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WordPress Origin Story

The first time I published a WordPress blog was in 2011 (I was 13 years old) for a school project – it was my Natural Science professor that gave us some topics to talk about and made a presentation of it, so I thought of doing a blog.

I started looking around the internet and mailed some web hosting companies asking for a partnership – well… I remember that in the email I presented myself, explained the “plan” and after it asked directly for a free hosting and a free domain – and… the result was not what I was expecting (now I understand the companies, at that time I had no idea what I was doing) most of them were like:
– Do you have some type of online experience?
– We can’t support that request because there isn’t an existing online project
– We can’t totally offer the services that we sell
– We can make a student discount but we can’t offer the service
and so on.

Luckily there was a company that said directly – well, we can help you, we just need the note in attachment signed by your parents. It’s a note so we can know that they know about our partnership. That was super easy to me, I just printed the document, taken the ass of the chair and asked them to sign it and sent it to the company. They gave me the hosting and I just had to buy the domain from them – they also asked me to put their marketing material on my blog and to announce them the evolution of the project.

Hands at work and after two or three weeks my blog was full of posts, explaining this or that, talking about the environment, climate change and news.

The day arrived and I presented the blog in the class and my professor loved it, asked me things about the articles I had on it and yeah, max grade.

Since then I started looking around the WordPress environment – the plugins, the themes, the code – and trying to learn more about the whole world of WordPress – and now, some lessons, videos, readings and mistakes, I try to make cool online projects for others 🙂

You can see the first capture took by the ‘Wayback machine’ in the following link – https://web.archive.org/web/20110611045500/http://ambienteverde.net:80/

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February 2025
Feb 13 Thu · 03:50
Polyglots med
Suggested 16 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
February 2024
Feb 29 Thu · 03:37
Polyglots med
Suggested 79 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
December 2023
Dec 27 Wed · 21:36
Polyglots med
Suggested 56 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
October 2023
Oct 15 Sun · 07:34
Polyglots med
Suggested 28 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
Oct 14 Sat · 19:27
Polyglots med
Suggested 90 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
October 2022
Oct 14 Fri · 07:54
Polyglots high
Translated 12 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
April 2020
Apr 29 Wed · 02:50
Forums med
Posted a reply to Add the unit of measure to the emails, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
the plugin does this automatically :) Tested in Woocommerce 4.0.1 and WordPress 5.3.2
November 2018
Nov 28 Wed · 01:53
Forums med
Created a topic, Simples e eficaz, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Faz o que promete de forma simples e eficaz ----------…

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