[ad_1] The WordPress Community Team has announced plans to retire CrowdSignal in September 2024 in favor of Jotform for post-event attendee surveys. Automattic-sponsored Community Engagement Specialist Isotta Peira has shared more details about the decision and the future plans. Why the Change? CrowdSignal (previously Polldaddy), owned by Automattic, has been used by the community to […]
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[ad_1] Automattic’s Community Engagement Specialist, Devin Maeztri, has announced that the WordPress Community Team will close all inactive meetup groups by September 16, 2024. Over the past month, the team has been working hard to reactivate recently inactive WordPress Meetups. “This project comes in response to recent data revealing that nearly half of our groups […]
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[ad_1] Here is Ben reading his own story aloud. この記事は日本語でも読む事が出来ます。 My interactions with tech growing up The first time I remember interacting with tech was on my parents’ Macintosh computer when I started primary school. I loved drawing with MacPaint and found it much cooler than my Etch A Sketch. Then, my parents got a […]
Continue reading[ad_1] Elon Musk has bought Twitter in a $44B deal that closed this week, tweeting “Let the good times roll,” on Friday after taking the helm. Musk fired top executives at the company and tweeted an appeal to Twitter’s advertisers to share his motivation in acquiring what is arguably the world’s most important social network: […]
Continue reading[ad_1] Це есе також доступно українською. Hey there! My name is Artemy, and I am from Ukraine. I’ve been working with WordPress since 2018. I specialize in WordPress backend development: I build and support WordPress plugins, third-party integrations, and other cool custom features. If you ask me why I love WordPress and why I decided […]
Continue reading[ad_1] Here is Katie reading her own story aloud. WordPress has changed my life in so many ways. This is the story of how I discovered WordPress and used it to build a business that gives me financial freedom and a flexible lifestyle. It’s the story of how the unique nature of the WordPress community […]
Continue reading[ad_1] I am a writer. That gives me a license — not to be overused — to steer into hyperbole once in a while. I get to be critical, sometimes overly, because I can come back the next day and shower the WordPress project with praise. Perhaps, at times, I forget to be as fair […]
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[ad_1] WordCamp US will be held online this year on October 1, 2021. Organizers are planning a free, one-day event that will feature networking opportunities, speaker sessions, and workshops. Michelle Frechette, one of the organizers, said the team is planning on hosting a contributor day and will add more information to the event’s website over […]
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[ad_1] Sure. So as a charity, we always intended to have some form of larger in-person event. Events have been something that’s had a real passion for a very long time. The ethos of bringing people together, helping reduce social isolation of lone workers is something that really fits well with everything that we’re doing […]
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[ad_1] “Here is my resume of professional Failures,” began his LinkedIn profile. On a site where most are apt to share success, Ujwal Thapa started with nearly a two-decade history of dreams that did not quite work out. Or, maybe they did in some ways. Much of Nepal is reeling from his death today. In […]
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