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This week's #WPPhotos info is a wonderful shot of a little Bavarian village set in Argentina! No cars allowed, just peace and quiet. #WordPress https://wpphotos.info/bavaria-in-argentina/

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Celebrating a Decade of Storytelling: HeroPress Turns Ten https://wp-dd.com/celebrating-a-decade-of-storytelling-heropress-turns-ten/?wpwautoposter=1739235154

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24-hour WordFest kicks off another year of giving back

At WordFest Live, I'll be presenting, "Case Study: Make WordPress Accessible for Everyone" which highlights the efforts of a six-person WordPress focused team that participated in the Knowbility Accessibility Internet Rally (AIR).

Big Orange Heart kicks off 2021‘s virtual calendar with an event focusing on giving back to remote workers, their well being, and WordPress at WordFest Live 2021. Being part of the 48 speakers lineup is really special. For those unaware, WordFest Live is a 24-hour worldwide celebration of WordPress inclusivity that takes place this Friday, January 22nd. Making the Case I’ll be presenting, “Case…

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Tiny WordPress Theme Shops Can Thrive

Today's @heropress essay makes a very strong case for the ability of very small theme shops (2 people in this case) to thrive building and selling block based themes. #WordPress https://heropress.com/essays/why-small-can-be-just-the-right-choice/

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The Sword and The Sorcerer...love that movie.

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The Three Officially Recommended WordPress Hosting Companies – A Video Introduction

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Picking a web encouraging organization is one of indisputably the main troubles you'll stand up to when setting up your own website. The authority WordPress.org site is there to help regardless, by proposing three WordPress encouraging associations, to be explicit: Bluehost, DreamHost, and SiteGround. In this video we'll explore each of these: to help you with understanding their characteristics and inadequacies — with a mind to helping you pick the right host for your own site.

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The Three Officially-Recommended WordPress Web Hosting Companies – An Introduction to Each:

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– (note: video credits to Topher DeRosia – creator of HeroPress)

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:

