WordPress has played a role in saving my life, extending it beyond where things were headed in 2006. Yeah, I’m looking back at a decade of WordPress and how it has impacted me and hundreds of people connected to me and you’re invited to ride along. Origin story My introduction to WordPress happened because I…
Everything begins with a thought. Thoughts are powerful and have a magical way of manifesting themselves in one form or another. Dreams begin with just a thought. Mine was to move to Australia and start my own business. When Topher reached out to me to write this essay for HeroPress, I was so nervous at…
There I was cruising along the highway in the middle lane, and I felt it. It started slowly and then all of a sudden – a complete black out. “What’s happening to me?” “Am I dying?” “What about my wife and kids?” “I can’t die now?” These were the thoughts running through my head in…
Rebecca Gill talks about moving from being a social chameleon to a more open, vulnerable, and rewarding life in the WordPress community.
This is a story about how curiosity prevails over experience and why you should always encourage yourself to try new things. After all, no one can guarantee you success, but you can do everything you can to live a happy life. When I was growing up in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s having a…
Sometimes, what seems like a bad situation turns out to be the best thing that could happen to you… I was working in a retail management position. After graduating from college with a business degree, this seemed like a good place. I went through the corporate training program and got my own store to manage….
Assalam-o-Alaikum (Hello) everyone, I am Muhammad Adnan and I’m deeply involved within WordPress and Google API’s. I love software architecture, wrangling with code and loving the entrepreneurship ride. History The story starts from 2001 when I developed a site for the elder brother of a friend for $10. I was 11th grade student that time…
“Hi, everyone. I’m Lisa… and I’m a WordPress evangelist.” “Hi, Lisa.” “It’s been 24 hours since my last WordPress plug to a non-WordPress community member, and it feels really freakin’ fantastic.” I honestly cannot stop talking about WordPress as its presence grows in my life. Here is my story. In the beginning… I wanted to…
5 years ago I was sitting across a table from a kid 3 years younger than me begging him to hire me to sell coffee from a drive-through window. Yesterday I upgraded a client’s WordPress site to 4.4, and installed an SSL certificate from LetsEncrypt.org on his server, which I host for him. (he pays…
I started playing around with WordPress around 2010. Then I was more concerned about learning how themes work with WordPress and how to develop one. This lead me to the WordPress theme directory where I downloaded countless number of themes and read the source to know how they were created. In June 2013 I graduated…
