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Telling the stories of WordPress. What's your story? Curated by @topher1kenobe
"I often felt as though the industry had moved ahead while I was standing still. It was an uncomfortable feeling, and for a long time I questioned whether I had fallen behind." — Jina Parekh #WordPress heropress.com/essays/the-f...
"WordCamps have changed for me over the years — less about the sessions on stage, more about what happens between them. " — Volodymyr Melnychenko #WordPress heropress.com/essays/liste...
This week we also have audio, read by Moses himself, in both English and Luganda. heropress.com/essays/indeb...
Random data from Jetpack Stats on HeroPress.com for the last 7 days. I never would have guessed that linkedin would be HeroPress' primary traffic driver.
"Coming from a small village with limited exposure to computers, I never imagined that one day I would be part of a global community and attend an international event like WordCamp Asia 🌏. " — Shital Marakana #WordPress heropress.com/essays/from-...
When I posted Ray Mitchell's HeroPress essay last week I totally forgot to put i n his desktop, annotated with Draw Attention, one of my favorite #WordPress plugins! That has been fixed, check it out: heropress.com/essays/an-ei...
"I am still a month away from WordCamp Asia 2026 as I write this. I don’t know yet how it will go. But I said yes, and that feels like something." — Indira Biswas #WordPress heropress.com/essays/i-don...
"I was too reluctant to ask whether there was a place for a QA engineer in the WordPress contributor community." — Indira Biswas #WordPress heropress.com/essays/i-don...
"In 2022, during my time in the mandatory national one year paramilitary service, I organized a three week program where I demonstrated to my colleagues the possibilities with WordPress." — Chidiebere Chukwudi #WordPress heropress.com/essays/wordp...
"WordPress wasn’t just a tool for me. It helped me evolve from a designer and developer into a more complete professional." — Edo Begagić #WordPress heropress.com/essays/findi...
One of my favorite quotes from this week's HeroPress essay is this: "what you study at twenty does not have to determine your profession forever." Did you pivot? From what to what? heropress.com/essays/wordp...
In this week's HeroPress essay Emily reads her essay out loud. If you want to hear her words in her own voice check it out. #WordPress heropress.com/essays/how-a...
Hey folks, Christmas is coming, and if you give people HeroPress swag then you help support the HeroPress project AT THE SAME TIME! Woo! #WordPress thewp.world/product-cate...
"I have a new job, new friends, and I could almost say a new family, and it’s all thanks to WordPress." — Josep Morán #WordPress heropress.com/essays/from-...
Last day of WordCampUS! We’ve been over run by giant yellow monsters! You should come here and help us! Also, Wordpress.com is cool and you should try it. #wordpress #wordcamp #wcus #wcus2025
Kicking off Day 3 of WordCamp US! Many thanks to Wordpress.Com for getting me here, especially THESE people specifically! #wordpress #wordcamp #wcus #wcus2025
Showcase Day at WordCamp US starts off for me today with a meeting of the Photography team. This is my first year on the team, and I'm excited to take LOTS of photos! Many thanks to WordPress.com for the opportunity! #WordPress #WordCamp #WordCampUS #wcus #wcus2025
This week's HeroPress contributor, Mainul Kabir Aion, is here at WordCampUS with me! If you're here, be sure to greet him! #WordCamp #WordCampUS #wcus #wucs2025 heropress.com/essays/learn-connect-contribute-my-wordpress-story/
WordCampUS contributor day is in full swing! Come say hi at the Photos table. Many thanks to WordPress.com for helping me get here. #WordPress #WordCamp #wcus #wcus2025
Phase two of my journey to WordCamp US, thanks to WordPress.com ! #WordCampUS #WCUS #WCUS2025
Phase one of my trip to WordCamp US! Many thanks to WordPress.com for the help getting there! #WordPress #wcus #wcus2025
When I first heard about WordPress, people talked about it like it was a joke — the cheap shortcut for people who couldn’t “do real coding.” — Moses Cursor Ssebunya #WordPress heropress.com/essays/the-s...
“I didn’t take big leaps. I took small steps. But I took them every day. That’s how I got here.” — Monika Rao #WordPress heropress.com/essays/a-dec...
"At the age of 3.5 years, I underwent open-heart surgery — a life-saving procedure that left its mark not only on my chest but on my soul." — Pratik Bhatt #WordPress heropress.com/essays/the-j...
"In 2004, I was at home with one baby, having just left a career that I loved. Being at home with a baby full-time was shriveling up my brain." — Cathy Mitchell #WordPress heropress.com/essays/the-r...
"All I had with me was my laptop and some food packed in a WordPress tote bag I’d gotten from WCEU 2023" — Abdalsalaam Halawa #WordPress heropress.com/essays/from-...
"I quickly learned that what I had considered “normal” was not as universal as I had thought." — Stefan Kremer #WordPress heropress.com/essays/value...
"I started researching more seriously and quickly realized WordPress was far more powerful than any tool I had used before." — Caio Ferreira #WordPress heropress.com/essays/how-w...
HeroPress has a swag store! Many thanks to Marcus Burnette for setting it up. $5 of every sale goes to support HeroPress, so thank you for your support. #WordPress #HeroPress thewp.world/product-cate...