“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…
Last September I (Topher) went to WordCamp Pune and did a GoFundMe to pay for the trip. I promised any extra money from the GoFundMe would be used to sponsor a WordCamp that needed it. I had $170.00US left over, and it went to WordCamp Seattle. Since the GoFundMe was a personal venture to send…
For only the second time ever, there’s no HeroPress essay this week. This week’s contributor came down with malaria, and wasn’t able to finish his essay. Fortunately we’ll still be able to read it in a couple weeks. See you next week!
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…
