Slides I used to present how WordPress community has been, is, and grown in Japan, to form one of the strongest community in the world. This presentation happened in Bangkok, 2018.

1. Lorem Ipsum Dolor
WordPress Community
In
Japan

3. CMS Share in Japan
❖ 84.6% of CMS is WordPress.
❖ Source: https://w3techs.com/
technologies/segmentation/cl-ja-/
content_management
15%
85%
WordPress

4. WordPress in Japanese
❖ 6% of all WordPress websites are running
Japanese locale.
❖ Source: http://wordpress.org/about/stats
94%
6%
Japanese

5. 300+ Books in bookstores Search “WordPress” to see the 365 books in
Amazon.co.jp.

6. 25+ meetups every month https://calendar.google.com/calendar/
embed?src=wpja.team@gmail.com

7. History

8. Started in 2003
❖ 6 month after WordPress was forked from b2, the first Japanese version of WordPress were available.
❖ WordPress did not have the ability to localize it systematically.
❖ They were maintained by Otsukare and friends.

9. 2004, Localization in WordPress Core
❖ Otsukare opened a forum issue 14 years
ago.
❖ 100 comments.
❖ Mentions gettext.
❖ Matt Mullenweg comment as a moderator
“Well the localization code should be rolled
into the main release sometime. (Soonish.)”

10. 2008, the first WordCamp Tokyo
❖ 60 people showed up.
❖ Very small number compared to 1,400 in
2012.
❖ Since then, Japan has had 22 WordCamps.
❖ Photo credit: Naoko Takano

11. WordCamps

14. Contributors’ day

16. In 2018, Tokyo, Osaka, and …

17. Ogijima island
❖ An island of 100 people, 50 cats, 4 dogs,
and wild boars.
❖ It will be the first non-city WordCamp in
Japan.
❖ We will have the real Camping, too :)
❖ https://2018.ogijima.wordcamp.org/

18. WordBench

19. http://wordbench.org/

22. WordBench
❖ Local meetups in Japan are called
“WordBench”
❖ Launched in 2008, by Takayuki Miyoshi,
the author of Contact Form 7.
❖ It’s a BuddyPress website that local
WordBench can join. It’s like the
meetup.com website.
❖ Currently, we have 59 WordBenches.
❖ I run WordBench Ogijima.

23. WordXs

24. WordSlack
❖ A Slack team for Japanese WordPress
contributors.
❖ Now 391 members.
❖ Channels are #community, #wordcamp-ja-
meta, #wptv, #translate, #user-manual, etc.

25. WordKarta

26. WordKarta
❖ Facilitator reads the description cards of
template tags and hooks, and players pick
the functions card.
❖ Github: https://github.com/
WordCampTokyo2014/WordPressKaruta
❖ http://halfelf.org/2014/karuta/

27. WordWedding

28. WordBench 料理部 (cooking)

29. Word温泉

30. WordCrab

31. WordVolcano

32. WordBash

33. Wapuu

35. Kazuko Kaneuchi

37. Wapuu JSON API
❖ https://github.com/jawordpressorg/wapuu-api
❖ Takayuki Miyauchi

38. CSS Wapuu
❖ http://mismith0227.github.io/csswapuu/
❖ Takuma Misumi

39. Tips and my thoughts

40. Giving what you have to the next person.

41. Give your knowledge, source code, event,
wapuu, and your leadership.

42. WordPress community taught me how to build themes,
choose plugins, run events, and we made friends.
Do the same thing to your next one.

43. Questions?
You can find me at,
twitter.com/shinichiN
instagram.com/shinichinishikawa
Photo credits: Odyssey, Toshihisa Maki, Naoko Takano, Yorozu, Shoko Matsuo, Mayuko Moriyama