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…
History I look back and remember FrontPage, Macromedia & wonderful Geocities – I think it’ll be safe to call it WordPress of 90’s! I was a young kid and was really fascinated with the web and more so in how it was built and Geocities left a positive mark which gave initial kick start to…
I hated my job. For over a decade I’d worked as either an independent web developer or part of an engineering team, depending on the year. My final stop in Corporate America was a cubicle where my skills went largely unused. I needed a change of pace and I quit. Following a dream of opening…
Things certainly don’t always work out the way we plan. Life throws you curveballs and you end up in a completely different place to where you started. I had my life completely mapped from when I was very young, but it was not to be. This is my story of my curveball and how it…
I got my first taste of meaningful success because of WordPress, when the first free theme I uploaded became one of the top-5 most downloaded themes on the WordPress.org. Since then, WordPress has become a major part of my life. It has helped my company take off, helped me meet likeminded people who have become…
To say WordPress has changed my life is an understatement. I was 22 years old when I had my son. I had become single half-way through the pregnancy and had finished no other education than high school. Not that I was too dumb or too uninterested to get educated, I just didn’t know what I…
