A few weeks ago the WordPress Grand Rapids meetup asked me to give a talk on HeroPress and we recorded it. I talked about its origins, processes for finding and publishing stories, and some of the tech behind it all. #WordPress #WPGR #HeroPress youtu.be/-mCgoehAWtk

I posted a new Hallway Chats episode today, with Russell Aaron. It was a really fun talk, you should get to know him too. Also, I included the conversation we had AFTER the show, because that was good too! hallwaychats.com/episodes/epi...

"During the organizer vetting and orientation process, the interviewer kept returning to one question: Could I make it to Mumbai?

This week we also have audio, read by Moses himself, in both English and Luganda. heropress.com/essays/indeb...

Emboozi ya week Eno eweereddwa omutwe "Ebbanja: Ekirooto Kya Uganda ekyaagenda eBuyindi" enyumizibwa Moses Cursor Ssebunya okuva e Uganda. #WordPress heropress.com/essays/indeb...

This week's HeroPress essay introduces a new language to the site! Luganda is a Bantu language spoken in the African Great Lakes region. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luganda

This week's HeroPress essay is titled "Indebted: The Ugandan WordPress Dream that Flew to Asia" by Moses Cursor Ssebunya from Uganda. #WordPress heropress.com/essays/indeb...

Random data from Jetpack Stats on HeroPress.com for the last 7 days. I never would have guessed that linkedin would be HeroPress' primary traffic driver.

"I am no longer the child who measured heroism by the arc of a punch. A hero is someone who shows up when someone needs you to, to listen without agenda, to celebrate people as they are rather than as you wish they were." — Aditya Kane #WordPress heropress.com/essays/the-h...

If you're wondering what kind of person I am, watch out for the axe. "If #WordPress were a world unto itself, conjured by a Tolkien-like imagination, Topher would be a axe-wielding dwarf who walked with you for a while just to make sure you're alright." — Aditya Kane heropress.com/essays/the-h...

"South Asia took to [HeroPress] immediately. A remarkable number of the earliest essays came from India." — Aditya Kane #WordPress heropress.com/essays/the-h...

"Telling your story as worthy of an audience was the first important step. HeroPress was built on that belief." — Aditya Kane #WordPress heropress.com/essays/the-h...

“Hi, there. Do you know who I am?” heropress.com/essays/the-h...

This week's HeroPress essay is number 300! I asked Aditya Kane to write it, and he made "The Hero of HeroPress and quiet art of walking with people". #WordPress heropress.com/essays/the-h...

COMING WEDNESDAY! The 300th essay on HeroPress.com, I'm very excited! It's written by Aditya Kane from Pune, India. Make sure you stop by and check it out! #WordPress

Finally, my dream came true. I was selected as a volunteer at WCAsia. The most special part? I attended with my family. My husband supported me. My 4yo son, Mantra, enjoyed every moment. This was not just my journey—it became our journey. — Shital Marakana #WordPress heropress.com/essays/from-...

इस हफ़्ते के HeroPress निबंध का शीर्षक है — “एक छोटे से गाँव से WordCamp Asia तक: मेरी WordPress यात्रा” — जिसे भारत के गुजरात राज्य में स्थित राजकोट की शीतल माराकाना ने लिखा है। #WordPress heropress.com/essays/from-...

આ અઠવાડિયાના હીરોપ્રેસ નિબંધનું શીર્ષક "એક નાના ગામથી વર્ડકેમ્પ એશિયા સુધી: મારી વર્ડપ્રેસ જર્ની" છે, જે રાજકોટ, ગુજરાત, ભારતના શિતલ મારકણા દ્વારા લખાયેલ છે. #WordPress heropress.com/essays/from-...

"Coming from a small village with limited exposure to computers, I never imagined that one day I would be part of a global community and attend an international event like WordCamp Asia 🌏. " — Shital Marakana #WordPress heropress.com/essays/from-...

This week's HeroPress essay is titled “From a Small Village to WordCamp Asia: My WordPress Journey" by Shital Marakana from Rajkot, Gujarat, India. #WordPress heropress.com/essays/from-...

On Thursday, April 16th at 6pm EDT, I'm going to be speaking to the WordPress Grand Rapids Meetup about HeroPress. This will be a virtual event, so anyone in the world can attend, I'd love it if you could come. #WordPress #HeroPress www.meetup.com/wpgrandrapid...

Today Perfmatters became the most recent in-kind supporter of HeroPress! That means they let me use their awesome plugin. :) Super grateful. perfmatters.io

When I posted Ray Mitchell's HeroPress essay last week I totally forgot to put i n his desktop, annotated with Draw Attention, one of my favorite #WordPress plugins! That has been fixed, check it out: heropress.com/essays/an-ei...

