Chapter 1: Thursday twenty fifth November 2010
4,383 days in the past.
Jean Galea was working a digital company, constructing web sites for shoppers, and attending to grips with this new-ish factor referred to as WordPress.
He needed to doc what he was studying about it and share his information with those that may additionally be occupied with utilizing it.
Welcome to WPMayor.com, a WordPress-based web site which goals to carry you a very powerful information from the world of WordPress, in addition to different juicy suggestions reminiscent of helpful hacks and plugin critiques.
Jean Galea, Introduction to WPMayor.com
This was the beginning of a journey that continues to information our path right this moment, 12 years later.
The tl;dr of WP Mayor’s Journey
All through the previous 12 years, WP Mayor has gone by means of numerous phases and loads of ups and downs.
Inside a brief time frame after its launch, it turned a go-to useful resource for WordPress critiques and tutorials.
Jean would weblog about new merchandise that he discovers and the way he’s utilizing them to make his web sites higher, gaining a popularity as a frontrunner in WordPress.
Alyona, now Jean’s spouse, later joined the WP Mayor household and ran the positioning alongside Jean for a couple of years, taking it to new heights.
Quick ahead round 4 years.
On August twelfth, 2014, Jean’s cousin would be part of the body. That was me.
We met in individual after a very long time of not seeing one another and just some days later, I turned a part-time author as I transitioned from learning structure to simply “breaking issues on the internet”.
Quick ahead once more, this time round 5 or 6 years, and Gaby (Jean’s sister) would make the identical transition from structure to WordPress. Jean had a knack for influencing his household’s life paths at this level! (In a great way, in fact.)
Gaby spearheaded the rebranding and redesign of WP Mayor in 2020.
Right this moment, joined by our crew of unbelievable writers (Colin and DJ, amongst others) and Jessie as Editorial Supervisor, we proceed to be a family-oriented venture that we put our coronary heart and soul into, discovering new and modern methods of serving to the WordPress group.
Chapter 2: Consistency and Perseverance
Over the previous 12 years, most comparable blogs and academic assets have come and gone.
Whether or not for monetary causes, time constraints, or in any other case, it has been clear proof of how powerful it’s to run and preserve such a web site.
Regardless of the struggles that we confronted, we’ve got at all times been decided to maintain going.
Our focus stays to be a trusted companion for these of you constructing, growing, and expertly breaking WordPress websites of all types.
We proceed to check and evaluation new instruments on a weekly foundation.
We continually analysis and write tutorials on easy methods to make the most effective use of these instruments.
We even companion up with services to carry superb WordPress offers to our readers.
You’re the purpose we hold doing this.
You’re the drive and inspiration that retains us coming again at some point after one other.
Your help is what helps us persevere by means of the hardest of instances.
Now, we as soon as once more look forward and put together for the subsequent chapter
Chapter 3: Adapting and Transitioning
Each WordPress and the world as an entire are very completely different right this moment from how they had been again in 2010.
We’re adapting and transferring with the instances, continually experimenting and evolving to seek out new and higher methods of offering steerage to WordPress customers whereas serving to the companies and builders that energy it to make a greater future for themselves.
The modifications have already begun.
Flick thru a few of our newest critiques, tutorials, and comparisons and also you may discover a couple of modifications coming to gentle.
From offering higher insights into services to fine-tuning our academic content material, there’s a ton of labor occurring behind the scenes.
And that is simply the beginning.
2023 goes to carry much more optimistic change.
Chapter 4: Coming into Our Teenage Years
Changing into a teen is usually related to the beginning of discovering your id and discovering what you like in life.
It’s becoming that WP Mayor goes by means of precisely that as we have fun our twelfth yr.
Our crew is growing a extra clear understanding of who we’re and what we stand for.
This id is what is going to proceed to find out the course that we take at WP Mayor, and we’re excited to share extra of it with you within the months and years to come back.
Have Your Say
You might be invited to be a part of this journey with us.
Whether or not it’s by means of feedback on our articles, tagging us on social media, subscribing to our publication, and even sending us a message, it’s time to have your voice heard.
To start out off, we’d love to listen to how WP Mayor has helped you prior to now 12 years. Publish your feedback beneath or tag us on Twitter to share your story.
On to larger and higher issues; collectively.
