In today’s economy, the ability to create is more important than ever. And the rise of the “creator economy” has made it easier for people with creative ideas to share them with the world, and get paid for them. But what is the creator economy, exactly? And perhaps more importantly, why should you care about it in the first place? And what on Earth does Web3 have to do with it? We’ll endeavor to answer all these questions and more in today’s exploration into the creator economy and how you might take advantage of it for yourself. The Creator Economy: […]
Plugin Madness 2023 Voting Now Open
The court floor has been polished, the gatorade coolers have been filled, and the announcer has finished their vocal warm up. That can only mean one thing, Plugin Madness has officially begun! The community has chosen the very best 64 plugins out there and now it’s time to put them to the test. Who will have a slam dunk and who will foul out? We need you to come back every week to vote in the new round and keep your faves going. The schedule is as follows: Week 1 (64): Feb 27 Week 2 (32) March 6 Week 3 […]
Press This: Word Around the Campfire February 2023
On each episode of Press This, we pick a WordPress topic, but sometimes it’s nice to take a step back and look at some of the broader topics in our community. We call this our Word Around the Campfire editions of Press This. And I have two special guests joining me today to help cover WordPress News, Emily Schiola and Mike Davey.
WordCamp Asia 2023 was Worth the Wait
After three difficult years of planning and re-planning, the first WordCamp Asia finally happened. WordPressers from all of the world traveled to beautiful Bangkok, Thailand for a weekend of learning and networking. This flagship conference was originally scheduled to happen in February of 2020 and was the first large-scale WordPress event to get canceled due to the pandemic. It was an ominous marker of things to come and the new world we would all encounter. Over the last three years, WordCamp organizers all over the world had to pivot, some moving fully online and others canceling altogether. Off the bat, […]
How to Easily Customize the WordPress Search Results Page
There are good arguments to customize many parts of WordPress — but the search results page? What reason could there possibly be to make changes to that? How could this page be any different? The truth is, the WordPress search results page isn’t natively very interesting. This gives you the chance to highlight the articles you want more eyes on and make the page a little more useful. I hereby, cordially, invite you to find out along with me. Just imagine, at the end of this post, we could both be smarter than we were before. Are you in? Why […]

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