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Prior to that he would not have been able to financially afford the additional time investment that WP-CLI requires. 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Three hundred and two (302) respondents from 61 countries completed the survey and provided valuable and interesting feedback. Many thanks!</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<h2>Survey Design/Method</h2>\n<p>The survey contained 36 questions geared towards <a href=\"https://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2016/07/13/priorities-for-the-next-12-months/\">Site Builders and WordPress Developers</a>. Adjusting to this more focused target audience compared to previous years&#8217;, I selected some questions from our BuddyPress <a href=\"https://buddypress.org/2013/09/2013-buddypress-codex-survey-results/\">2013</a>, <a href=\"https://buddypress.org/2014/03/2014-buddypress-survey-results/\">2014</a> and <a href=\"https://buddypress.org/2015/05/2015-buddypress-survey-results/\">2015</a> Surveys, combined/split/modified some of the questions, and added 15 new questions. The survey was designed to maximize responses and get snapshots of:<br />\n&#8211; basic demographic information<br />\n&#8211; versions of WordPress, BuddyPress, bbPress, and PHP used<br />\n&#8211; the types, languages, number of members in BP sites<br />\n&#8211; comfort levels with BuddyPress, BP theme compatibility, and BP Hooks<br />\n&#8211; development practices and tools<br />\n&#8211; respondents willing to share their BP use cases<br />\n&#8211; BuddyPress participation and contributions<br />\n&#8211; comments about BuddyPress, BP theme/plugin development, and the survey.</p>\n<p>The questionnaire was finalized after incorporating the feedback on the draft from the BP Lead/Core Developers last year. The survey was then promoted via Twitter, BP support forums, bpdevel.wordpress.com, and survey banners added by <a class=\"bp-suggestions-mention\" href=\"https://buddypress.org/members/johnjamesjacoby/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@johnjamesjacoby</a> at https://buddypress.org and https://codex.buddypress.org which helped a lot.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<h2>Key Findings</h2>\n<p>This section shows some of the highlights from the survey with short comments about each. All supporting graphs, tables, and user comments from this survey are available in the accessible and mobile-friendly webpage.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h3>A. What&#8217;s New</h3>\n<h4>1. PHP Versions Used</h4>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265119\" src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/php-version.png\" alt=\"99% using PHP 5.3+\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" /><br />\n<a href=\"https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/buddypress-2-8-will-require-php-5-3/\">BuddyPress 2.8 requires at least PHP 5.3</a>. It&#8217;s encouraging to learn that 99% of respondents&#8217; sites are on PHP version 5.3.x or better. Kudos to the 88% of respondents who are already using PHP 5.6.x or better for their sites.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>2. Years Using BuddyPress</h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/using-buddypress.png\" alt=\"45% have using BuddyPress for a year or less\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265122\" /><br />\nProviding additional context for the results of this survey, a whopping 45% of respondents have been using BuddyPress for a year or less. Welcome!<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>3. Testing BuddyPress</h4>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265120\" src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/test-stable.png\" alt=\"58% test BudddyPress at Stable Release\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" /><br />\nThe majority of builders/developers (58%) prefer to test their sites, themes, and plugins against BuddyPress stable releases while 27% do so a month after Stable release and 13% test sites at RC 1. Eleven percent (11%) do not test BuddyPress.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>4. Keep Updated with BuddyPress Development</h4>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265121\" src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/keep-updated.png\" alt=\"66% read changelogs to keep updated\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" /><br />\nFollowing the top-ranked preference of reading changelogs to keep updated with BuddyPress development, users ranked these preferences almost evenly: follow BP Twitter account/s (32%), subscribe to <a href=\"https://bpdevel.wordpress.com/\">bpdevel.wordpress.com</a> (32%), and checking <a href=\"https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org\">buddypress.trac.wordpress.org </a> regularly (29%).<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>5. BuddyPress Knowledge</h4>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"col\">Knowledge</th>\n<th scope=\"col\">BuddyPress</th>\n<th scope=\"col\">BP Themes</th>\n<th scope=\"col\">BP Hooks</th>\n</tr>\n</thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Beginner</th>\n<td>31%</td>\n<td>34%</td>\n<td>39%</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Intermediate</th>\n<td>42%</td>\n<td>32%</td>\n<td>26%</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Advanced</th>\n<td>19%</td>\n<td>13%</td>\n<td>11%</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Expert</th>\n<td>8%</td>\n<td>7%</td>\n<td>8%</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">What _*_?</th>\n<td>n/a</td>\n<td>14%</td>\n<td>16%</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<p>The table above is a compilation of the answers to three questions which sought to gauge the users&#8217; confidence or comfort levels with BuddyPress in general, BP Theme Compatibility, and BP Plugin development.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>6. BuddyPress Theme Dev</h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/customize-theme-1.png\" alt=\"51% customize BP style sheets every time\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265196\" /><br />\nOn the other side of the equation: 27% sometimes customize style sheets while the remaining 22% never customize BP style sheets.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>7. BuddyPress Plugin Dev</h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/customize-plugin-1.png\" alt=\"46% extend profile component sometimes\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265200\" /><br />\nAround a third of BP users extend the following components every time: Members, Extended Profiles, User Groups, and Activity.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>8. Number of Members</h4>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265125\" src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/member-number.png\" alt=\"58% of sites have up to 500 members\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" /><br />\nMost of the respondents who had up to 500 members are those using BP for 2 years or less, have BP installed in WP domain root, have sites on Shared hosting plans, on PHP 5.6 or better, test against BP Stable release, and on the latest versions of WordPress, BuddyPress, and bbPress.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>9. Local Development</h4>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265126\" src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/local-dev.png\" alt=\"23% use LAMP for local development\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" /><br />\nOut of the 70% who develop locally, the preferred local development environments after LAMP are: XAMPP (19%), MAMP (18%), WAMP (13%), and VVV (13%), among others.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>10. Sharing BuddyPress Use Cases</h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/bp-share-use-cases.png\" alt=\"63 participants signed up to share their BP use cases\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265208\" /><br />\nExpect posts about how site builders or developers are using BuddyPress. Thank you to everyone who signed up!