Starting with a Definition Google defines the term node as “a point at which lines or pathways intersect.”It’s a connecting point. For the use of node in botany, Google offers a second definition: “the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge.” It’s a point for growth. Today, I’ll provide a…
Prologue – WordPress Alice and Robert are my father’s parents. They never knew what WordPress was. My grandfather’s technical sophistication ended in turning on the screen of the desktop my father had purchased for him years ago. But as they crossed into their 90s, WordPress would come to be instrumental in their lives and mine….
The first time I put my hands on a computer was in kindergarten. Once a week we’d go up to the top floor where no other regular classes were held. Inside, there were dozens of giant computers (a bit later, shiny new Macintosh Classics) in three long rows. We learned BASIC at 5 years old….
At the age of 62, I finally feel like I’ve found success, and I hope I wear it well. It doesn’t wrap me in the look I’d imagined, however. It feels like quality material, sure, but not ostentatious or high-falutin’ or fancy-pants. (Well, maybe there’s the occasional fancy-pants aspect of it, which I’ll be sure…
Kim Coleman writes from Reading, PA about making her own choices and building the life she wanted with WordPress.
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D.J. Billings from Los Angeles, California writes about finding, falling in love with, and making a career out of WordPress.
Este ensayo también está disponible en español. I am a very lucky person. I studied software engineering at a private university, I’m white, straight, handsome, and I live in Taco land. I could have easily joined a multinational but there was always something that stopped me. It was probably that I felt I didn’t fit…
WordPress was created when I was 10 years old. I try to imagine myself at 10 and the only images I can conjure up are ones of anxiety. My world both felt so small and was so small yet what I felt seemed so big. I don’t look back fondly on those years. I was…
If you’re looking to change careers into technology, WordPress is a great way to do it. In 2013, I was in a career counselor’s office. Just realizing that I needed to change careers out of music, almost the only thing I had known for the last 20 years: Aside from feeling like a huge failure,…
When I was asked to write an essay for HeroPress, I humbly accepted due to my desire to help others. HeroPress needs a post and perhaps something I say could have a positive impact on another person. Little did I realize that having to write as a “marginalized” individual would cause me to want to…