Howdy, this is Topher with WinningWP! In this video I'm going to give you an introduction to each of the officially proposed WordPress web encouraging associations. Regardless, what does that genuinely mean, definitively recommended? By whom? All around let me show you. We're here on WordPress.org, and right here in the major menu is an encouraging join. Moreover, if we click it we bring about these current conditions page which has three officially recommended WordPress has. We have Bluehost, DreamHost, and SiteGround. I will go over each and every one of them with you, and around the end you should have an extremely nice handle on what all of them is satisfactory at and which one might be useful for you. We should start with Bluehost. Bluehost is asserted by the Endurance International Group, which is an especially gigantic association. They actually own few encouraging associations. Bluehost was set up in and is correct now one of the greatest web has. They use over people in their Utah office and are unique in that for all intents and purposes all agents are in that Utah office. They're not spread around the country or the world like other encouraging associations. We ought to examine their site. We're expressly going to go to their page that is associated with from this page, since it's not their presentation page. It's an outstanding page just to be associated with from here. In here we have an interesting proposition for WordPress customers. For just $ . a month you can get encouraging. By and by what's captivating about this particular game plan, this isn't their managed WordPress encouraging. This is by and large old site encouraging. WordPress works uncommon on it, anyway this is the most conservative approach to getting WordPress up. With Bluehost being the greatest host in our summary, encouraging with them will look like encouraging with any gigantic, cleaned association. There will be a gigantic proportion of consistency, support is reliably there, and it for the most part has a comparative level of significant worth. Bluehost has contributed an enormous proportion of vitality gathering resources and building a streamlined system for customers to get onboarded and get set up. This is probably the host that you have to use in the event that you're very, actually essentially starting. It's fantastically modest and has smooth onboarding. So on the off chance that you're not content with getting set up, it'll be additional basic for you. We should examine the accompanying host. DreamHost is unreservedly had. It was set up in and is arranged in Los Angeles, California, and they use over people. Of the three that we're examining, this host is the most prepared. It's been around a long time, and they have a monstrous proportion of comprehension. Being in California they even have contribution in losing by far most of their help of a tremor and recovering. We should research their site. Their esteeming starts at $ . a month and has a combination of plans. Again, the central plan isn't WordPress unequivocal. It's standard encouraging and WordPress works remarkable there. Be that as it may, it's not supervised WordPress encouraging. While these other three blue ones are on DreamPress, which is their regulated encouraging structure. As the expenses go up, the benefits go up in addition. So we should explore our next host. SiteGround is in like manner openly asserted. It was set up in and is arranged in Sofia, Bulgaria. They use over people, and something that is exceptional about SiteGround is they have server ranches in five unmistakable territories. Chicago, London, Amsterdam, Milan, and Singapore. This infers your site gets reflected wherever all through the world, which can make it extra snappy. We ought to research their site. Directly their association goes clearly to their WordPress encouraging, yet what's interesting about SiteGround is there isn't a huge amount of differentiation between their standard encouraging and their WordPress regulated encouraging. Both of them have countless the features of supervised WordPress encouraging, as motorized fortifications, holding, and things like that. Their costs start at $ . a month and go up to $ . a month. Of these three, SiteGround is the spot I would go in the event that you're the most in fact educated. By and by you don't should be tremendously in fact proficient, it's not snared, anyway there are a huge amount of instruments open and they give you a great deal of flexibility in what you can do. There's something that is satisfactory to think essentially every one of the three of these hosts, is they all offer free email accounts with your encouraging. As often as possible, progressively expensive managed WordPress has won't offer email. All they offer is WordPress encouraging. Something different that they all offer is territory enrollment. Much of the time a segment of the more exorbitant has don't offer space enrollment. You have to select elsewhere and loosen up past time. Something else to note is that all of the three of these affiliations are centered around either individuals or little relationship with tinier money related plans. The packs associated with from here are largely money related arrangement encouraging plans. By and by that expressed, I need to give you one more thing. If we go to Bluehost and we're here on their spending plan encouraging, we can go to encouraging, WordPress encouraging, and here we find that for $ a month you can get directed WordPress encouraging. Additionally, the expense can go up to $ a month, and it can manage an extremely imposing site. If we come back to DreamHost we can accomplish something fundamentally the same as. We go to WordPress Hosting and it takes us to their display WordPress encouraging. Taking everything into account, with SiteGround, we can go to WordPress Services and discover extra, and this fair goes to GoGeek. Regardless, they in like manner offer under Web Hosting, Enterprise Hosting. Likewise, this is exceptionally planned encouraging. The cost is much higher, yet it allows your site to scale up. So in case you started on a $ . encouraging arrangement, you can scale up to a $ encouraging arrangement since you're making countless dollars on your site, and you don't have to leave your host. SiteGround is exceptional in this adaptability. The other two don't scale extremely that high. So we should review. The proposed has are found at WordPress.org/encouraging. They're totally engaged at individuals or little relationship with minimal money related plans, and they're all truly similar. They have their own noteworthy options, anyway they all offer shared encouraging, email, space enlistment, free SSL, etc. Bluehost is to some degree all the more effortlessly cleaned for onboarding. So on the off chance that you're totally new, that might be a not too bad spot to start. DreamHost licenses more noteworthy flexibility, it's a smaller association, and it has sublime assistance. So that would in all likelihood be my choice for somebody who's gotten a lifetime of experience effectively a couple of times and considers encouraging yet simultaneously doesn't do it reliably. SiteGround offers the most flexibility and has the most gadgets and can scale the farthest. So I would pick SiteGround if you really perceive what you need and you like to align things and you have to have control. Taking everything into account, all of the three are fine has, they work commendably, and they're an exceptional spot to start. In case you'd want to consider WordPress, take a gander at WinningWP.com.

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How WordPress Has Changed People’s Lives

It’s Friday and we could probably all use a little more positivity in our lives, especially on social media. Morten Rand-Hendriksen recently asked his followers on Twitter how WordPress has changed their lives. Here are a couple of the responses that stood out to me.

As a beginner web designer, who was struggling to find a job/work, WordPress opened the door to web development and enabled me to offer clients control over their websites. That was nearly 10 years ago and I’ve been building with WP ever since.

Keith Devon

I graduated in 2008 right into the thick of the recession. No jobs, nothing – the only way I could put food on the table and pay rent was to build WordPress sites for people. This led to my entire career in UX design, and my life would be very very different without WordPress.

Scott Sullivan

Here’s one you won’t expect. I was in an agency job I hated. I had an interview with Automattic and failed. Devastated, it forced me to look at what I really wanted. I now have my own consultancy.

Chris Taylor

I’d been working in the social field for more than 30 years. In 2015 I had to change and decided to work in the digital world. I casually met the Turin Meetup community and joined them. Then I started to contribute to the Polyglots team. Now, I’m one of the Italian GTE

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I’d been working for a hosting company and noticed how many of our users were enjoying it. Decided to go to WordCamp in 2008. The software was great, but the community was what really drew me in. I’ve been using WordPress in my career ever since then.

Ms. Velda

Made a WP website for a friend, then another, then someone who paid me… Today is 6 years and 120 clients later.

