What Contributor Day is<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nIt’s a day for everyone who wants to contribute actively, right away, to the WordPress.org open source project, and it’s open to people with no experience at all<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\nIf you already know how it works, you can share what you know with people attending their first Contributor Day, or keep working on the goals we set in the days before the WordCamp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like every open source project, WordPress is constantly updated and improved by people all over the world who give it part of their time. That’s a key part of the success of our favourite CMS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you’ve never contributed to an open source project, Contributor Day is an excellent way to try: you get in direct touch with the lively Italian WordPress community and start contributing for real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Experienced, active members of the community will help you settle in and guide you through the work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Get ready to work side by side with people from Italy and abroad<\/strong>: it’ll be an unforgettable day!<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhen and where<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nContributor Day takes place on Friday 13 November 2026 <\/strong>at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa<\/strong>, on the second floor of Building C of the Polo Fibonacci, Via Filippo Buonarroti, 3, 56127 Pisa PI (Google Maps<\/a>). Registration opens at 9:00<\/strong> and the working day will end at around 17:00<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nLunch<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nLunch is included in the ticket: we take care of it. For coffee there are the Department’s vending machines, at your own expense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you have a ticket with the student discount<\/a> (page in Italian), lunch is not included: you can eat at the DSU university canteen at your student rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHow to sign up for Contributor Day<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nTo take part, choose the Conferenza + Contributor Day<\/strong> (Conference + Contributor Day) ticket on the tickets page<\/a>: it costs the same as the Conference ticket and is valid for both Friday and Saturday. During checkout we ask what you’d like to do on Friday: the Scuola WP training space, the contribution tables, or decide on the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\nContributor Day places are limited<\/strong>: if the Conferenza + Contributor Day ticket no longer appears among the available tickets, it means places have run out.
Please note: the Conference ticket is valid for Saturday only and does not give access to Contributor Day.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nAre you studying at a university, a “scuola superiore universitaria” or an ITS? With the student discount<\/a> the Conferenza + Contributor Day ticket costs \u20ac10.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIf you have a Contributor Day ticket and can no longer attend on Friday, please let us know so we can offer the place to someone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Limited places<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nWe’ll say it again: places are limited<\/strong> and you need the Conferenza + Contributor Day ticket to take part.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWho it’s for<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nAnyone<\/strong>. From complete beginners to people with lots of experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIf you’ve never used WordPress, there’s a space designed just for you: the Scuola WP training space<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nLearn WordPress from scratch with Scuola WP<\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"Scuola](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pisa.wordcamp.org\/2026\/files\/2026\/09\/Immagine-profilo-Scuola-WP.png?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nScuola WP<\/a> is the training project by Stefano Cassone, Gloria Liuni, Margherita Pelonara and Dennis Ploetner, for people who want to learn WordPress from scratch. It offers a guided, simple and practical path to building and managing fast, secure websites on your own.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAt Contributor Day, Scuola WP has two rooms for the whole day<\/strong>, with 30 places<\/strong>. No experience needed: just bring your computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMorning, 10:15\u201313:00: three workshops in a row<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
We start from the basics and step up a level with each workshop: it’s worth attending all three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
10:15\u201311:00 \u00b7 Hello, WordPress! From the dashboard to your first content<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
With Stefano Cassone and Margherita Pelonara<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nWordPress powers a large share of the websites online. We help you take your first steps and turn it into your own digital space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What you’ll actually do: log in to the dashboard for the first time, user roles and managing your account; organise your ideas, when to use pages and when to use posts (with categories and tags); create, edit and manage content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
11:10\u201311:55 \u00b7 Build and publish your first post and your homepage with blocks<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
With Margherita Pelonara and Stefano Cassone<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nWe build rich, good-looking pages in a test area, without the worry of breaking anything. All you need is your creativity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What you’ll actually do: lay out a post with text, photos, videos and attachments; create a blog-style front page; customise the homepage starting from a ready-made template.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
12:00\u201313:00 \u00b7 Customise your site: colours, style and structure tailored to your project<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
With Gloria Liuni<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nLearn to control every visual detail of your site by changing the theme in a few clicks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What you’ll actually do: choose colours, fonts and visual styles; customise the header, footer and main sections; use ready-made patterns that fit together like puzzle pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Afternoon, 14:30\u201316:30: Q&A and practice tables<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Dennis Ploetner, Gloria Liuni, Margherita Pelonara and Stefano Cassone work with you in small groups: bring your questions and put into practice what you saw in the morning, all the way to publishing your own content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How to sign up for the Scuola WP space<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Choose the Conferenza + Contributor Day<\/strong> ticket and, when asked what you’d like to do on Friday, pick the Scuola WP training space. There are 30 places: once they’re gone, the Scuola WP option no longer appears in the ticket form.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhat you need<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n- your computer<\/strong> and its charger<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- nothing to install: we work in WordPress Playground, right in the browser<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- we work online: have your phone’s hotspot ready too, in case the university network isn’t enough<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Working groups<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nYou can sit at whichever table you like and switch during the day.