<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h3>B. Trends</h3>\n<h4>1. Using BuddyPress</h4>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265127\" src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/use-buddypress.png\" alt=\"62% use BuddyPress for own sites\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" /><br />\nFor the fourth year in a row, &#8220;I use BuddyPress in My Own Site&#8221; ranks number one (62% in this survey), followed by &#8220;I build BuddyPress sites for others&#8221; at 37%. One participant commented &#8220;Also have a family BuddyPress site on a raspberry pi (in dev).&#8221;<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>2. Languages of BuddyPress Sites</h4>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265128\" src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/bp-lang-2016.jpg\" alt=\"Languages used in BuddyPress sites\" width=\"2444\" height=\"1543\" /><br />\nFor the third year (2013, 2015, 2016), the English language is used in most of the sites (69%). This is followed by Spanish (11%), German (10%), and French (9%), among many others.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>3. Types of BuddyPress Sites</h4>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265129\" src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/bp-types-2016.jpg\" alt=\"Types of BuddyPress sites built\" width=\"2431\" height=\"1547\" /><br />\nFor the third year (2013, 2015, 2016), Generic (33%), Academic (29%), Sports (16%), Artistic (15%), and Gaming (12%) are the most common types of BuddyPress sites built. Generic and Academic types are consistently in the top two spots.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>4. BuddyPress Versions Used</h4>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265130\" src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/buddypress-version.png\" alt=\"86% use BuddyPress 2.7 during survey\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" /><br />\nEighty six percent (86%) are on BuddyPress 2.7+, followed by BP 2.6+ (23%), BP 2.5+ (6%), BP 2.4+ (4%), and BP 2.3+ (4%). Note: BP 2.7.x was the current release version during the survey period.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>5. WordPress Versions Used</h4>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265131\" src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/wordpress-version.png\" alt=\"92% use WordPress 4.6+ during survey\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" /><br />\nNinety two percent (92%) have WordPress 4.6+ installed, followed by WP 4.5+ (13%), WP 4.4+ (5%), WP 4.3+ (3%), and WP 4.2+ (3%). Note: WordPress 4.6 was the current major release version when the survey was launched.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>6. BuddyPress Setups</h4>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265132\" src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/bp-install-in-wp.png\" alt=\"72% installed at WP domain root\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" /><br />\nBuddyPress activated in a single WordPress installation continues to be popular with 72% of the respondents in 2016 as it was in the 2013 survey with 75%.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>7. BuddyPress Hosting</h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/hosting-bp.png\" alt=\"48% use shared hosting for BP sites\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265134\" /><br />\nFor sites hosted on Shared Hosting plans: half have 500 members or less, 40% of the sites are on single WP in domain root, 47% on PHP 5.6 or better, almost half of the respondents have been using BuddyPress for a year or less, and a little more than a third use BuddyPress for their own sites.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>8. Other Software Evaluated</h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/evaluated-none.png\" alt=\"54% chose BuddyPress without further ado\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265135\" /><br />\nFor the third year in a row, most of the users (54% for 2016) shared that they did not evaluate any other networking/membership plugin/software before selecting BuddyPress.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>9. Contributions to BuddyPress development</h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/contribute-bp-dev.png\" alt=\"58% have not contributed to BP development\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265136\" /><br />\nNote: 26% of the 58% who indicated that they have not participated nor contributed to BuddyPress development have also checked that they: helped out in the BP forums,  reported bugs at BP Trac, submitted patches at BP Trac, among others.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>10. bbPress Versions Used</h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/bbpress-version.png\" alt=\"89% use bbPress 2.5+\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265137\" /><br />\nConsistent with the vast majority using the latest versions of WordPress and BuddyPress at the time of this survey, 89% of respondents are using the latest version of bbPress which provides a <a href=\"https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/extend/buddypress\">tight integration with BuddyPress</a>.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>11. bbPress Setups in BuddyPress</h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/bbpress-setup.png\" alt=\"66% use sitewide and group forums\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265138\" /><br />\nFor the third year in a row, the Sitewide and Group Forums setup is the most popular bbPress configuration at 60%, a big bump from its 49% first place ranking in 2015.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h3>C. Shifts</h3>\n<h4>1. Female Participation in Survey</h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/female-gender-1.png\" alt=\"13% female developers and site builders\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265191\" /><br />\nThe number of female respondents increased from 8% (17) in 2015 to 13% (37) in this survey. Levels of BuddyPress knowledge range from Beginner through Expert.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>2. BuddyPress Sites Per Respondent</h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/bp-sites-built.png\" alt=\"36% built 2 to 5 BuddyPress sites\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265142\" /><br />\nIn 2015, 41% of respondents (87) built or were responsible for one site followed by 38% (80) with 2 to 5 sites. For 2016, there were more developers who built or were responsible for 2 to 5 sites (99) than for only one site (95).<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>3. Number of Survey Participants</h4>\n<p><img src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2017/04/302-participants-1.png\" alt=\"302 Participants for BuddyPress 2016 Survey\" width=\"800\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265204\" /></p>\n<p>The number of respondents increased from 211 from 42 countries in the 2015 survey up to 302 respondents from 61 countries for the 2016 survey. We are grateful to everyone who took the time to take the survey.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h2>Acknowledgements</h2>\n<p><strong>Survey Participants</strong>: Net total of 302 who completed the survey<br />\n<strong>Online Survey Solution</strong>: <a href=\"https://polldaddy.com\">Polldaddy.com</a> and <a href=\"https://automattic.com/\">Automattic.com</a> for the corporate account<br />\n<strong>Survey Preparation</strong>: <a class=\"bp-suggestions-mention\" href=\"https://buddypress.org/members/mercime/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@mercime</a>, <a class=\"bp-suggestions-mention\" href=\"https://buddypress.org/members/johnjamesjacoby/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@johnjamesjacoby</a>, <a class=\"bp-suggestions-mention\" href=\"https://buddypress.org/members/boonebgorges/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@boonebgorges</a>, <a class=\"bp-suggestions-mention\" href=\"https://buddypress.org/members/djpaul/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@djpaul</a>, <a class=\"bp-suggestions-mention\" href=\"https://buddypress.org/members/r-a-y/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@r-a-y</a>, <a class=\"bp-suggestions-mention\" href=\"https://buddypress.org/members/imath/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@imath</a>, <a class=\"bp-suggestions-mention\" href=\"https://buddypress.org/members/dcavins/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@dcavins</a>, <a class=\"bp-suggestions-mention\" href=\"https://buddypress.org/members/hnla/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@hnla</a>, and <a class=\"bp-suggestions-mention\" href=\"https://buddypress.org/members/tw2113/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@tw2113</a><br />\n<strong>Survey Report</strong>: <a href=\"https://github.com/\">Github.com</a> (gh-pages), <a href=\"https://products.office.com/en-us/excel\">Microsoft Excel</a>, <a href=\"https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive\">Google Documents &amp; Spreadsheets</a>, and <a href=\"http://www.tagxedo.com/app.html\">tagxedo.com</a>.