Hou-Sandí <a href=\"https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/37661#comment:130\">responded</a>. &#8220;I know that it would feel better to have something more than &#8216;my gut and the guts of others say no&#8217;, but if there was more definition to the problems then we may not have been in a position where reverting from this release was the only sane thing to do.&#8221;</p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/37661\">feature has been punted</a> and the milestone was changed from WordPress 4.7 to a Future Release.</p>\n<h2>A Window Into How WordPress Development Works</h2>\n<p>The quotes I published above are only part of the story. I highly encourage you to start with <a href=\"https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/37661#comment:113\">this post</a> and read every response in full. It&#8217;s a great opportunity to see a WordPress release lead in action and how and why certain decisions in WordPress development are made. 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Confession? It feels like it sometimes. In my mind’s eye I see a roomful of skittish WordPress marketers with dark-ringed eyes, disclosing the number of times they pretended to understand something technical when it made about as much sense to them as the moon landing. Frustrated they can’t code it themselves. Maybe it’s just me in that room.</p>\n<p>I am a words person – a creative, a copywriter, and a marketer. My heart beats faster over ancient English literature, clever mailers, alliteration, storytelling and subject lines, and the shapeshifting challenge of building an authentic brand in a world of smoke, mirrors, and shmoozing.</p>\n<p>Topher asked me to write my WordPress story and when I thought about what I’ve learnt over the past two years what came to mind was: <strong>uncomfortable doesn’t mean walk away</strong>.</p>\n<p>Far from being something to categorically flee or avoid, discomfort is a signpost to watch out for – something to embrace and step bravely towards. Obviously there are exceptions – but in my experience discomfort often means lean in, listen closely, change something.</p>\n<p>I’ve chosen to share a few of the ways I’ve encountered uncomfortable in my WordPress journey so far, and why I’m grateful.</p>\n<h3>A bit of background</h3>\n<p>Perhaps we are all creatures of habit on some level, but I really am. For example, when backpacking with my best friend in 2008 from Istanbul down to Cairo – through Syria and Jordan, including places that are now literally non-existent – she and I noticed that if we found a good restaurant I’d suggest returning the following night while she always wanted to try new spots.</p>\n<p>When I find something I like, it makes perfect sense to me to stick with it, sometimes to a fault. Until fairly recently I would have described myself as someone who didn’t thrive on change. This partly explains why by the age of twenty nine my entire life had played out in one city.</p>\n<a href=\"http://20094-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/IMG_5951-min.jpg\"><img class=\"size-large wp-image-1470\" src=\"http://20094-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/IMG_5951-min-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Marina as a child with mother\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" /></a>My beautiful mum, brother and I. My mum is a superhuman and I miss her daily.\n<p>Birth, preschool to postgraduate studies, the first nine years of my career, family, friends, life – all in one patch.</p>\n<p>I have been privileged to do some excellent travelling to amazing places – European beach holidays and ski trips (obviously I broke my arm), teaching English for four weeks in South Korea, a cruise in Alaska, a church trip to Singapore and Malaysia, Vancouver to visit family – but my sense of home and place was unwaveringly Cape Town.</p>\n<p>At the beginning of 2014 I decided to emigrate. The delay between the idea occurring to me and resigning was less than two weeks. With a British passport through my English mum and a mild obsession with all things British, London was it. It seemed wise to secure a job first but my gut said I should have faith and move regardless so I resigned from Yuppiechef.com <a href=\"https://www.yuppiechef.com/spatula/10-thoughts-about-community-management-and-social-media/\">where I’d been for nearly five years</a>, sold my car, and booked a one way ticket.</p>\n<p>At this point, it would be fair to say WordPress was not even really on my radar. It powered Yuppiechef’s blog so I’d used it in that capacity and <a href=\"https://marinapape.com/\">my own blog</a> was on WordPress.com – but it was pretty much just a thing to do with the internet that helped people publish stuff.</p>\n<p>A week before I set off I was having sushi with friends and got chatting to a mouthy American who worked for WooThemes. Hearing of my pending departure and getting a sense of my strengths and what I loved to do, he suggested I consider applying. Less than a week later I accepted an offer to join Woo’s then-tiny marketing team. I’m still amazed at the speed with which it all happened – and will be forever amused by Mark and Warren’s confidence in me as a total WordPress n0ob (maybe they didn’t realise!).</p>\n<a href=\"http://20094-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/IMG_8001-min.jpg\"><img class=\"size-large wp-image-1471\" src=\"http://20094-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/IMG_8001-min-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"I love MailChimp. Freddy lives on my desk beside some Woo stickers\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" /></a>I love MailChimp. Freddy lives on my desk beside some Woo stickers\n<p>And so my WordPress journey began in London on 1 July 2014, fresh off the boat and working remotely for the first time. I logged online from a coffee shop – specifically Timberyard, which has become a familiar friend – and dived headfirst into a world I hadn’t realised would be so technical. And digital. Marketing a digital product is a very different kettle of fish to kitchen products. And working remotely as an extrovert?</p>\n<p>In my first week I was sent to WordCamp Brighton where I innocently asked someone the difference between .org and WordPress.com. This was the first prickle of my first uncomfortable hurdle: being okay with not knowing everything.</p>\n<h3>It really is okay not to know everything.</h3>\n<p>It sounds stupid to even write that one needs to be okay with not knowing everything – of course one can’t, but at Yuppiechef.com I sure knew a lot more about a lot more. There, my lack of technical understanding wasn’t a thing, marketing was lauded, and our brand was at the forefront of what set us apart. <a href=\"http://ventureburn.com/2013/03/the-yuppiechef-cult-how-a-startup-sparked-a-religion/\">People wrote about how the following for Yuppiechef was cult-like</a>, and I’d helped create that.</p>\n<p>Joining Woo I was a tiny fish all over again, and I was swimming in a world with languages I didn’t understand.</p>\n<blockquote><p>Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. – unknown (but attributed to Einstein)</p></blockquote>\n<p>It was a little bit terrifying to be a marketer in this tech-celebratory world. And it took me a long time to accept I have something significant to offer at WooCommerce (and now Automattic) and feel confident enough to add my voice to conversations. Why? I guess I am proud. In the early days I was constantly tempted to pretend to know more than I do (for the record this is a bad idea) and developed a hefty dose of imposter syndrome, which worsened when Automattic acquired WooCommerce. I found myself wondering if they would have hired me.</p>\n<p>For a few months, the fear I felt kept me from bringing to the table the valuable things I did know.</p>\n<a href=\"http://20094-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/IMG_7373-min.jpg\"><img class=\"size-large wp-image-1472\" src=\"http://20094-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/IMG_7373-min-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Standing by a concrete wall with a vast ocean scene behind.\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" /></a>With my team in Cape Town earlier this year. Nicole, Aviva, me, Gareth and Kevin &lt;3.\n<p>It’s scary admitting a lack of understanding, it takes strong relationships with colleagues (which take time to build, especially remotely) to raise your hand and be vulnerable. But the problem is that not doing so ends up blocking and robbing the contribution you could make. It silences your voice. It is not possible to be a master of all trades: yes I need a working understanding of our products, but I don’t need to become a Javascript developer. One body, many parts, all valuable.</p>\n<p>This learning curve was uncomfortable for me. At various points I have wanted to bail, or take a year to learn how to code fulltime. But I am really glad I haven’t because marketing is vital and that is what I can do. And do very well (when I’m not looking over my shoulder).</p>\n<p>It’s okay to be an expert in what you love, not what other people love. It’s why we have teams. It’s what makes the world interesting.</p>\n<a href=\"http://20094-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/IMG_3576-min.jpg\"><img class=\"size-large wp-image-1473\" src=\"http://20094-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/IMG_3576-min-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Classroom filled with people\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" /></a>The first WordPress London meetup I attended. It was pretty awesome.\n<h3>Remote relationships take longer to build but they sure run deep.</h3>\n<p>My degree was in Psychology and it remains an active interest. ENFJ is proudly in my Twitter bio, I love taking personality tests and calling out and connecting with the underbellies and depths of fellow human beings.</p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<strong>My friends are my estate</strong>. