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It seems like every couple of months a new “where is WordPress headed?” or “What’s the future of WordPress?” style article pops up. And it makes sense. WordPress is a dynamic creation. It’s been known to stretch its wings in fits and starts, making regular re-analysis worthwhile for those entrenched in the development mines. These articles talk all about what the visual editor will look like after X, Y, or Z update. What new buttons will be added? What drag-and-drop elements will become enabled? These are worthy talking points, to be sure, but sometimes, I want to look far ahead; […]

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 […]

If you live near an IKEA, there’s no doubt in my mind that you’ve at least spent one afternoon of your life wandering down its myriad of corridors and hallways, exploring its many living rooms and bedrooms. You’ve pondered what life would be like if this were your kitchen. You might have even pretended to wash a plate or two in the mock sink and checked out every single one of those cabinets with roll-out drawers. So smooth. While the quality of the furniture offered there isn’t always up to muster, the pre-fab design IKEA provides is without a doubt […]

This year, at WordCamp Miami, I shared an Airbnb with a few other WordPress developers. The door to the place we were staying had a keypad door lock. I guess I’m too dependent on my password manager because I promptly forgot the code. As a result, at the afterparty, when I was about ready to leave I found one of the people I was staying with—Chris Christoff a developer for Awesome Motive and Easy Digital Downloads, and a member of the WordPress core security team—to ask him for the code. As it turned out, I interrupted a discussion he was having […]