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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. 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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:8;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. WordCamps are primarily a celebration of the open source community; they gather people with a similar passion for making the web a better place.&#8221;</p>\n<p>WordCamp Harare was the fourth WordCamp held in Africa in 2016, joining events in Nairobi, Johannesburg, and Cape Town in the expansion of the WordPress community in southern and eastern Africa.</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:\"Tue, 13 Dec 2016 05:11:55 +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:\"Sarah Gooding\";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:9;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:73:\"WPTavern: WordPress 2.7 Is the Role Model for How Design Can Lead the Way\";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=64183\";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:84:\"https://wptavern.com/wordpress-2-7-is-the-role-model-for-how-design-can-lead-the-way\";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:11607:\"<p>When Matt Mullenweg, co-creator of the WordPress open source project, <a href=\"https://videopress.com/v/IYfHX4jN?at=3472\">announced that</a> design would lead the way for WordPress development in 2017, utilizing user research and mockups, the first thing that came to my mind was WordPress 2.7. 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. One word to summarize it all: &#8216;Above the fold!\'&#8221;</p>\n<h2>WordPress 2.7 Set a Great Standard</h2>\n<p>During Contributor day at WordCamp US 2016, I asked Mullenweg if the WordPress 2.7 development process inspired the experimental approach to developing WordPress in 2017.</p>\n<blockquote><p>Yeah, I mean that was one of the beginnings to Jen&#8217;s contributions and her huge impact on the WordPress world. She brought an entirely different way of thinking with a user first, usability, research led mindset. It was fantastic to have female leadership demonstrating very early on in the WordPress community that this is software made by everyone for everyone. What that was for its time is a great standard to hold ourselves up to as we move forward in 2017.</p></blockquote>\n<p>Out of all the WordPress releases I&#8217;ve covered since 2007, WordPress 2.7 is special. 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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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:15;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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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=\"\" 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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=\"\" 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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. 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src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/wcus-2016-114-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/wcus-2016-115/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/wcus-2016-115-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/wcus-2016-116/\"><img width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/wcus-2016-116-100x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/wcus-2016-117/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/wcus-2016-117-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/wcus-2016-118/\"><img width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/wcus-2016-118-100x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/wcus-2016-119/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/wcus-2016-119-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/wcus-2016-120/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/wcus-2016-120-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n\n<h3>WordCamp US Contributor Day</h3>\n<p>Finally, Contributor Day was on Sunday. In addition to the contributor area itself, lunch was at the market where you can choose from a variety of lunch spots, with common cafeteria seating. I had an awesome spicy roast pork sandwich from Dinic&#8217;s, which I took a few pictures of as well.</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/wcus-2016-122/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/wcus-2016-122-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/wcus-2016-121/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/wcus-2016-121-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/wcus-2016-123/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/wcus-2016-123-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a 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src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/wcus-2016-170-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/wcus-2016-172/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/wcus-2016-172-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/wcus-2016-171/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/wcus-2016-171-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a href=\"https://poststatus.com/photos-post-status-publish-wordcamp-us-2016/wcus-2016-174/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/wcus-2016-174-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" /></a>\n<a 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In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the pictures! 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Sucuri is a website security platform that helps clean and protect websites. I would consider us a small mid-sized company. Our annual sponsorship budget is in the range of $300 &#8211; $400k per calendar year (CY).</p>\n<p>One of the industry events we’ve been actively participating in since our inception has been WordCamps. Unlike 2015, in 2016 I decided to be more pragmatic in the way we invest in WordCamps. This new approach stemmed from two basic questions &#8211; <b>What is the ROI of sponsoring a WordCamp and should a business sponsor a WordCamp?</b></p>\n<p>One qualifier I want to add before getting started is that tracking success at events is very difficult. Even with the number of tools and approaches in the market, many organizations struggle getting their hands around the actual ROI of any event sponsorship. This means that many of the points in this post are not unique to the WordPress ecosystem, but the uniqueness and openness of the community makes it worth discussing.</p>\n<hr />\n<h1>The Reality of WordCamps and Sponsors</h1>\n<p>It’s been many years since I helped co-organize a WordCamp (<a href=\"https://2011.sandiego.wordcamp.org/\">San Diego back in 2011</a>), and there is no denying that a lot has changed in the way they are put together. The one thing that hasn’t changed however, is the struggle organizers face when it comes to fundraising. 