experience and now we are friends.
I want you to join us.
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So, what is WordPress?
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1. Blog tool
❖ The mission of WordPress is “Democritization of Publishing”.
❖ It empowers you to publish to the World.
❖ Publishing will empowers your skills, business, and life.
❖ Basically your business will be empowering others to publish to the World too.
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2. Content Management System
❖ You can build websites with it.
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3. Application platform
❖ You can build apps on top of WordPress.
❖ This will be the next trend of WordPress world.
❖ It means that WordPress can be a backend of web application.
❖ And it will not only stay in the browsers, but also spreads to desktop, smart phones, watches, IoT application platform.
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4. Free software
❖ It’s free as in free beer ❖ It’s free as in free speech
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GNU GPL
❖ If you get a source code, you can do anything you need.
❖ If you give a source code, you must give the same freedom to the receiver.
❖ This is one reason WordPress has spread as it is.
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5. Community
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Community
❖ You can and should learn, share, make friends through the community.
❖ It’s the place where all WordPress users, developers, writers, podcasters, designers come together.
❖ It’s in the internet, and in the real world.
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Let’s do it!
❖ Face to face community exists in Thailand, Japan, America, African countries, and everywhere.
❖ Why not in Laos?
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Make WordPress Org
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6. Market
❖ You can be a freelancer.
❖ You can build business or join business.
❖ In Laos, or in the world.
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7. Wapuu
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WordPress is❖ a blog tool to empower you to publish yourself and your
friends/customers,
❖ a CMS to manage various contents,
❖ an application platform to serve services,
❖ a Free software,
❖ a big community,
❖ and a huge market.
❖ Also, it has Wapuu.
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What do we need to learn?
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What do you think you need to learn?
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I have 3 suggestions.
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Coding, Programing. How to develop stuff.
What do we need?No. 1
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How to develop❖ html/css
❖ php
❖ Javascript
❖ servers, deployment
❖ design
❖ These will be the basis to build blogs, websites, apps and business.
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Learn “how to learn”.
What do we need?No. 2
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Learn “how to learn”
❖ It’s you to decide what to learn.
❖ There are a lot of online resources.
❖ Codex, Forum, Blog posts, Tutorials, Videos, Podcasts, and etc, etc…
❖ We need to find them.
❖ We need to choose the right ones.
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How to find/choose the right ones?
❖ Be in the community.
❖ Make blog
❖ Slack
❖ Community leaders
❖ Feel what people who build the WordPress says. You can see easily what, how and why they do something.
❖ This way, you will know what the right things to learn are.
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At last, what I think the most important thing to learn.
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English
What do we need?No. 3
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All the people I introduced today speak English.
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My English and their English are not perfect.
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But I can read documents, I can understand 80% of what they say.
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If you can’t speak English, the resource, community, market, and the world will be
limited inside your country.
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What you get with English
❖ More resources to learn.
❖ 100000% bigger market.
❖ Much more community you can join.
❖ More friends.
❖ A lot more place to live in.
❖ Reputation inside your country.
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Contribution you can do now.
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https://lo.wordpress.org
Translate lo.wordpress.org
- ask the current editor.
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https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/lo
Translate WordPress
- Just join :D
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https://wordpress.meetup.com
Running meetups - Meetups are chances for you to learn, and for others to learn.
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Ideas for the meetups’ topics
❖ Let’s install a WordPress
❖ Writing
❖ Let’s get people and help them
❖ Building themes
❖ Learn the basic of plugins
❖ Reading resources together
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Resources
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Official sites and documents
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Official sites and documents❖ WordPress.org
❖ make.WordPress.org
❖ WordPress.org/support
❖ codex.WordPress.org
❖ developer.WordPress.org
❖ Slack (you can see the actual process how the community is working)
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Blogs, medias, podcasts and communities
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https://poststatus.com/category/draft/
Post Status DraftTheir English pronunciation are relatively easy to get the meaning, compared to other podcasts.
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/advancedwp/
Facebook group “Advanced WordPress”
You can see questions WordPress business, freelancers and plugin authors ask.
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Me
❖ @shinichiN❖ ShinichiN on WordPress.org
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See you in the community!