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Barbara Kingsley spent 12 years as a high school English teacher, then six more doing PR for her school district. She retired in 2018. Then, in January 2024, she picked up her phone and started posting on TikTok. I couldn’t contain my emotions, and out it came. I immediately found a community. A year later,…

Jetpack 15.6 is out, and it’s a big one for anyone using Jetpack Social to share WordPress content across social media.  We’re talking per-platform post customization, a rebuilt preview modal, improved AI image generation, and more control over what goes live and when. Here’s everything that’s new: Let’s explore each update in detail. Customize your…

Rahul Tulsiyani has seen the full spectrum of web development.  His agency, Encircle Technologies, runs a 50–60-person team across development, QA, and UI/UX design, based in India, building everything from custom e-commerce stores to headless CMS architectures. It serves clients through a global network of agency partners. When you work at that scale, across that…

Ajit Bohra has been building with WordPress since 2008. His agency, LUBUS, works with start-ups, enterprises, local businesses, and content platforms across India. One decision changed how the entire agency operates: moving 80% of client projects to WordPress.com. You work on growing the business, not in the business. WordPress.com takes care of everything else. Ajit…

A year ago, Scott Wilson’s life was running out of time. End-stage liver disease. A terminal diagnosis. Two children to raise alone after becoming a widower seven years prior. Every day was an act of sheer will. Then, on January 13, 2025, the call came. A liver transplant was available. Scott didn’t just survive. He…

WordPress theme development has always had a learning curve.  Between PHP, CSS, the template hierarchy, and the inevitable mystery bug that appears unexpectedly, it’s not something most people figure out in an afternoon. Telex removes that barrier entirely. You tell it what you want, it generates a theme, you install it, and your site has…

Monikka Spruyt spent years in corporate. Then, the training organization she worked for was being merged into another. She’d also just had her third baby. She saw it as a sign. Starting over in another corporate role wasn’t what she wanted. This was her moment to build something of her own. So she backed herself…

Jason Stockill’s day job is in agriculture — operations manager at a local dealership in Canada, selling tractors, skid steers, the whole deal. But after hours, he’s been working on something else. His son Jäger races motorcycles. He is the 2025 FIM MiniGP Canada Champion — six wins, nine podiums in a single season —…

Lily Burton spent years in the lab. PhD in biochemistry and molecular biophysics at the University of Chicago. Deep research. Big questions. But something was missing. “I really enjoyed thinking about very deep questions,” she says. “But I kind of missed the human element. I would get frustrated — why should a normal, everyday person…