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WordPress Origin Story

I started building sites in WordPress in 2010, when I was hired at a digital marketing company that used WordPress. I was barely familiar with it and had no idea what I was getting myself into. A year or two into the job, I was pulled aside by my boss and told that a client was about to sue us over a site that someone else had been working on for 9 months. He asked if I could build a new site from scratch within a week. I took a few hours to talk to the client and be sure I understood what he wanted, and then I built him the first truly customizable, user-friendly WordPress site our company had produced.

Not only did I get it done in a week, he loved it so much that he kept the site for a full decade before replacing it. I also ended up completely changing how we built sites, making them significantly more flexible and creating a custom page builder before page builder plugins became ubiquitous. (My coworkers, clients and I still prefer my custom ACF-based builder.)

That’s when I realized I loved building flexible, user-friendly (or noob-proofed) sites using WordPress. I assumed that some day soon, WordPress would fall out of fashion and I’d have to use something new. But instead it’s just gotten bigger.

  • Member Since: April 12th, 2012
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  • Posted a reply to The Big Question: Will SCF Add Advanced Features Like Those in ACF Pro?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    You think Automattic stole this plugin so they could give you better features for free?

  • Posted a reply to Embed tweets not see in content_timeline (SCF), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    SCF can't tell you anything because it isn't their code. You should go to advancedcustomfields.com…

  • Created a topic, the absolute audacity, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I've used ACF Pro, and been a staunch WordPress advoca…

  • Created a topic, BigCommerce/2FA Conflict on Login Page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hello, I just enabled 2FA access on my company's websi…

  • Created a topic, NOT a site search, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    First, you can only use this if you have free credits,…

  • Posted a reply to Adding Page Templates, Metas to Revisions, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    @macmanx No, I am not using a Block Theme. I have a custom theme. I…

  • Posted a reply to Live site does not reflect updates made, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    @biancaparker Unfortunately those caching plugins are really aggressive and persistent. But like I said, I'm…

  • Posted a reply to WordPress Email Accounts, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    How your server handles email from WordPress can get really complicated... over 15 years of…

  • Posted a reply to My WordPress site taken over by unauthorized person, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    The only thing you can do is access the files via your hosting provider. Who…

  • Posted a reply to Wrong timezone even when set right, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    date() is a PHP function, not a WordPress function. It will *always* use the server…

  • Posted a reply to Preheader title block renders diff for non-admin user, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I can't be sure what you're seeing because it was changed since you posted... maybe…

  • Posted a reply to Live site does not reflect updates made, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    George is right, you're almost definitely caching. You're using a minification plugin... those usually show…

  • Created a topic, Adding Page Templates, Metas to Revisions, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hey everyone! I am trying to do something that I thoug…

  • Created a topic, Include Menu Title/Heading, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I hope this isn't a repeat of a dumb question; I was u…

  • Posted a reply to Changing post actions menu in admin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    It does, thank you much. I also discovered a plugin I was using is doing…

  • Created a topic, Changing post actions menu in admin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Is there a way to edit the quick actions menu on a cus…

  • Posted a reply to Allowing list block in Gutenberg inner block, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I think we'd all just take it for granted that not everything can be done…

  • Posted a reply to Can you stop a dropdown parent first tap linking..?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    There is a plugin that works really well for mobile menus that I use regularly.…

  • Posted a reply to WP-admin login page complete broken, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I've never seen anything like that before, but my first guess is that you have…

  • Posted a reply to Better to have multi-site or have geotarget for multi-lingual site, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I think a multi-site might be too complicated for what you're talking about. That's my…

  • Posted a reply to I want to re-edit header & footer, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I'm not completely clear on your issues right now, because the way you worded this…