WordPress Interviews

If you search for Birgit on X (erstwhile Twitter), you will find her as “coachbirgit”. She explains her reason why (and that too, in her introduction). Throughout the interview, you will observe how important is the work Birgit doing. As a mentor, it’s always important to be inclusive and represented. She writes a very touching […]

Sometimes, it becomes difficult to introduce a “do-er” like Steve Burge. With more than 20 years of experience in open source software developer, Steve’s work can’t be summarized in just a few lines. As an teacher who jumped into open source development, he brought the two together by founding OSTraining.com, one of the best learning

Devrims: Hi Chris, thanks for your support. You have over 15 years of experience building Internet businesses. What motivated you originally to start pursuing online entrepreneurship and what were some of your early ventures? Chris: I was driven by a desire for location freedom after managing a sled dog tour business on a glacier in

2023 is the “Year of AI”. ChatGPT was released on November 30, 2022—and the world has not remained the same since that day. However, the true potential of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is unfolding before us. In the last eight months, several AI tools have arrived on the scene to make us more productive. It’s

It’s easy to define Jeff Starr. He is a Creator for all things WordPress. However, it’s definitely not easy to be him. A few months back when my work colleague Anmol was writing a tutorial on how to connect Google Analytics 4 to WordPress, she mentioned Jeff Starr’s plugin in her work. She found it

Kathy Zant saw the miracle of internet very early. As the internet grew, she grew with it. From the simple days of HTML to complex universe of WordPress and beyond, Kathy has seen it all. This is why this interview is packed with information you won’t anywhere else. Like her fellow WordPress influencers, Kathy is

If someone’s born with an entrepreneurial spirit, then you will always remain unstoppable. That’s Andrea Zollner for you in a sentence. Almost two months ago, Andrea left the calculated comfort of her 9-to-5 job to start her own thing. It’s called Keiko Furoshiki, a brand of reusable fabric gift wraps. In this interview, you will

WordPress is thriving because it has a generous community doing amazing things. If you want to see the true spirit of WordPress community in a person, Estela Rueda would be one of them. By profession, she is a WordPress Consultant and User Experience Strategist. However, her work on WordPress.org is worth mentioning. She’s also known

Vito Peleg is the Founder and CEO of Atarim.io, a visual collaboration and workflow platform for digital teams. Atarim helps teams to communicate and collaborate more effectively on creative projects, by providing a centralized platform for storing, sharing, and tracking work. Vito started his journey with a GeoCities site, which was like Wix but in

When you meet an icon like Bob Dunn (or lovingly known as “BobWP”), you can’t believe your luck. Even though my interaction with Bob are exclusively online, he is always kind and generous. In himself, Bob is an institution. You can learn from him, and the best part is that he is very open to