Category: WordPress

  • Day 20: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks

    Day 20: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks

    Prompt 20/20 Blog: Sign the WordPress birthday card! https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/27/day-20-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ Twenty days to celebrate twenty years of WordPress! Here are the posts that I’ve written for #WP20 to lead up to the celebration:

  • Day 19: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks

    Prompt 19/20 Blog: If you could have one wish for WordPress granted, what would it be? https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/26/day-19-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ This is a tough prompt! There are so many things that I would like to do with WordPress that haven’t been done yet. I suppose the one wish that I have is for the good parts of our…

  • Day 18: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks

    Prompt 18/20 Blog: Download the WordPress Mobile app and post a post from the app about your experience posting from the app. https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/25/day-18-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ I don’t think that I’ve ever actually used the WordPress mobile app to write before. I’ve been writing my post drafts in Notion lately. Not because I don’t like writing in WordPress…

  • Day 17: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks

    Prompt 17/20 Blog: Tell us about your first or favorite contribution to WordPress. If you haven’t officially contributed yet, tell us what are you hoping to contribute in the future. https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/24/day-17-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ I still remember my first core contribution to WordPress, which happened during WordCamp San Francisco 2013. At the time I was a Windows user,…

  • Day 16: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks

    Prompt 16/20 Blog: Tell us your hopes (or fears) for the future of AI in WordPress. https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/23/day-16-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ I am hopeful that WordPress will incorporate AI in a meaningful way. Let me adjust that: I am hopeful that the WordPress Community will incorporate AI in ways that will improve the ecosystem for everybody. From what I’ve…

  • Day 15: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks

    Prompt 15/20 Blog: Share a WordPress tip or trick that has made your life easier. https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/22/day-15-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ Tools that help me to write code for WordPress are among those that I’ve found most valuable. Basically, anything that will let me build out sites and plugins faster. For instance, https://generatewp.com/ lets you generate code for portions of…

  • Day 14: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks

    Prompt 14/20 Blog: Share a “Two Truths and a Lie” about your experience with WordPress. https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/21/day-14-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ I’m gonna go the romance route on this! Because everything comes back to queer smooching with me 😜🏳️‍🌈 Ok, now take a moment to choose the lie before scrolling down. Ready?

  • Day 13: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks

    Prompt 13/20 Blog: What is your favorite website built in WordPress right now (yours or anyone else’s)? https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/20/day-13-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ I know that this whole blogging experience is about celebrating WordPress, and this may feel a bit self-serving in that regard, but the Make WordPress website is a great website built with WordPress to highlight. Built with…

  • Day 12: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks

    Prompt 12/20 Blog: What is your favorite plugin in the WordPress Plugins Directory? https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/19/day-12-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ There are so many WordPress plugins that I love, but admittedly many of them are paid plugins, not available on the repo. I mentioned on Day 8 that Gravity Forms is one of those plugins, which has saved me time and…

  • Day 10: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks

    Prompt 10/20 Blog: Check out the WordPress Roadmap (or this Roadmap to 6.3). What upcoming WordPress projects are you most excited to see happen? https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/17/day-10-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ The full roadmap has a lot of interesting things on it, but I want to pick just a few to focus on: CMS Community I’ll focus on Community first, which…

  • Day 9: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks

    Day 9: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks

    Prompt 9/20 Blog: Tell us about your favorite memory that includes WordPress or the WordPress community. https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/15/day-9-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ I don’t think that I can choose only one memory, but all of my favorite WordPress community memories involve WordCamps. I’ve been to dozens of WordCamps, maybe nearing 100? While there has been a lot of slowdown since…

  • Day 8: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks

    Prompt 8/20 Blog: Tell us about the strangest, most interesting, or otherwise notable place you’ve done WordPress-related things. https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/15/day-8-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ I’m trying to think of something strange to present that I’ve done with WordPress. I’ve used it in a few sites where maybe I shouldn’t have, but nothing too out there. I have a few sites…