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.&#8221; – Emily Dickinson</p></blockquote>\n<p>If you’re familiar with Gallups Strengthfinder, I’m a Relator to the bone. People often ask how I have the discipline to work from home but that’s pocket change compared to the relational challenge. Showing up to work and being productive hasn’t been the thing I’ve found difficult – it’s trying to build relationship digitally with people far away and in different timezones.</p>\n<p>Plus I find there is a certain type of rapport, creativity, and energy that is really hard to create remotely when it comes to brainstorming and collaborating. The buzz of having an idea and someone else adding to it IRL, growing it into something greater. This was not a comfortable thing, but again choosing to stay has proven invaluable.</p>\n<p><strong>Remote relationships take longer to build, but they sure run deep</strong>. The bonding that happens when you come together for meetups and WordCamps is extraordinary. I have grown to properly know and love my colleagues (not all 500+ Automatticians yet but certainly my immediate team) and a bunch of awesome WordPress people I’ve met.</p>\n<a href=\"http://20094-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/IMG_8319-min.jpg\"><img class=\"size-large wp-image-1474\" src=\"http://20094-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/IMG_8319-min-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"On-screen grid of faces in a google hangout\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" /></a>Well hello Woo people. Here’s us hanging out on Air.\n<p>It’s tiring flying to meetups, and you miss home, but it’s now becoming hard to leave them. My heart sometimes feels like it is scattered in little bits: a fragment with Scotty and the Dekode crew in Norway, another few with Louise in Kwazulu Natal, Cobus and Dom in Cape Town and chunks with Nicole and Aviva stateside. It’s fragmenting, but what a privilege.</p>\n<p>To keep me grounded day to day, I’ve helped start and now am involved in running a non-profit coworking space, which has opened up a whole new web of relationships in London. If you’re ever in town, pop into <a href=\"http://www.arkcoworking.com/\">ARK Coworking</a> for a pour over coffee.</p>\n<p>Working remotely is different. But it’s a pretty niche kind of special to have a web of people around the world that you would otherwise be totally unconnected to.</p>\n<a href=\"http://20094-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/IMG_4183-min.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-1475\" src=\"http://20094-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/IMG_4183-min.jpg\" alt=\"People standing astride bikes, flashing gang symbols.\" width=\"749\" height=\"549\" /></a>The Woo biker gang on a marketing meetup near Lake Michigan, 2015\n<p>Which brings me to another uncomfortable hurdle brought squarely to me by WordPress: the challenge of responding well to diversity and difference.</p>\n<h3>Thinking something for a long time doesn’t mean it’s true.</h3>\n<p>Part of <a href=\"https://automattic.com/creed/\">Automattic’s creed</a> is to never stop learning. Being part of WordPress has brought me into close proximity with a more varied, vocal, challenging, and diverse group than I could have made up.</p>\n<p>The thing about being a human is you only ever get to be one of them. One in over seven billion. How much about other people and parts of the world you don’t live in do you know, really? How much do I? Being part of WordPress has opened my eyes to diversity in a way that is hard to describe. Emigrating helped too, but it is very possible to live in a bubble wherever you go.</p>\n<blockquote><p>A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. – Thomas Paine</p></blockquote>\n<p>Just because something has always been a certain way, doesn’t make it right. Being part of WordPress, and Automattic, has helped me greatly in learning how to hold what I believe to be right and true gently, and have equal respect for other people’s right and true.</p>\n<p>I ran the WooCommerce London meetup for two years which brought me into contact with a very mixed group; I was part of Automattic’s diversity workshop at the GM which was educational to say the least; when my friend Rosie started a <a href=\"http://mouthywomen.work/\">blog</a> to highlight out how mouthy women get told they’re too masculine, I got behind her heart and soul.</p>\n<a href=\"http://20094-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-03-at-13.21.46-min.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-1476 size-full\" src=\"http://20094-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-03-at-13.21.46-min.png\" alt=\"Stewart Ritchie sharing at the WooCommerce London meetup. Photo: Gabor Javorsky.\" width=\"601\" height=\"447\" /></a>Stewart Ritchie sharing at the WooCommerce London meetup. Photo: Gabor Javorsky.\n<p>The most poignant example of this for me was much closer to home. I wrote some copy a while ago as the backstory of Woo’s ninja mascot, Hiro and included in it a bunch of references to Japanese culture that, though well intentioned, turned out to be not okay. It had been up for ages before someone with a different enough perspective flagged it. Ouch.</p>\n<p>I went home after a long day of tears and much Slack messaging and confided in my Malaysian flatmate about it, half expecting him to comfort me and say the whole thing really wasn’t such a big deal and that it didn’t bother him. Instead his only comment was: “<em>That’s good. It will make your company better.</em>”</p>\n<p>We live, we learn. We wound, we grow.</p>\n<p>John Maeda, who recently joined Automattic as Head of Design and Inclusion, calls such oversights in our thinking ‘lacunae’. Being part of the worldwide community of WordPress has brought a number of my own lacunae into sharp focus. It’s also made me more able to exist peacefully alongside people whose views I don’t share. I’m a human, they’re a human. Two in seven billion.</p>\n<p>Now, the idea of stepping away and retreating to a more homogenous, same-y group of people who tend to agree with me is not just unattractive, it’s scary.</p>\n<p>WordPress helps me be open-minded and it’s vehicle for doing this is individuals who are willing to speak up. Let’s help each other, as kindly and graciously as we can.</p>\n<h3>Marketing a WordPress product is difficult.</h3>\n<p>I’ve found marketing WooCommerce challenging for two reasons.</p>\n<p>First there is the classic digital marketer’s problem of how to build relationship with customers you never get to meet. All we have are words online and if we’re lucky some rituals and routines we can inject life into (I wrote about this strategy <a href=\"https://woocommerce.com/2015/11/4-customer-rituals/\">here</a>).</p>\n<p>Over the past two years there have been a number of times I have thrown my hands up in the air and wanted to market something that is just easier to sell (coffee, an awesome gadget, luxury jewelry).</p>\n<p>On top of that eCommerce is a competitive space and selling WordPress can be a little complex messaging-wise, especially for non-coders and those not familiar with WordPress:</p>\n<p><em>Friend: Do I even have WooCommerce yet?</em><br />\n<em> Me: Yes it’s there in your downloads folder.</em><br />\n<em> Friend: <span>&lt;silence&gt;</span>.</em></p>\n<p>Every time I see another seductive Squarespace ad or the daily Shopify case study lands in my inbox (<em>How person x built y and changed the destiny of the human race</em>) – part of me can only see how far we have to go.</p>\n<p>But, I am enjoying fighting the good fight to democratise eCommerce with WordPress. I believe in what we’re doing, and in open source, and even though our competitors have bigger marketing teams and 24/7 phone support I feel a fierce loyalty to Woo.</p>\n<p>I don’t believe marketing has the emphasis it deserves in the WordPress space, but it’s coming to the fore. Great products don’t market themselves. The weaker thing will win if that is what is in front of people. I’m excited to be in this space.</p>\n<h3>Saying less is more. Narrow focus is healthy.</h3>\n<p>As someone who loves to joke around, natter, and come up with ideas, something I have learnt the hard way is that volume of words and number of ideas is not no an indicator of the quality of your contribution.</p>\n<p>It feels nice to be busy, but what is the deliverable?</p>\n<p>Having another great idea is not always helpful. Sometimes what I need to do is shut up and work. The manager versus maker ratio tends to leave a lot of cooks in the kitchen. Ideas are a dime a dozen. Pushing a few strategic things over the line, with your eyes on a goal everyone has agreed on, now that’s a better way.</p>\n<p>Staying focused working remotely can be hard. Fortunately, we have a great system of setting OKRs that my team is particularly diligent at sticking to. There are so. Many. Conversations. Going on all of the time. Focus is a healthy and freeing thing.</p>\n<a href=\"http://20094-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/IMG_4139-min.jpg\"><img class=\"size-large wp-image-1477\" src=\"http://20094-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/IMG_4139-min-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Marina and Louise, heads together, grinning\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" /></a>My Woo bestie, Louise. Here we are in San Francisco in 2014. I went back to South Africa for her wedding this year :).\n<h3>Inclusion is a very important thing.</h3>\n<p>A final thing I am learning through WordPress, and which has made my uncomfortable for sure, is the importance of inclusion. I touched on this a little already, but it’s something that I have now got my teeth into and am not going to let go of. Inclusion is a thing.</p>\n<p>Something that is great about WordPress is that intrinsically inclusive, it’s open to all.