Ramya Pandyan, Voice Of WordCamp Italy, And A Glimpse Of Heaven

CCO licensed photo by Subash Poudel from the WordPress Photo Directory.

HeroPress Network Updates For July 7, 2023

HeroPress.com – Blogger by Identity: IdeaSmith Is Not Just My Name

Ramya Pandyan lives in Mumbai, India and is a writer, poet, and social activist. She’s been blogging since the early days of blogging. This essay was originally posted in 2015.

…I fell in love all those years ago and eventually I committed to a platform that allowed me to explore this relationship best. I’ve been [using WordPress] for nine of the eleven years that I’ve been IdeaSmith. It has been my extreme good fortune to find something I love doing and be able to do it for a living.

Ramya’s essay is available on HeroPress.com.

Hallway Chats – The Hallway Chats Of WordCamp Italy

This week we’re showcasing a compendium of short Hallway Chats that took place in person at WordCamp Italy. Featured are James Baldacchino, Luisa Ravelli, Caroline Crossland, Paolo Scala, and Samah Nasr

I’ve been using WordPress personally, of course, like most other people for a long, long time but I never realized there was such a huge community and such huge industry behind it. I have found WordPress incredibly useful. For example, when I was in a marketing job, which had zero budget, and I pulled together a lot of great websites for very low price. I loved it. But I never knew it was a beautiful shock to find out. –James

This Hallway Chat is available on HallwayChats.com.

WPPhotos.Info

This week’s WPPhotos Info is called “Heaven“.

The photo was taken by Courtney Robertson. It’s a view of the sunset across snowy farm fields in January.

HeroPress Tip Of The Week

This week’s Tip of the Week is titled “How To Compress JPG Images” Images are often the largest part of a website download, and can cause the most damage to a fast page load. This video shows three tools for making your JPG images as small as possible