What makes something “WordPress?”
I don’t mean software. I mean all the other “stuff.” I have what I call “gap-filling” projects that are gifts to the WordPress community, but owned and managed by me. Would you consider those “WordPress?”
Marcus Burnett curates TheWP.World. It it “WordPress?” Javi Guembe has WPTalkLink. Is it “WordPress?”
What makes the WordPress community a community?
My friend, Christine, belongs to a Facebook group Jeep club. The group gets together with a few Jeeps (or with many) and does drives, cookouts, and other things together. A few years ago (2020) I got to tag along as her club joined dozens of others to do a few laps around the Watkins Glen Raceway. We waited our turn for our 10 Jeeps to take the course. We followed a pace car. It wasn’t a race. It was just fun! And it wasn’t officially part of any larger organization. But it was still “Jeep.”
Does a project or a group or a meetup have to be “official” to be part of the community, part of WordPress? As we grow and as we continue to build community, this is an important question to ask ourselves. It’s an important way to address how we include or exclude, how we welcome, or how we turn away.
Join Us for a Meetup
Join us for our Meetups! Details on our Meetups are available on our Meetup page.
- Post Status July Professionals Meetup: July 23
- Post Status July Product Meetup: July 24
- Post Status July APAC Meetup: July 24/25 (depending on time zone)
- Post Status July Agency Meetup: July 25
Quick Links:
- Join us on YouTube Wednesday for our first Happiness Hour – a livestream where every week we’ll talk to someone else in the community.
- StellarWP is hosting Stellar Spark Friday, July 19 (Schedule is available)
- Underrepresented in Tech covered WordPress, Religion, and Events in the latest podcast episode
- WPCampus 2024 is July 31-August 2
- Human Made will hold a WordPress in Higher Education Event July 18
- Matt Mullenweg was on WP Product Talk
- WordSesh is coming up July 30.
- WordCamp Asia’s Call for Volunteers is open
- WP Accessibility Day’s Call for Volunteers and Call for Sponsors are open
- WCUS: Tickets are Available
Find the complete WordPress events schedule here.
Photo of the Week
Todayβs photo of the week comes from werkform on WordPress Photos.
![A royal dragonfly prepares for its very first flight. She sits on the underside of a water lily leaf, you can see the details of her body and wings.](https://poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/307669255e855b759.27912959-1536x1026-1-752x502.jpg)