<br />\n&nbsp;</p>\n<h2>Moving Forward</h2>\n<p>BuddyPress will be celebrating the <a href=\"https://buddypress.org/2009/04/buddypress-10-has-arrived/\">8th anniversary of the first stable release</a> on April 30, 2017. Thanks to @apeatling and the many contributors who brought that milestone to fruition. 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Keep abreast of the latest BuddyPress news at <a href=\"https://bpdevel.wordpress.com/\">bpdevel.wordpress.com/</a>, <a href=\"https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org\">buddypress.trac.wordpress.org</a>, Twitter @buddypress @buddypressdev @bptrac, and/or weekly BuddyPress Dev Chats at the <a href=\"http://BuddyPress Dev Chats at #buddypress channe\">#buddypress channel</a> (<a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/chat/\">WP Slack account required</a>).</p>\n<p>Finally, all supporting graphs, tables, and comments from this survey are available on the accessible and mobile-friendly <a href=\"http://mercime.github.io/BuddyPress-2016-survey-results/\">BuddyPress 2016 Survey Results webpage</a>. 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This has started happening with Nijmegen already and can easily start happening more with WordCamps in Utrecht, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and other cities.&#8221;</p>\n<p>The Netherlands is <a href=\"http://mapfight.appspot.com/nl-vs-us.md/netherlands-maryland-us-size-comparison\" target=\"_blank\">roughly the size of Maryland</a>, or twice the size of New Jersey, in terms of land space. One can drive across the country in two hours or less. The WCNL team contends that a country-wide WordCamp makes sense for geographical reasons and because of the locations of the organizers. The country already has an active meetup culture with 13 different meetups hosting an average of 100 attendees per event. Organizers do not see the need to have multiple smaller WordCamps fill the role that the local meetups are already doing.</p>\n<p>In response to the reasons WCNL organizers&#8217; outlined for not shutting down their event, the WCS representative replied, &#8220;I don’t think there’s really any benefit to responding to all of your points in the last email individually.&#8221; WCS reiterated its decision regarding the camp:</p>\n<blockquote><p>We will not be approving WordCamp The Netherlands 2017. We would like to see city-based WordCamps happening around the Netherlands – Nijmegen being a great start to that process.</p>\n<p>We’re confident that with the space that WCNL filled being vacated, we will see some of the meetup organizers around the country stepping up to fill that space for their local communities. The local city camps may be smaller, but in many ways that can be a much better than a single large camp.</p>\n<p>As I said before, we would be happy to look at doing WCNL again in a couple of years time once there are a few city-based camps around the country happening regularly. In that case, however, WCNL would be there to complement, and not replace, the city-based camps.</p></blockquote>\n<p>WordCamp Netherlands was the last remaining exception to this new rule that drops country-wide WordCamps in favor of city-based camps. The Dutch community and many of its supporters are <a href=\"https://twitter.com/roytanck/status/847365810506969089\" target=\"_blank\">now</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/jrf_nl/status/847470162496241664\" target=\"_blank\">in</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/nielsvr/status/847384382541148161\" target=\"_blank\">an</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/mchaste/status/847374014414704645\" target=\"_blank\">uproar</a> over the decision and organizers are at a crossroads. They can choose to rebrand the event as WordCamp Utrecht, with significant drawbacks, or move forward with an independent country-wide event without the use of WordCamp tools, branding and trademarks, or funding from the Global Community Sponsorship Program.</p>\n<h3>WordCamp Netherlands Conflict Highlights Cultural Differences Between the U.S. and Europe</h3>\n<p>Marcel Bootsman, who heads up the 13-person WordCamp Netherlands organization team, said they have been working since late December 2016 on the upcoming event. The team had added eight new members after the event grew 68% from 2015 to 2016.</p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody was thrilled to start, and the news that we could not continue hit us hard,&#8221; Bootsman said. &#8220;We have officially stopped and I have thanked everyone for their enthusiasm and support, which was difficult because I wanted to let these people feel what it is to organize an event and see happy faces all over the place.&#8221;</p>\n<p>WordPress developer and Dutch community member Juliette Reinders Folmer said she doesn&#8217;t believe that more than one or perhaps two city-based WordCamps will get started in the Netherlands. Organizing a WordCamp is not an easy endeavor with a small pool of local organizers and volunteers. Folmer notes that since the WordPress Foundation doesn&#8217;t allow for compensating speakers for their out-of-pocket costs, the speaker pool is further limited.</p>\n<p>&#8220;A trend I&#8217;ve spotted over the last few years is that &#8216;local&#8217; WCs will have a mix of local, national and international speakers,&#8221; Folmer said. &#8220;While national speakers might still be prepared to go out of pocket, the only international speakers who can afford to do this are the ones who are sponsored by big companies which pay their travel and time to speak at those WCs.</p>\n<p>&#8220;Instead of creating a larger speaker group with new and interesting voices, we&#8217;re ending up with a corporate uniform message where the more innovative and sometimes dissident voices are few and far between. By forcing WCNL to break up into smaller more local groups, this trend will become even more persistent and insidious as the demands on the limited group of national speakers will increase unless they have corporate sponsoring. Even they will not able to afford the time and costs to attend and speak at the various local WCs.&#8221;</p>\n<p>Remkus de Vries, WordCamp Netherlands lead-organizer from 2009 to 2015, said the team has worked for years to see the local communities come together, and have seen people get involved with translations, forum moderation, and local meetups after attending the WordCamps.</p>\n<p>&#8220;Our idea from the get go for WordCamp Netherlands was to be as inclusive as possible, to unite the scattered Dutch WordPress community,&#8221; de Vries said. &#8220;The Dutch community consisted of little islands that didn&#8217;t really connect at all. We&#8217;ve been working very hard to unite our Dutch Community via WordCamp Netherlands and it was working perfectly.</p>\n<p>&#8220;Because of our inclusive approach we started getting international visitors and speakers from the early start as well, but more importantly, the event, as a national event, pulled everyone in from all corners of the Netherlands. Our community started and flourished because we started as a central entity.&#8221;</p>\n<p>Bootsman is not optimistic about the future of the Dutch WordPress community after receiving the decision from WCS. The conflict has highlighted a key difference between U.S. and European cultures when it comes to traveling. Whereas Americans might think a 4-5 hour drive to another city is a short road trip, Europe&#8217;s population is much more dense than the U.S. and traveling several hours to another city is not common.