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Matt Mullenweg also shared that these WordCamps are made possible by the generosity of the various sponsors which cover 85 &#8211; 95% of the costs associated with such events.</p>\n<p>It’s because of these sponsors that the costs are kept so low for attendees; including the annual event (WCUS) which came in at a cost greater than $500 per person but sold for ~$20 / day (Total of $40 / person). This is truly a herculean feat, and I commend them on their success to date.</p>\n<h1>The Sponsor Canoe Is Leaking</h1>\n<a href=\"https://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Canoes.png?ssl=1\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-64321\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Canoes.png?resize=705%2C210&ssl=1\" alt=\"Canoes\" /></a>photo credit: dolbinator1000 <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/126654539@N08/25305151246\">Boyhood</a> &#8211; <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/\">(license)</a>\n<p>With this in mind, I think it’s fair to say that at the rate things are going we might find ourselves with a problem of scale. While there have been 1k + sponsors in 2016, I would wager that a majority of the money is likely coming from a smaller subset of that group.</p>\n<p>Taking this into consideration, unless you’re Automattic, I can’t help but imagine that as a business the ROI question continues to come up as it does for me. This is further compounded by the dramatic increase in the <strong>a)</strong> request for sponsorships (# of camps) and <strong>b)</strong> the economics of the sponsorship itself (the $$ amount).</p>\n<p>This makes me think that it’s only a matter of time when the source of funds will be exhausted. Organizations have fiduciary responsibilities to their companies to spend their cash flow wisely, especially in today’s turbulent economic times.</p>\n<p>The impacts of this, as highlighted above, are going to be felt (if not already) by those volunteers trying to put on these great WordCamps. 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What I do know is that a good number of sponsors are familiar with it. </i></p>\n<p>Whether intended or not, allow me to be the first to publicly admit that while we are familiar with the phrase, no one really subscribes to it. The dirty little secret is that every business has some form of an expected ROI. It’s not always financially based, but there is some expectation. Companies sponsor events because there is some vested interest unless we’re talking about a child’s gymnastics or softball team.</p>\n<p>ROI takes many different shapes. Allow me to share the ROI as I see it when I look across the spectrum of some of today’s top sponsors (know that these are all my opinions as a third-party observer):</p>\n<h3><b>GoDaddy </b></h3>\n<p>They sponsor because they need to. When they came into the space two to three years ago, after the changing of the guard they identified the potential in WordPress. They had an image problem; one that couldn’t be fixed remotely. It had to be fixed with boots on the ground.</p>\n<p>Building relationships. Sharing experiences. Engaging influencers (do not underestimate the power of influencers). Whatever you might think of the brand today is nothing compared to what it was a few years ago. WordCamps have been a critical piece of their strategy to make this work. Who doesn’t know <a href=\"https://ifyouwillit.com/about-mendel-kurland/\">Mendel Kurland</a>?</p>\n<h3><b>SiteGround </b></h3>\n<p>When they started to make their big push into the market, they were at every camp giving away free accounts. For them, it wasn’t about the short-term gain as much as the long-term gain. They had everything going against them. They were from Bulgaria working to service the biggest economic market, the US. They were trying to penetrate what many would argue was an already saturated market.</p>\n<p>I remember when they first appeared. 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It&#8217;s fair to note, that the lack of success in the measurable values above could be very closely be related to our ineffectiveness as an organization as well. We could just be really bad at working events; it’s an art in and of itself.</p>\n<p>I intentionally did not include marketing leads. For me, my focus is looking at what actually converts so when we go to events, we place more emphasis on qualified sales leads (opportunities) than marketing leads; I am not very big on getting into the card collection and SPAM business.</p>\n<p><b>What does this all mean?</b></p>\n<p>Well, if I was a rational person this would mean that as a premium service provider, investing in WordCamps doesn’t make sense. Trust me, I love the community. We are involved in many ways, but this is really too difficult to digest and justify. 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If nothing else, this can help both the Foundation and organizers alike better work with sponsors.</p>\n<h2>The Audience Quality Factor</h2>\n<p>When we turn our attention to WordCamps, events designed to promote and bring together these ideals, you realize that the problem with WordCamps for businesses is the audience.</p>\n<p>I&#8217;m by no way saying that their current design is bad for what WordCamps were designed for. On the contrary, I&#8217;d say they&#8217;ve done an exceptional job sticking to their predefined audience, at least in terms of cost bracket. They don’t, however, do a good job of differentiating between the various personas in attendance. They’re all rolled up into one big bucket. This creates a severe imbalance between the economic investment and audience potential.</p>\n<p>This imbalance I think has to do with the quality of the audience. 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Only time will tell.</p>\n<h2>Impacts of a Corporation Type</h2>\n<p>For those unfamiliar, the entity responsible for facilitating the growth and management of WordCamps around the world is now known as the <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/community/2016/03/02/transitioning-to-wordpress-community-support/\">“WordPress Community Support (WPCS) Public Benefit Corporation (PBC)”</a>. This new entity is a subsidiary of the WordPress Foundation, which is still a non-profit, and established in 2016 (Yes, Matt said it’d take effect in 2017 but I’m pretty sure that was in error).</p>\n<blockquote><p>After March 31, sponsorship payments sent to WordPress Foundation accounts will be returned to sender. 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While my experience was back in 2011, I can only imagine that the struggles are still the same and one of the things leveraged when pitching to companies are the benefits of a non-profit. The non-profit classification was not just about securing donations like venues (which is very important) but it’s critical for some in securing the dollars they require.</p>\n<p>For a company, it also makes it harder to justify the costs. As the dollar investment continues to increase, the one thing that could always be counted on was the non-profit status. By changing it to a private organization (on paper) it’s donating money to another company (regardless of what the mission may or may not be). This might not be a big deal for some, but when we start talking significant investments, it becomes a serious problem.