Post Status Cache Up With Marcus Burnette

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In this podcast episode, host Michelle Frechette and guest Marcus Burnett discuss the importance of contributing to the WordPress community. Michelle highlights updating WordPress.org profiles and the “Five for the Future” initiative. Marcus introduces his project, The WP World which connects WordPress users by aggregating profile information and event details. They explore features like business directories, user ratings, and privacy options. The episode emphasizes the value of community engagement, showcasing contributions, and leveraging tools like The WP World to foster connections and enhance the WordPress ecosystem.

Top Takeaways:

• WP World Enhances WordPress Community Connections – WP World is a platform that helps WordPress professionals showcase their contributions, connect with others, and enhance their visibility in the WordPress ecosystem. It complements WordPress.org profiles by allowing users to add more details and interact with community members.
• Community Engagement is a Priority – Beyond just networking, WP World fosters deeper engagement through features like WP Speakers, interactive maps, and a focus on celebrating community members. The discussion highlighted the value of making meaningful connections in the WordPress space and how WP World serves as a tool to strengthen those relationships.
• WP World Encourages Contribution Tracking – The platform makes it easier for WordPress professionals to log and showcase their contributions within the ecosystem. By maintaining an updated profile, users can highlight their involvement in various WordPress-related projects, events, and communities.

Mentioned In The Show:

• Five for the Future
• WP World
• wordpress.org
• Bluehost
• Bluehost Cloud
• GitHub 
• Slack
• Gravatar
• StellarWP
• WP Speakers
• Hero Press
• Press Conf 
• Stellar Spark

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• Marcus Burnette (Founder, The WP World)
• Michelle Frechette (Director of Community Relations, Post Status)
• Olivia Bisset (Intern, Post Status)

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Transcript

Michelle Frechette 00:00:00  Welcome to Post Statuses. The first of this year’s 12 events that we will be doing online that are either webinars, seminars or panel discussions or some combination thereof. And we’re starting off this this year in January, with talking about how you can update your WordPress.org profile, how you can make sure that any hours that you are committing to the open source project get attributed to you and or your company. And then also I have Marcus Burnette here, one of my good friends in WordPress, who has a project called the WP World, which we’ve talked about before on the Happiness Hour, and that I think is just the cat’s meow, if you will. of, of, projects, we’re going to talk about how and where you can participate with that, where the information comes from and some of the work that Marcus has put into it over the years to make it what it is today. So, Marcus, thank you for joining me. Would you like to introduce yourself with your new title and all of the things that you are doing?

Marcus Burnette 00:01:04  Sure. Yeah. Thanks, Michelle, for having me. this is the newest of all panels. I’m just kidding. Just the two of us hanging out. I like it. Yeah. I’m. If you don’t know who I am. Marcus Burnette I, I work at Bluehost. I’m there to help kind of the agency and advanced hosting. Mostly on the Bluehost cloud side. And then also run the WP World. Which is kind of my passion project slash give back to the WordPress community. And, we’ll get a chance to look at that in just a little bit.

Michelle Frechette 00:01:35  Yeah. And you and I are also do we do things with WordPress as well. We’re both on the, photos committee and our committee team, approving photos and moderating photos into the WordPress.org. We just hit 20,000. Did you know? Did you know this?

Marcus Burnette 00:01:50  I saw that. That’s crazy.

Michelle Frechette 00:01:51  I just hit over 20,000 photos in the in the photo directory, which is pretty cool. We got a lot of work to do in there still, I’ve been meeting with some people. That’s a project for talk for another day, because it’s also one that I’m excited about. And you are an amazing photographer, so thank you for all your contributions there also.

Marcus Burnette 00:02:07  Hey, you as well.

Michelle Frechette 00:02:09  Thank you. So today we’re going to talk about, a couple things, including, Five for the Future. What? It’s what it’s about why you might want to put your information in your WordPress.org profile and some of the different things there. And then we’re going to switch over for Marcus, showcase what he does over at the WP World. So I’m going to share my screen first. And we are going to talk about hopefully when I share this it’ll be able to change change a tabs to so Five for the Future is part of WordPress.org, and it is a way that companies commit to giving back to the open source project because as you know, we get to use WordPress for free. It’s something you can download. It’s something many, many hosts, including Bluehost, has a one button install for or already has set up for you.

