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Day 6: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks
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…
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Day 5: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks
Prompt 5/20 Blog: Tell us about the most creative use of WordPress that you have ever seen. It doesn’t have to be a website you’ve worked on, but it can be! https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/12/day-5-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ If we are talking about creative use of WordPress, and specifically of Blocks, the Museum of Block Art is a good place to…
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Day 4: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks
Prompt 4/20 Blog: Tell us about the oldest WordPress website you know of/worked on/built that you can find in the Wayback Machine. When is it from? What was it for? Screenshots encouraged. https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/11/day-4-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ Alright, I finally have to share this old site. I have avoided it in the past because quite honestly, I assumed that…
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Day 3: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks
Prompt 3/20 Blog: Do you have a favorite WordPress block? If so, tell us why! If not, tell us why not! (Note: It doesn’t have to be a core block) Post your response on a WordPress website and link it in the comments. https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/10/day-3-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ I first wanted to go the route of choosing the humble…
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Day 2: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks
Prompt 2/20 Blog: Tell us about the first website you used WordPress on. What was it for? When was it built? What happened to it? Post your response on your WordPress blog and link to it in the comments. https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/09/day-2-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ Oops, it looks like I got ahead of myself with the Day 1 prompt on…
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Day 1: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks
Prompt 1/20 Blog: What is your WordPress origin story? Share what you’ve already got on your WordPress.org profile, go into more detail, or share a new story. And if you’ve never fully filled out your profile or setup your dot-org account, now’s the time! Post your response on a WordPress website and link to it…
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david v34.0
Time for another annual product review! The thing that I do so infrequently that my last one was at v31.0 in January 2019. This time I’m not writing it as a series of release notes. Gotta shake it up! And my thoughts just aren’t flowing like that right now. Obviously a lot has happened in…
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Do what you can for your community, your friends, and yourself
Covid-19 has clearly become the most important event of the year, and will have long-term effects that we can’t even see yet. One thing that I have noticed positively is the number of people who are stepping up to help their communities. I’ve been thinking a lot about what I could do to help, and…
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Flashback Conference Recap
I was thankful to spend the start of this week at the Flashback Conference, a small event hosted in Downtown Orlando. The event had the focus of, “Celebrating web development of today and how we got here”, and I think that it delivered quite nicely. One of the reasons that I attended the event is…
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david’s Favorites of 2019
I’ve seen lots of “13 Best Whatevers of the Decade” posts going around, but I decided to limit to a few of my favorite things that I personally consumed in 2019 only, whether they were made last year or not.
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WordCamp US 2019 Recap
My friend Allie Nimmons asked recently if anyone would read a WordCamp US 2019 recap were she to publish now, and the feedback was highly positive. So much to the point that Allie published her WordCamp US Recap that same day, and inspired me to write one myself. I am not quite as quick as…