</p>\n<h1>Incentivizing Businesses</h1>\n<p>When you read through the <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/wordcamp-organizer/planning-details/fundraising/wordcamp-sponsorship/#wordcamp-sponsorship-rules-for-2016\">Sponsorship rules for 2016</a> the changes are not incentivizing enough for a business. The biggest change being the ability to print comparisons or introduce pricing on collateral, both of which are insignificant as you can account for most of your physical collateral to end up in the trash and difficult to track.</p>\n<p>I believe there will be, or are changes in the works, to include pricing on virtual print as well which will definitely be a positive move, but I defer to the ROI measurements above as well.</p>\n<p>While the idea of incentivizing a business might be repulsive, it’s a necessity. 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I decided to take some time off.</p>\n<p>In the fall of 2000, I enrolled at a local community college. I spent the next two years and half years completing my core curriculum and then transferred to Texas A&amp;M in 2003 to complete a Bachelor of Science degree in Horticulture.</p>\n<p><strong>Why Horticulture?</strong> I’ve always loved gardening and jumped at the opportunity to learn everything I could about it.</p>\n<p><strong>Life Lesson:</strong> In hindsight &#8211; I wish I would have completed a degree in Computer Science. It was a bit of my own arrogance, that since I had run a software company and worked at a consulting firm, I knew all I needed to know. Truth was, I didn’t and would have benefited greatly from that experience.</p>\n<h3>Trying to make a hobby into a business.</h3>\n<p>In 2003, I decided to open an online store to sell home and garden gifts. I built a website using the Yahoo Store platform, and for the next 5 years watched it grow.</p>\n<p>My first introduction to WordPress came when I wanted to start a blog for the store. I like the idea of a self-hosted solution and loved getting back into programming.</p>\n<p>I went from running the business from my home to a small warehouse. It was 2007 and the housing market was booming. I jumped at the opportunity to lease a much larger warehouse with a retail storefront.</p>\n<p>There were important life lessons in it. One that made a strong impression on me was best described by the character Justin Matisse in the movie Hope Floats:</p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You&#8217;re talkin&#8217; &#8217;bout the American Dream. You find something that you love, and then you twist it, and you torture it, try and find a way to make money at it. You spend a lifetime doing that. At the end, you can&#8217;t find a trace of what you started out lovin&#8217;. &#8220;</p></blockquote>\n<p>That’s how I felt sometimes when running my store. What I loved about the home and garden space and trying to make money at it were sometimes at odds with each other. I loved designing the website, adding functionality and mastering the art of improving the SEO of the site.</p>\n<p>I was about to learn a very painful and valuable lesson. I was financing the growth with debt. I got caught up in the growth curve and was sure that things would just keep getting better, allowing me to pay down the debt. Indeed servicing the debt was not a problem, as sales continued to grow.</p>\n<p>Then came 2008 and the Great Recession. For the next three years, I watched sales decline, my credit lines pulled and my business contract. That made servicing the debt, really hard. I was stuck in a lease that I could not afford. Many of the vendors I bought products from went out of business. Everyone was hurting. <strong>I was not financially prepared for it.</strong></p>\n<p>In the end, a chain of events led to a huge financial mess &#8211; one that to this day, I am still recovering from. In 2011, I liquidated the inventory, sold my online store to a third-party and moved on.</p>\n<h3>Transitioning to WordPress</h3>\n<p>I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do at that point. I was depressed and dealing with the financial fallout of losing my business.</p>\n<p>I wrote content for a garden center and slowly began working on websites for others. I chose to use the Genesis Framework and began customizing their themes for clients. I liked it because it leveraged the power of hooks and filters in a way that made sense to me &#8211; and the Genesis community is amazing.</p>\n<p>I worked in real estate for a while to help pay the bills, but it just wasn’t right for me.</p>\n<p>During this transition period, I used the time to improve my web development skills. I began working with WordPress every day, learning everything I could. I took online courses in HTML, CSS and PHP.</p>\n<p>Today, I’m running my own business again, building websites and helping clients promote their digital brand. I learned a lot about SEO running my eCommerce business, how to market products, write copy and promote my brand. Now I’m helping clients do that.</p>\n<p>With decades of business experience along with some hard life lessons, here’s what I’ve learned so far:</p>\n<ol>\n<li>Don’t assume things will continue in the same direction. Business is cyclical, so like a squirrel &#8211; stash away some nuts for the winter.</li>\n<li>Stay out of debt.</li>\n<li>Know when to hold &#8217;em and when to fold &#8217;em. Sometimes hindsight helps make this clearer, but trust your gut and follow your instincts.</li>\n<li>Be helpful to others. Take time to share what you’ve learned, make friends and enjoy the ride.</li>\n<li>Learn from every engagement, and take steps to improve how you communicate.</li>\n<li>Be a Life-Long Learner. Dedicate time to experiment, think and try new things.</li>\n</ol>\n<p>Finally, if you’re considering a career in web design and development in WordPress, take the time to learn the fundamentals of HTML, CSS, JS and PHP. You’ll be glad you did.