As WordPress comes upon it’s 20th birthday on May 27th, their marketing team have come up with an idea to get people writing about WordPress for the 20 days leading upto the big day.
From Blogs to Blocks
From Blogs to Blocks creates intentional moments for the WordPress community to reflect on the journey we’ve gone on so far and to dream of what’s to come.
Each daily action symbolizes the millions of individual actions that have come together to make WordPress what it is today.
From Blogs to Blocks celebrates a range of different interests and skill sets. Each day, from May 7 to May 27, 2023, the WordPress Make Marketing blog will feature five WordPress-related prompts:
- Blogging: WordPress-related questions or suggestions for a related action that can be expressed through writing, video, audio, or visual/digital art. The key is to post your responses on a WordPress blog or website, showcasing the versatility of WordPress as a platform.
- Developing: These prompts are for those who want to participate on the technical side of the platform, from testing and pull requests to building blocks.
- Designing: With an emphasis on designing and creation, these prompts aim to inspire the creative minds who bring WordPress to life visually.
- Photography: Aimed at anyone who likes to take pictures, prompts for contributions to the WordPress Photo Directory will bring our worlds together while enriching our community’s visual resources.
- Community: Actions to support the WordPress community and the project as a whole. These prompts are meant to foster contribution and connection among community members.
All these can be mixed and matched to whatever you want for your focus for each day, or create your own daily action and let your WordPress memories, skills, and passion shine!
Participants who share at least one action during the campaign as a comment on a #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks post will have the achievement acknowledged by the Marketing team (and possibly on their WordPress.org profile). Participants who share an action on all 20 posts before WCUS in August 2023 will get an additional acknowledgement of their accomplishment. We can’t wait to celebrate your commitment and your contributions to our thriving community!
Let’s celebrate the past, present, and future of WordPress, and continue empowering each other to build a better web for everyone.
Day 1: Your WordPress Origin Story
My origin story starts just a few years after high school where I got my interest in making websites. After a couple of years making my site (the original version of this site) using the languages of the internet (HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT) I discovered the wonders of Content Management Systems, or more importantly, WordPress.
At this point in time I was just building for myself. Exploring this wonderful new world I had discovered. Learning how to use the platform and discovering all the different plugins to use and how they changed things on a site or made it easier to manage and keep track of the visits to my site.
Then, in April 2017, I was approached by a friend about his new business idea and so my second site Long Point Island Hugger Tours was born.
After a couple more years we come up to now where back in March I was approached by a friend of the owner of Long Point Island Hugger Tours to build yet another site. So began my next journey with Erdelac Irrigation.
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