James has been in the WordPress community since 2006. He's been a user, a freelancer, an agency owner, a theme and plugin developer, a community wrangler, marketplace rep and hosting company marketing director. You could say he's hit the home…
WordPress Layoffs: Some Resources
Michelle Frechette
BlogsBusiness
It's been a common conversation lately. More and more companies have been reducing their staffs through layoffs. Concerning at least, terrifying at most. And as we seem to be entering (or are already into) a recession, it feels like it…
Member Spotlight: Leo Gopal
Michelle Frechette
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Leo started using WordPress in high school long before he had an email address. He found that writing online on his own site created 14 years ago as a way to tackle a stutter, was the first time he felt…
Member Spotlight: Hazel Quimpo
Michelle Frechette
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Meet Hazel Quimpo, the innovative founder of The Clever, a marketing agency for small businesses based in sunny Long Beach, California. Hazel is a solopreneur and fractional CMO with years of marketing experience for tech companies, which inspired her to…
WordCamp Asia Wrap-up
Michelle Frechette
PlanetPost Status Team Blog
I know you're wondering. And yes, I showered. As a matter of fact, the WordCamp Asia team was very deliberate in considering disability needs from the start of Contributor Day through to the announcement of WCAsia 2024 at closing remarks.…
Member Spotlight: Anh Tran
Michelle Frechette
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Anh is a WordPress developer, blogger and also a local WordPress meetup organizer in Hanoi, Vietnam. He started his first blog on WordPress in 2006 and since then, he has developed themes and plugins for WordPress. Currently, he leads the…
Member Spotlight: Sophia DeRosia
Michelle Frechette
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Sophia has been involved in the WordPress space since she was 12 years old. Over the years she has discovered how much she loves marketing and community engagement. She is currently growing her skills as the Marketing/Sales Coordinator at WP…
Member Spotlight: Michele Butcher-Jones
Michelle Frechette
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Michele Butcher-Jones is a lover of all things Open Source, a WordPress Core Contributor, an international speaker, and an avid campaigner to leave the world in a better place. She has spent over a decade helping others with their online…
Member Spotlight: Taco Verdonschot
Michelle Frechette
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Taco joined Yoast back in 2013, after his first real experience with WordPress about 6 months before. At Yoast, Taco became the first full-time support engineer, later growing the team to its current size of almost 30 support engineers. In…
Member Spotlight: Yvette Sonneveld
Michelle Frechette
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Yvette Sonneveld is a full-stack online communications professional with extensive experience in the WordPress ecosphere. She has been involved in the global WordPress marketing team since 2017, and has been a team rep for the team for over three years.…
Member Spotlight: Talisha Lewallen
Michelle Frechette
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Talisha Lewallen is the CEO and Founder of WPConnects, and the Founder and President of CertifyWP Foundation. Through her time in WordPress she has found a passion for education and training inside the WordPress Community. WPConnects is a company that…
Member Spotlight: Alex Stine
Michelle Frechette
BlogsMember Spotlights
From Alex: Building my first self-hosted WordPress blog is what introduced me to the world of tech and eventually my first few jobs with Incsub. At Incsub, I started out in Tech Support for the first year helping clients fix…
Member Spotlight: Seth Goldstein
Michelle Frechette
BlogsMember Spotlights
Seth has been in the digital marketing and WordPress space for more than 15 years. He helps companies of all sizes get found online through various digital marketing techniques including Web design/development, SEO, SEM, Digital Strategy, email marketing, and podcast…
Member Spotlight: Mark-Andrew Nordstrom
Michelle Frechette
BlogsMember Spotlights
Skateboarding across the world and through life. 🛹 I build WordPress websites at no charge. 🚫 Open source everything. 🔓 Life should not be transactional. ❤️ What do you enjoy most about working in WordPress? Sharing the freedoms that WordPress…
Member Spotlight: Jack McConnell
Michelle Frechette
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I'm a one-man WordPress web design and development agency. I've had the opportunity to work with some amazing clients, including Peter Gabriel, Disney, Real World Records, and Future Publishing. I also actively develop two WordPress plugins: Better Notifications for WP,…
Member Spotlight: Jamie Madden
Michelle Frechette
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Jamie is the founder and lead developer of WC Vendors Marketplace, the first free multivendor marketplace plugin for WordPress and WooCommerce, launched back in 2014. He has been a developer and systems administrator for nearly 25 years. Jamie started working…
