Any time someone wants to master a craft they must choose to work through the obstacles to get there. It takes time, energy, patience, and often tears. In this week’s essay, “WordPress Shouldn’t be Learned in Isolation“, Julie Kuehl talks about her decision to master WordPress, and the path she’s chosen to take to accomplish…
This week’s essay is from Dan Griffiths. Dan is a freelancer from Omaha and he does a lot of work with Easy Digital Downloads as well as his own projects. Dan’s story was tough for me to read. It exemplifies exactly why we decided to include essays from people living in places commonly thought of…
This week’s essay is by Ramya Pandyan, someone I’ve had the great pleasure to get to know over the last several weeks. Her story of growing into a professional writer is a fascinating one, and she’s a really fun storyteller, so it’s a great read. As always we have a place over at WPChat for…
This week’s essay from Aditya Kane is particularly interesting for me because he’s not a developer. As a developer myself it’s very easy for me to find other developers to contribute, but harder to find people who do other things. I tend to think of “making a living with WordPress” as only coming from development,…
I completely forgot to post last week about Sean Davis’ post called Isolated and Intrigued. Despite that fact it was a VERY popular post, and even had some really excellent feedback on WPChat. I’m most excited about that feedback because it greatly expanded the amount of wisdom being shared. I highly recommend you check it…
Today I’m excited to show you our latest essay from Saurabh Shukla entitled “I’ll keep looking for a CMS, unless I find WordPress“. From the first time he heard about HeroPress Saurabh has been a support and a friend. I hope his essay is as uplifting for you as it was for me. “I’ll keep…
At long last it’s time to release our first essay. I’d like to thank Rarst for the time and energy he’s spent on this. He’s been involved with HeroPress almost since the beginning and has provided valuable advice and insight. So grab a cup of something and enjoy. “Finding Your Place” by Andrey “Rarst” Savchenko.
We’ve spent the last weeks looking at everything we know and planned for HeroPress. Why we’re doing it, for whom, how, etc., and we’ve made some changes. Audience Our original audience was WordPress developers and users struggling to interact across cultural and linguistic barriers between the stereotypical Western and non-Western worlds. We realized those same…
This last week after cancelling Kickstarter1 I got another set of validation that I didn’t expect. A great many people came out of the woodwork and said “This project can’t die, you have to keep it running. I’m happy to volunteer my time, how can I help?” That meant an enormous amount to me. Knowing…
let us live laugh love bounce back and grab the moment to keep hope alive The Present Today we cancelled our first Kickstarter. We had 3 days left, but it was pretty obvious we weren’t going to make it. We really appreciate all the support we’ve gotten. The Kickstarter contributors were great. The verbal and…