</p>\n<p>It isn’t only about big shiny success stories where people are making thousands of dollars. It’s people all over the world, fighting to make WordPress available in all languages; it’s faithful meetup organisers sharing knowledge with those who are just starting out; it’s the GPL; it’s having childcare at WordCamps; it’s using <em>y’all</em> or <em>folks</em> not <em>guys</em> to greet an audience.</p>\n<p>WordPress is not slick, sometimes things get a bit messy and there are heated discussions on forums and in backchannels. But WordPress is also a lot like how the world should be – democratic, going out of it’s way to make room and include, and with more than just the bottom line driving decisions.</p>\n<h3>Conclusion</h3>\n<p>That’s it from me. I hope sharing just a few of the ways WordPress has made me uncomfortable– what I learnt, and why I am glad I didn’t just bail – will be encouraging.</p>\n<p>Perhaps you are facing some tough things related to work or beyond. Maybe someone has expressed an opinion or belief that has made you uncomfortable. 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Grimes</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/jakept\">Jacob Peattie</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/whyisjake\">Jake Spurlock</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/jnylen0\">James Nylen</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/jamesacero\">jamesacero</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/japh\">Japh</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/jaredcobb\">Jared Cobb</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/jayarjo\">jayarjo</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/jdolan\">jdolan</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/jdoubleu\">jdoubleu</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/cheffheid\">Jeffrey de Wit</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/jeremyfelt\">Jeremy Felt</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/jpry\">Jeremy Pry</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/jimt\">jimt</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/jipmoors\">Jip Moors</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/jmusal\">jmusal</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/joedolson\">Joe Dolson</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/joehoyle\">Joe Hoyle</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/joemcgill\">Joe McGill</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/joelcj91\">Joel James</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/johanmynhardt\">johanmynhardt</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnbillion\">John Blackbourn</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/zyphonic\">John Dittmar</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnjamesjacoby\">John James Jacoby</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnpbloch\">John P. 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Children were meant to be seen, not heard.</p>\n<blockquote><p>I think of that young Sierra Leonean American girl I was, I think back to that day, and wonder what became of her.</p></blockquote>\n<p>She grew taller, much taller, transitioned from pink dresses to a pink bedroom, and, some say, is poised. But she is still painfully awkward. You wouldn&#8217;t know it, but you can catch her at times sitting quietly at an event achingly wishing she were alone and didn’t have to perform.</p>\n<p>I project confidence because I was drafted into an oratory competition in middle school. Something about my voice caught the attention of my middle school teacher Mrs. McNeil. She entered me into one. I don&#8217;t recall what I read or the outcome. I only remember my mom driving me to my competition and her, my sister and I pulling up to a very crowded parking lot. Everything gets fuzzy after we arrived.</p>\n<p>In high school, I didn&#8217;t need to be drafted into public speaking. I had strong ideals and opinions, and when it came to debate competitions I didn&#8217;t need to fit in and be cool. All I had to do was win. I debated as a Junior Statesmen, entered the Essex County Mock Trial competition, and the High School Moot Court Tournament at Princeton University. During 10th or 11th grade I got commendations for my role as a mother whose son died due to someone&#8217;s negligence at school. I argued with the other team’s attorneys. I was distraught. I channeled my inner mother. The judge gave our Mock Trial team extra points because I made the case believable. In 11th grade my partner and I came second place in the Moot Court competition at Princeton.</p>\n<p>I live in Maplewood, New Jersey. It is a town that actively engages its children. Our administration and teachers educate us to be competitive academically and in our extracurricular activities, and to actively seek out opportunities for service.</p>\n<blockquote><p>Teachers tell us we can be great &#8211; and expectations are that we will be great.</p></blockquote>\n<p>It is ingrained in us that to whom much is given much is expected. I do the best I can to embody what is expected of me.</p>\n<p>Truthfully, as an African girl, it was wonderful to be educated like this. At home my parents, aunts and uncles expect nothing less. Outside of home and my classes and clubs, I received mixed messages about who I was and what I could achieve. I was one of a handful of Africans in a diverse community. I didn&#8217;t look African or sound African I was told growing up. And I was surprised as a child of how differently I was treated by many of the same color other than my best friend and her family in elementary school. It was fascinating. On one occasion at school I achingly experienced different treatment. A college counselor lost interest in helping me with financial aid when it came up in conversation that I was African. After that conversation she was too busy to meet with me. I went to the head of guidance instead who was fabulous.</p>\n<blockquote><p>Occasions like this make me acutely proud of where my family comes from and the sacrifices my parents made 30 plus years ago when they immigrated here.</p></blockquote>\n<p>I see in them that resilience is a must and that success is accessible through motivation, hard work, focus, education and self-improvement.</p>\n<p>As a child, I hurt at the barriers some put up when I told them I am African. And I still do. At times, we are misunderstood and misrepresented. And it doesn&#8217;t make me any less proud of my Sierra Leonean heritage.</p>\n<p>Three weeks ago, I had dinner with someone I met years ago. I mentioned something related to my heritage. She stopped for a second. She said she was surprised to hear I am African. Her enthusiasm towards me immediately drained. I wasn&#8217;t shocked. I pushed away the feeling of disappointment I feel in these occasions. I acknowledged the difference internally and it didn&#8217;t stop me from enjoying her company. It&#8217;s a situation I&#8217;ve found myself in many, many times.</p>\n<p>I was told I could be great as a child growing up in Maplewood. I let this propel me forward through each obstacle in my way, and I let this make me stand tall as I take on each daunting task before me. I took this with me to every college class and graduate class I have taken even when overpowered by feelings of inadequacy. I have been to events at places where very few people will ever have the chance to go. There are organizations I have worked for that have a competitive selection process. There are certificates I have earned that make me wonder how I gathered the strength to make it through. And there are presentations like the ones I gave at WordCamp US in 2015 and 2016 where I fought through feelings of inadequacy to stand on stage and speak before hundreds of people in the tech industry.</p>\n<blockquote><p>At these times, I think of the little Sierra Leonean American girl in the pink frilly dress with afro puffs, and wonder how she could achieve each one of these accomplishments.</p></blockquote>\n<p>I wonder how she became so warmly embraced by the WordPress community, invited to plan WordCamp NYC at the United Nations in 2016, and invited to be a co-organizer of Meetups in NYC. It reflects how inclusive our community is.</p>\n<p>I think of my gender, my color, and my heritage.</p>\n<p>To every woman &#8211; we are the same. And, even if we glance at each other and look away, I am you and you are me. We can’t let anyone convince us otherwise.</p>\n<blockquote><p>I think of the African girl on the continent who doesn’t have the choices and resources I have. I cry for her, and I cry for me.</p></blockquote>\n<p>I cry because I may never meet her, never look deeply into her eyes, never tell her that she will be great, give her the resources she needs to fully realize her dreams and give her the space to be embraced by the WordPress community. Make no mistake in this digital age that this little girl is aware of what she doesn’t have, and that she needs us to propel her forward.