WCEU 2023 group photo

WordCamp Europe 2023: some notes from Athens

WordCamp Europe 2023 is over. Almost 100 speakers, 12 workshops, 3 tracks… a lot of content. As in previous years, the organizing team did a great job in providing a width selection of themes. Of course AI is a trend from the last 6 months, and, of course, we had to have it covered in …

WordPress 20th anniversary

WordPress 20th anniversary

It’s been a while since I last wrote on WPStress.com. So many things changed in the last few years, a global pandemic being the biggest of those changes. Uncertainty times we faced, with major or minor lockdowns, businesses changing their products and services to adjust to this new reality.  A lot of businesses moved online. …

It's a trap

WordPress 5.0: update or not?

WordPress 5.0 is coming. Despite major concerns by longtime contributors (here, here, here…), mainly about the unreadiness of the new editor being merged into core, December 6th it’ll see the light of day. This is no surprise, although the latest delays and the previous launch plan predicted a January launch. Having a brand new WordPress editor …

Drama

#wpdrama

The #wpdrama is a quite often used hashtag whenever great change in WordPress ecosystem is announced (or stalled). Sometimes it’s not even a great change but a trendy subject. What I think it means is the WordPress ecosystem is far larger and plural than when the project was in its early stages, and any potential …

Facepalm

Rookie mistakes

In another post where I try to explain the motivation behind WP Stress, I listed a series of events that led me to a CMS and, later, to organize training sessions for initiates. As most rookies, I found WordPress as I searched for a tool to answer a specific problem. I needed a simple, affordable …

I can teach how to do it

Why WP Stress?

Some years ago I started doing training sessions for WordPress newbies. The wpstress.com domain was the second instance of a planned WordPress training project. It still is, but I haven’t been available for training sessions for a while. This site has been somewhat abandoned because of that. The original idea was having this support site …