</p>\n<p>&#8220;When there is no WordCamp Netherlands, my personal belief is that this will break up the community,&#8221; Bootsman said. &#8220;Of course we will have central tools like Slack, nl.w.org and other ways to communicate, but that is nothing compared to an event where all these people can meet. People are busy and can&#8217;t find time to visit multiple WordCamps in the Netherlands. Distances are not that large in NL, that is not an issue, but time is. When you have a central WordCamp The Netherlands once a year you plan, so you are available to go. In the new situation, when there is a WordCamp Rotterdam, why visit a WordCamp in another town? This maybe hard to understand, but this is how it works for Dutch people. We&#8217;re too practical sometimes, and in this situation, it will not help the community.&#8221;</p>\n<h3>WordCamp Netherlands Organizers are Considering Hosting an Independent Event</h3>\n<p>Both de Vries and Bootsman are said they do not believe rules that make sense for the U.S. should be applied universally. They would prefer them to be guidelines that communities can follow or depart from if they express their preference for a country-wide WordCamp. WordPress communities in other countries like Denmark, Croatia, and Switzerland have expressed similar frustrations with the U.S.-centric rules.</p>\n<p>&#8220;WordCamp Netherlands was what started the local WordPress meetups and ended up being the glue between the WordPress Meetups,&#8221; de Vries said. &#8220;Forcing us to stop using WordCamp Netherlands is going to impact that as you could see by the outpouring of reactions yesterday on Twitter and Facebook. Renaming WordCamp Netherlands to WordCamp Utrecht, as suggested by many, could be a solution, but nobody of the organizing team lives in the city which means, per the WCS rules, we can&#8217;t do that. But more importantly, we would be losing &#8216;our glue.&#8217; We feel that our efforts of the last years have just been flushed down the toilet with this &#8216;one-size-fits-all&#8217; rule.&#8221;</p>\n<p>Although WCNL organizers were told in no uncertain terms that their camp is cancelled, a recent <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/community/2017/03/30/wordcamp-netherlands-today-the/\" target=\"_blank\">post</a> on the Community team blog indicates that representatives are considering feedback on the decision.</p>\n<p>The first two WordCamp Netherlands were not under the umbrella of WordCamp Central, and de Vries said they will find a way to have the camp if it comes to that. 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Feedback has been rolling in <a href=\"https://wptavern.com/wordpress-relaunches-plugin-directory-with-new-design-and-improved-search-algorithm#comments\">from Tavern readers</a> and members of the <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/advancedwp/permalink/1446257985436411/?match=cGx1Z2luKyBkaXJlY3RvcnkscGx1Z2luIGRpcmVjdG9yeSxwbHVnaW5z\">Advanced WordPress Facebook group</a>.</p>\n<p>The improvements to search has received a number of positive comments in addition to people requesting the ability <a href=\"https://wptavern.com/wordpress-relaunches-plugin-directory-with-new-design-and-improved-search-algorithm#comment-216693\">to sort results</a>. The responsive design and aesthetics of the page have also received praise.</p>\n<p>There are a number of items that plugin developers and users have reported as downsides to the new design. Some of the most notable include:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plugin stats are only available to the plugin author by logging into the admin.</li>\n<li>Tabbed layout was replaced with a series of Read more links.</li>\n<li>Plugin banner images are distorted.</li>\n<li>The Installation tab which provided instructions on how to install the plugin is gone.</li>\n<li>Screenshots do not open in a lightbox, but open on a new page instead.</li>\n<li>Links to download older versions of plugins is missing.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Many of the issues reported above are known and have been known for months. While it may seem like a lot of people are <a href=\"https://wptavern.com/wordpress-relaunches-plugin-directory-with-new-design-and-improved-search-algorithm#comment-216738\">suddenly complaining</a> and didn&#8217;t participate in the feedback loop, it&#8217;s important to look back to see how the plugin directory redesign reached this point.</p>\n<h2>From Prototypes to Open Beta</h2>\n<p>In May 2016, the WordPress Meta team <a href=\"https://wptavern.com/wordpress-meta-team-publishes-prototypes-of-the-plugin-directory-redesign\">published prototypes</a> of a new design for the WordPress plugin directory. The announcement generated <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2016/05/19/plugin-directory-prototypes/\">abundant feedback</a> with a strong push towards adding data instead of removing it.</p>\n<p>Many users <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2016/05/19/plugin-directory-prototypes/#comment-8151\">reported</a> that moving the plugin author, last updated, and active install information from the plugin&#8217;s listing page to the plugin&#8217;s details page was a downside. Samuel Sidler, Apollo Team Lead at Automattic, <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2016/05/19/plugin-directory-prototypes/#comment-8154\">responded</a> to the feedback explaining why he didn&#8217;t think showing the information to users was useful.</p>\n<blockquote><p>Author, as you said, is only really useful for insiders. The latter two, meanwhile, are already taken into account in the search results. If a plugin doesn’t have a recent compatible version, it will move down the list. If it’s too old, it won’t get shown at all (which is the case today).</p>\n<p>Active installs is more interesting, but we account for it weighting search results as-is. I actually find it refreshing to <em>not</em> show the active installs as it allows for less-popular plugins to get more downloads. Users will be less likely to click the popular plugins (outside of familiar names) and more likely to find the plugin they actually need.</p></blockquote>\n<p>There was also a lot of discussion on how to improve and display search results.</p>\n<p>In June 2016, at WordCamp Europe, Konstantin Obenland, WordPress core contributor, <a href=\"https://wptavern.com/new-wordpress-plugin-directory-now-in-open-beta\">announced</a> that the WordPress plugin directory redesign was in open beta. The team received feedback from Matt Mullenweg, co-creator of the WordPress project, on changing the direction and design of the page. “We’re really just at the beginning of design iterations,” Obenland said. “He thinks we can do better, which he’s right about. We can and we should.”</p>\n<p>Kevan <a href=\"https://wptavern.com/new-wordpress-plugin-directory-now-in-open-beta#comment-185077\">commented on the open beta</a> and pointed out many of the same issues that were reported with the prototypes. In July 2016, Obenland <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2016/07/12/plugin-directory-v3-open-beta/\">announced</a> version three of the open beta. The use of Read more links in favor of the tabbed interface was again <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2016/07/12/plugin-directory-v3-open-beta/#comment-8400\">brought up</a> in the comments by John Blackbourn.</p>\n<p>&#8220;I’m really concerned about the liberal use of &#8216;Read more&#8217; links on individual plugin pages,&#8221; Blackbourn said. &#8220;They’re being used in order to fix the information overload problem caused by placing all the information onto one page, instead of using the tabbed interface of the current directory.&#8221;</p>\n<p>In response to Blackbourn, <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2016/07/12/plugin-directory-v3-open-beta/#comment-8413\">Joy stated</a> that the issue of Read more links had already been discussed and that the feedback was ignored. The feeling of being ignored was also shared <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2016/07/12/plugin-directory-v3-open-beta/#comment-8476\">by Jon Brown</a>.