</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: We Are The Same\" class=\"rtsocial-twitter-button\" href=\"https://twitter.com/share?text=We%20Are%20The%20Same&via=heropress&url=https%3A%2F%2Fheropress.com%2Fessays%2Fwe-are-the-same%2F\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"></a></div></div><div class=\"rtsocial-fb-horizontal fb-light\"><div class=\"rtsocial-fb-horizontal-button\"><a title=\"Like: We Are The Same\" class=\"rtsocial-fb-button rtsocial-fb-like-light\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fheropress.com%2Fessays%2Fwe-are-the-same%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%2Fwe-are-the-same%2F&title=We+Are+The+Same\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share: We Are The Same\"></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/we-are-the-same/&media=https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/010417-150x150.jpg&description=We Are The Same\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pin: We Are The Same\"></a></div></div><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"perma-link\" href=\"https://heropress.com/essays/we-are-the-same/\" title=\"We Are The Same\"></a></div><p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://heropress.com/essays/we-are-the-same/\">We Are The Same</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, 04 Jan 2017 12:00:25 +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:15:\"Winstina Hughes\";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:7;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:68:\"WPTavern: W3Techs Ranks WordPress as the Fastest Growing CMS of 2016\";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=64826\";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:79:\"https://wptavern.com/w3techs-ranks-wordpress-as-the-fastest-growing-cms-of-2016\";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:3019:\"<a href=\"https://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/blogging.jpg?ssl=1\"><img src=\"https://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/blogging.jpg?resize=960%2C521&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54799\" /></a>photo credit: <a href=\"https://stocksnap.io/photo/3ZHG0XOIT6\">Luis Llerena</a>\n<p>W3Techs published its <a href=\"https://w3techs.com/blog/entry/web_technologies_of_the_year_2016\" target=\"_blank\">Web Technologies of 2016</a> report today, compiling technologies that saw the largest increase in usage last year. The survey pulls data from the top 10 million sites (according to Alexa rankings) and compares the number of sites for each technology by measuring the difference from January 1, 2016 to January 1, 2017.</p>\n<p>W3Techs ranks WordPress as the fastest growing content management system with 58.5% market share. Shopify and Squarespace demonstrated the second and third largest increases in usage. Squarespace is a newcomer to the top three. In <a href=\"https://w3techs.com/blog/entry/web_technologies_of_the_year_2015\" target=\"_blank\">2015</a> the second and third place winners were Drupal and Shopify. WordPress has dominated the top spot every year since 2010.</p>\n<p>CMS usage on the whole saw a 3.3% increase. Of the top 15 CMS&#8217;s only six demonstrated growth, including the aforementioned top three, as well as Joomla, Drupal, and Bitrix, which showed nominal 0.1% increases in market share by the end of 2016. Blogger is on the decline, and the remaining CMS&#8217;s showed no increase or decrease.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/cms-usage-2016.png?ssl=1\"><img src=\"https://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/cms-usage-2016.png?resize=1025%2C444&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64832\" /></a></p>\n<p>PHP regained its top ranking among server-side programming languages as the fastest growing in 2016, a title which it temporarily lost to Java in 2015. W3Techs estimates PHP to be used by 82.4% of all websites for which it can detect a server-side programming language.</p>\n<p>Another interesting result of the survey is that &#8220;WordPress Jetpack,&#8221; the stats module in Jetpack, ranks third among the fastest growing traffic analysis tools, trailing Google Analytics and Yandex.Metrika. Jetpack Stats has been on a slow upward trend, rising from 1.6% in 2011 to 4.5% in 2017. 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Now that the project is part of WordPress.org, Mullenweg said he will be leading a coalition of companies to &#8220;solidify their financial support&#8221; of <a href=\"http://wp-cli.org/blog/the-big-question.html\" target=\"_blank\">the existing fundraising effort</a> that Bachhuber launched in mid-December 2016.</p>\n<p>The logistics of the new funding model haven&#8217;t yet been completely ironed out, but Bachhuber says <a href=\"https://runcommand.io/\" target=\"_blank\">runcommand</a> will not be shutting down.</p>\n<p>&#8220;Runcommand&#8217;s sole focus will be to hire people to work on WP-CLI,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This hybrid approach better ensures WP-CLI&#8217;s long-term future (e.g. the project is under the wing of the WordPress project), while also being a creative way for paying for dedicated resources to it.&#8221;</p>\n<p>Bachhuber explored different funding models for WP CLI throughout 2016 without much success. When discussions about making it an official WordPress core project first began, he was leaning towards keeping WP-CLI operating as an independent project. 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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 #257:</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:\"Thu, 22 Dec 2016 21:20:54 +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:19;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:75:\"WPTavern: Nadia Eghbal Publishes Guide to Financial Support for Open Source\";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=64676\";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/nadia-eghbal-publishes-guide-to-financial-support-for-open-source\";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:4614:\"<a href=\"https://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/lemonade-stand.jpg?ssl=1\"><img src=\"https://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/lemonade-stand.jpg?resize=1024%2C577&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64693\" /></a>photo credit: rachaelvoorhees <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/17237319@N00/2521106411\">A Young Entrepreneur on a Hot Day at Portland State</a> &#8211; <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/\">(license)</a>\n<p>If you want to make a living in the world of open source software, <a href=\"http://nadiaeghbal.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Nadia Eghbal</a> has created a <a href=\"https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand#consulting--services\" target=\"_blank\">guide</a> that explores various models for funding your work. 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First of all, I&#8217;m a pretty introvert kind of guy, and I often need to be thrown in the cold water to start learning how to swim. This was exactly what happened with my teammate, Oana, when she asked me if I&#8217;d be tempted to give HeroPress a go. Of course I would, and so it started the beginning of this story. The next lines are the result of a friendly dialogue between us. Enjoy the ride, dear fellows.</p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Andrei, a passionate web dev who truly admires the WordPress world. I&#8217;m a full-time backend at Pixelgrade, a design studio where we create WordPress themes that solve real and painful digital problems. Yes, we don&#8217;t just play around with eye-candy pixels, we strive to show up with trustworthy solutions that make people&#8217;s lives easier and more pleasant.</p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve experienced an intense professional rollercoaster till I got here. I still remember the first time I met with the WordPress fascinating world. It was during my first job interview. The employer (today a good friend of mine) told me that I would need to play around with Joomla, something I loved at that time. You can laugh, it&#8217;s okay. I do the same.</p>\n<p>However, the interview was full of tricks since I needed to do something totally different: create a homepage into WordPress. This way, the team could have seen how fast I&#8217;m able to learn new stuff. Pretty good trap since everyone working in the digital playground needs to be open-minded and capable of improving their skills and knowledge.</p>\n<p>That was the very first contact with WordPress, and I was surprised to see its potential. Not only it was easy-to-learn and get along with thanks to an in-depth documentation, but it also had an active community eager to help. Fast forward and the story had a happy ending: I got the job.</p>\n<blockquote><p>Becoming better is kind of a mantra for the true WordPress people</p></blockquote>\n<p>Starting from there and since today I still appreciate WordPress from top to toe. I have a bunch of reasons why I feel this world fits my values and principles. First of all, I enjoy all the PHP talking around WordPress. I find it interesting and challenging at the same time, and every time I have the chance to get involved, I accept it without hesitations. Another great aspect is directly related to my day-to-day job at Pixelgrade. The backend universe where I can improve an amount of cool things keeps my motivation up and kicking. On top of that, I resonate with JavaScript in various ways, backend and frontend too, and from time-to-time I write down my thoughts on my personal blog. I&#8217;m always happy to share ideas and provide feedback that helps. In the end, this is all about when you think of WordPress as an ecosystem, right?</p>\n<p>Talking about this core mission, I must confess that WordPress can be felt like a lifestyle into a room with glass walls. Everyone sees what you do, how you do it, and why you keep doing it. Nobody can take your work for granted, but can easily be inspired by it and even improving it. Becoming better is kind of a mantra for the true WordPress people, and that&#8217;s why they jump in and start spreading solutions about how things can achieve a superior level. With other words, it&#8217;s like sailing with a bunch of amazing people eager to enjoy the same outstanding experience.</p>\n<p>On the other hand, there are some coders that still think that WordPress is not that sexy and challenging in the end. They&#8217;re definitely not in the same boat, but I think it&#8217;s fair from our side to help them change their mind. And not because we chose to work in this playground, mostly because this platform changed a lot in the last years.</p>\n<blockquote><p>The simple fact that I improve someone&#8217;s life through my work means the world to me.</p></blockquote>\n<p>Here are my thoughts for all those programming lovers that would like to try WordPress, but need an extra boost.