Don’t worry, our approach is relaxed and inclusive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not sure there’s a table for you? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here are a few activities you might not think of as contributions, but they are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- testing beta versions before new releases<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- organising events, such as Meetups and WordCamps<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- reading and\/or editing documentation to make it clearer<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- writing copy for the marketing team<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- translating documentation, themes, plugins and WordPress itself<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- uploading suitable photos to the WordPress directory<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- \u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
At the Pisa Contributor Day you’ll find only some of the main teams, but you can also ask how to get in touch with the others.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nWe’ll soon publish the list of tables at the WordCamp Pisa 2026 Contributor Day.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\nAnd this is the full list of the 24 working groups<\/a> currently active in the WordPress project worldwide:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n- Accessibility<\/strong>: the a11y<\/em> team (that’s what you’ll often see it called) provides accessibility expertise across the whole project. They work to make sure that core and all WordPress resources are accessible.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- CLI<\/strong>: WP-CLI is the official command-line tool for interacting with and managing your WordPress sites. Contributing to it isn’t only about writing code: you can also help with the documentation and create tutorials on using WP-CLI.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Community<\/strong>: if you’re interested in organising a meetup or a WordCamp, the Community blog is a great place to start. There are groups that support events, build outreach and training programmes and, more generally, support the community.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Core<\/strong>: the Core team writes and maintains WordPress’s code. Whether you have plenty of experience with PHP, HTML, JavaScript or CSS or you’re just learning to code, we’d love to have you on board. You can write code, fix bugs, discuss decisions and help with development.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Core Performance:<\/strong> the Core Performance team is dedicated to monitoring, improving and promoting the performance of core and of the whole WordPress ecosystem.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Design<\/strong>: the Design team focuses on designing and developing the user interface. It’s the perfect team for you if you’re a designer or a UXer<\/em>. There are frequent discussions about mockups, design and usability testing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Documentation<\/strong>: the Documentation team creates all the documentation on the official WordPress.org sites and, given how much it produces, it’s always looking for new authors. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Hosting<\/strong>: the Hosting team writes documentation on best practices for WordPress hosting. It also builds tools that help WordPress perform well whenever the hosting environment changes (new versions of PHP, database engines or web servers).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Marketing<\/strong>: the Marketing team’s vision is to be the go-to resource for communication strategies and content for all the other WordPress teams. If you want to help more people discover WordPress, join the Marketing team.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Media Corps<\/strong>: WordPress Media Corps is a new experimental project that aims to support marketers and people active in independent WordPress media in producing excellent content with less time and effort.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Meta<\/strong>: the Meta team runs the official WordPress.org sites, provides support and builds tools so every team can make the most of them. If you want to help improve WordPress.org, start by following the Meta team blog.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Mobile<\/strong>: the Mobile team builds the iOS and Android apps. Lend them your Java, Objective-C or Swift skills. The team also needs designers, UX experts and testers to give WordPress app users a smooth experience on every device. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Openverse<\/strong>: Openverse is a search engine for openly licensed media (images, video and more). The Openverse team builds new features and manages the media catalogue; maintains the public API and the front-end search engine; and develops WordPress integrations to share Openverse with the whole WordPress community.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Playground<\/strong>: the Playground team works on WordPress Playground, the platform that runs WordPress instantly on any device without a host, most of the time in a browser.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Plugins<\/strong>: the Plugin Review team reviews and approves every plugin submitted to the WordPress repository, to make sure it meets the standards set out in the guidelines. Reviewing plugins will sharpen your own plugin development skills. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Polyglots<\/strong>: WordPress is used all over the world and in many different languages. If you’re a polyglot<\/em>, help us translate WordPress, plugins, themes and the official sites into your language. You can also help build the tools that make translation easier. The Polyglots team also works with many other teams whenever a translation is needed, especially Documentation and Training.