Last year, I wrote a post on 100 WordPress influencers to follow in 2015. The list was based off who I followed before 2015. All of them, in some way or another, work to improve the WordPress community. I had the pleasure of interviewing many of them over the year. Several commenters shared their own lists of influencers and recommendations of WordPressers to follow. I connected and followed many of these people in 2015. I also followed some hidden gems in the WordPress community who are contributing to WordPress with their amazing products and services. 2015 was a great year […]

The WordPress community is growing. Millions of people are working under the banner of WordPress. Some of the biggest organizations associated with WordPress have remote employees located in countries around the world — for example, Automattic, the folks behind WordPress.com, has 300+ employees, all of whom work remotely in countries around the world, from South Africa to Russia to Australia. Being a WordPress fanatic myself, I have been helping the WordPress community connect with one another by interviewing WordPress developers, entrepreneurs, and users from around the world. Interviewees have shared their personal WordPress journeys and I have created a series […]

2015 is looming near, and there are a lot of expectations from the new WordPress releases in the pipeline. With the ever-increasing popularity and demand, it is anticipated that the year 2015 will see a complete overhaul in the WordPress ecosystem, with WordPress becoming a truly responsive application framework. Surely, there will be progress on the core coding practices, with new plugins and themes being developed by the core development team. Three people who inspired us all with their unrelenting and untiring efforts to make WordPress a huge success in 2014 are: Andrew Nacin (Lead for WordPress 3.9) Helen Hou-Sandi […]