</p>\n<h3>A wide range of features</h3>\n<p>Articles, menus, widgets, users, live previews, e-commerce, e-learning, listings and so on. You can administrate them, make them better, simply play around as you wish. It might sound naive, but in reality these different areas are constantly bringing all kind of challenges on the table.</p>\n<h3>Legacy code</h3>\n<p>WordPress still strives to support the PHP 5.2.4 version, which was dropped five years ago but 7.5% from today&#8217;s websites still use it. But hey, WordPress is all about keeping users on board, happy and loyal, not skipping the battle. 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I&#8217;m also happy with the diverse work I do at Pixelgrade: one day can be Customify or the WP Body Class plugin, the next one can be improving Listable, a WordPress theme used by thousands of users spread all over the world. In between could be the passionate discussions regarding the core of WordPress, some advice tailored on other authors or the amazing WordCamp Europe. Whatever it is, I am grateful that I found my place where creativity, freedom, and braveness are in the first place.</p>\n<p>Call it as you wish, but the simple fact that I improve someone&#8217;s life through my work means the world to me. It gives me a sense of fulfillment, the necessary energy to keep improving, and the never-ending joy that I did something useful. And hey, there&#8217;s just another beginning since Pixelgrade has reshaped its digital presence through an outstanding website and more consistent brand story. So bring it on, fellows!</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: The WordPress Mantra Is Mine Too\" class=\"rtsocial-twitter-button\" href=\"https://twitter.com/share?text=The%20WordPress%20Mantra%20Is%20Mine%20Too&via=heropress&url=https%3A%2F%2Fheropress.com%2Fessays%2Fwordpress-mantra-mine%2F\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"></a></div></div><div class=\"rtsocial-fb-horizontal fb-light\"><div class=\"rtsocial-fb-horizontal-button\"><a title=\"Like: The WordPress Mantra Is Mine Too\" class=\"rtsocial-fb-button rtsocial-fb-like-light\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fheropress.com%2Fessays%2Fwordpress-mantra-mine%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%2Fwordpress-mantra-mine%2F&title=The+WordPress+Mantra+Is+Mine+Too\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share: The WordPress Mantra Is Mine Too\"></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/wordpress-mantra-mine/&media=https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/122116-150x150.jpg&description=The WordPress Mantra Is Mine Too\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pin: The WordPress Mantra Is Mine Too\"></a></div></div><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"perma-link\" href=\"https://heropress.com/essays/wordpress-mantra-mine/\" title=\"The WordPress Mantra Is Mine Too\"></a></div><p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://heropress.com/essays/wordpress-mantra-mine/\">The WordPress Mantra Is Mine Too</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, 21 Dec 2016 12:00:43 +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:\"Andrei Lupu\";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:23;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:58:\"WPTavern: The WordPress.org Homepage is Getting a Redesign\";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=64587\";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:69:\"https://wptavern.com/the-wordpress-org-homepage-is-getting-a-redesign\";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:3549:\"<p>A WordPress.org homepage redesign is now in the works with a strong focus on marketing to new users. 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Over three hundred million dollars has been spent in 2016 advertising proprietary systems, and even more is happening in investment. No one company in the WP world is large enough to fight this, nor should anyone need to do it on their own. We’d like to bring together organizations that would like to contribute to growing WordPress.</p></blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http://mcm.polldaddy.com/s/wordpress-growth-council\" target=\"_blank\">survey for potential council members</a> asks them to share what they bring to the table as well as a few ideas about the growth of WordPress so far, how it can be accelerated, and how the project can best respond to the millions of dollars competitors are spending in advertising. Responses have already started coming in.</p>\n<p>Alexa Scordato, VP of Marketing at Stack Overflow, <a href=\"http://alexascordato.com/the-wordpress-growth-council-an-experiment-in-open-source-marketing/\" target=\"_blank\">applied to be part of the council</a>. 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He thinks WordPress needs to take a hard look at attrition before considering advertising.</p>\n<p>&#8220;As important as advertising is, a lot of businesses struggle and fail, not because they aren’t adding new users, but because they are lousy at keeping the ones they’ve got,&#8221; Morgadinho said. &#8220;We have to look at ourselves and see where we are losing users rather than just desperately try to reach new ones. Most people use things based on referrals.&#8221;</p>\n<h3>What Will the Growth Council Look Like?</h3>\n<p>After WordCamp US, I had the opportunity to ask Mullenweg a few questions about what types of applicants he&#8217;s hoping to attract to the council. He said he envisions it will function very much like a working group or mastermind group where council members learn from each other.</p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not necessarily only people at larger companies &#8211; the biggest contributions will come from people who currently are or have in the past managed some sort of large promotion of something,&#8221; Mullenweg said. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t need to be WordPress. Maybe they sold Starbucks. Large advertising campaigns are what we&#8217;re trying to counter so experience for that is a good precondition for participating in the growth council.&#8221;</p>\n<p>Mullenweg said he has received applications from people whose companies aren&#8217;t in the WordPress ecosystem but who are experienced in this area and want to contribute some night and weekend hours to help out.</p>\n<p>&#8220;I imagine there will be other folks, including from Automattic, that are going to be spending budgets of tens of millions of dollars in the coming year and want to talk about that,&#8221; Mullenweg said. &#8220;There are some things that could be shared, including publicly. Everyone who does marketing does some research first. Why don&#8217;t we open up that research? That&#8217;s part of what I want to encourage. By taking an open source approach to this, doing more sharing both within the council and in the wider WordPress community, I think there&#8217;s a lot more to learn.&#8221;</p>\n<p>Mullenweg said the meetings won&#8217;t be completely open, as companies may want to share some confidential information. The council may have some house rules in place to make it a safe space for companies to share what they are doing and to keep strategies safe from competitors.</p>\n<p>In 2017 Mullenweg has committed to putting on the &#8220;product lead&#8221; hat for WordPress core development and it seems he&#8217;ll be bringing that same approach to the growth council.</p>\n<p>&#8220;Advertising is just a product, just like an interface is, just like a website is, just like anything else,&#8221; Mullenweg said. &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of opportunity there.&#8221;</p>\n<p>During his WordSesh session he outlined a few initial objectives for the council to tackle, including figuring out why the project has grown so far and understanding where the community&#8217;s resources are currently being spent.</p>\n<p>&#8220;We should try to enumerate and track what is being spent right now, add up all the advertising, affiliate fees, and sponsorships of events,&#8221; Mullenweg said. &#8220;Determine what that adds up to so we know what is the gap we need to close and the relative arsenals on both sides.&#8221;</p>\n<p>Mullenweg said he would like the council to figure out a plan for advertising where &#8220;we&#8217;re not competing with each other but really directing that outward against the folks who might go to Wix or Squarespace.&#8221; This particular aspect may be a challenge, as the council will need to avoid the appearance of serving only larger corporate interests in the fight against external threats.</p>\n<p>&#8220;These external threats and proprietary threats are far bigger than any intra-WordPress open source threats,&#8221; Mullenweg said. &#8220;We can grow the pie far faster than we can take shares from people in the same pie.&#8221;</p>\n<p>For the past three years, WordPress has consistently added 2% to its market share each year without any form of advertising. Instead of the project continuing to get by on &#8220;marketing happenstance,&#8221; as Mullenweg put it in the State of the Word address, 2017 will be the first year that WordPress makes a coordinated marketing effort to change the growth curve.</p>\n<p>&#8220;The people power of WordPress is probably the thing that contributes most to the usage of WordPress,&#8221; Mullenweg said. The growth council&#8217;s challenge with advertising is producing that same magnetism on a larger scale without tarnishing the organic quality of the message. Can they come up with a marketing campaign that captures the essence of what WordPress is to the people who love it most? 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I started out in marketing in the music industry and ended up as the project manager at a WordPress development agency nearly 10 years later. Changing careers is a lot of work and none of it happens by accident. Here’s a story about how I took some dashed hopes and an economic crash and turned it into everything I ever wanted.