HeroPress Network Updates For February 3, 2023
This week’s update features another great new HeroPress essay, an episode of Hallway Chats, a new Tip Of The Week, and more! Check it out!
New HeroPress Site! WPPhotos.info!
When the WPPHotos project came out I was super excited. I became a moderator and found great joy in seeing all the great pictures that came in.
But some didn’t have enough description. I wanted to know things like where? Why? How?
So I put together https://WPPHotos.Info which tells the stories behind the photos. There’s a new one every Monday, so stop by!
HeroPress.com
This week, James Koussertari from London, England writes about leaving a good career he liked to find a great career he loved in WordPress.
Besides playing a big part in my career, WordPress has also allowed me to explore some of my own ideas. The ability to be able to execute them fairly easily with WordPress is one of the reasons why I love it. You can completely take control of your future with WordPress, if you’re willing to put in the work.
Robin’s essay is available on HeroPress.com.
Hallway Chats
This week on Hallway Chats Nyasha and Topher had a chat with Tom Finley. Tom runs his own agency catering to breweries and restaurants, and we asked him about design, social justice, and AI generated content. It was a really great conversation, I recommend you check it out!
Tom’s essay is available at HallwayChats.com
HeroPress Tip Of The Week
Every week we release a Tip Of The Week to help people get a better handle on WordPress, how it works, how to use it, etc.
This week’s Tip is about making block patterns in Gutenberg without code. I learned how this week, and it’s crazy easy.
WP Podcasts
There were fourteen WordPress podcast episodes released this week! We also added a new podcast this week, Patchstack Weekly.
Here are a few highlights from other podcasts this week:
- Episodio 195: Cómo hacer seguimiento de campañas mediante UTM from Un billete a Chattanooga
- Matrix over Slack, WP Minute Plus, & more Gutenberg goals from The WP Minute
- Youth in WordPress from Press the Issue
- Patchstack Weekly – The Spurious Infinity of Security from Patchstack Weekly
There are new ones every single day, so be sure to stop by WPPodcasts.com and search for things that interest you!
WP Photos
HeroPress is heavily involved in the WordPress Photos project. Here’s a selection of photos submitted by people from all over the world this week!
Be sure to check out the hundreds of other great photos!
Closing Thoughts – The Metaverse
This week I was a guest on the Torque Social Hour podcast with Doc Pop and Anthony, and I learned some things that really surprised me, in a good way. When Facebook came out with a 3d world nd called it the Metaverse I didn’t want to have anything to do with it.
But Anthony is working on a WordPress plugin called the Three Object Viewer, and showed it off during the episode. What I learned is that not only is it Facebook proprietary, but it’s just HTML and can run on any server, AND can be viewed in any brand 3d headset. That blew my mind, and got me excited.
Anthony’s plugin allows you to build a 3d world right in the Gutenberg editor, where 3d objects are just blocks. That’s brilliant. I’m pretty excited to get into it, it reminds me of the heady days of VRML.