</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: Full Circle: Life Lessons of a Perennial Entrepreneur\" class=\"rtsocial-twitter-button\" href=\"https://twitter.com/share?text=Full%20Circle%3A%20Life%20Lessons%20of%20a%20Perennial%20Entrepreneur&via=heropress&url=https%3A%2F%2Fheropress.com%2Fessays%2Ffull-circle-life-lessons-perennial-entrepreneur%2F\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"></a></div></div><div class=\"rtsocial-fb-horizontal fb-light\"><div class=\"rtsocial-fb-horizontal-button\"><a title=\"Like: Full Circle: Life Lessons of a Perennial Entrepreneur\" class=\"rtsocial-fb-button rtsocial-fb-like-light\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fheropress.com%2Fessays%2Ffull-circle-life-lessons-perennial-entrepreneur%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%2Ffull-circle-life-lessons-perennial-entrepreneur%2F&title=Full+Circle%3A+Life+Lessons+of+a+Perennial+Entrepreneur\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share: Full Circle: Life Lessons of a Perennial Entrepreneur\"></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/full-circle-life-lessons-perennial-entrepreneur/&media=https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/120716-150x150.jpg&description=Full Circle: Life Lessons of a Perennial Entrepreneur\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pin: Full Circle: Life Lessons of a Perennial Entrepreneur\"></a></div></div><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"perma-link\" href=\"https://heropress.com/essays/full-circle-life-lessons-perennial-entrepreneur/\" title=\"Full Circle: Life Lessons of a Perennial Entrepreneur\"></a></div><p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://heropress.com/essays/full-circle-life-lessons-perennial-entrepreneur/\">Full Circle: Life Lessons of a Perennial Entrepreneur</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, 07 Dec 2016 12:30:19 +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:19:\"Jackie D&#8217;Elia\";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:22;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:87:\"WPTavern: Pantheon’s $100K WordCamp US Sponsorship Revoked the Night Before the Event\";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=64248\";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:94:\"https://wptavern.com/pantheons-100k-wordcamp-us-sponsorship-revoked-the-night-before-the-event\";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:8493:\"<p>Nearly 2,000 people descended on Philadelphia, PA to attend WordCamp US last week. On the night before WordCamp US took place, <a href=\"https://pantheon.io/\">Pantheon&#8217;s</a> sponsorship was revoked and advertising materials, including the company&#8217;s booth, were hidden in a storage room inside the venue. The move generated a <a href=\"https://twitter.com/danielbachhuber/status/804721149900890112\">lot of controversy</a> on social media and at the event. It cost Pantheon $100K to sponsor WordCamp US, but the company received a refund.</p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our booth disappeared but the team\'s still here! Look for us in yellow! <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/WCUS?src=hash\">#WCUS</a> <a href=\"https://t.co/lnF5aI36oy\">pic.twitter.com/lnF5aI36oy</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; Pantheon (@getpantheon) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/getpantheon/status/804715506674626560\">December 2, 2016</a></p></blockquote>\n<p></p>\n<p>Prior to WordCamp US Matt Stodolnic, Pantheon&#8217;s Vice President of Marketing, contacted the <a href=\"http://www.sheratonphiladelphiadowntown.com/\">Sheraton Downtown Philadelphia</a> and inquired about advertising opportunities. The Sheraton <a href=\"http://www.sheratonphiladelphiadowntown.com/philadelphia-meetings\">hosts a number of meetings</a> and has a couple of different advertising packages available. Stodolnic purchased advertising space on the hotel&#8217;s elevators. The advertising material was simple and didn&#8217;t make unprovable claims, such as the world&#8217;s best or fastest host. This is in line with the <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/wordcamp-organizer/planning-details/fundraising/wordcamp-sponsorship/#wordcamp-sponsorship-rules-for-2016\">sponsorship rules</a>.</p>\n<a href=\"https://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/PantheonElevatorAdvertising.png?ssl=1\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-64262\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/PantheonElevatorAdvertising.png?resize=629%2C806&ssl=1\" alt=\"Pantheon\'s Elevator Advertising\" /></a>Pantheon&#8217;s Elevator Advertising\n<p>On December 1st late at night, Stodolnic received an email from WCUS organizers requesting that the advertising material be removed. Stodolnic pushed back as the sponsorship agreement does not specifically prohibit advertising in the hotel. At one point during the exchange of emails, the WCUS organizing team threatened to take the banners down themselves. Stodolnic responded with anger as the purchase had already been made but he quickly apologized.</p>\n<p>The issue was eventually escalated to Matt Mullenweg, co-creator of the WordPress open source software project, who revoked the company&#8217;s sponsorship of the event for violating the code of conduct. Later that night, WCUS organizers deconstructed Pantheon&#8217;s booth and moved it to a storage room along with 600 T-shirts printed by the company.</p>\n<a href=\"https://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/PantheonsBoothBefore.png?ssl=1\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-64259\" src=\"https://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/PantheonsBoothBefore.png?resize=981%2C734&ssl=1\" alt=\"Pantheon\'s Booth at WCUS Before Being Taken Down\" /></a>Pantheon&#8217;s Booth at WCUS Before Being Taken Down\n<p>Day one of WordCamp US went off without a hitch but it was slightly overshadowed by the sudden removal of Pantheon. A few Pantheon employees published unfavorable messages on Twitter about the situation. Those tweets have since been deleted. At the conclusion of day two, Cami Kaos, one of the lead organizers of WordCamp US, published a post on the <a href=\"https://2016.us.wordcamp.org/\">event&#8217;s blog</a> highlighting what happened.</p>\n<a href=\"https://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/SponsorUpdatePost.png?ssl=1\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-64261\" src=\"https://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/SponsorUpdatePost.png?resize=1004%2C739&ssl=1\" alt=\"Archived Image of The Post Published on the WCUS Blog Explaining The Situation\" /></a>Archived Image of The Post Published on the WCUS Blog Explaining The Situation\n<p>The post doesn&#8217;t specifically name Pantheon and says the sponsor in question violated the event&#8217;s <a href=\"https://2016.us.wordcamp.org/code-of-conduct/\">code of conduct</a>. I spoke to a number of Pantheon employees who read the post and couldn&#8217;t identify the violation in question. Within hours of being published, the post was removed from the site without an explanation.</p>\n<h2>Cooler Heads Prevail</h2>\n<p>During day two of WCUS, Stodolnic and Pantheon Co-founder Josh Koenig, spoke to Mullenweg face-to-face in a closed-door meeting at the venue. What was said is unknown but when I asked Mullenweg what the result of the meeting was, he said, &#8220;I think we&#8217;re in a much better place.&#8221; He also didn&#8217;t comment when asked how Pantheon violated the code of conduct.</p>\n<p>After the meeting, Stodolnic told me that both sides agreed that communication could have been handled better and that cooler heads prevailed. Mullenweg wouldn&#8217;t comment when asked whether Pantheon was banned from sponsoring WordCamps in 2017.</p>\n<p>We now know that the official hotel for WordCamp US is an extension of the venue allowing organizers to enforce the code of conduct and sponsorship and principles agreements. It&#8217;s likely that due to this incident, the sponsorship agreement will be amended to specifically prohibit advertising in the official hotel at next year&#8217;s event.