</p>\n<p>&#8220;It’s hard to see feedback has been heard and in this case a lot of it doesn’t seem to have been taken into account (bring back tabs, no read more…).&#8221; Brown said. &#8220;I don’t see everything, or even much, so I could have certainly missed it.&#8221;</p>\n<p>Mika Epstein <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2016/07/12/plugin-directory-v3-open-beta/#comment-8418\">responded</a> that the feedback was not ignored and that Obenland was in the process of collecting and collating information.</p>\n<p>Four months ago, Kenshino <a href=\"https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2328\">created a ticket</a> on WordPress Meta that outlined usability concerns with using Read more links instead of tabs.</p>\n<p>&#8220;Clicking on <span class=\"searchword0\">Read</span> <span class=\"searchword1\">more</span> &#8211; say on the change log requires me to scroll to the bottom before I&#8217;m able to reach the next section,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Essentially for me to go through all the sections, provided that they are long enough, I&#8217;d have to click, scroll a few pages, click, scroll a few pages etc until I get through all the sections.&#8221;</p>\n<p>The ticket was closed as a duplicate of <a href=\"https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2278\">Greg Ross&#8217; ticket</a>. In it, he suggests a Jump section be added so users can navigate to specific sections of the Read Me without having to scroll through the entire page. The ticket has received minor support and recently had its milestone changed from version three to a future version.</p>\n<h2>WordPress Contributors Feel Ignored</h2>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02QB8GMM/p1490824833904957\">meeting held earlier this week</a> in the WordPress Meta Slack channel, Matt Cromwell, Head of Support and Community Outreach at WordImpress, <a href=\"https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02QB8GMM/p1490825538070889\">suggested</a> that the Meta team describe the process of collecting and acting on feedback in as much detail as possible in the <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2017/03/30/announcing-the-new-wordpress-plugin-directory/\">announcement post</a>.</p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve chatted with a lot of developers and many feel like they provided actionable feedback about the direction of the plugin directory and all advice was ignored,&#8221; Cromwell said. &#8220;Whether or not that&#8217;s an accurate assessment, it&#8217;s a real feeling that is shared by many. I&#8217;ve been here most weeks and know well that feedback was received and acted on, but there&#8217;s still a strong perception.&#8221;</p>\n<p>Despite the concerns of using Read more links brought up during every phase of the project, they don&#8217;t appear to have been addressed. Other gripes expressed by members of the community at the outset of the redesign have largely remained. It&#8217;s no wonder that so many people feel like they&#8217;ve been ignored.</p>\n<p>Mullenweg <a href=\"https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02QB8GMM/p1490826336242943\">commented</a> in the meeting saying he, too, felt ignored, &#8220;For what it&#8217;s worth, I feel like my feedback was ignored as well,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I hope we can do another major iteration on the directory, because I’m not really a fan of the new one.</p>\n<p>&#8220;Perhaps the WordPress backend will make it easier to make incremental improvements in the future, as being on bbPress before was often cited as the reason things were slow to iterate previously.&#8221;</p>\n<p>Although Mullenweg&#8217;s feedback in June 2016, was not public, his recent comments indicate not much has changed between then and now.</p>\n<p>Alex Shiels, a member of Team Apollo at Automattic, <a href=\"https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02QB8GMM/p1490826698320557\">says</a> user feedback wasn&#8217;t ignored. &#8220;It’s not that anyone’s feedback has been ignored; just that we’ve had limited resources and a big back-end component to the project, and a lot of conflicting requests&#8221; he said. &#8220;I’ll make sure to give a clear invitation to provide feedback in the announcement post, and include something about future iteration.</p>\n<h2>The Inability to Measure the Impacts of the Redesign</h2>\n<p>Kevin Hoffman, who participated in discussions on trac about <a href=\"https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1828\">how to display screenshots</a>, asked if there was any user data and feedback that the Meta team could share that led to some of the decisions and changes that were made. For example, changes to the UI or how often the Read more links are clicked. Shiels <a href=\"https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02QB8GMM/p1490826026176187\">responded</a> that the team does not have that data because they don&#8217;t have the tools to do it.</p>\n<p>&#8220;There is Google Analytics tracking, but access is very limited and from what I’ve seen of it (I don’t have direct access) it’s messy and hard to draw objective conclusions from,&#8221; Shiels said. &#8220;I absolutely agree that analytics and A/B testing would be great, but we just don’t have the tools for it right now. I think that needs to be considered a next step, but a separate project by itself really.&#8221;</p>\n<p>Hoffman stepped back from contributing to the redesign after receiving <a href=\"https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1828#comment:41\">this response</a> seven months ago from Sidler on Trac where he says much of the feedback received was from plugin developers and not representative of users.</p>\n<blockquote><p>First, we&#8217;re building the site for users, not developers. Certainly some of our users are developers, but not the vast majority. One of the WordPress core philosophies is building first for the 80%, not the 20%, and that applies in this case as well.</p>\n<p>Second, almost all of the &#8216;overwhelming community feedback&#8217; we&#8217;ve received so far is from plugin authors who are (typically) developers. It&#8217;s all great feedback and we&#8217;re obviously listening closely. But it&#8217;s not necessarily representative of the users who visit the plugin directory regularly. We&#8217;ll certainly run user tests before launching, and we can probably run a more obvious beta, with a link from the current directory to the new one. But the directory isn&#8217;t yet ready for that.</p>\n<p>Third, this &#8216;self-imposted limitation&#8217; as you call it is not arbitrary. Rather, it&#8217;s the result of research and in-person discussion with a number of designers. Will it be the final design? I dunno. But since we haven&#8217;t tested it with real users (see the paragraph above), it&#8217;s hard to say right now. I think pursuing this direction is worthy for a number of reasons, which aren&#8217;t really worth rehashing here. First and foremost though, until we build out a product that can run through user tests, we won&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s the right direction.</p></blockquote>\n<p>How can the team know that the redesign is working or is the right direction if WordPress.org doesn&#8217;t have the tools necessary to measure its impacts? There&#8217;s also the question of what data was obtained or user testing done that supports the decisions that were made? Who are these users and how does the team know what the best user experience is for them?</p>\n<h2>Iteration Is the WordPress Way</h2>\n<p>Now that the <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2017/03/30/announcing-the-new-wordpress-plugin-directory/\">new directory</a> is publicly available, the Meta team is reviewing feedback, gathering bug reports, and organizing tickets on Trac.</p>\n<p>&#8220;If there are tickets that were closed or postponed during the project that you think need revisiting, then this would be a great time to start reviewing and re-opening them,&#8221; Shiels said. &#8220;We already have a bunch of tickets against the future milestone.</p>\n<p>&#8220;The new directory has been built with future maintainability and iterative enhancement in mind. We’re looking forward to hearing feedback from the whole WordPress community, and making regular improvements and additions.