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Photos<\/strong>: the Photos team moderates every photo submitted to the WordPress Photo Directory, maintains and improves the directory site, and provides resources and documentation to educate, encourage and support people sharing their photos.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Support<\/strong>: answering a question in the support forums or on IRC is one of the easiest ways to start contributing. And by helping people solve their doubts and problems, you’ll learn lots about WordPress that will surely be useful to you too! All great reasons to join the Support team.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Sustainability: <\/strong>this team is quite new but will play an increasingly important role: it works to bring sustainable practices into the WordPress community and its processes, in particular to make WordPress events more sustainable and ensure their social, economic and environmental longevity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Test<\/strong>: the Test team puts the whole WordPress ecosystem through its paces on every device they can get their hands on. They test, document and report issues with the WordPress user experience, across the board.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Themes<\/strong>: the Theme Review team reviews and approves every theme submitted to the WordPress repository, to make sure it meets our standards. Reviewing themes will sharpen your own theme development skills. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Tide<\/strong>: the Tide team develops automated code-quality tests for the plugins and themes uploaded to the WordPress.org directories, and makes the results available to their developers and to anyone planning to use them. You can contribute by suggesting new tests or documenting existing ones.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Training<\/strong>: the WordPress Training team helps people learn to use, extend and contribute to WordPress through live and self-paced learning, as well as downloadable lesson plans for anyone who wants to run a live workshop; all the training videos and materials are on learn.wordpress.org<\/strong>. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- TV<\/strong>: the TV team reviews and approves every video submitted to WordPress.tv, so that published videos meet quality standards and have all the necessary metadata. They also help WordCamp organisers with video post-production and are responsible for captions and subtitles on published videos. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Learn more about each team on Make WordPress<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHow to prepare<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nThese steps are for the contribution tables. If you’re coming for the Scuola WP space you don’t need to prepare anything: just bring your computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- create a WordPress.org account<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- take a look around Make WordPress<\/a> to get to know the different contribution teams<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- join us on the Italian WordPress community Slack: the Italian WordPress site has a guide to signing up<\/a> (in Italian); if you run into any trouble, don’t worry, we’ll help you on Contributor Day<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- explore a few channels (community, polyglots, forum) and ask a few questions before the event, or just say hello<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- you don’t need to be fluent in English, but a basic knowledge will help with reading the documentation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
WordPress.org account and Slack:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you already know how it works, you can share what you know with people attending their first Contributor Day, or keep working on the goals we set in the days before the WordCamp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like every open source project, WordPress is constantly updated and improved by people all over the world who give it part of their time. That’s a key part of the success of our favourite CMS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you’ve never contributed to an open source project, Contributor Day is an excellent way to try: you get in direct touch with the lively Italian WordPress community and start contributing for real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Experienced, active members of the community will help you settle in and guide you through the work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Get ready to work side by side with people from Italy and abroad<\/strong>: it’ll be an unforgettable day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Contributor Day takes place on Friday 13 November 2026 <\/strong>at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa<\/strong>, on the second floor of Building C of the Polo Fibonacci, Via Filippo Buonarroti, 3, 56127 Pisa PI (Google Maps<\/a>). Registration opens at 9:00<\/strong> and the working day will end at around 17:00<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lunch is included in the ticket: we take care of it. For coffee there are the Department’s vending machines, at your own expense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you have a ticket with the student discount<\/a> (page in Italian), lunch is not included: you can eat at the DSU university canteen at your student rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To take part, choose the Conferenza + Contributor Day<\/strong> (Conference + Contributor Day) ticket on the tickets page<\/a>: it costs the same as the Conference ticket and is valid for both Friday and Saturday. During checkout we ask what you’d like to do on Friday: the Scuola WP training space, the contribution tables, or decide on the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Contributor Day places are limited<\/strong>: if the Conferenza + Contributor Day ticket no longer appears among the available tickets, it means places have run out. Are you studying at a university, a “scuola superiore universitaria” or an ITS? With the student discount<\/a> the Conferenza + Contributor