Michelle Frechette 00:02:58  When you actually say that you want a WordPress site, you don’t even have to click install anymore on a lot of, hosting projects. And it’s pretty cool, to see how it’s developed over the years, because I first learned it where you had to go download it, make sure you had the most recent thing, upload it, change keys, change all the different things, and now it’s just such an easier thing for us to be able to do. But the Five for theFuture program is something where companies can give back to the open source project by either giving money or giving time through and resources through your, your teams that you work with. And so it’s one of those things that, it’s kind of a cool thing. So you can see right here some contributor experiences. There’s testimonials there. There’s ways that you can contribute as an organization or contribute as an individual. So if you are, you know, a freelancing or you’re a project of one your company is not participating, you can still do that yourself and pledge your hours and your time.

Michelle Frechette 00:03:55  Through Five for the Future. And then again, you can do that as an organization where your organization can do that for sure. When you see if I click tabs, if it also changes over with me. Do you see the different tab there, Marcus.

Marcus Burnette 00:04:08  Yep. Looking good.

Michelle Frechette 00:04:09  Okay, cool. Just making sure. Sometimes I share one tab and then I switch screens and it’s like, oh, you’re I’m talking and you’re all going, I don’t know what I’m talking about, but here we are. So I’ve got my bio up to show you that you can throw a lot of information in here. including your, you know, your bios, some of the things that you’ve done. I have in mind speaking history, my origin story, contributions. And that’s what we’re going to talk about in a minute, is those contributions. And then you can have your badges for your contribution history, things that you’ve done. Activity plugins, if you are on a plugin team or a theme team would show up here. Photos that you’ve contributed of course as you’ve taken and then any plugins and themes that you favorited also within WordPress.org. When I discovered this, it’s like saved me with having to remember what that one plugin I used on for, you know, for sites that go that I really loved was all about. And so Favoriting plugins was like, oh, that’s so super cool. So you can look at anybody’s, anybody’s, profile if you know what their handle is. Some people are not their names, which makes it a little bit more difficult to find, but you can find them here. there’s there’s a link through to there to Slack, and you can find them there if you are on the WordPress Slack. On the right hand side here, you see when they first joined where they’re located, their website, if they put and of course, you had to put all of these things in here. I don’t have my GitHub connected here because I failed to set up two factor authentication, and I’m not sure I can get back in.

Michelle Frechette 00:05:38  But that also is a time for, talk for another day. My job title where I work, and then some of my social media handles where you can actually click through and find me there. If you want to set up your profile, all you have to do is click Edit Profile. Once you have an account with WP.org, wordpress.org. So you can see here my avatar and my social media accounts are automatically pulling from my Gravatar account. If you set up your Gravatar, that will also pull into different WordPress websites. When you sign in with that same email address, you have your account and security. You have contribution here and then notifications also. So for the profile I just filled this all in. It’s not pulling from any place other than my photo and my social media is coming in from Gravatar. But all of this, I was able to just fill in myself. And sometimes I remember to update it when I do new things, which is a good thing. Account and security is where you’re going to change your password and things like that.

Michelle Frechette 00:06:37  So you see, you get two factors set up. How you got that worked. Notifications is how do you want to be notified for things? Yeah. I yeah. I don’t have a lot of notifications set up because I don’t want to be pinged all the time, but contribution is what we want to talk about today. So what when you go to the contribution section, you have to choose whether you are sponsored or not. And I am very, very lucky that my company does sponsor my time. So I am able to do the work that I do with WordPress.org in my work week. and I have to do things on the outside. Some people have to do it on the outside. You yourself put in how many hours per week that you are contributing, and then you select from the list which teams you’re contributing to. So for example, I contribute to the community team and the photos team on average about four hours a week. Sometimes it’s more, sometimes it’s less. I figure it’s about four hours average.

Michelle Frechette 00:07:32  When you make those changes, then you just click save changes at the bottom, and that will attribute the work that you are doing to yourself and your company. If you are also listing a company, which, by the way, was over in that profile section. So you’ll see here I have company here. StellarWP. I will tell you if your company is listed something other than what you put here, you will not be credited. It has to match. If you misspell it, it will not be credited. If you have a parent company and that’s the one that’s in, you want to make sure that you have those things match up so that everything is credited through the right way. I didn’t put my interest in here. I don’t know what they are. They change all the time. But but this is what you want to do. So you want to make sure that you have your company correct. And that over here under contribution, you’ve selected whether or not you’re sponsored, how many hours per week and the teams and then again, save changes.