</p>\n<p>Pantheon is a six-year old company making inroads in the managed WordPress hosting space. Not being able to sponsor WordCamps in 2017, <a href=\"https://central.wordcamp.org/news/2016/03/28/pantheon-joins-the-wordpress-global-community-sponsorship-program-in-2016/\">as they did in 2016,</a> could derail their momentum in building brand awareness.</p>\n<h2>Is It Worth It to Sponsor WordCamps?</h2>\n<p>Many of the sponsors I spoke to at WordCamp US described what Pantheon did as genius and were disappointed that they didn&#8217;t think of it first. This opens the door to a wider conversation. Is it financially worth it to sponsor WordCamps and are there enough opportunities to see a return on investment?</p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Tony Perez, <span class=\"st\">CEO of Sucuri, started a <a href=\"https://twitter.com/perezbox/status/749283708209799168\">passionate discussion</a> on Twitter around the value of sponsoring WordCamps. As the costs of sponsoring and the number of WordCamps increases, businesses will need to be more selective of which camps they sponsor.<br />\n</span></p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I think <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/wordcamp?src=hash\">#wordcamp</a> sponsorships and today\'s businesses will be coming to a cross roads in the the not so distant future.. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/wordpress?src=hash\">#wordpress</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; Tony Perez (@perezbox) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/perezbox/status/749283708209799168\">July 2, 2016</a></p></blockquote>\n<p></p>\n<p>One of the <a href=\"https://wptavern.com/state-of-the-word-2016-mullenweg-pushes-calypso-as-future-of-wordpress-interface-proposes-major-changes-to-release-cycle\">major announcements at WordCamp US</a> is that WordCamps will now run finances through a <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/wordcamp-organizer/first-steps/budget-and-finances/running-the-money-through-wpcs/\">Public Benefit Corporation</a>. Previously, finances were run through the <a href=\"http://wordpressfoundation.org/\">WordPress Foundation</a>, a 501(c) non-profit entity which <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/community/2016/03/02/transitioning-to-wordpress-community-support/\">severely limited</a> what sponsors were able to do at events due to IRS regulations. When the switch occurred earlier this year, the <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/wordcamp-organizer-handbook/planning-details/fundraising/wordcamp-sponsorship/#wordcamp-sponsorship-rules-for-2016\">sponsor rules were updated</a> to be less restrictive.</p>\n<p>As WordCamps grow in size, especially WordCamp US, perhaps its time to rethink the benefits that are offered to sponsors to increase the sponsorship&#8217;s value. 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Theme authors will need to add theme support as well as support for selective refresh in order to take advantage of this new feature.</p>\n<a href=\"https://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CustomizerShortcutButtons.png?ssl=1\"><img src=\"https://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CustomizerShortcutButtons.png?resize=1025%2C544&ssl=1\" alt=\"Visible Edit Shortcut Buttons\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63883\" /></a>Visible Edit Shortcut Buttons\n<p>The new starter content and edit shortcuts features, especially when combined, give theme authors the ability to make customization easier and faster for their users. 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The new feature is fairly basic but extensible so <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/11/26/extending-the-custom-css-editor/\" target=\"_blank\">plugin developers can add additional functionality</a> on top of it.</p>\n<a href=\"https://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WP47CustomizerCSSEditor.png?ssl=1\"><img src=\"https://i1.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WP47CustomizerCSSEditor.png?resize=1025%2C394&ssl=1\" alt=\"CSS Editor in The WordPress 4.7 Customizer\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63483\" /></a>CSS Editor in The WordPress 4.7 Customizer\n<p>WordPress 4.7 is packed full of many other user-facing improvements that make managing and editing content easier:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>PDF thumbnail previews for better document management</li>\n<li>User admin languages</li>\n<li>Media library is now searchable by file name</li>\n<li>Improved Custom Background Properties UI (<a href=\"https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/22058\" target=\"_blank\">#22058</a>)</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/10/28/editor-changes-in-4-7/\" target=\"_blank\">Editor changes</a>: easier access to most-used buttons, improved discovery for keyboard shortcuts in tooltips and dropdowns</li>\n<li>Customizer sliding panels UI is now faster, smoother, and more accessible</li>\n<li>oEmbed support for Facebook posts/activities/photo/videos/media/questions/notes</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>WP REST API Content Endpoints Added to 4.7</h3>\n<p>One of the most exciting improvements to WordPress for developers is the addition of the <a href=\"https://wptavern.com/wp-rest-api-officially-approved-for-merge-into-wordpress-4-7\" target=\"_blank\">WP REST API content endpoints</a> for posts, comments, terms, users, meta, and settings. This API opens up new ways of accessing and presenting WordPress content in themes, plugins, and applications &#8211; both inside and outside of the traditional WordPress interface. The WP REST API now has an <a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/\" target=\"_blank\">official reference for documentation</a> on WordPress.org.</p>\n<p>A few highlights of additional improvements for developers include the following:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://wptavern.com/wordpress-4-7-brings-custom-page-template-functionality-to-all-post-types\" target=\"_blank\">Post Type Templates</a> &#8211; custom page template functionality is now available to all post types</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://wptavern.com/wordpress-4-7-will-allow-developers-to-register-custom-bulk-actions-in-admin-list-tables\" target=\"_blank\">Custom bulk actions</a> &#8211; developers can register custom bulk actions for admin list tables</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/10/26/registering-your-settings-in-wordpress-4-7/\" target=\"_blank\">Expanded Settings Registration API</a> via register_setting()</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/09/08/wp_hook-next-generation-actions-and-filters/\" target=\"_blank\">WP_Hook overhaul</a></li>\n</ul>\n<p>WordPress lead developer Helen Hou-Sandí led the 4.7 release with deputies Jeff Paul and Aaron Jorbin. 