Scott Taylor is a core committer to WordPress and senior software engineer at The New York Times who has been involved with WordPress for many years. The document outlines his experience with WordPress over time, including his first WordCamp in 2010, working on WordPress at eMusic which involved transitions to PHP and services, speaking at WordCamps in 2011 and 2012, contributing to WordPress releases from 3.3 to 4.0, and advice on how to contribute to WordPress such as having a purpose and being prepared to wait.

1. WordPress: Getting Under the Hood

2. Scott Taylor
• Core Committer!
• Sr. Software Engineer, The
New York Times!
• @wonderboymusic on Twitter/
Instagram/Swarm!
• I like Music, NYC, and
Mexican food

3. How I Started Coding

4. How I got started with
WordPress

5. My First WordCamp:!
WordCamp NYC 2010

7. WordPress at eMusic
• 2 years of transition!
• Java to PHP!
• Monolith to Services!
• Slow development to Fast!
• Introduction to WordPress VIP!
• Memcached, HyperDB, Multisite, Scaling(!), AWS!
• Parallel HTTP Requests

8. WordCamp San Francisco 2011

9. WordPress 3.3
WordCamp San Francisco After-Party

10. WordPress 3.4 ….
I did nothing :(

11. WordPress 3.5
Recent Rockstar #NailedIt

12. WordPress 3.6

13. The New York Times
Sr. Software Engineer, Blogs Team

14. WordPress 3.7
• First release with commit!
• Fixed a bunch of errors related to Unit Tests!
• Maintenance release
WordPress 3.8
• MP6 - Matt Mullenweg at the helm!
• Bug-fixing, etc

16. WordPress 3.9
• Audio/Video 2.0!
• MVP versus Features as Plugins!
• Playlists, full-featured theme support!
• TinyMCE previews

17. WordPress 4.0

19. How to Contribute
• Have a Purpose!
• Find ways to contribute!
• Be prepared to wait!
• Keep going, please do not stop

20. Any Questions?
WordPress, Contributing, or Life in General!