Carole joined the WordPress community back in 2016 and has been working with key companies in the industry ever since. As the Culture & Recruitment Strategist at Yoast, she's dedicated to taking team culture and recruitment marketing to the next…
Community Roundup Week Ending April 14
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
Post Status and Atarim Summit Post Status is partnering with Atarim to bring you an amazing Web Agency Summit. Atarim is doing the heavy lifting (it's shaping up to be an amazing event with awesome speakers and virtual areas to…
Member Spotlight: Amber Hinds
Michelle Frechette
BlogsMember Spotlights
Amber Hinds is the CEO of Equalize Digital, Inc., a Certified B Corp specializing in WordPress accessibility, maker of the Accessibility Checker plugin, lead organizer of the WordPress Accessibility Meetup, and co-lead organizer of the WordPress Accessibility Day conference. Through…
Community Roundup Week Ending April 7
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
Podcasting in WordPress I heard from Topher DeRosia today that WPPodcasts has amplified over 11,000 WordPress podcast episodes. That's a lot of hours worth of listening to content centered around WordPress. And that's not a bad thing. I've heard the…
Member Spotlight: James LePage
Michelle Frechette
BlogsMember Spotlights
James LePage is a tech entrepreneur and experienced web developer with a focus on WordPress development and AI-powered tools. He is the founder of Isotropic, a digital agency based in New York City that specializes in building custom WordPress websites…
Member Spotlight: Robby McCullough
Michelle Frechette
BlogsMember Spotlights
Hi 👋🏼 I'm Robby. My two business partners and I started Beaver Builder about 10 years ago. We had a web agency and transitioned into selling software full-time. These days, I mostly lead our marketing efforts along with our marketing…
Community Roundup Week Ending March 31
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
The Wayback Machine Do you ever use any of the mechanisms in place for looking back over time? Whether it's the Wayback Machine, Facebook Memories, or simply scrolling back through the photos in your phone, our histories make us who…
Community Roundup Week Ending March 24
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
It's Not About Luck "If you’re going to tell me about all the good luck I’ve had to get to where I am, then are you also going to talk about the bad luck I had to overcome to get…
Member Spotlight: Marcus Burnette
Michelle Frechette
BlogsMember Spotlights
For the better part of the last 10 years, Marcus has been a WordPress designer and developer, focusing on small- to medium-sized businesses that wanted to sell their products online. He worked for a small marketing agency in Orlando, Florida,…
Community Roundup Week Ending March 17
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
Events are Back WordCamps, summits, and other conferences are back! In the last few years the roster of WordCamps on WordCamp.org have been sparse, to say the least. As of today there are eighteen upcoming WordCamps on the schedule, and…
Member Spotlight: James Giroux
Michelle Frechette
BlogsMember Spotlights
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…
Community Roundup Week Ending March 10
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
Community and Layoffs "Layoffs." The word sparks fear in the tech community. From Stripe to Twitter to our own ecosystem, the recession hasn't been friendly to tech employees. Having been laid off in a past career (higher education), I know…
Community Roundup Week Ending March 3
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
Your Legacy Matters Back in 1986 my grandmother and I went shopping and bought "a ton" of flannel fabric. She was going to make pajamas for all of her grandchildren. But then she got sick and in 1988 she passed…
Community Roundup Week Ending February 24
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
What a week it's been! This week started with WordCamp Asia and is ending with a 30+ hour journey home. I've learned a few things over the past few weeks that are worth sharing: The WordPress community remains optimistic about…
Community Roundup February 17, 2023
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
WordCamp Asia is Amazing Are you coming to WordCamp Asia? It started today! (February 17-19 in Bangkok, Thailand.) With more than 60 speakers contributing to 2 days of talks, 100’s of organizers and volunteers, and contributor day, it is going…
Community Roundup February 10, 2023
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
WordCamp Asia Are you going to WordCamp Asia? It’s next week! (February 17-19 in Bangkok, Thailand.) With more than 60 speakers contributing to 2 days of talks, 100’s of organizers and volunteers, and contributor day, it looks to be an…