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It’s named, as always, after a famous jazz musician, and this release is named after <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Vaughan\">Sarah “Sassy” Vaughan</a>, an American jazz singer.</p>\n<p>The Release Lead for WordPress 4.7 was <a href=\"https://helen.blog/\">Helen Hou-Sandí</a> &#8212; who is also a WordPress Lead Developer, and the Director of Platform Experience at 10up. The Deputy Release Leads were <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/jbpaul17\">Jeff Paul</a>, a Team Lead at XWP, and <a href=\"https://daily.jorb.in/\">Aaron Jorbin</a>, the Director of Engineering at Some Spider. There were more than 475 total contributors to this release, and more than 200 were first time contributors!</p>\n<p>As always, there&#8217;s a <a href=\"http://wordpress.tv/2016/12/06/introducing-wordpress-4-7-vaughan/\">release video</a> that showcases the release highlights. This year, it was produced by Rami Abraham.</p>\n<div id=\"v-AHz0Ca46-1\" class=\"video-player\"><div><img alt=\"Introducing WordPress 4.7\" src=\"https://videos.files.wordpress.com/AHz0Ca46/wp4-7-vaughan-r8-mastered_scruberthumbnail_0.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" /></div><p>Introducing WordPress 4.7</p></div>\n<p>WordPress 4.7 includes so many changes and new features worth highlighting, I will note a few of what I consider the most important and noteworthy, but it is not all-encompassing. This has been the most productive release in a very long time.</p>\n<h3>WordPress REST API Content Endpoints</h3>\n<p>WordPress is now more extensible than ever before, thanks to the WordPress REST API and the Content Endpoints that have shipped with 4.7. The Content Endpoints are stage two of the REST API rollout, after the infrastructure was included <a href=\"https://poststatus.com/wordpress-4-4/\">in WordPress 4.4</a>.</p>\n<p>The Content Endpoints make it so developers can interact with all major content objects of WordPress: posts (including default and custom post types), terms, users, and comments.</p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever wanted to completely bypass the WordPress templating engine, now you can. You can use WordPress as a content store, and create a custom writing interface, or so many other things, thanks to this API that standardizes interfacing with WordPress.</p>\n<p>The implications for external applications are enormous. Third parties can now reliably anticipate how to work with any WordPress site.</p>\n<p>The WordPress REST API has reached a huge milestone, and <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/10/19/wordpress-rest-api-success-metrics/\">success metrics</a> have been created to track how things are going with it. But the core team already knows there is much left to do.</p>\n<p>With the <a href=\"https://poststatus.com/matt-mullenweg-state-word-2016/\">new development cycle</a> Matt Mullenweg announced at WordCamp US just last week, the REST API will be one of three parts of WordPress that will have a major release dedicated to enhacing it. The goal is to expand the endpoints to include all site management features of WordPress, so that someone (or WordPress itself) could completely rebuild the WordPress administration experience from scratch, using the WordPress REST API.</p>\n<p>I sincerely believe the REST API is a gamechanger for WordPress. Now, it&#8217;s your turn. Build stuff. Show the world what you&#8217;ve made! There will be official WordPress REST API showcase efforts underway soon to capture what folks are building.</p>\n<p>This project would absolutely not have happened without the following people: Ryan McCue and Rachel Baker for leading the effort, Daniel Bachhuber and Joe Hoyle for their constant work and guidance, K. Adam White for a huge 4.7 effort in project management and wrangling, and Helen Hou-Sandí for making the call to include the API in the release.</p>\n<p>Ready to get started with the WordPress REST API? The new <a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/\">REST API Handbook</a> will be the home for documentation going forward.</p>\n<h3>Twenty Seventeen</h3>\n<p>Twenty Seventeen is the latest default theme for WordPress, and I believe the best since at least Twenty Twelve. The new default theme has a great multi-section front page feature that offers a great solution for small businesses to highlight their work in a single page format, with large featured images throughout.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26479 size-large\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/twenty-seventeen-promo-752x313.png\" alt=\"twenty-seventeen-promo\" width=\"752\" height=\"313\" /></p>\n<p>Twenty Seventeen was designed by Mel Choyce.</p>\n<h3>Adjusted editor layout</h3>\n<p>Many folks would consider it a minor change, but any change to the WordPress editor is a big one to me. As Andrew Ozz <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/10/28/editor-changes-in-4-7/\">highlights in the Make Core post</a>, some of the buttons in the default editing toolbar have been moved around, based on statistics of usage.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30984\" src=\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-06-at-1.24.48-PM-752x447.png\" alt=\"editor-toolbar-rearrangement\" width=\"752\" height=\"447\" /></p>\n<p>Most notably, the headings drop down has been moved to the top row, and strikethrough and horizontal rule buttons have moved down. This is a good step in the right direction in supporting a better and easier to use editor.</p>\n<h3>New Customizer features</h3>\n<p>The WordPress Customizer is another of the three feature focus areas moving forward in WordPress development. 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I&#8217;ve used custom CSS myself many times, especially for small sites where I just wanted to get something small done quickly. This feature brings a common request to core, and helps someone customize their sites quicker and without a third party plugin.</p>\n<h4>Starter content for themes</h4>\n<p>I&#8217;m really excited about the new starter content that WordPress themes can now include. This allows for smarter demos, so that the user better sees what the theme is designed for.</p>\n<p>Helen has a whole post <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/11/30/starter-content-for-themes-in-4-7/\">describing exactly how it works</a>, but this is another feature that takes something that was not great in WordPress (especially for free themes in the WordPress directory) and drastically improves it.</p>\n<p>I really look forward to seeing this in action, and look forward to see how adoption of this feature impacts both free and commercial WordPress theme ecosystems.</p>\n<h3>Post type templates</h3>\n<p>Pages have long support custom templates for WordPress themes to define, and now this feature has been <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/11/03/post-type-templates-in-4-7/\">extended to all post types</a>, with opt-in support.</p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s simple for theme authors to create a variety of templates so that content creators can pick and choose from a layout they want to utilize, just like they&#8217;ve always done for pages.