Banners

Almost since the beginning we’ve tried to have a banner with each essay, with a great quote from the essay. Most of them have been created by Stacey Bartron, and we deeply appreciate her participation.

  • Pull Quote: A hero is someone who shows up when someone needs you to, to listen without agenda, to celebrate people as they are rather than as you wish they were.
  • Pull quote: WordPress gave me confidence. It gave me a voice. It gave me a community.
  • Pull Quote: The sense of community and belonging was strong.
  • Pull Quote: You don’t have to wait until you feel ready. You just have to show up.
  • Pull quote: WordPress gave me my very first major client as an aspiring developer.
  • Pull quote: WordPress helped me evolve from a designer and developer into a more complete professional. WordPress mi je pomogao da se od dizajnera i developera razvijem u cjelovitijeg profesionalca.
  • Pull Quote: The WordPress community has given me lifelong friends and the satisfaction of contributing to a global project.
  • Pull Quote: The open web is about inclusion, connection, and community.
  • Pull quote: I have a new job, new friends, and I could almost say a new family, and it’s all thanks to WordPress.
  • Pull Quote: WordPress is like water, it can take any form.
  • Pull quote: WordPress is gold. Pure and simple.
  • Pull Quote: When I look back, the journey feels full — full of lessons, full of change, and full of heart.
  • Pull Quote: You’re going to build not just websites but a life that helps others build theirs too.
  • Pull Quote: Through WordPress, I learned that staying — quietly, kindly, steadily — can be its own kind of success.
  • Pull Quote: I’ve seen what war can destroy. Now I want to see what code and community can build.
  • Pull Quote: Open source in general, and WordPress in particular, thrives on the very values I was raised with: openness, tolerance, diversity, and solidarity.
  • Pull Quote: WordPress turned out to be so much more than just a tool — it changed my life.
  • Pull Quote: I am truly thankful that the WordPress community has welcomed me with open arms.