&#8221;</p>\n<p>To report a bug or enhancement with the plugin directory, you&#8217;re encouraged to <a href=\"https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/newticket?component=Plugin+Directory\">create a ticket on Trac. </a>If you have any questions concerning the directory or would like to get more involved, visit <a href=\"https://wordpress.slack.com/messages/meta/\">#meta</a> on Slack.</p>\n<h2>The Vocal Minority</h2>\n<p>There are a lot of people voicing their complaints about the WordPress Plugin Directory redesign and to <a href=\"https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02QB8GMM/p1490897847701262\">summarize them</a> as a vocal minority is unfair.</p>\n<p>&#8220;Let’s also not forget that one of WordPress’s philosophies is <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/about/philosophy/#minority\">The Vocal Minority</a>,&#8221; Aaron Jorbin, WordPress core contributor, said in a conversation on the Meta Slack channel concerning feedback. &#8220;Many people being loud on the internet isn’t a reason to do anything.&#8221;</p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve documented above, the issues people are complaining about today are roughly the same as those reported during the prototype stage more than seven months ago.</p>\n<p>If months have passed and the issues brought up by members of the community who are part of the so-called vocal minority were not addressed before shipping to the public, can we blame them for complaining and feeling ignored? 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Eastern</p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe To WPWeekly Via Itunes: </strong><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wordpress-weekly/id694849738\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to subscribe</a></p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe To WPWeekly Via RSS: </strong><a href=\"https://wptavern.com/feed/podcast\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to subscribe</a></p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe To WPWeekly Via Stitcher Radio: </strong><a href=\"http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/wordpress-weekly-podcast?refid=stpr\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to subscribe</a></p>\n<p><strong>Listen To Episode #269:</strong><br />\n</p>\n<div id=\"epoch-width-sniffer\"></div>\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:7:\"pubDate\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:31:\"Wed, 29 Mar 2017 23:24:56 +0000\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}s:32:\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:13:\"Jeff Chandler\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}}}i:25;a:6:{s:4:\"data\";s:13:\"\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";s:5:\"child\";a:2:{s:0:\"\";a:5:{s:5:\"title\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:76:\"WPTavern: Poopy.life Lets You Create Free, Unlimited WordPress Test Installs\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:4:\"guid\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:29:\"https://wptavern.com/?p=68070\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:4:\"link\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:86:\"https://wptavern.com/poopy-life-lets-you-create-free-unlimited-wordpress-test-installs\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:11:\"description\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:5773:\"<p><a href=\"https://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/poopy.life_.png?ssl=1\"><img /></a></p>\n<p>Just when you think all the best domain names have been gobbled up by bots and squatters, <a href=\"http://poopy.life/\" target=\"_blank\">Poopy.life</a> emerges as the fastest new way to spin up a WordPress test install. 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It is also the first paid upgrade for Pro users since the app <a href=\"https://wptavern.com/poedit-adds-pro-support-for-wordpress-theme-and-plugin-translation\" target=\"_blank\">added support for WordPress theme and plugin translations</a> in 2013.</p>\n<p>Poedit 2 introduces direct connectivity support for WordPress, allowing developers to connect directly to the server instead of working with unpackaged plugins/themes locally.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/wordpress_connect@2x.png?ssl=1\"><img /></a><br />\n&#8220;Putting translation files on the server was the most common source of problems in Poedit (too many things can go wrong if you’re not yet very familiar with WP) and this feature should help a lot with that,&#8221; Slavík said.</p>\n<p>This release adds support for <a href=\"http://twig.sensiolabs.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Twig templates</a> and <a href=\"https://upstatement.com/timber/\" target=\"_blank\">Timber</a>. In the past, users had difficulty extracting strings from Twig templates, requiring some fragile workarounds. Slavík said some users resorted to setting up Poedit to treat them as Python files. Poedit 2 has a new built-in extractor for Twig.</p>\n<p>Poedit 2 also introduces a new pre-translation feature that allows for batch pre-translation of the entire PO file at once using Poedit&#8217;s online database and machine translation. After this has processed, users can then read through and correct any errors. Slavík said this feature saves a lot of time for many WordPress-related translations, such as themes, where a lot of strings are often repeated.</p>\n<p>Poedit used to be available from the Mac App Store but is now distributed exclusively from the <a href=\"https://poedit.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Poedit.net</a> website. 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In an effort to determine common problems with themes discovered by reviewers, Carolina Nymark, a member of the Theme Review Team, <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2017/03/25/review-statistics/\">reviewed 100 tickets</a> from 531 themes that were closed and marked not approved between December and February. 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These include escaping and data sanitization.</p>\n<p>&#8220;If we could get the greater theme developer community to pitch in and help get this finished, it would be awesome,&#8221; Tadlock said. &#8220;Even outside of WordPress.org, ThemeForest and commercial theme shops could really use this.&#8221;</p>\n<p>Members of the TRT are testing the plugin behind the scenes and are working to eliminate false-positives. The best way to get involved in the project is to view the<a href=\"https://github.com/WPTRT/WordPress-Coding-Standards/issues\"> Issue tracker</a> and submit pull requests. 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The algorithm also includes signals that Brown said plugin authors have a lot more control over:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Resolving support threads</li>\n<li>Keeping the plugin update to date</li>\n<li>Testing the plugin on the latest versions of WordPress</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Brown&#8217;s <a href=\"https://data.blog/2017/03/15/improving-relevance-and-elasticsearch-query-patterns/\" target=\"_blank\">post</a> breaks down the Elasticsearch query he developed for the directory and explains how text matching works to find relevant results for author searches, queries that include operators, and partial-word boosting.</p>\n<p>The plugin directory relaunch has several known issues that the plugin team noted in the <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/plugins/2017/03/28/the-new-directory-is-mostly-live/\" target=\"_blank\">announcement</a> today. Users are noticing many broken links, problems with SVN, and other bugs when navigating around the new directory. 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Automattic&#8217;s General Counsel Paul Sieminski wrote about the company&#8217;s commitment to <a href=\"https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/striking-back-against-censorship/\" target=\"_blank\">strike back against censorship</a> in 2013 after taking to the courts to stand with users against DMCA abuse. In 2014, when tech companies all over the world joined forces to <a href=\"https://thedaywefightback.org/\" target=\"_blank\">protest NSA surveillance</a>, Automattic was among them.