Michelle Frechette 00:08:25  And what that’s going to do is that’s going to make that profile show all of that information we showed you a moment ago. So you can see what my contributions are, that I’m sponsored for four hours per week for these two teams. Very simple, very easy. When, you know, things were happening in the fall. I said, oh, I’m going to commit to showing everybody how to do this, to make sure that they show up. If they want to show up with the hours that they contribute to WordPress. And so I am following through on that promise. However, that’s not a very long story. So I’m going to pull back and say there is other things. sometimes what I call gap filling projects that are that take a blend of lots of different parts of the WordPress community and ecosystem and put in things that are not necessarily part of WordPress.org. So for example, I have WP Speakers.com, which lets you look for people who are interested in speaking about WordPress, by topic, by location, things like that, and so that you can contact them to get them to speak to you or for you.

Michelle Frechette 00:09:32  Marcus has that project, the WP World, which also connects through to WP Speakers. But I’m going to let him bring up his screen and show you what the WP World is. How he has it connected, what you’re able to do with it, and why you might want to be a part of it. So Marcus, I’m going to mute myself and let you take over for a minute.

Marcus Burnette 00:09:51  Sure. Let me hit share here. Make sure that you can see that. just got that out of the way. Perfect. Yeah. The WP World for anyone that’s not aware of the site or what it’s for. It’s kind of my passion project. Give back to the community, and it’s sort of a way for folks to in the WordPress space to find each other, both online and in person. Originally, the idea this kind of happened post Covid, and I wanted people to be able to find others in their local area to meet back up with them in person. After restrictions are lifted and people were allowed to get back together.

Marcus Burnette 00:10:31  But it’s also become a great place for people to find each other online, whether that’s in different Slack groups or Discord, Facebook groups, all of that. and so people know, other social media platforms where they can connect with each other. So, the site allows you to sign up with an account. And from there, you can give as much or as little information as you want about yourself. That includes where you are in the world, all the different social media places that you exist. Your .org profile that Michelle just walked through. Pulling in a lot. There are a lot of pieces from that that get pulled into the site as well. So really your Presser Profile here almost becomes a bit of a WordPress resume, if you will. I kind of like to think of it that sometimes that way, sometimes where someone you can share your profile with someone and they can kind of see everything that you’re doing in the WordPress space. So rather than me ramble on about it, why don’t we actually look at that. And so I’m actually going to do the same in pull Michelle’s up because Michelle, you have one of the more complete profiles than the sites. I think, I think I have a lot in there as well. But you have like Hero Press that I haven’t written a Hero Press essay, so that doesn’t show up in there. So we’ll take a look at yours just because it’s pretty full. So here’s Michelle’s profile. And first things first, you can set a custom banner image at the top and your image here for your profile image. Again indirectly comes from Gravatar. I think it looks the site looks at your. org profile. If you’ve added it and pulls it from there first. If not, then it compares your email address to Gravatar and pulls it in from there. And thirdly, you have the option to override that entirely by uploading your own photo to the site so you have full control over what that looks like there from a number of different places. Then you can see Michelle has a location in which, as we get down here, you’ll see pulls up who’s nearby in Michelle’s area, and also gives you the, the, the time we happen to be in the same time zone.

Marcus Burnette 00:12:44  So that’s the same. But I liked having, you know, folks in the other side of the world being able to quickly see, you know, should I reach out to them right now? They can have notifications off. Maybe it’s the middle of the night giving a little bit of a glimpse of what time it is, when you’re at someone’s profile. And then, Michelle, you’ve added your birthday, which is in October, and then you can also choose your native and secondary language or languages that you speak as well. So that kind of fills out the top line there from there. Again, like I said  once you fill this, your handle and for.org in there, that actually pulls a lot of information in, that pulls in those contribution hours that Michelle was just showing. They’ll pull that in automatically. That’ll also connect to all of the releases that have been added to the site. I think right now I have all the way back to 4.0, and I’m still working my way backwards from current releases back to the very beginning.

Marcus Burnette 00:13:48  So if you were if you contribute to one of the I think it’s just the major, major releases. But if you contributed to one of the major releases, they’ll show up here automatically as well. And then that will also pull in any plugins or themes that you’ve developed automatically for you as well. So you don’t. And the badges so you don’t have to enter any of that information in as soon as you add your .org profile. A lot of a lot of content comes in. In fact, it also compares your .org profile handle to the photo directory because it’s the same the same username, the same handle for the photo directory. And so if you’ve uploaded photos to the photo directory, it’ll pull that in as well. So that that’ll work. One is that’s the that’s the .org is the important one. If you can get your .org handle in there, it’ll pull a lot of information into the profile for you. And then it’s. Adding adding the rest of your social media platforms, you can add your WP Speaker’s profile, and add your website. And then there are a bunch of different Slacks and communities that you can mark yourself as being a part of. And that way people will know where to find you.