Day ticket costs \u20ac10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you have a Contributor Day ticket and can no longer attend on Friday, please let us know so we can offer the place to someone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We’ll say it again: places are limited<\/strong> and you need the Conferenza + Contributor Day ticket to take part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyone<\/strong>. From complete beginners to people with lots of experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you’ve never used WordPress, there’s a space designed just for you: the Scuola WP training space<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scuola WP<\/a> is the training project by Stefano Cassone, Gloria Liuni, Margherita Pelonara and Dennis Ploetner, for people who want to learn WordPress from scratch. It offers a guided, simple and practical path to building and managing fast, secure websites on your own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At Contributor Day, Scuola WP has two rooms for the whole day<\/strong>, with 30 places<\/strong>. No experience needed: just bring your computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We start from the basics and step up a level with each workshop: it’s worth attending all three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With Stefano Cassone and Margherita Pelonara<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n WordPress powers a large share of the websites online. We help you take your first steps and turn it into your own digital space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What you’ll actually do: log in to the dashboard for the first time, user roles and managing your account; organise your ideas, when to use pages and when to use posts (with categories and tags); create, edit and manage content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With Margherita Pelonara and Stefano Cassone<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n We build rich, good-looking pages in a test area, without the worry of breaking anything. All you need is your creativity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What you’ll actually do: lay out a post with text, photos, videos and attachments; create a blog-style front page; customise the homepage starting from a ready-made template.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With Gloria Liuni<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Learn to control every visual detail of your site by changing the theme in a few clicks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What you’ll actually do: choose colours, fonts and visual styles; customise the header, footer and main sections; use ready-made patterns that fit together like puzzle pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dennis Ploetner, Gloria Liuni, Margherita Pelonara and Stefano Cassone work with you in small groups: bring your questions and put into practice what you saw in the morning, all the way to publishing your own content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Choose the Conferenza + Contributor Day<\/strong> ticket and, when asked what you’d like to do on Friday, pick the Scuola WP training space. There are 30 places: once they’re gone, the Scuola WP option no longer appears in the ticket form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can sit at whichever table you like and switch during the day. Not sure there’s a table for you? <\/p>\n\n\n\n Here are a few activities you might not think of as contributions, but they are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the Pisa Contributor Day you’ll find only some of the main teams, but you can also ask how to get in touch with the others.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We’ll soon publish the list of tables at the WordCamp Pisa 2026 Contributor Day.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n And this is the full list of the 24 working groups<\/a> currently active in the WordPress project worldwide:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Learn more about each team on Make WordPress<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These steps are for the contribution tables. If you’re coming for the Scuola WP space you don’t need to prepare anything: just bring your computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WordPress.org account and Slack:<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhen and where<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Lunch<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
How to sign up for Contributor Day<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Please note: the Conference ticket is valid for Saturday only and does not give access to Contributor Day.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nLimited places<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Who it’s for<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Learn WordPress from scratch with Scuola WP<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nMorning, 10:15\u201313:00: three workshops in a row<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
10:15\u201311:00 \u00b7 Hello, WordPress! From the dashboard to your first content<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
11:10\u201311:55 \u00b7 Build and publish your first post and your homepage with blocks<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
12:00\u201313:00 \u00b7 Customise your site: colours, style and structure tailored to your project<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Afternoon, 14:30\u201316:30: Q&A and practice tables<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
How to sign up for the Scuola WP space<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
What you need<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Working groups<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Don’t worry, our approach is relaxed and inclusive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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How to prepare<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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