Photos on WPFolks: the complete guide
There is a corner of WordPress.org that almost nobody talks about, and it is full of some of the best work the community produces. The WordPress Photo Directory holds over 43,000 photographs. Every one is CC0, which means you can use any of them for anything, commercial work included, without asking or crediting anyone. They […]
Streaks on WPFolks: the complete guide
Contributing to WordPress is easy to start and hard to keep up. You fix a bug on a Sunday, feel good about it, mean to do more, and then a client project lands and it is three months later. Nothing went wrong. Nobody lost interest. The habit just never got a foothold. Streaks are WPFolks’ […]
The complete guide to your WPFolks profile picture
For a long time, a lot of WPFolks profiles had no picture on them. Not because folks did not want one. Because WPFolks only ever looked in one place, and if that place was empty, so was the profile. A community directory full of grey circles does not look like a community. It looks abandoned. […]
How to connect GitHub, decide what shows publicly, ask for the help youactually need, and hand a project on when it is time.
There is a particular kind of WordPress project that never gets found. It works. It has users. It solves a real problem. But it is not onwp.org, or it is on wp.org and the listing says nothing about the factthat one person has been carrying it alone for three years and wouldquite like some company. […]
WPFolks Sponsorships Are Open: Here’s How It Works, What You Get, and Where the Money Goes
WPFolks has crossed 1,000 members. That number still surprises me when I look at it. What started as a side project, a place for WordPress people to have real profiles, share plugins, find jobs, and actually talk to each other, is now a community of over 1,055 developers, freelancers, agency folks, and product makers who […]
I just shipped Streaks on WPFolks. Here’s what they do, why I built them, and what to expect.
Why streaks If you’ve spent time around the WordPress community, you know the same names tend to show up everywhere. The folks who answer questions in the same forum week after week. The ones who keep filing roadmap tickets. The ones who show up at every meetup. That kind of consistency is its own form […]
How to Contribute to WordPress (30+ Paths Most Developers Don’t Know About)
If you’ve ever wanted to contribute to WordPress but didn’t know where to start, you’re in good company. WordPress powers more than 43% of the web, and the folks behind that work are spread across dozens of Make teams, forums, plugin directories, translation projects, and community programs. The volume of options can be paralyzing. So […]
A month later: where WPFolks is now
A month ago today, WPFolks went live with 41 folks signed up. Today there are 666 of us. Day one felt like sending a postcard into the dark. I didn’t know if anyone would actually use the things I had built. A month in, the answer is clearer than I expected. This post is a […]
WPFolks Day 1 — 41 Members, 58 Plugins, and a DM Inbox Full of Kind Words
Yesterday I went live with WPFolks. Here is what happened. Honestly I did not know what to expect on day one. Building something for a community is different from building a product — you cannot measure it in signups alone. You measure it in whether people show up and actually use it. They did. The […]