david wolfpaw

Prompt 17/20 Blog: Tell us about your first or favorite contribution to WordPress. If you haven’t officially contributed yet, tell us what are you hoping to contribute in the future. https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/24/day-17-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ I still remember my first core contribution to WordPress, which happened during WordCamp San Francisco 2013. At the time I was a Windows user,…

Prompt 16/20 Blog: Tell us your hopes (or fears) for the future of AI in WordPress. https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/23/day-16-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ I am hopeful that WordPress will incorporate AI in a meaningful way. Let me adjust that: I am hopeful that the WordPress Community will incorporate AI in ways that will improve the ecosystem for everybody. From what I’ve…

Prompt 15/20 Blog: Share a WordPress tip or trick that has made your life easier. https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/22/day-15-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ Tools that help me to write code for WordPress are among those that I’ve found most valuable. Basically, anything that will let me build out sites and plugins faster. For instance, https://generatewp.com/ lets you generate code for portions of…

Prompt 14/20 Blog: Share a “Two Truths and a Lie” about your experience with WordPress. https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/21/day-14-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ I’m gonna go the romance route on this! Because everything comes back to queer smooching with me 🏳️‍🌈 Ok, now take a moment to choose the lie before scrolling down. Ready?

Prompt 13/20 Blog: What is your favorite website built in WordPress right now (yours or anyone else’s)? https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/20/day-13-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ I know that this whole blogging experience is about celebrating WordPress, and this may feel a bit self-serving in that regard, but the Make WordPress website is a great website built with WordPress to highlight. Built with…

Prompt 12/20 Blog: What is your favorite plugin in the WordPress Plugins Directory? https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/19/day-12-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ There are so many WordPress plugins that I love, but admittedly many of them are paid plugins, not available on the repo. I mentioned on Day 8 that Gravity Forms is one of those plugins, which has saved me time and…

Prompt 10/20 Blog: Check out the WordPress Roadmap (or this Roadmap to 6.3). What upcoming WordPress projects are you most excited to see happen? https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/17/day-10-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ The full roadmap has a lot of interesting things on it, but I want to pick just a few to focus on: CMS Community I’ll focus on Community first, which…

Prompt 8/20 Blog: Tell us about the strangest, most interesting, or otherwise notable place you’ve done WordPress-related things. https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/15/day-8-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ I’m trying to think of something strange to present that I’ve done with WordPress. I’ve used it in a few sites where maybe I shouldn’t have, but nothing too out there. I have a few sites…

Prompt 6/20 Blog: Pick a song that symbolizes WordPress’ 20th anniversary to you. What is it and why? (Extra credit: Post the video!) https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/13/day-6-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ Automattic employee Julia Golomb created a playlist on both Spotify and Apple Music that celebrates songs from each of the jazz artists that WordPress releases are named after. I don’t use…