My slide for the first WordPress Meetup Bandung. The theme of the meetup was "WordPress Experience" so I went with my experience with WordPress: how i "met" WordPress, tinkering with it, got a job from it, all the way until submitting themes & plugins to WordPress repository.

1. How I Met WordPress
(and some stories after we met)
Fikri Rasyid - WordPress Theme & Plugin Developer
( hijapedia.com )

2. It started with..

3. 2006
This book made me aware of
existence of blog

4. 2008
• Started a WordPress.com blog
• Started self-hosted WordPress blog at
fikrirasyid.com, powered by WordPress 2.3

5. WordPress 2.3
Source: http://planetozh.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/wordpress-23-post.jpg

6. 2008
• Couldn’t find a theme I like
• Decided to make one on my own + learning from
tutorials
• Realised that it’s quite simple to make a theme

9. – Me, years ago.
“Oooh, begitu tooh cara buatnya”

10. 2008
• I started making WordPress themes…
• …which looks really suck now, to be honest

12. 2008
• Started using my own theme on my own blog
• Started sharing the theme I created as
downloadable .zip file on my blog

13. WordPress-based work

14. 2009 - 2013
• Got an out-of-the blue email…

15. - Sebut saja klien pertama
“Kang, kalau buat theme WordPress bisa?”

16. 2009 - 2013
• One project lead to another project
• Started developing WordPress theme for clients
• More unconventional functionality requested
• I simply put it all on functions.php

19. 2013 - now
• Realised that developing a plugin is quite easy
• At its simplest form, plugin is a directory with a file
containing formatted PHP comment for meta data
purpose

23. The Basics of Plugin
Basically what makes WordPress so extendable

24. Action
A point to add / remove action

26. Let’s go back to that insanely-simple-plugin plugin

29. Filter
Modifying particular variable

32. Let’s go back to that insanely-simple-plugin plugin

35. “Based on those two principles I end up making
quite many plugins”

37. WordPress Repository

38. Theme Submission
How to Submit Your Theme To WordPress Theme Repo

39. #1 Follow The Guideline

40. #2 Submit The Theme

41. #3 Notified Via Email

42. #4 Theme Review Process

44. Plugin Submission
How to Submit Your Plugin To WordPress Plugin Repo

45. #1 Follow The Guideline

46. #2 Submit The Plugin

47. #3 Notified via Email

48. #4 Clone Repo on Local Machine
Add your plugin file on /trunk, update the version number
on main file, commit then push

49. Important
• WordPress plugin repo is for release-system, not for
development

51. Thank you!
Fikri Rasyid - WordPress Theme & Plugin Developer
@fikrirasyid | fikrirasyid@gmail.com | http://fikrirasy.id

52. DECEMBER 2014