</p>\n<p>If Rudd&#8217;s call for tech companies to take &#8220;a more proactive role&#8221; in tackling terrorist abuse ultimately means introducing monitoring that violates users&#8217; privacy and gives government more access, she will be hard-pressed to get cooperation. 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The WordCamp is entering its 9th year and organizers are expecting more than 800 attendees. Tickets are once again sold out, but latecomers hoping to attend can sign up for the <a href=\"http://davidbisset.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=8f9242549d66d09eceb714b54&id=6685084fbd\" target=\"_blank\">wait list</a>.</p>\n<p>WordCamp Miami is one of the most well-established WordPress events and is known for having high quality sessions. This year&#8217;s <a href=\"https://2017.miami.wordcamp.org/schedule/\" target=\"_blank\">schedule</a> includes 60+ local and international speakers, a JavaScript learning track, and new AMA spots, featuring prominent people in the community. If you are unable to attend but want to join in remotely, the camp will be <a href=\"https://2017.miami.wordcamp.org/live/\" target=\"_blank\">live streaming</a> all sessions on Saturday and Sunday for free. 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Coming from a modest family background, the realization of achievement dawned over me. I never favored being a 9 to 5 corporate professional and a having a ‘boss’ was simply not my cup of coffee. I was never interested in the classes held in the college because I was being more productive at the ‘reality’ front of the life. I envisioned getting involved in tasks that were strongest at the core.</p>\n<h3>Where It All Started</h3>\n<p>Computer technology was in its nascent state in India the time I started my tryst with web pages. I began with designing my own college’s alumni website while pursuing MCA at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. Eventually, I was assigned the task of the event websites too. I was happy because all this brought about a sense of power to me. Though not initially refine, my work still appealed to many and it also made me realize the power technology had.</p>\n<h3>The Seed of Seriousness</h3>\n<p>The very first seed of the idea of taking this up as a serious profession was sown by a friend who told me about how creating web pages and blogging could be a source of monetization. Google pages was my first shot as a techie, wherein I started with contributing content through blogs to several clients.</p>\n<h3>Saw and Attempted</h3>\n<p>I can still recollect the time I received my first pay cheque. Initially, I had tested all Content management systems and had started with Joomla and Drupal. With absolutely no knowledge about coding, I went forward to scale the web designing mountain. WordPress came and was well recognized as a blogging platform; suitable to what I worked on. I bumped into WordPress in 2009 and like many other users, utilized it for my blogging endeavors. Little did I know that someday it would be the answer to my ‘coding gap’. I remember working on a 6-month project for my MCA final where I took up WordPress as the core subject and in there I talked about custom plugins and themes. The teacher was happy to receive the unique project and awarded me good grades for my sense of initiation with new approach.</p>\n<h3>That Leap of Faith</h3>\n<p>Now, I knew how I had to take this WordPress awesomeness forward. With a little exposure to learning new technology, I was baffled for a while but had the will to scale this one too. 6 months, and I thoroughly decoded the WordPress codex for me. This was a giant step forward where my future lay in my own hands.</p>\n<p>Personally, I feel that WordPress does not constrict you to a certain limit or a line of functionalities. If you have a core foundation, you can toy with it and make awesome end results. WordPress was now my pillar of strength. WordPress successfully justified my choice of not joining the job placement drive at the college.</p>\n<h3>The Break-Out</h3>\n<p>Now was the time to materialize my skills and have a material turnaround for the work I was capable of doing. After a 4-month hunt for some serious web designing projects with not a single task at hand, disappointment gripped me. The lack of proper work infrastructure due to poor Internet connectivity and local electricity supply were some of the other reasons I had to plan withdrawing my resources from Varanasi. I could have fallen or would have made a leap; it was about to be my choice for the rest of my life.</p>\n<h3>Hello to New Beginnings</h3>\n<p>It was frustrating because Varanasi had been my abode for 7 good years and leaving the place was a huge decision to make. I mustered up my wits to start afresh by withdrawing my base from Varanasi and shifted to Lucknow, India in order to try out seeking new opportunities yet again.</p>\n<p>The work stars favored me and with the help of elance-oDesk (now, Upwork) and other freelancing platforms, I received many life-changing projects of my life. Things moved forward and with many clients in a row, another year went by. I collaborated with more people who were willing to join me on the platform – people who wanted to leave a mark; never to look back. What remained constant throughout these years was my capability to work hard each day.</p>\n<h3>A Better Picture/ Wbcom Designs</h3>\n<p>I upfront admire WordPress because it has been a driving force for my existence. Time has moved slowly and with 6+ years of experience and self-discovery, I now run a fully-fledged WordPress based company <a href=\"https://wbcomdesigns.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Wbcom Designs</a> that has many developers and freelancers onboard with me.</p>\n<p>While additionally serving <a href=\"https://www.buddyboss.com/\" target=\"_blank\">BuddyBoss</a> as a Product and Support Manager, now I plan to infuse new changes in the pattern we operate at base as well as the firm through strategic planning. It’s time to give back to the WordPress community through the development of free plugins, theme customization and spreading the WordPress fandom at local level.</p>\n<p>I recently took the <a href=\"https://2016.nashik.wordcamp.org/wbcomdesigns-is-our-bronze-sponsor/\">opportunity to sponsor</a> <a href=\"https://2016.nashik.wordcamp.org/\">‘Nashik WordCamp’ 2016</a>, <a href=\"https://2017.pune.wordcamp.org/sponsors/\">WordCamp Pune 2017</a>, <a href=\"https://2017.udaipur.wordcamp.org/sponsors/\">WordCamp Udaipur 2017</a>, and <a href=\"https://2017.kochi.wordcamp.org/sponsors/\">WordCamp Kochi 2017</a>. I am glad I was able to take a step forward in my plans to pay back to the WordPress community. To set the ball rolling at local level, I have recently come up with a local <a href=\"https://www.meetup.com/Lucknow-WordPress-Meetup/\">MeetUp</a> group at Lucknow, India so that locally organized, face to face events can be organized that will accelerate the understanding of the WordPress CMS among the masses. I also plan to bring about WordPress awareness at the school and college level in my zone so that more and more young people know why this CMS is so amazing.</p>\n<p>To this day, my first love is my work desk. Whenever in an emotional or professional fix, I seek recluse through this amazing platform. Unlike others, working destresses me. There is a long way to go with this ideal because I want people to know how powerfully stable the WordPress is.</p>\n<p>Like they say,</p>\n<blockquote><p>“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”</p></blockquote>\n<p>I want to see the developer community going for heights that have never been achieved before and I want to be a part of this huge step-up.</p>\n<p>I am all open up for this WordPress community for contribution and assistance. For WordPress enthusiasts, I want to tell them that sky is not the limit. WordPress has accepted me as its own and it’s time for me and others to give back in the best possible manner.