Sara Dunn

#WCSEA and specifically @adspedia reminded me that WordPress is about the inspiring people I meet at so many occasions. Beautiful minds & souls who inspired me to build a new and better life 2 years ago. It’s way more than software and individual ego.

Carole Olinger

I started by own consultancy doing WordPress for nonprofits straight out of college. Somehow, I’m still here and still loving it almost a decade later. Meetups and WordCamps (#wcsea!) were so crucial to my learning, developing as a speaker, and networking.

Mark Root-Wiley

I started working with #WordPress in 2012 after my business was sold out from under me by a ‘partner’. I ended up losing everything. Developing WordPress sites contributed to getting my Family out of debt, back on our feet. @Mor10 you’ve been an inspiration along the way…

Damian Saunders

There’s always a lot happening in the WordPress ecosystem and every once in awhile, it’s nice to step back to see how this software, which is used by millions of people across the world, is impacting lives.

I highly encourage you to read the thread in its entirety.  If you’d like to read similar, more in-depth content, check out HeroPress. HeroPress publishes inspirational essays from members of the community once a month.

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People of WordPress: Mario Peshev

You’ve probably heard that WordPress is open source software, and may know that it’s created and run by volunteers. Enthusiasts share many examples of how WordPress has changed people’s lives for the better. In this monthly series, we share some of those lesser-known, amazing stories.

Computer science in the nineties

Mario Peshev

Mario has been hooked on computers ever since he got his first one in 1996. He started with digging into MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 first and learned tons by trial and error. Following that adventure, Mario built his first HTML site in 1999. He found development so exciting that he spent day and night learning QBasic and started working at the local PC game club. Mario got involved with several other things related to website administration (translating security bulletins, setting up simple sites, etc) and soon found the technology field was full of activities he really enjoyed.

The Corporate Lifestyle

Mario started studying programming including an intensive high-level course for C#, Java development, and software engineering, and eventually got a job in a corporate environment. He soon became a team lead there, managing all the planning and paperwork for their projects.

But he continued freelancing on the side. He grew his own network of technical experts through attending, volunteering at, and organizing conferences. He also ran a technical forum and regularly spoke at universities and enterprise companies.

Remote Working and Business Opportunity

The combination of a high workload and a daily three-hour-long commute made Mario’s life difficult. Many of his friends were still studying, traveling or unemployed. The blissful and calm lives they lived seemed like a fairy tale to him. And even while both his managers and his clients were abroad, he was unable to obtain permission to work remotely. 

So Mario decided to leave his job and start freelancing full time. But he found he faced a massive challenge. 

He discovered Java projects were pretty large and required an established team of people working together in an office. All job opportunities were on-site, and some even required relocation abroad. Certified Java programmers weren’t being hired on a remote basis. 

As Mario had some PHP experience from previous jobs, he used this to start his freelance career. For his projects, he used both plain PHP and PHP frameworks like CakePHP and CodeIgniter. 

For a while, Mario accepted work using commonly known platforms including Joomla, Drupal, and WordPress. In addition, he worked on PHP, Java, Python and some C# projects for a couple of years, after which he decided to switch to WordPress completely.

Building products

One of his projects involved a technically challenging charity backed by several international organizations. Unexpected shortages in the team put him in the technical lead position. As a result, Mario found himself planning the next phases, meeting with the client regularly, and renegotiating the terms. The team completed the project successfully, and after the launch, a TV campaign led millions of visitors to the website.

As a result of the successful launch, this client invited Mario to participate in more WordPress projects, including building a custom framework.

“I wasn’t that acquainted with WordPress back then. For me, a conventional person trained in architectural design patterns and best practices, WordPress seemed like an eccentric young hipster somewhere on the line between insane and genius at the same time. I had to spend a couple of months learning WordPress from the inside out.”

Mario Peshev

As his interest in WordPress grew, Mario stopped delivering other custom platforms, and converted clients to WordPress. 

European Community

Mario presenting at a WordCamp

For Mario, one of the key selling points of WordPress was the international openness. He had previously been involved with other open source communities, some of which were US-focused. He felt they were more reliant on meeting people in person. With events only taking place in the US, this made building relationships much harder for people living in other countries.

While the WordPress project started out in the US, the WordPress community quickly globalized. Dozens of WordCamps and hundreds of Meetup events take place around the globe every year.  All of these events bring a wide variety of people sharing their enthusiasm for WordPress together.

For Mario, the birth of WordCamp Europe was something magical. The fact that hundreds, and later on thousands, of people from all over the world gathered around the topic of WordPress speaks for itself. Mario has been involved with organizing WordCamp Europe twice (in 2014 and 2015). 