Michelle Frechette 00:15:02  I love that.

Marcus Burnette 00:15:04  Yeah. So like I said, you slide down here, you see badges, you get your plugins pulled in automatically, WordPress photos automatically. If you added your website, the WP World will check to see if it’s a WordPress site. It probably is. I’m guessing if you’re signing up here, and it’ll use the rest API to pull in your latest three blog posts automatically so you don’t have to do anything there for adding your blog posts. If you added your WP Speakers profile, this section will automatically fill itself out as well. It’ll pull in some information from WP Speakers, but not all of it. And I’ll allow you to go ahead and click the Contact Me on WP Speakers button to go over and use the the WP Speakers site as intended.

Michelle Frechette 00:15:51  Love that.

Marcus Burnette 00:15:54  Hero press is another gap filler project by one of our friends, Topher DeRosa. And so I incorporated this here for anyone who’s written in the Hero Press archives. They can add the essay link here as well, and it’ll pull in the the excerpt and allow you to jump over and read the essay on Hero Press. Giving Hero Press a little bit more visibility as well, but also showing one more place where you can learn a bit more about the person who’s portfolio looking at. And then probably the most tedious part, but one of the most fun parts is adding all of the events that you’ve been to. Now, this doesn’t get pulled in from anywhere. This isn’t pulling from attendee lists or anything like that, unfortunately, but you can. All of the WordCamps that have ever existed, plus some other online events and some WordPress adjacent events over the last couple of years have been added here. And so if you’ve been to any of those, including speaking at them, organizing, volunteering, or being there as a sponsor, a sponsored individual, you can add all of that inside your profile area and they will all show up here.

Marcus Burnette 00:17:09  And then that will do some things automatically, like if I go to WordCamp Asia 2025, because Michelle has marked herself as going to WordCamp Asia. When I come here, there’s Michelle. Michelle is also showing in the list of folks inside the WordCamp Asia page for who is going. So one of the I didn’t really talk about it because we were mostly talking about profiles. One of the the larger benefits of the WP World is also the collection of all of the WordCamp events and WordPress events, and having lots of information about those as well, including dates and tickets sold. Who’s who.

Michelle Frechette 00:17:51  The count down. I love the countdown. That’s awesome. 

Marcus Burnette 00:17:57  The countdown, who lives nearby, the event, and then all of the people who have marked themselves as attending that event. And then there’s also a list of the speakers for the event. Same with the organizers. And you can click through to their profiles as well if they have profiles on the WP World. That’s all listed here as well. So there’s a lot of interconnectivity between  the Pressure Profiles, the people profiles, and the event pages going back and forth. And seeing all of that.

Michelle Frenchette 00:18:28  Oh, cool. 

Marcus Burnette: That’s kind of.

Michelle Frechette:  And I, I love that.

Marcus Burnette:  What’s going on there. But a lot of it gets pulled in and I’m trying to as much as I can make it so that you can input the least amount of information possible and still have the most information from all of the different places where you’ve already put information pulled into one.

Michelle Frechette 00:18:51  Yep. I also love that you have events that are WordPress events that aren’t official WordCamps or official WordPress events. So like Press Conf is coming up in April this year and I’ll be attending that. And I think you will too. Right?

Marcus Burnette 00:19:05  I will, I’ll be there.

Michelle Frechette 00:19:06  Yeah. So there’s a page for that and you can see who’s going to be there when you’re there. So that’s, that’s pretty cool too. I love that you’ve got, you capture like the Stellar Spark event that I had last year for StellarWP. Shows up on there because people attended that and people spoke at that. And so it’s very cool, how you have oh, look at that. There I am again. it’s very cool that you can see all those things here. and especially for people who have accounts here and have made their, their Presser Profiles are able to add to that and then you are able to connect with them. I think it’s really, really cool. 90 days to that one.

Marcus Burnette 00:19:48  90 days.

Michelle Frechette 00:19:50  Now when you go to a past event, does it say it’s been 4,792 days since we had that event?

