Exactly five years ago today I woke up to an email from Dave Rosen telling me my life was about to change. He didn’t know yet what we’d build, but he offered me the chance to build something. From that seed we crafted HeroPress. It was a battle, filled with uncertainty, and at times tears, …
Building A WordPress Business In Iran – ساختن یک زندگی وردپرسی در ایران
Contributor: Morteza Geransayeh
این مقاله به زبان فارسی نیز در دسترس است. I purchased my first computer set when I was 19 years old, but several years before that, at the age of 15, I took a computer and MS-DOS training course and without having a computer, by merely practicing on paper, I managed to get the perfect …
14 Years’ Detour
Contributor: Olga Gleckler
Это эссе также доступно на русском языке Knowing what you want isn’t enough. At the age of fifteen, I was told to hurry up with my professional education, if I don’t get a free place at university no one will pay for me. Last one was obvious and not because of money. I didn’t know …
Life Stacks Up – From A Small Town Boy To A Geek Entrepreneur
Contributor: Nirav Mehta
A six year old is in deep thought. His gaze stuck on an intricate structure made with wooden sticks – a large rectangular box in the centre, a tall stick, some knitting threads running up and down. All this is arranged in a shelf in a common terrace wall of two middle class Indian homes. …
WordPress and Customer Support, A Perfect Match
Contributor: Aniello Forlini
My adventure with WordPress started back in the days, circa 2006, when I tried to use WordPress.com in a local area network at the company I was working for at the time. I soon realized WordPress.org was a better fit and began experimenting with setting up multiple sites for different purposes. Fast forward to 2015/2016, …
Becoming A Successful WordPress Freelancer In India
Contributor: Pramod Jodhani
The Back Story In the final year of my Engineering degree, my Head of Department summoned my friend and me to his office. Both of us were not the highest scoring students but we were the most active ones. For our major project rather than building just anything, he wanted us to build a PBX …
History and Future of Kids Heroes in WordPress
Contributor: Sandy Edwards
Kids events are not a new thing in the WordCamp and WordPress event space, however, the number of these events happening around the world are on the rise. Kids events focus on teaching children how to become content creators, creative thinkers, and even business owners. Numerous repeat attendees have morphed their personal blogs into businesses …
Syndication!
As of today, HeroPress essays will be syndicated on WordPress.org/news once a month, on the first friday of the month. A few weeks ago Josepha The Great approached me and said she’d been tasked with getting Better News at that location, and HeroPress was one of her first thoughts. We discussed how it would work …
News, Updates, etc.
You may have noticed there’s no Essay this week. This is for a variety of small reasons, some of which involve going fishing. We’ll resume our regular schedule next week. I think this is only the second time in over 4 years that we’ve missed an essay. Later this week I should have a fun …
I Am Cookie Dough
Contributor: Allie Nimmons
I was always told I had to go to college. I was “gifted” so learning came easy and I enjoyed it. From ages 6 to 18, I went to competitive accelerated schools designed to churn out college students. It was a narrow path I’d been set on, without encouragement to explore beyond. Majoring in theater …