“There’s nothing like meeting WordPress enthusiasts and professionals from more than 50 countries brainstorming and working together at a WordCamp. You simply have to be there to understand how powerful it all is.”

Mario Peshev

Growing businesses and teams

A key WordPress benefit is its popularity – an ever growing project currently powering more than 35% of the Internet [2020]. It’s popular enough to be a de facto standard for websites, platforms, e-commerce and blogs. 

WordPress has a low barrier to entry. You can achieve a lot without being an expert, meaning most people can start gaining experience without having to spend years learning how to code. That also makes it easier to build businesses and teams.

“Being able to use a tool that is user-friendly, not overly complicated and easily extensible makes introducing it to team members faster and easier. It requires less time for adjustment, and as a result makes a team stronger and faster. The fact that this tool is cost-effective also allows more startups to enter the market. It requires  less time and investments to launch an MVP. This boosts the entire ecosystem.”

Mario Peshev

Helping Others

Mario also introduced WordPress to children and young people. He taught them how to use WordPress as a tool for homework and class assignments. By using WordPress, they were able to learn the basics of designing themes, developing plugins, marketing statistics, social media, copywriting, and so much more. This approachable introduction to the software meant technical skills were not needed.

He was also part of a team of volunteers who helped a group of young people living at a foster home struggling to provide for themselves. The team taught the basic digital literacy skills necessary in the modern workplace and potentially pay for their rent and basic needs. This included working with Microsoft Word, Excel and WordPress, as well as some basic design and marketing skills. 

“When you look at that from another perspective, a platform that could save lives – literally – and change the world for better is worth contributing to, in any possible manner.”

Mario Peshev

Contributing to the WordPress community

From the core team to supporting and organizing WordCamps, Mario has long been an active contributor to the global WordPress project. He is passionate about the connections fostered by people who are involved in building both the WordPress software and the community around it.

“The WordPress community consists of people of all race and color, living all around the world, working as teachers, developers, bloggers, designers, business owners. Let’s work together to help each other. Let’s stick together and show  the world WordPress can help make it a better place.”

Mario Peshev

Contributors

Thanks to Alison Rothwell (@wpfiddlybits), Yvette Sonneveld (@yvettesonneveld), Abha Thakor (@webcommsat), Josepha Haden (@chanthaboune) and Topher DeRosia (@topher1kenobe). Thank you to Mario Peshev (@nofearinc) for sharing his #ContributorStory.

This post is based on an article originally published on HeroPress.com, a community initiative created by Topher DeRosia. HeroPress highlights people in the WordPress community who have overcome barriers and whose stories would otherwise go unheard.

Meet more WordPress community members over at HeroPress.com!

Original source: https://wordpress.org/news/2020/04/people-of-wordpress-mario-peshev/

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My quest to meet new people lead me to Rahissa and Herman! "Voices Of WordCamp Europe: Josephine (Rahissa) Ngo Nonog and Herman Ngembu" https://heropress.com/voices-of-wordcamp-europe-josephine-rahissa-ngo-nonog-and-herman-ngembu/

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Celebrating a Decade of Storytelling: HeroPress Turns Ten https://wp-dd.com/celebrating-a-decade-of-storytelling-heropress-turns-ten/?wpwautoposter=1739120088

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Hindsight 2020: HeroPress spotlights how WordPress and Community saved my life

As next weekend's WordFest Live approaches, I look back at meeting one of the event team organizers, Cate DeRosia, and her husband "Topher"​. Their invitation to share my story of healing and rebirth through the WordPress Community on HeroPress.

I firmly believe that not keeping my brain busy during the pandemic would have resulted in losing my mind. As this weekend’s WordFest Live approaches, I look back at meeting one of the event team organizers, Cate DeRosia, and her husband “Topher”​. Their invitation to share my story of healing and rebirth through the WordPress Community on HeroPress, “Second Chances: How A Trip Back Into The…

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Lazy Sunday? Think Like a Hacker's latest will engage your mind. In ep38, we discuss @automattic's purchase of @tumblr & the ramifications for @WordPress. In ep39, we interview @topher1kenobe about @HeroPress, @BigCommerce, & headless eCommerce/publishing. https://t.co/DT93zHTAIG https://t.co/uZ4g7i7oOp

Lazy Sunday? Think Like a Hacker's latest will engage your mind. In ep38, we discuss @automattic's purchase of @tumblr & the ramifications for @WordPress. In ep39, we interview @topher1kenobe about @HeroPress, @BigCommerce, & headless eCommerce/publishing. https://t.co/DT93zHTAIG pic.twitter.com/uZ4g7i7oOp

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