Marcus Burnette 00:19:58  No. 

Michelle Frechette 00:19:59  Okay. Cause that’s just weird.

Marcus Burnette 00:20:01  The countdown disappears, which is good, because there’s some other information that gets added. And I needed the space. 

Michelle Frechette: Oh, perfect. 

Marcus Burnette: But if you go to one of these and it shows you like I capture the number of attendees expected, but then the number of tickets sold get added. So that’s some other information that replaces the countdown that I don’t have until the event has already happened. Like the number of tickets that ended up being sold.

Michelle Frechette 00:20:29  I think this is so cool. And every time I talk to you, you’re like adding something new to it.  And it’s like it just keeps growing. But it’s got so much information packed in so tightly, but so well organized that it doesn’t feel chaotic. It doesn’t feel confusing. The design is very clean. You even won an award you last year.

Marcus Burnette 00:20:52  These events, these event pages definitely were starting to look that way. So the last couple of weeks have been redoing these event pages to kind of wrangle everything back in, to make it look a bit nicer and load a bit faster. So yeah, some work has been done to to try and clean some of that up. There’s still a little bit of work down here that I need to work on getting that in shape, but.

Michelle Frechette 00:21:14  And you even have the latest posts for that event. Although I see they left the Hello World in theirs.

Marcus Burnette 00:21:22  Yeah. I meant to write. I meant to write a Hello World blog post about how when you set up a new WordPress site, you should get rid of or set to drafts or something The Hello world.

Michelle Frechette 00:21:34  Exactly.

Speaker 4 00:21:36  It’s in the early planning.

Michelle Frechette 00:21:39  Well, it’s already happened. 

Marcus Burnette 00:21:42  Yeah. That’s true.

Michelle Frechette 00:21:44  Too funny. I love it, though. That’s awesome. Do you have ideas of things that you still want to do with this? Are we happy with it for a while, Marcus? Can you, like, breathe and do other things for a while, or are you still keen to make more changes?

Marcus Burnette 00:22:01  There’s always more to be done. even, like, just we discussed adding the contribution hours with something that I added yesterday. I think now that I’m looking at them, I’m gonna try and go back in and make some designation, whether those are sponsored or not sponsored hours. So there’s that to be added. I’m trying to think, I don’t know, some of what I’m trying to do is just make some of this faster to, clean some of that up the events. I don’t know if you. One of the things I added late last year to events was if it’s so in the site now, if it’s a WordCamp that’s happening in the future still.

Marcus Burnette 00:22:45  there’s the WordCamp toolkit link that shows up here, and gives you this is for attendees, basically a whole guide to preparing for your first WordCamp or not your first WordCamp. There’s a lot of great information here, whether it’s here first or not. Lots of additional reading and some videos and stuff of, you know, prepping for WordCamp. So I built this whole toolkit here for attendees, and there’s a table of contents along the side, for attending WordCamp. I have every intention of creating a WordCamp toolkit for sponsors, and a WordCamp toolkit for organizers and volunteers, and just building out more and more resources around the site for you know. Oh, where do I find the answer to this? Let me check the WP World first. And so trying to create more, more resources as I go. Clean things up, make things faster, add, you know, tidbits of information here and there for things that I think might be interesting. And then I think the site is starting to get to a place now where I can aggregate some of the data that’s in here, and to be able to share things like whether or not attendance at WordCamps has gone up or down, whatever, based on expected versus number of tickets sold.

Marcus Burnette 00:24:10  Where when I first started this site, I didn’t have any of that information. But now I’ve collected up, you know, several years worth of data and presser their data where I can, I think, do some interesting things and share that with with folks as well as another resource.

Michelle Frechette00:24:27  So cool. There there’s just so much here. And you have business directories and you have, where you can rate hosting and all of these other things that you can do here. Right?

Marcus Burnette 00:24:38  Yep. Just crossed 100 businesses yesterday or the day before. So they’re.

Michelle Frechette 00:24:42  Fantastic.

Marcus Burnette 00:24:43  Just over 100 businesses represented in here. And so if you’re looking for an agency you can click on agency and see all the agencies that are listed in here that are ready to do some work for you. Or if you’re looking for a plug in or theme developer, you know, there’s a few categories across the top here to kind of narrow it down for you. The hosting where recommended hosting. There’s the recommended hosting page that you mentioned.