</p>\n<h3>Check out the full field guide</h3>\n<p>WordPress 4.7 packs a lot of punch, and I highly recommend looking through the <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/12/05/wordpress-4-7-field-guide/\">full field guide</a> on the various changes. 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New features in 4.7 help you get your site set up the way you want it.</p>\n<div id=\"v-AHz0Ca46-1\" class=\"video-player\"><div><img alt=\"Introducing WordPress 4.7\" src=\"https://i1.wp.com/videos.files.wordpress.com/AHz0Ca46/wp4-7-vaughan-r8-mastered_scruberthumbnail_0.jpg?resize=632%2C354&ssl=1\" /></div><p>Introducing WordPress 4.7</p></div>\n<hr />\n<h2>Presenting Twenty Seventeen</h2>\n<p>A brand new default theme brings your site to life with immersive featured images and video headers.</p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-4618 size-large\" src=\"https://i2.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2016/12/4.7-—-Twenty-Seventeen-1.jpg?resize=632%2C356&ssl=1\" /></p>\n<p>Twenty Seventeen focuses on business sites and features a customizable front page with multiple sections. Personalize it with widgets, navigation, social menus, a logo, custom colors, and more. 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Don’t worry &#8211; nothing new will appear on the live site until you’re ready to save and publish your initial theme setup.</p>\n<div>\n<h3>Edit Shortcuts</h3>\n<div class=\"wp-video\"><a href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/files/2016/12/edit-shortcuts.mp4\">https://wordpress.org/news/files/2016/12/edit-shortcuts.mp4</a></div>\n<p>Visible icons appear to show you which parts of your site can be customized while live previewing. Click on a shortcut and get straight to editing. Paired with starter content, getting started with customizing your site is faster than ever.</p>\n</div>\n<div>\n<h3>Video Headers</h3>\n<div class=\"wp-video\"><a href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/files/2016/12/video-headers.mp4\">https://wordpress.org/news/files/2016/12/video-headers.mp4</a></div>\n<p>Sometimes a big atmospheric video as a moving header image is just what you need to showcase your wares; go ahead and try it out with Twenty Seventeen. Need some video inspiration? Try searching for sites with video headers available for download and use.</p>\n</div>\n<div></div>\n<div>\n<h3>Smoother Menu Building</h3>\n<p><img class=\"wp-image-4606 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https://i1.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2016/12/4.7-—-Nav.jpg?resize=300%2C158&ssl=1\" /></p>\n<p>Many menus for sites contain links to the pages of your site, but what happens when you don’t have any pages yet? Now you can add new pages while building menus instead of leaving the customizer and abandoning your changes. Once you’ve published your customizations, you’ll have new pages ready for you to fill with content.</p>\n</div>\n<div>\n<h3>Custom CSS</h3>\n<p><img class=\"wp-image-4607 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https://i1.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2016/12/4.7-—-CSS.jpg?resize=300%2C158&ssl=1\" /></p>\n<p>Sometimes you just need a few visual tweaks to make your site perfect. WordPress 4.7 allows you to add custom CSS and instantly see how your changes affect your site. The live preview allows you to work quickly without page refreshes slowing you down.</p>\n</div>\n<div></div>\n<hr />\n<div>\n<h3>PDF Thumbnail Previews</h3>\n<p><img class=\"wp-image-4609 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https://i1.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2016/12/4.7-—-PDF.jpg?resize=300%2C158&ssl=1\" /></p>\n<p>Managing your document collection is easier with WordPress 4.7. Uploading PDFs will generate thumbnail images so you can more easily distinguish between all your documents.</p>\n</div>\n<div>\n<h3>Dashboard in your language</h3>\n<p><img class=\"wp-image-4608 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https://i2.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2016/12/4.7-—-Language.jpg?resize=300%2C158&ssl=1\" /></p>\n<p>Just because your site is in one language doesn’t mean that everybody helping manage it prefers that language for their admin. 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Ready to get started with development? <a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/reference/\">Check out the REST API reference.</a></p>\n<hr />\n<h2>Even More Developer Happiness <img src=\"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2.2.1/72x72/1f60a.png\" alt=\"?\" class=\"wp-smiley\" /></h2>\n<h3><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/11/03/post-type-templates-in-4-7/\">Post Type Templates</a></h3>\n<p>By opening up the page template functionality to all post types, theme developers have even more flexibility with the WordPress template hierarchy.</p>\n<h3>More Theme API Goodies</h3>\n<p>WordPress 4.7 includes <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/09/09/new-functions-hooks-and-behaviour-for-theme-developers-in-wordpress-4-7/\">new functions, hooks, and behavior</a> for theme developers.</p>\n<h3><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/10/04/custom-bulk-actions/\">Custom Bulk Actions</a></h3>\n<p>List tables, now with more than bulk edit and delete.</p>\n<h3><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/09/08/wp_hook-next-generation-actions-and-filters/\"><code>WP_Hook</code></a></h3>\n<p>The code that lies beneath actions and filters has been overhauled and modernized, fixing bugs along the way.</p>\n<h3>Settings Registration API</h3>\n<p>register_setting() <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/10/26/registering-your-settings-in-wordpress-4-7/\">has been enhanced</a> to include type, description, and REST API visibility.</p>\n<h3><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/10/12/customize-changesets-technical-design-decisions/\">Customize Changesets</a></h3>\n<p>Customize changesets make changes in the customizer persistent, like autosave drafts. 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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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Matt Mullenweg delivered his 11th annual State of the Word address to a rapt audience ready to celebrate WordPress&#8217; progress over the past year and hear the project leader&#8217;s vision for 2017.</p>\n<p>He began by thanking sponsors and volunteers who made the event possible by covering the bulk of the $516 actual cost per person. Mullenweg said sponsors cover roughly 85-95% of the cost of WordCamps worldwide. In 2016, the events sold a total 36,000 tickets, with costs subsidized by more than 1,000 sponsors.</p>\n<p>Mullenweg said meetups are the leading indicator for WordCamps and these events have had the fastest growth the community has seen in five or six years. More than 62,566 people attended a local meetup in 58 countries and roughly one third of those were new members.