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Happiness Engineer at Automattic, lover of knitting, crochet, sci-fi and more
WooThemes has been acquired by Automattic! There’s not too much I want to say about this apart from: exciting! The focus is going to be more on WooCommerce than the themes side, at first at least. I hope WooCommerce will be in WordPress.com sooner rather than later. That would be sweet! And since the whole network is […]
Is happening May 30-31! I am super excited! Yes I am, I’m speaking! 15 Cool Things You (Maybe) Didn’t Know WordPress Could Do. Who knows, it might end up being more than 15 once I am finished writing it. We shall see! The speakers and topics look amazing! And I just realised that there are three […]
I recently did a talk at the North Sydney WordPress Meetup about Search Engine Optimization for beginners and best practices in WordPress. It was the longest talk I’ve done because there’s so much to cover, and you could really talk for weeks about SEO, but I tried to stick to beginner skills. You can see […]
Phew! It actually happened! WordCamp Sydney 2014 is on and going pretty well as far as I can tell. I had no idea how different organising would be to attending; obviously the lead-up is extremely different, but it is also completely different on the day: making sure everything is continuing as it should, picking up […]
WordCamp Sydney 2014 is on this weekend! September 27-28.
Last night we listened to Matt Mullenweg talk about the past and the future of WordPress.
Last night was a fantastic night! We got to hear about how Automattic has grown, how the mission of WordPress (to democratise publishing) has evolved and worked out, and we got to see first-hand how the community and they way they use WordPress has grown and changed.