</p>\n<div class=\"rtsocial-container rtsocial-container-align-right rtsocial-horizontal\"><div class=\"rtsocial-twitter-horizontal\"><div class=\"rtsocial-twitter-horizontal-button\"><a title=\"Tweet: A Blissful Driving Force\" class=\"rtsocial-twitter-button\" href=\"https://twitter.com/share?text=A%20Blissful%20Driving%20Force&via=heropress&url=https%3A%2F%2Fheropress.com%2Fessays%2Fblissful-driving-force%2F\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"></a></div></div><div class=\"rtsocial-fb-horizontal fb-light\"><div class=\"rtsocial-fb-horizontal-button\"><a title=\"Like: A Blissful Driving Force\" class=\"rtsocial-fb-button rtsocial-fb-like-light\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fheropress.com%2Fessays%2Fblissful-driving-force%2F\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"></a></div></div><div class=\"rtsocial-linkedin-horizontal\"><div class=\"rtsocial-linkedin-horizontal-button\"><a class=\"rtsocial-linkedin-button\" href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fheropress.com%2Fessays%2Fblissful-driving-force%2F&title=A+Blissful+Driving+Force\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share: A Blissful Driving Force\"></a></div></div><div class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-horizontal\"><div class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-horizontal-button\"><a class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-button\" href=\"https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://heropress.com/essays/blissful-driving-force/&media=https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/032217-150x150.jpg&description=A Blissful Driving Force\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pin: A Blissful Driving Force\"></a></div></div><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"perma-link\" href=\"https://heropress.com/essays/blissful-driving-force/\" title=\"A Blissful Driving Force\"></a></div><p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://heropress.com/essays/blissful-driving-force/\">A Blissful Driving Force</a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://heropress.com\">HeroPress</a>.</p>\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:7:\"pubDate\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:31:\"Wed, 22 Mar 2017 12:00:33 +0000\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}s:32:\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:11:\"Varun Dubey\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}}}i:41;a:6:{s:4:\"data\";s:13:\"\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";s:5:\"child\";a:2:{s:0:\"\";a:5:{s:5:\"title\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:82:\"WPTavern: Help Jesse Petersen and His Family by Donating to His Medical Leave Fund\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:4:\"guid\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:29:\"https://wptavern.com/?p=67746\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:4:\"link\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:93:\"https://wptavern.com/help-jesse-petersen-and-his-family-by-donating-to-his-medical-leave-fund\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:11:\"description\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:2774:\"<p><a href=\"https://www.petersenmediagroup.com/\">Jesse Petersen</a>, a longtime member of the WordPress community and founder of <a href=\"https://www.genesisthe.me/\">Genesis The.me</a>, needs <a href=\"https://www.newlungsfor.me/medical-leave-fund-for-jesses-double-lung-transplant/\">our help</a>. Petersen is battling <a href=\"http://www.cffatboy.com/what-is-cystic-fibrosis/\">Cystic Fibrosis</a> and earlier this year after visiting a clinic, discovered that his lung function was at 22%.</p>\n<p>Due to decrease lung function, Petersen missed five weeks of work, required home IVs, and visited many doctors. He is currently on a double-lung transplant list with a <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lung_allocation_score\">lung allocation score</a> of 38.859.</p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https://www.unos.org/wp-content/uploads/unos/lung_allocation_score.pdf\">United Network for Organ Sharing</a>, the LAS is a score used to prioritize waiting list candidates based on a combination of wait list urgency and post-transplant survival.</p>\n<p>In order to maintain his health for a transplant, doctors have recommended that he work a maximum of two hours per day with quality rest.</p>\n<p>His family has a small emergency fund available that they thought would allow Petersen to work up until his transplant surgery. However, there&#8217;s no estimated time frame for when a transplant will be available.</p>\n<p>Outside of his product based business, Petersen is a work-from-home freelancer with contract work that needs to be completed. He and his wife have two adopted children. His wife volunteered to get another job to supplement their income but relatives rejected the idea as she is his primary support person.</p>\n<p>Petersen has <a href=\"https://my.genesisthe.me/downloads/genesistheme-developer-starter/\">two products</a> for sale on GenesisThe.me with two more ready for launch by the end of March.</p>\n<p>His family is <a href=\"https://www.newlungsfor.me/medical-leave-fund-for-jesses-double-lung-transplant/\">asking for $20K </a>to help pay for expenses and allow Petersen to take an extended medical leave to focus on his health. So far, the campaign has raised $5,075 or about a quarter of the amount needed.</p>\n<p>You can donate as much as you&#8217;re able to or choose from one of five predetermined amounts ranging from $25 to $1K. You can also choose to donate monthly in six month increments.</p>\n<p>Petersen is no stranger to the WordPress community&#8217;s generosity. In 2016, it helped him raise nearly $20K to help pay for costs associated with <a href=\"https://surpriseadoption.com/\">adopting his second son</a>. 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Nearly two years ago, Mel Choyce <a href=\"https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/32417\">opened a ticket</a> on WordPress Trac proposing that a media widget be added to core. This widget would allow users to easily add images to sidebars.</p>\n<p>Throughout the discussion, the idea of creating a catch-all media widget was brought up that would allow users to add images, audio, or video to a sidebar. After developers spoke to Matt Mullenweg about the direction of the project, the team decided to create three separate widgets to handle each media type. Choyce outlined the benefits this approach provides:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>We can focus on creating more tailored experiences for each widget.</li>\n<li>We&#8217;ll be able to launch new widgets without having to worry about constantly updating one central widget, or potentially breaking anything.</li>\n<li>It&#8217;ll be easier for people to discover new media types since they won&#8217;t be buried within one widget.</li>\n<li>This will more closely mimic the approach we&#8217;re taking to content blocks in the future, which should provide an easier transition.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Out of the three core widgets in development, the Image one is nearly complete ready for user testing. To test, first download and activate the <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-core-media-widgets/\">Core Media Widgets</a> plugin. Once activated, navigate to Appearance &gt; Widgets in the WordPress backend and in the available widgets section, locate the Image widget.</p>\n<img />Core Image Widget UI\n<p>Clicking the Select Image button displays the media library modal where you can either select or upload an image. Once an image is selected, click the Add to Widget button in the bottom-right corner. This is what the widget looks like after an image is added.</p>\n<img />Core Image Widget With an Image\n<p>Here is what the widget looks like on a page using the <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/themes/twentyseventeen/\">Twenty Seventeen</a> default theme.</p>\n<img />Core Image Widget in Action\n<p>The core image widget is incredibly easy to set up and is a significant improvement over the Text widget approach. The user interface is much simpler compared to the <a href=\"https://jetpack.com/support/extra-sidebar-widgets/image-widget/\">image widget</a> supplied by Jetpack. 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