Marcus Burnette 00:25:11  These are all voted on by users of the site. I have nothing to do with how these are sorted or rated. It’s all done by people who have WP World accounts. And so they come in and there’s a whole section at the bottom here that explains how the rating is done, what the minimum requirements are to be on the page, and all of that. And then there’s an algorithm behind the scenes. Let’s explain it down here. so you can know what the algorithm is, the algorithm that decides what order they’re listed in and all of that. So, if you’re looking for a host, then this is also a great page to come see what other folks in the WP World are rating their hosting choices.

Michelle Frechette  00:25:59  Yeah.  And how much does it cost to be a member?

Marcus Burnette 00:26:04  It costs zero dollars.

Michelle Frechette 00:26:06 Zero dollars and zero cents.

Marcus Burnette 00:26:08  Zero. Anything. Yep. This is totally free. That is a good time for me to say thank you to all of these wonderful sponsors down here at the bottom. These sponsors are what keep the site going.  And that way I can charge zero dollars and zero cents, no money whatsoever to sign up for the site. It costs nothing to add your business as a business listing here. There are a couple of perks. Like I said, if you sign up for free, you can rate the hosting. You can create a business listing. And then there’s some other tools that I want to create. There’s the one that I already have here for, excuse me, generating alt text. So there’s a tool here. If you just toss in either a link to an image or drag an actual image itself, and then you can get alt text for, it uses AI to pull alt text from the photo, and you can use that in social media or in your website or wherever you want. 

Michelle Frechette 00:27:07  It does a really good job, too.

Marcus Burnette 00:27:09  It does a really great job. And all that I ask is that you signed up for the WP World. So I want to continue to do more of those things as well, where I build up a little bit of a suite of tools for people to use. And the only thing that I ask is that you’re signing up for the site for free.

Michelle Frechette 00:27:24  Now, one thing that you and I talked about very early on, I came to you with, a question. I said, there are people who I know who would sign up, except that they, for whatever security reasons and whatever history that they have with other individuals in the world, don’t want to put where they live or they’re just digital nomads. They don’t have a space. And you were able to account for that as well.

Marcus Burnette 00:27:46  Yep. Absolutely. So down here where you share your location, I very specifically ask you to only list your down to the city level. We don’t want to know where your house is, just where, what city you live in.

Michelle Frechette 00:27:59  We’re not doxing people.

Marcus Burnette 00:28:00  Right. And there’s a lot of there’s a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes that will strip that out. If you do give me your home address that gets pulled out, it doesn’t get saved into the database, and I make sure that it’s just down to the city level.

Marcus Burnette 00:28:13  But if you prefer not to share even that, there’s a checkbox here for I prefer not to share my location. And then all of that just goes away and you don’t have to worry about it. So you can still be part of the site, even if you don’t want to share your location down to any level.

Michelle Frechette 00:28:29  Or you’re a nomad, or you’re between your homes or whatever. And the specialty, I love that to where you can slide things back and forth of what your specialties are. That’s really cool.

Marcus Burnette 00:28:39  Yeah, yeah, you can drag these around to show your specialty. And actually all these different pins here on the side are not just for decoration. Your pin on the map actually changes based on what you select there. So if I go to the Presser Map you’ll see there’s a little code one here, code one here. a lot of lot of developers, I think as a business owner, one community one. So if you pick a different specialty, your Pin actually changes on the map as well instead of the default W

Michelle Frechette 00:29:11  What is the, the wapuu for? What is that one?

Marcus Burnette 00:29:17  The wapuu is for the camps. So all the blue, all the blue ones are people, and then all the wapuu ones are where the camps are located.

Michelle Frechette 00:29:26  Very nice. That’s so cool.

Marcus Burnette 00:29:29  Which is also duplicated here without all of the people.

Michelle Frechette 00:29:33  Gotcha. So can I tell you one of my guilty pleasures when I just have five minutes and I want to do something quick, is I go.

Marcus Burnette 00:29:42  Absolutely.

Michelle Frechette 00:29:42  And click the random Presser button.

Marcus Burnette 00:29:46  Oh, yeah. Let’s click a random presser and it will literally just load up. It will very randomly in the site pick a Presser and we’ll just load up their. Load up their.

Michelle Frechette 00:30:00  Over the Philippines. That’s what we’re going for WordCamp Asia.

Marcus Burnette 00:30:04  Yeah. You’ll be there shortly.

Michelle Frechette 00:30:06  Yeah.

