Tickets for WordCamp Europe are already…
Tickets for WordCamp Europe are already out, though the event is in June! Hundreds have already been purchased, so if you know you’re going (I’m going!) then you might want to grab your ticket.
Tickets for WordCamp Europe are already out, though the event is in June! Hundreds have already been purchased, so if you know you’re going (I’m going!) then you might want to grab your ticket.
“WordPress as a platform is putting us on the enterprise path. But what got us here is what makes us irrelevant,” says Magne Ilsaas, CEO and Founding Partner of Dekode. Magne wants to start an overdue conversation about three big risks — and opportunities — for WordPress agencies: 1) A lack of spaces for professional conversations and knowledge-sharing, including professional events, meetups, and mastermind groups catering to enterprise WordPress. 2) Successful agencies that use WordPress extensively with little or no community involvement whose work would benefit from enterprise WordPress peer networks. 3) An over-emphasis in WordPress agencies on short-term engineering solutions to the exclusion of long-term business solutions. What’s often left out is design, user experience, and most of all the capacity to play a strategic advisory role in partnership with clients.
Our WordPress Podcast and Video Picks for the Week of June 13 🎙️ JavaScript development journeys • Questions coming out of WCEU • The WordPress toolkit for podcasters • How newcomers and outsiders view WordPress • Are WordPress developers “real developers?” • Gutenber changes • Dave Martin on WP.com • A Gutenberg roadmap for WordPress 6.1.
WordPress 6.2 Beta 1 is out now and you can help test it before final release on March 28. With that comes the end of Gutenberg Phase 2. WordPress considers a mentorship program focused on onboarding and assisting contributors.
Tomorrow I’m extremely fortunate to be speaking at WordCamp Cape Town. One of the points in my presentation is about fighting impostor syndrome. However, It has also come up in one of my many wonderful conversations with Chris Lema, and even came up when an up-and-coming WordPresser was talking to me at the pre-party tonight….
Adii Pienaar has written a post that’s an absolute must read for anyone looking to get into WordPress products. They’ve learned a lot of lessons at WooThemes, some of which would not be obvious at all without insight from someone that’s been there. This blog post is very detailed, but also aligns with the presentation…
How do we give back? We all want a community of creativity, cooperation, and contribution — how do we get there?