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Migrating to FSE, a Learning Journey
This site is over a decade old, which in WordPress is a long time – it’s been a long time to work in WordPress and a long time in software evolution. The theme I’ve used up until today is frankly a dinosaur – it’s called Simply Read, I was one of only 112 sites using…
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Karim & Ant’s Bangkok Adventure (Crowd Favorite at WCAsia 23)
[You ever find a great blog post in your drafts and think ‘damn that’s way too late to post!’? Sod it, YOLO!] The inaugural WordCamp Asia was held in Bangkok Thailand from the 17th to the 19th of February 2023, and Crowd Favorite sent myself (Ant) and Karim to represent the business on this stage.…
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A New Role – Crowd Favorite Director of Client Engagement
Today we have announced my starting at Crowd Favorite, a global digital services agency delivering Open Source, mostly WordPress based, solutions to enterprise clients. I’m coming in to take on the sales and business development role, working alongside Karim Marucchi and Adam Buckeridge and Meghan Goetz and the rest of the awesome global team. It’s…
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The 2022 Adventure – Part 3 – Lessons, and What Counts
This is part 3 of my 2022 round up, following up on part 1 on leaving Human Made, and part 2 on the Norse Adventure. I want to draw together some lessons I have learned over the last 1 months, because it has been quite an education, and put them in the bigger context of…
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The 2022 Adventure – Part 2 – A Norse Saga
This is part 2 of my roundup of 2022 – predominantly focussed on my work at Maksimer UK. Part 1 is here. Maksimer are a fantastic agency, established in Norway about 12 years ago by Nils-Fredrik and Anders, they are far and away the best e-commerce team operating in scandinavia They specialise mostly in WooCommerce…
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The 2022 Adventure – Part 1 – Leaving the HM team
2022 was a bit of an exciting year for me – I left a company I’d loved working with for over seven years, and had grown a global team within. I set up a new company, took overseas investment, plunged into a relatively new market segment, and saw that venture wind up. I made great…
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MCing, Some Thoughts
Publishing a rough draft- links and images to follow: In the last couple of years I have emceed at a few WordCamps. Not many, but they have been pretty large ones. As someone who works in WordPress and really values the broad open source community around the software, but whose day to day work doesn’t…
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WCEU 2015: Bonus Podcast – Contributor Day
The final day of WCEU 2015 this year was Contributor Day. Weirdly it felt a little like an after thought – I’m sure it’s not intentional, but the atmosphere was lower key, the after party had been the night before, and the whole set up was less formal. I guess a few people had…
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WCEU 2015 Podcast: Brent Shepherd
Remember I AM A NOOB here- and was even more so in Seville. I don’t really ‘get’ the whole of the WordPress “Theme/Plugin/Extension” system, let alone the myriad ways there are to run a business in all that complexity of relationships. So, I may have asked some clenchingly naive questions when talking to the utterly…
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WCEU 2015 Podcast: Drew Jaynes
I caught Drew‘s talk online on the Friday of WCEU before I flew out – I’m sure it’ll be up online soon, and I highly recommend checking it out as he goes pretty in depth on the UX work that is around the admin interface these days – it’s here on slideshare. The Customizer gets…
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WCEU 2015 Podcast: Ryan McCue and Jack Lenox
We caught Jack and Ryan after they’d both presented on day 2 at WCEU – the conversation was already fizzing along, so it was just a question of dragging them into our little studio and unleashing the elephant. Great guys, clearly very good friends – the REST API is in good hands. This is a…
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WCEU 2015 Podcast: Brad from Alley
Bronson and I caught up with Alley Interactive‘s Brad Campeau-Laurion in the insane, intense sweltering heat of the shade of Seville. Brad and I had already talked online about IPR and contracts for WordPress development (it’s an ongoing trope in my work as Commercial Director – the compatability of the GPL and commercial business is, well,…
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WCEU 2015 Podcast: Graham Armfield
Graham is a tremendously good sport and was our first victim subject for a podcast in Seville. It was great that his area of expertise was so high profile in WCEU this year – his consulting firm Coolfields specialises in accessibility, and with all the UX and API work going on in WordPress right now,…
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WordCamp Europe – Welcome to the Community!
I’m just back from WordCamp Europe 2015 (AKA WCEU) and wow, what a weekend. I was there with the whole Human Made crew, and carried on to the company retreat near Tarifa, which is in fact ongoing. But WordCamps are curious affairs and in a way they’re the soul of WordPress itself, so it felt…
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And now I’m a Commercial Director
A couple of months ago Tim Dobson told me about an amazing WordPress agency, properly world class, who were looking for a business development person. Having just left exactly that kind of role at Clearleft, I wasn’t sure if I really wanted to try it again, so I did. It so nearly worked out at…