Marcus Burnette 00:30:06  Make sure you say Hi to Spencer when you are there. Let’s see. He’s. Yep. Spencer says he’s going to WordCamp Asia. So.

Michelle Frechette 00:30:13  And he was Asia last year. I see some of his photos from Taipei that I also took similar ones. That’s pretty cool. I love it.

Michelle Frechette 00:30:22  Fantastic. Now, I think this is just such a wonderful project and I think it’s really cool. I love that I can put more things there than I can on my WordPress.org profile, but that they link up. It’s not a one or the other, it’s it’s both and it’s even. This works even better if you have your wordpress.org profile filled out as much as possible, and then just add those other details over here. It’s a great way to be able to look for people, search for people, find out like, who’s the Presser of the day? Random Pressers. See who’s near you that maybe you aren’t even aware of is near you. And, just all of the above.I think it’s very cool, and I’m just so appreciative of this project that you created. And you have a newsletter too. Let’s not forget so people can sign up for the newsletter. You don’t you don’t automatically opt into the newsletter. You do have to select through your Presser Profile that you can, receive the newsletter and then got the newsletter today. So there’s a lot you can do there too.

Marcus Burnette 00:31:19  Yeah. If you come over the newsletter and you can subscribe and unsubscribe easily right there. Yeah. And it’s weekly newsletter gets sent out and I try to just it’s not WordPress news. There are some really great publications that do WordPress news already. So that’s I leave that to them. That’s all what’s going on in the WP World itself. So you can keep track of what’s happening within the site. What’s new? There are probably all sorts of corners of the site now that we’re sort of exploring it again, that people don’t even know about. So I’ll probably be resharing some of those in upcoming newsletters so people know that they even exist.

Michelle Frechette 00:32:02  Like you have a shop. I actually ordered from a shop before.

Marcus Burnette 00:32:06  I just added the birthdays not too long ago so you can see.

Michelle Frechette 00:32:10  Very cool. Yep.

Marcus Burnette 00:32:11  Birthdays for folks. Wish them Happy birthday.

Michelle Frechette 00:32:15  I love that header.

Marcus Burnette 00:32:15  That. Yeah, there’s a small shop of some WordPress related things.

Michelle Frechette 00:32:23  I have a mug in my collection.

Marcus Burnette 00:32:26  This one?

Michelle Frechette 00:32:29  Yep. Cute t-shirts. You got a bunch of stuff in there. Drinking drinkware coasters or patches. I love it all. It’s pretty cool stuff. I’m your biggest fan, I think.

Marcus Burnette 00:32:44  Quite possibly. And I appreciate it.

Michelle Frechette 00:32:47  My pleasure. So very cool. So yes, if you are thinking about how people can find you. You want to, like, make a bigger stake your claim in the WordPress world. Definitely fill out your WordPress.org profile. A lot of people just have their name and that’s it. There’s a lot that you can do with that, and I think that that’s a great place to kind of just showcase yourself and then complement that by creating your WP World profile as well, so people can find you here and make those connections also. Anything you’d add before we wrap up Marcus?

Marcus Burnette 00:33:23  No. That’s great. Thanks for letting me come on and share a little bit about the WP World and let people know where they can log all their contributions, so.

Michelle Frechette 00:33:32  Absolutely. I love it.

Marcus Burnette 00:33:33  Super, super important right now for people to to know where where you are, what things you’re touching in the WordPress space, where you’re contributing. And so I think making sure that you have that .org profile, is super important. And then being able to sort of add layers on top of that with WP Speakers and WP World just adds even more to your visibility in the space.

Michelle Frechette 00:33:56  It really does. It really does. And I think it’s one of those things that just helps us connect, the WP World where, you know, I’ve had somebody say to me once that, you know, they they hear that it’s such a small world. It’s a big world, but with small circles. And the WordPress circle is a big circle. But it’s easy to find people, and it’s easier if you have a way to connect with them online. So thank you for creating such a wonderful tool for that. Appreciate it.

Marcus Burnette 00:34:20  Yeah. Thanks.

Michelle Frechette 00:34:22  I don’t know what we’re going to talk about next month yet, but if you have ideas for webinars, seminars and panel discussions, let me know. You can hit us up through the Post Status contact form, or you can DM me in any of the places that you find me. And I pretty well found. So I have to do is pretty much Google me and you can find me. But I’m looking forward to some more topics and more things coming up. So thank you again, Marcus. Everybody else, we’ll see you at our next session. Have a great day.