</p>\n<p>I started out by moving to NYC the day I graduated college to work in the music industry. Armed with my BA in English, I found my way in &#8211; I don’t care what anyone says, my English degree is my secret weapon.</p>\n<blockquote><p>If you can’t communicate effectively and hold someone’s interest in the process, it doesn’t matter how many letters you have after your name or how many specialized degrees you hold.</p></blockquote>\n<p>However, once I established myself as a project manager a major record label in the big city, it wasn’t easy to stay. I loved New York, but I did not love working nights to make ends meet. Realizing that my career in the music industry might not be something I could do long-term, I enrolled part-time in an accredited web development diploma program. All the classes were online, so I could do classwork around my work schedule. However, the record label was bought out and privatized, and the new owners instituted a 50% reduction in headcount worldwide. I tried to look at it as a blessing in disguise &#8212; more time to spend on completing my diploma while working fewer hours as a temp! But, answering phones and entering data didn’t exactly make me want to get out of bed in the morning. I tried to focus on shifting gears to becoming a developer.</p>\n<h3>Becoming A Developer</h3>\n<p>Though I got a great base of knowledge in HTML, CSS, PHP, Photoshop, light JavaScript, and, yes, Flash and ActionScript, I didn’t really have the goods to get a programming job right away. I was eventually re-hired in a different position by the record label, but this time I was slowly but surely working more digital into my marketing position. Finally, I had done enough to get another job as the head of digital marketing for a boutique music and entertainment-focused agency.</p>\n<p>Though I was finally doing the type of work I wanted to do, I was starting to feel like New York wasn’t where I needed to be. One major pull was my long-distance NY to LA relationship. Sometimes, career is just not enough to keep you in one spot, so in June of 2011, I moved to Orange County, CA.</p>\n<p>I was able to continue working remotely for the entertainment PR firm, but I wanted a more meaningful connection with the artists I was working with. I started freelancing for select bands, and then found a position handling all things internet-related for an Orange County-based artist management company.</p>\n<p>It was an absolute dream &#8211; I was the social media voice for one of my favorite bands, plus many more new clients and projects I would have loved even if I wasn’t on the management team. In the interest of meeting new people in this new place as well as learning something, I started attending the Orange County WordPress Meetup at Zeek Interactive and learned how to take my general knowledge of PHP and apply it to this CMS that everyone seemed to be talking about. As some of our up-and-coming bands needed websites, I’d volunteer to build them. It was cost-effective for the client, and it gave me a chance to try out all the things I’d learned at the OCWP meetup. I also served as internal project manager for sites built by an external agency.</p>\n<blockquote><p>I learned more from the many mistakes I made in developing websites than I did anything else.</p></blockquote>\n<p>Coding myself into a corner was an opportunity to grow through asking someone else to show me where I went wrong. For a while, the OCWP developer night featured some time for someone to get up in front of everyone, walk the group through an issue they were working on, show their steps and reasoning, and ask for assistance. All the more experienced developers in the room were very kind to me, several of them going out of their way to help me learn new concepts to make my themes even better.</p>\n<h3>Branching Out</h3>\n<p>Bands don’t need websites all that often, and I wanted to keep learning, so I found some non-entertainment website work to do on evenings and weekends. For a lot of it, I was a second pair of hands for another developer. For others, friends or friends of friends would come to me for help with their small business sites. These small sites worked out great, but I fully understood that the way I was working had a ceiling to it. If it’s a relatively small site with not a lot of traffic to scale, I could help. If it was going to be a big site that a lot of people would see, my code would probably not be ideal. I knew enough to be dangerous, and I knew how to fix a site if and when it white-screened, but not enough to implement all the latest and greatest techniques.</p>\n<p>So, I started looking to get back into my first love: project management, only this time for websites instead of musicians. Thankfully, my friend Steve Zehngut suddenly found himself with a need to replace his PM, and after we talked through goals and methods of working, we made it official.</p>\n<p>I’ve been the project manager at Zeek Interactive for two years now, and it’s been everything I could have ever hoped for. It took nearly a decade, retraining, lots of late nights and weekends spent learning new things and getting way outside my comfort zone, but I successfully changed industries and careers. Anyone who says it’s easy to change your life is lying to you. But I’m hard-pressed to find a reason not to do it anyway if you want to make new and better things happen.</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: Changing Careers with WordPress\" class=\"rtsocial-twitter-button\" href=\"https://twitter.com/share?text=Changing%20Careers%20with%20WordPress&via=heropress&url=https%3A%2F%2Fheropress.com%2Fessays%2Fchanging-careers-wordpress%2F\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"></a></div></div><div class=\"rtsocial-fb-horizontal fb-light\"><div class=\"rtsocial-fb-horizontal-button\"><a title=\"Like: Changing Careers with WordPress\" class=\"rtsocial-fb-button rtsocial-fb-like-light\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fheropress.com%2Fessays%2Fchanging-careers-wordpress%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%2Fchanging-careers-wordpress%2F&title=Changing+Careers+with+WordPress\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share: Changing Careers with WordPress\"></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/changing-careers-wordpress/&media=https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/121416-150x150.jpg&description=Changing Careers with WordPress\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pin: Changing Careers with WordPress\"></a></div></div><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"perma-link\" href=\"https://heropress.com/essays/changing-careers-wordpress/\" title=\"Changing Careers with WordPress\"></a></div><p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://heropress.com/essays/changing-careers-wordpress/\">Changing Careers with WordPress</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, 14 Dec 2016 12:00:52 +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:12:\"Sarah Wefald\";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:36;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:51:\"WPTavern: Harare, Zimbabwe Hosts Its First WordCamp\";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=64419\";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:61:\"https://wptavern.com/harare-zimbabwe-hosts-its-first-wordcamp\";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:3497:\"<a href=\"https://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/wordcamp-harare.jpg?ssl=1\"><img src=\"https://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/wordcamp-harare.jpg?resize=1025%2C560&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64426\" /></a>photo credit: <a href=\"http://www.techzim.co.zw/2016/12/wordcamp-2016-harare-learning-pictures/\">Limbikani Soul Makani Kabweza</a>\n<p><a href=\"https://2016.harare.wordcamp.org/\" target=\"_blank\">WordCamp Harare</a>, the first ever WordCamp in Zimbabwe, was held over the weekend at the Harare City Library. Harare was selected out of 182 applicants as one of the three locations for the <a href=\"https://wptavern.com/wordcamp-incubator-program-to-launch-in-indonesia-zimbabwe-and-columbia\" target=\"_blank\">WordCamp Incubator Program</a>. The experimental program launched in February 2016 with the goal of bringing WordCamps to new locations around the world where local meetups may not be as well established.</p>\n<p>WordCamp Harare was successful at connecting the Zimbabwean WordPress community and introducing the attendees to the concept of a WordCamp.</p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a great day because we met lots of people who are passionate about WordPress and building stuff on the internet,&#8221; Limbikani Soul Makani Kabweza said in his <a href=\"http://www.techzim.co.zw/2016/12/wordcamp-2016-harare-learning-pictures/\" target=\"_blank\">recap</a> of the event. Kabweza is a contributor at <a href=\"http://www.techzim.co.zw/\" target=\"_blank\">Techzim</a>, a Zimbabwean tech publication that runs on WordPress.</p>\n<p>&#8220;As Techzim (and the other startups we work with like <a href=\"http://www.soccer24.co.zw/\" target=\"_blank\">Soccer24</a> and <a href=\"http://www.pindula.co.zw/news/\" target=\"_blank\">Pindula</a>) the internet is our lifeblood, so a day dedicated to discussing internet platforms and how to do things better was the amazingly enriching experience we expected it to be.&#8221;</p>\n<p>Co-organizer Charles Muzonzini, who works as a web and mobile app developer with <a href=\"http://www.csz.org.zw/\" target=\"_blank\">The Computer Society of Zimbabwe</a>, said, &#8220;WordCamp Harare 2016 was an awesome success, far exceeding my expectations. Everything was on point and I’m glad to have met so many great people and learnt so much. This is hands down the best IT conference this year.&#8221; Muzonzini is also a co-organizer of the <a href=\"http://www.meetup.com/Harare-WordPress-Meetup/\" target=\"_blank\">Harare WordPress Meetup</a>, which now has 82 members.