</p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It’s been a great year for WordCamps and meetups &#8211; 115 total WordCamps hosted in 41 different countries. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/wcus?src=hash\">#wcus</a> <a href=\"https://t.co/yVGkT0j52C\">pic.twitter.com/yVGkT0j52C</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; WordCamp US (@WordCampUS) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/WordCampUS/status/805156784763715584\">December 3, 2016</a></p></blockquote>\n<p></p>\n<h3>WordPress Foundation to Create WordPress Community Support Subsidiary</h3>\n<p>In order to better accommodate the extraordinary growth of the global community, the WordPress Foundation will be restructuring its management of WordCamps. In 2016 the Foundation took in an estimated $4.3 million, up from $2.8 million in 2015, with 99.9% of those funds related to WordCamps. 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This year has seen a 20% increase in active plugin usage and a 34% increase in plugin downloads totaling 1.48 billion, which Mullenweg attributed to a spike in internationalization efforts over the past year. The number of translation contributors has grown from 5,000 in April 2015 to 17,000 as of November 2016.</p>\n<p>This year there were 1,598 plugins with language packs (up from 314 last year) and 1224 themes with language packs (up from 641 last year). Mullenweg noted that 2/3 of the world speaks one of 12 languages with native fluency and that WordPress covers all of these and many more. In fact, the 4.6 release shipped with support for 50 available languages. WordPress&#8217; top 10 plugins are now 82% complete in the top 12 languages.</p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The top 10 plugins are 82% complete in the top 12 languages. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/wcus?src=hash\">#wcus</a> <a href=\"https://t.co/LnpEGv0p7o\">pic.twitter.com/LnpEGv0p7o</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; WordCamp US (@WordCampUS) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/WordCampUS/status/805161007349985280\">December 3, 2016</a></p></blockquote>\n<p></p>\n<h3>Mullenweg Continues to Push Calypso as the Future of the WordPress Interface</h3>\n<p>During the <a href=\"https://wptavern.com/state-of-the-word-2015-javascript-and-api-driven-interfaces-are-the-future-of-wordpress\" target=\"_blank\">2015 State of the Word</a>, Mullenweg gave attendees a homework assignment to &#8220;learn JavaScript deeply&#8221; and <a href=\"https://youtu.be/TX6dXRL-jPU?t=59m14s\" target=\"_blank\">promised to submit a JavaScript patch before 4.7</a> came out. He submitted his first pull request to Calypso yesterday, Automattic&#8217;s from-scratch rewrite of WP admin using Node and React.</p>\n<p>WordPress.com users have widely adopted the new interface for publishing. Mullenweg shared statistics showing that 68% of posts went through Calypso since its launch, 17% via mobile, and 15% through the traditional wp-admin. Mobile app and mobile browser usage are also up. &#8220;We now need to start thinking about mobile devices as the primary way people are going to interact with WordPress in the future,&#8221; Mullenweg said.</p>\n<p>From the time it launched, Mullenweg has said that Calypso, or something like it, would be the future of the WordPress interface. He reiterated this in his 2016 address and has committed some of Automattic&#8217;s JavaScript developers from the Calypso team to contribute full-time to core.</p>\n<p>If Calypso has a chance at becoming a promising replacement for the WordPress admin, its creators will need to broaden its interoperability with the WordPress plugin ecosystem. Mullenweg announced that Calypso is now plugin aware and is open to plugins with over 1M active sites.</p>\n<p>The next step on Calypso&#8217;s roadmap is to bring in support for Automattic&#8217;s plugins &#8211; WooCommerce, Akismet, Jetpack, and VaultPress. Mullenweg said the big focus for 2017 is to make plugins Calypso-aware, starting with a handful of the most popular ones before opening it up to all plugins.</p>\n<p>&#8220;The hope is that Calypso, or something like it, is actually what becomes the interface that drives WordPress,&#8221; Mullenweg said. 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Matt talked last year about how LetsEncrypt and PHP7 were going to be a big deal, but they&#8217;ve turned out to be, &#8220;huge.&#8221; And WordPress will now start applying progressive enhancement techniques for WordPress websites.</p>\n<p>WordPress.com is now fully on PHP7, which he says was an enormous accomplishment. He&#8217;s also announced that <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/\">WordPress.org will now recommend</a> PHP7 by default.</p>\n<h3>Calypso</h3>\n<p>Matt gave some updates on <a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.com/calypso/\">Calypso&#8217;s</a> adoption since it was released last year. He says that 68% of posts on WordPress.com are now written in Calypso. 17% of posts are written via a mobile device, and only 15% of users are using the WordPress admin. For reference, Calypso is the default method of publishing on WordPress.com now, so that includes the desktop website, desktop app, and mobile app.</p>\n<p>Matt says that building Calypso is like, &#8220;building a plane while it&#8217;s flying.&#8221; And while it&#8217;s hard, he says it&#8217;s worth it, but it&#8217;s like rebuilding WordPress &#8212; which took 13 years to do &#8212; in only two years.</p>\n<p>The future of Calypso includes making it &#8220;plugin aware&#8221;, so that prominent plugins (most Automattic plugins included) would be recognized and manageable via Calypso.</p>\n<p>In fact, Calypso is plugin aware today, as the merge has just happened. So now plugins can include custom code to be manageable via Calypso. This is an interesting move to me, especially since Calypso &#8212; while open source &#8212; isn&#8217;t an official WordPress project, but rather an Automattic-owned interface.</p>\n<p>Matt says that someday he&#8217;s like to see Calypso, &#8220;or something like it,&#8221; eventually to become the WordPress interface.</p>\n<h3>Core releases in 2016</h3>\n<p>WordPress 4.5-4.7 will have been released by the end of 2016. Matt says, &#8220;this is very much a year about doing things differently.&#8221; And in that spirit, he&#8217;s pre-announcing the jazz musician in the release. I&#8217;m sure Jeffro will be pleased <img src=\"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2.2.1/72x72/1f609.png\" alt=\"?\" class=\"wp-smiley\" /> WordPress 4.7 will be named &#8220;Vaughan&#8221;, after jazz musician Sarah &#8220;Sassy&#8221; Vaughan.</p>\n<p>Helen Hou-Sandi came to the stage to discuss WordPress 4.7 in more detail.</p>\n<h3>WordPress 4.7</h3>\n<p>WordPress 4.7 will include a variety of features, and will be released on Tuesday, December 6th.</p>\n<h4>New default theme</h4>\n<p>WordPress includes a new default theme that with a multi-section home page that&#8217;s a brand new WordPress feature. And generally Twenty Seventeen has a lot more broad base appeal for businesses and non-blogging application