This week's HeroPress essay is titled "An Eighth Grader’s Dream Comes True" by Ray Mitchell from Winston-Salem, NC, USA. #WordPress heropress.com/essays/an-ei...

"It wasn’t always easy. I completed my primary schooling in the regional language, and things as basic as speaking and writing fluent English required a lot of effort. On many occasions, I doubted myself." — Indira Biswas #WordPress heropress.com/essays/i-don...

"I am still a month away from WordCamp Asia 2026 as I write this. I don’t know yet how it will go. But I said yes, and that feels like something." — Indira Biswas #WordPress heropress.com/essays/i-don...

"Being part of [contribution] teams helped me understand open source in a new way. I started to see how many different kinds of work go into building and supporting a project." — Indira Biswas #WordPress #OpenSource heropress.com/essays/i-don...

As an experiment I set up a SoundCloud account for HeroPress, and will be posting the audio versions of essays there. Is this something you'll use? soundcloud.com/heropress

"I was too reluctant to ask whether there was a place for a QA engineer in the WordPress contributor community." — Indira Biswas #WordPress heropress.com/essays/i-don...

This week's HeroPress essay is titled "I Don’t Have It All Figured Out. I Show Up Anyway." by Indira Biswas Akola, Maharashtra, India. #WordPress heropress.com/essays/i-don...

"In 2022, during my time in the mandatory national one year paramilitary service, I organized a three week program where I demonstrated to my colleagues the possibilities with WordPress." — Chidiebere Chukwudi #WordPress heropress.com/essays/wordp...

This week's HeroPress essay is titled "WordPress: the untapped treasure for leverage." by Chidiebere Chukwudi from Imo State, Nigeria. #WordPress heropress.com/essays/wordp...

"WordPress wasn’t just a tool for me. It helped me evolve from a designer and developer into a more complete professional." — Edo Begagić #WordPress heropress.com/essays/findi...

"The feeling of being able to provide a complete product to the client and own the entire process felt exciting because it satisfied my need for autonomy." — Edo Begagić #WordPress heropress.com/essays/findi...

"As time progressed and I became more fluent in WordPress, I stopped thinking only from a design and frontend perspective and started seeing the bigger picture." — Edo Begagić #WordPress heropress.com/essays/findi...

Der dieswöchige HeroPress-Essay trägt den Titel „Autonomie durch WordPress finden" und wurde von Edo Begagić aus Rijeka in Kroatien verfasst. #WordPress heropress.com/essays/findi...

Ovotjedni HeroPress esej nosi naslov „Pronalaženje autonomije kroz WordPress“, a napisao ga je Edo Begagić iz Rijeke, Hrvatska. #WordPress heropress.com/essays/findi...

This week's HeroPress essay is in THREE languages! English, German, and Hrvatski (Croatian). This is our first essay in Hrvatski, and we have all three in audio this week. If you're a Hrvatski speaker and appreciate this, please let me know. heropress.com/essays/findi...

This week's HeroPress essay is titled "Finding autonomy through WordPress" by Edo Begagić from Rijeka, Croatia. #WordPress heropress.com/essays/findi...

I just noticed that WPPodcasts.com has surpassed 15,000 podcast episodes! What a historical treasure trove! #WordPress #podcast

One of my favorite quotes from this week's HeroPress essay is this: "what you study at twenty does not have to determine your profession forever." Did you pivot? From what to what? heropress.com/essays/wordp...

El ensayo de Ana también está disponible en audio, leído con su propia voz. #WordPress www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIGQ...

El ensayo de HeroPress de esta semana se titula "WordPress y su comunidad: el diseño de una vida libre" por Ana Cirujano de Torrelodones, Madrid, España. #WordPress heropress.com/essays/wordp...

This week's HeroPress essay is titled "WordPress and Its Community: Designing a Life of Freedom" by Ana Cirujano from Torrelodones, Madrid, Spain. #WordPress heropress.com/essays/wordp...

Today Ninja Forms became a financial supporter of HeroPress! Many many thanks to them for helping HeroPress to continue to operate. You can see them listed on the sponsors page. #WordPress heropress.com/sponsorship/

From art to web design, Emily’s journey shows how creativity and community shape a career. WordPress turned her passion into a flexible, inclusive path where continuous learning is key. Read her story: heropress.com/essays/how-art-... #HeroPress

Made the feed… thanks to @wordpress.org and @heropress.bsky.social for supporting all of the different pathways to community and professional development.

"WordPress has enabled me to build a career for myself and to wholly determine my own path." — Emily Rapport #WordPress heropress.com/essays/how-a...

"I studied painting in Chicago and New York in the mid-90s. After graduating, I did not get a job at a prestigious design firm." — Emily Rapport #WordPress heropress.com/essays/how-a...

In this week's HeroPress essay Emily reads her essay out loud. If you want to hear her words in her own voice check it out. #WordPress heropress.com/essays/how-a...