</p>\n<p>Job Thomas, who works as an Education Vanguard at Automattic, traveled from Cape Town to speak about WooCommerce at the WordCamp. In a <a href=\"https://2016.harare.wordcamp.org/open-source-empowering-africa/\" target=\"_blank\">guest post</a> for the event Thomas wrote about the importance of open source for the empowerment of Africa in removing hindrances for becoming successful.</p>\n<p>&#8220;It is great to see WordCamp Harare happening,&#8221; Thomas said. &#8220;WordCamps are not primarily events for communicating ideas – although this plays a big role. 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That release was the culmination of effective leadership and effort from Jen Mylo and Liz Danzico. In order to learn why this release is in a class of its own, we must look at how it was created.</p>\n<h2>Introducing Crazyhorse</h2>\n<p>On March 29th, 2008, WordPress 2.5 &#8220;Brecker&#8221; <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/2008/03/wordpress-25-brecker/\">was released</a> to the world. The biggest feature in 2.5 was the redesigned backend that was built in collaboration with <a href=\"http://happycog.com/\">Happy Cog</a>.</p>\n<p>When Mullenweg gave the public a <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/2008/03/25-sneak-peek/\">sneak peek</a> at the redesigned backend, he had this to say:</p>\n<blockquote><p>For the past few months, we’ve been working with our friends at Happy Cog — <a href=\"http://zeldman.com/\">Jeffrey Zeldman</a>, <a href=\"http://jasonsantamaria.com/\">Jason Santa Maria</a>, and <a href=\"http://bobulate.com/\">Liz Danzico</a> — to redesign WordPress from the ground-up. The result is a new way of interacting with WordPress that will remain familiar to seasoned users while improving the experience for everyone. This isn’t just a fresh coat of paint — we’ve re-thought the look of WordPress, as well as how it’s organized so that you can forget about the software and focus on your own creative pursuits.</p></blockquote>\n<a href=\"https://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/WordPress25PostEditor.jpg?ssl=1\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-64399\" src=\"https://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/WordPress25PostEditor.jpg?resize=1008%2C643&ssl=1\" alt=\"WordPress 2.5 Post Editor\" /></a>WordPress 2.5 Post Editor\n<p>While some people <a href=\"http://socializedsoftware.com/2008/03/30/wordpress-25-review/\">praised the redesign</a>, others <a href=\"http://scottberkun.com/2008/wordpress-25-review/\">were not happy</a>, particularly with the menu hierarchy. Since sentiment in the community was mixed, Mylo contracted Ball State University’s Center for Media Design, Insight and Research to <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/2008/10/usability-testing-report-25-and-crazyhorse/\">perform a usability report</a> on the WordPress 2.5 admin design. The report was used to figure out which issues were based on interface problems versus people simply not liking the changes.</p>\n<p>Usability <a href=\"http://wpdotorg.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/wp-testreport-205-crazyhorse-1028a08jw.pdf\">testing results</a> were shared with lead developers which inspired a prototype interface to address some of the issues discovered. This allowed developers to use WordPress 2.5 on their own sites and the prototype on a test site. However, once testing began with the prototype interface, it became clear that a more ambitious approach was required.</p>\n<p>According to Mylo, the second prototype known as &#8220;Crazyhorse&#8221; blew test subjects away:</p>\n<blockquote><p>The second round of testing blew everyone away. The research team had never seen such consistent results. Tasks were completed faster, participant opinions rated it higher, understanding of how interface elements worked was greater, and it wasn’t even a fully functional application. Of the test participants, every single one said they would choose the prototype over their current administrative interface, and it wasn’t even pretty.</p></blockquote>\n<p>Throughout the 2.7 development process, Mylo used a number of communication channels to gather user feedback. On September 15th, 2008, Mylo published a <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/2008/09/wordpress-27-navigation-options-survey/\">Navigation Options Survey</a>. The survey was part of a broader effort to get more people involved in the design and decision process:</p>\n<blockquote><p>As part of the mission to increase user involvement in design decisions, we’ve created a survey intended to give WordPress users the ability to play a part in deciding how the navigation options should be grouped and labeled.</p></blockquote>\n<p>Later that month, a <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/2008/09/wordpress-2-7-survey-no2/\">second survey</a> was created that allowed users to vote on mockups of the search box, favorites menu, the Future/Publish and Edit Timestamp buttons. It only took two days for the survey to reach its maximum response count of 5,000.</p>\n<a href=\"https://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/CrazyhorseWireframe.png?ssl=1\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-64416\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/CrazyhorseWireframe.png?resize=894%2C666&ssl=1\" alt=\"Crazyhorse Wireframe\" /></a>Crazyhorse Wireframe\n<p>Once the survey concluded, Mylo <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/2008/10/wordpress-27-wireframes/\">published a follow-up post</a> as well as a document containing <a href=\"https://wpdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/wf-dashboard_v002_093008jw.pdf\">wireframes</a> that gave users an idea of what the end product might look like. Near the middle of October, 2008, Mylo <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/2008/10/the-visual-design-of-27/\">published</a> semi-polished screenshots of the 2.7 interface and explained how it worked. Matt Thomas and Andy Peatling are largely responsible for the design of WordPress 2.7.</p>\n<a href=\"https://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/WordPress27Dashboard.png?ssl=1\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-64418\" src=\"https://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/WordPress27Dashboard.png?resize=597%2C753&ssl=1\" alt=\"WordPress 2.7 Dashboard\" /></a>WordPress 2.7 Dashboard\n<p>The response to the screenshots was <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/2008/10/the-new-27-dashboard/\">overwhelmingly positive</a>. A week after showcasing the 2.7 dashboard, Mylo <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/2008/10/calling-all-wordpress-loving-icon-designers/\">asked the WordPress community</a> to create a set of icons to go with each of the navigation sections. More than a dozen people submitted icon sets and instead of choosing one, Mylo <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/2008/11/wordpress-27-project-icon/\">let the community vote</a> on which set best matched WordPress 2.7&#8217;s style. With 35% of the vote, the <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/2008/11/the-results-of-project-icon/\">winning set</a> was created by <a href=\"http://bendunkle.com/\">Ben Dunkle</a>.</p>\n<a href=\"https://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/BDIcons.png?ssl=1\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-64421\" src=\"https://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/BDIcons.png?resize=147%2C479&ssl=1\" alt=\"Ben Dunkle\'s Winning Icon Set\" /></a>Winning Icon Set\n<p>I asked Dunkle what inspired him to create the icons and if Mylo didn&#8217;t offer the opportunity to the community the way that she did, if he would have contributed to WordPress 2.7 otherwise.</p>\n<p>&#8220;When I saw Jen&#8217;s post calling for icon designers to submit a set for 2.7, it was right at the deadline,&#8221; Dunkle told the Tavern. &#8220;I can&#8217;t remember how I found the post, since I didn&#8217;t visit the WordPress development blog very often. I&#8217;d been building sites with WordPress for few years by that time, and really enjoyed it, but I didn&#8217;t think much about the online community.&#8221;</p>\n<p>&#8220;Jen expressed the direction eloquently: &#8216;Icons should be subtle, with a classic/designed look, nothing cartoonish. Thin lines. Maybe a little old-fashioned looking.&#8217; I was designing icons for other open source projects around that time, and the language of the post struck a chord with me. I rushed out an email.</p>\n<p>&#8220;I ended up as a finalist, pushed the pixels, and sent off the design. Mine got the most votes. The contest caused some controversy, since anything resembling spec work has always been a lightning rod in the design community. I didn&#8217;t see it that way. It was an open source project and I was a volunteer, not a contractor.</p>\n<p>&#8220;In the end, it launched an ongoing connection that I maintain to this day. They&#8217;re now called Dashicons, made with vectors instead of pixels, and soon to be SVGs instead of web fonts (once we get the bugs sorted out).&#8221;</p>\n<p>After going through the beta and release candidate stages, WordPress 2.7 &#8220;Coltrane&#8221; was <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/2008/12/coltrane/\">released to the public</a> on December 11th, 2008. More than 150 people contributed code directly to the release and countless others contributed with valuable feedback during opportune times through surveys, mailing lists, and testing.</p>\n<p>Referring to WordPress 2.7, longtime user Ozh <a href=\"http://planetozh.com/blog/2008/12/a-journey-through-five-years-of-wordpress-interface/\">had this to say</a>, &#8220;The dev team asked users what they wanted and what they liked, and the result is light years beyond what the design studio produced for 2.5 six months earlier. 