Are you interested in learning more about how to build websites with WordPress? Here are some ways to do that. Take a course. One of the first ways I learned about WordPress, and related topics like HTML, CSS and PHP, is by taking tutorials. Lynda.com, Treehouse, Know the Code, WP101 – there are all awesome sources.…
Hey all! Just wanted to let you know about a productivity hack that I have found this week that is really amazing. I know Alfred had a clipboard snippet manager but I have not been able to really get the hang of it. So I’ve tried a new one called Flycut Clipboard Manager. It is…
I’ve very excited to be at the end of this week, as next week I am off to Supconf – A Conference for Support Professionals. Taking place in Seattle, SupConf is put on by the Support Driven Community, and it’s for folks like me who have made a career out of support. I’m excited to be…
Local group offers free website development Does your non-profit group need a website? Our local WordPress Meetup group wants to hear from non-profit organizations in the South Okanagan – and we are willing to build a website for free if we can find the right group. Our club’s expertise will be free of charge, and…
When you are just starting out as a freelance website consultant, it can be very hard to know how much to charge. Between feeling like an imposter and trying not to go broke, you need to find a middle ground and get paid what you are worth. I don’t have any “right” answers here, but…
When I applied for the position of Happiness Engineer with a company called Automattic, I thought it sounded like a dream job. I had first heard about “Happiness Engineers” from someone who was telling me that she had reached out to WordPress.com for help on a website she was working on. It is quite a…
Judging by the numbers, WordPress is the world’s most popular Content Management System (CMS) in use today – and it’s growing. According to W3Techs, a website that provides information about the usage of various types of technologies on the web, as of January 2016, WordPress is used to power “59 per cent of all the websites whose…
Are you a WordPress developer, or interested in learning more about WordPress? We have now started an official, WordPress-sanctioned South Okanagan WordPress Meetup group in the South Okanagan. Details about WordPress Meetups: WordPress Meetups are for the benefit of the WordPress community as a whole, not specific businesses or individuals. All actions taken as an…
It’s likely somewhere along the way you have heard of WordPress, and chances are, you have visited a site or two that are built with the WordPress platform. Maybe you even built a blog somewhere along the way, and used WordPress.com to do it. But WordPress may be be a more robust system than you…
Wordpress is an open-source website development platform. That means, it’s free to use as the base of pretty much any sort of website design and functionality you can imagine! But even though it’s free, it’s a very robust platform and lots of the “big guys” use it! Like who? Check it out a full listing here. The…
About Laurena:
Working for (Automattic) on the Built by WordPress.com team, I currently live at Sugar Lake, in the Interior of British Columbia.
My past lives include teaching, journalism, and business ownership doing website design and development.
I am always learning something new, and am passionate about finding awesome solutions to tough problems.
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