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It&#8217;s the only release where I feel like a lot of the community rallied together and focused on making WordPress better. Through surveys, comments, blog posts, testing, and reaching out to talented people in the community for help, Mylo proved that the community can be part of the development and design process of WordPress and end up with a better product as a result.</p>\n<p>Things have changed since 2008. The community, contributor pool, and the project itself has become larger. Communication is spread out among the Make Blogs as well as SlackHQ. The WordPress development process is more open now than ever before. Since WordPress 2.7&#8217;s release, I haven&#8217;t felt the same spark of rallying together for a common goal that Mylo was able to foster. Perhaps it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m not part of a project team like the REST API or I&#8217;m not searching for it in the right places. 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This year was especially exciting because it wasnt&#8217; just a look back at the previous year, but sets out a new direction for where WordPress will be in 2017 and beyond.</p>\n<p>If you want just the slides, here they are:</p>\n<p>  </p>\n<div> <strong> <a href=\"https://www.slideshare.net/photomatt/state-of-the-word-2016\" title=\"State of the Word 2016\" target=\"_blank\">State of the Word 2016</a> </strong> from <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.slideshare.net/photomatt\">photomatt</a></strong> </div>\n<p>Like every year, there was a ton of help bringing this together. 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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 #255:</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:\"Fri, 09 Dec 2016 01:23:24 +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:44;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:67:\"WPTavern: WordCamp Europe Calls for Host City Applications for 2018\";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=64343\";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:78:\"https://wptavern.com/wordcamp-europe-calls-for-host-city-applications-for-2018\";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:3711:\"<a href=\"https://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/planning.jpg?ssl=1\"><img src=\"https://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/planning.jpg?resize=960%2C416&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64370\" /></a>photo credit: <a href=\"https://stocksnap.io/photo/5ZMT04MIW6\">Oli Dale</a>\n<p>Even though the <a href=\"https://2017.europe.wordcamp.org/2016/11/28/join-us-as-a-speaker-at-wordcamp-europe/\" target=\"_blank\">call for speakers</a> for WordCamp Europe 2017 has just opened, organizers are already on the hunt for a city to <a href=\"https://2017.europe.wordcamp.org/2016/12/08/apply-to-host-wordcamp-europe-2018/\" target=\"_blank\">host the event in 2018</a>. 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Potential applicants are encouraged to get in touch if they are wondering if their team has what it takes.</p>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes these conversations serve as a reality check,&#8221; Raykovska said. &#8220;People can get super enthusiastic about organizing without having an idea of the time commitment. We want WCEU to be a positive experience for organizers and make sure our local teams have enough people and are aware what it takes to get involved as a local host.&#8221;</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://2017.europe.wordcamp.org/2016/12/08/apply-to-host-wordcamp-europe-2018/\" target=\"_blank\">Applications for host city</a> will be open through February 15, 2017 and the decision will be made by the end of February. The team selected for 2018 will then join the 2017 planning team to gain a better understanding of the process. 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On Thursday, December 1st, I hosted the inaugural <a href=\"https://poststatus.com/publish\">Post Status Publish</a>, which was a ton of fun. And following that event, we had three straight days of <a href=\"https://2016.us.wordcamp.org\">WordCamp US</a>.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/rzen\">Brian Richards</a> and I teamed up to take pictures and cover the event.</p>\n<h3>Post Status Publish</h3>\n<p>Publish was on Thursday. We have a lot of video, but fewer pictures. Here is a selection taken by Brian Richards. If you took photos at Publish, we&#8217;d love to see them as well!</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/publish-2016-1/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/publish-2016-1-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/publish-2016-4/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/publish-2016-4-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/publish-2016-3/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/publish-2016-3-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a 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src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/publish-2016-8-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/publish-2016-10/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/publish-2016-10-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/publish-2016-9/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/publish-2016-9-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/publish-2016-11/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/publish-2016-11-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/publish-2016-12/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/publish-2016-12-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/publish-2016-14/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/publish-2016-14-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/publish-2016-13/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/publish-2016-13-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/publish-2016-16/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/publish-2016-16-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/publish-2016-15/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/publish-2016-15-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/publish-2016-17/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/publish-2016-17-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/publish-2016-19/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/publish-2016-19-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/publish-2016-20/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/publish-2016-20-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/publish-2016-21/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/publish-2016-21-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/publish-2016-22/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/publish-2016-22-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/publish-2016-24/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/publish-2016-24-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/publish-2016-23/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/publish-2016-23-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/publish-2016-25/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/publish-2016-25-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/publish-2016-26/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/publish-2016-26-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" 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src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/publish-2016-31-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/publish-2016-32/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/publish-2016-32-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/publish-2016-34/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/publish-2016-34-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/publish-2016-33/\"><img width=\"114\" height=\"150\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/publish-2016-33-114x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n\n<h3>WordCamp US</h3>\n<p>Then there was WordCamp US. I unfortunately didn&#8217;t get to any sessions other than Matt&#8217;s State of the Word. But thankfully they&#8217;ll all be up on WordPress.tv, so I can catch up on the many that I wanted to attend.</p>\n<p>All photos directly before and during Matt&#8217;s <a href=\"https://poststatus.com/matt-mullenweg-state-word-2016/\">State of the Word</a> are by Brian Richards. I took most of the hallway shots.</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/wcus-2016-1/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/wcus-2016-1-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/wcus-2016-2/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/wcus-2016-2-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/wcus-2016-3/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/wcus-2016-3-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/wcus-2016-4/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/wcus-2016-4-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/wcus-2016-5/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/wcus-2016-5-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/wcus-2016-6/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/wcus-2016-6-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/wcus-2016-8/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/wcus-2016-8-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/wcus-2016-7/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/wcus-2016-7-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/wcus-2016-10/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/wcus-2016-10-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/wcus-2016-11/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/wcus-2016-11-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/wcus-2016-12/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" 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