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In the latest episode of WordPress Briefing, host Josepha Haden Chomphosy welcomes special guest Wes Theron to discuss the newly introduced Learning Pathways. These curated lesson sets are tailored to various experience levels, roles, and use cases, ensuring a personalized learning experience for every WordPress user. </p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Credits</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Host:&nbsp;<a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/chanthaboune/\">Josepha Haden Chomphosy</a><br>Guest: <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/west7/\">Wes Theron</a><br>Editor:&nbsp;<a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/dustinhartzler/\">Dustin Hartzler</a><br>Logo:&nbsp;<a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/javiarce/\">Javier Arce</a><br>Production:&nbsp;<a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/bjmcsherry/\">Brett McSherry</a><br>Song: Fearless First by Kevin MacLeod</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Show Notes</h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https://learn.wordpress.org/\">Learn.WordPress.org</a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https://learn.wordpress.org/course/beginner-wordpress-developer/\">Beginner WordPress Developer</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://learn.wordpress.org/course/beginner-wordpress-user/\">Beginner WordPress User</a></li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://wordpress.org/playground/\">WordPress Playground</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1pJFUVKQ7ETacCXdCCxwdAo-_xciwlQJ\">Learn WordPress YouTube Playlist</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Small List of Big Things</strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/2024/06/wordpress-6-5-5/\">WordPress 6.5.5 is now available!</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/community/2024/06/15/wordpress-contributor-mentorship-program-q4-2024-call-for-interest/\">WordPress Contributor Mentorship Program Q4 2024</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/6-6/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WordPress 6.6 Official Release</a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyYdkXAx7qw\">What’s new for theme developers in WordPress 6.6</a></li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/meetings/\">Upcoming WordPress Meetings</a></li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Have a question you’d like answered? Submit them to&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:wpbriefing@WordPress.org\">WPBriefing@WordPress.org</a>.</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Transcript</h2>\n\n\n\n<span id=\"more-17489\"></span>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:00:00]&nbsp;<strong>Josepha:</strong>&nbsp;Hello, everyone, and welcome to the WordPress Briefing, the podcast where you can catch quick explanations of the ideas behind the WordPress open source project, some insight into the community that supports it, and get a small list of big things coming up in the next two weeks. I’m your host, Josepha Haden Chomphosy. Here we go.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:00:28] (Intro music)&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:00:39] <strong>Josepha:</strong> As a steward of the WordPress community, one of the big overarching questions that I grapple with is how to make sure people who have just found out about us know how to get around. Obviously, there&#8217;s the contributor path, which is important to me because I am especially concerned with the longevity of our little open source community, but there&#8217;s also a path for folks who are learning how to use the software.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:01:03] <strong>Josepha:</strong> And so, joining me today to talk through a project called Learning Pathways is Wes Theron. Wes, welcome to the WordPress Briefing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:01:11] <strong>Wes:</strong> Good day. Thank you very much for having me. It&#8217;s a pleasure.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:01:13] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Before we get into this project that we&#8217;re talking about, do you want to just tell me a little bit about who you are and what you do with the WordPress project?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:01:22] <strong>Wes:</strong> Yeah. So, as you know, my name is Wes Theron. I&#8217;m based in New Zealand, and I&#8217;m an instructional designer. And, I am part of the Training Team. So, most of my life revolves around creating learning content for learn.WordPress.org.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:01:38] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Oh, that&#8217;s quite a life. Teaching people how to use WordPress.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:01:42] <strong>Wes:</strong> Yeah, I teach WordPress. We run online workshops. I create video tutorials, courses, and now, of course, this great project we&#8217;re working on, Learning Pathways.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:01:52] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Yeah. So, I&#8217;ve talked about Learning Pathways a few times here on the podcast, but for folks who have not heard me talk about it or who just need a more in-depth understanding, why don&#8217;t you tell us a little bit about this project as it stands today?&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:02:06] <strong>Wes:</strong> Yeah, so when Learn started out, I think the main goal was to just get learning content on the site. But, in May of last year, we shared an individual learning survey with folks, and we were hoping to basically find out what are the needs of the learners? What are learners after? And from that individual learner survey, we actually learned a few things. We learned that tutorials, courses, and online workshops were the most used content types. We also saw that web-based learning is the most popular learning method. And then there was a clear need for a structured way of consuming learning material. And that&#8217;s basically where the Learning Pathways project was born; to create Learning Pathways that basically target various types of learners, but also various skill levels. So July of last year, we started with outlines, creating outlines for these learner pathways.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:03:10] <strong>Wes:</strong> And then, in October of last year, we actually started creating content. So, the first learner pathways we started working on was the User Learning Pathway and the Developer Learning Pathway. And what that entails is of course, creating a Learning Pathway for beginner users, intermediate users, and then advanced users.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So that&#8217;s how we kind of broke it up. And last week, the Beginner Developer Pathway was actually published, so that&#8217;s very exciting. And a few weeks before that, the Beginner WordPress User Pathway. And yeah, of course, we&#8217;ve got many other pathways in the pipeline that we want to work on. For example, a Designer Learning Pathway and even a Contributor Learning Pathway.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:03:57] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Yeah, when we&#8217;re talking about pathways, what we mean is, like, we are figuring out what you probably need to know when you first arrive and then helping you to identify what you build on based on what your goals might be.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:04:11] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Like, obviously, the beginner user, the goal is basically just like, learn how to get WordPress doing stuff at all. Like that&#8217;s, that&#8217;s an easy goal to understand. But when you all were doing the work to figure out what needed to be in the pathway for a beginner developer, and as you&#8217;re looking towards doing the work around intermediate and advanced topics, like how are you all able to determine what most likely you need in those various steps in the learning process?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:04:42] <strong>Wes:</strong> So, of course, a lot of research went into that. When we created the outlines for these Learning Pathways. We shared it with the community. We asked for feedback. And yeah, a lot of research was done to make sure we cover all the all the bases. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:04:59] <strong>Josepha:</strong> I know that there were a couple of different proposals about how to, like do skills assessments, maybe? There was something where like we were talking with companies that employ WordPress folks in the ecosystem, and then we were talking to WordPressers who were currently trying to make sure that their skills were advanced enough to get those jobs. And we were trying to figure out like the distance between those and where we actually have some concerns around like the language choices that they need, like basic developer language choices and jargon that goes in there and stuff like that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:05:34] <strong>Josepha:</strong> So this, if I recall correctly, the research for this has been going on for like maybe two or three years, right?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:05:42] <strong>Wes:</strong> Yeah, definitely. And we&#8217;ve reached out to many stakeholders within the WordPress community. And as you say, even agencies, and businesses, you know, trying to find out what do they want people to know when they employ them. And yeah, then of course, speaking to the community, speaking, speaking to folks at WordCamps reaching out to folks an online workshops.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:06:04] <strong>Wes:</strong> So, yeah, it&#8217;s definitely been an ongoing process and also seeing what resources are lacking and what needs to be there.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:06:12] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Yeah, so, the very first, the very first iteration of any training that the WordPress project was offering on, I think it was on learn.WordPress.org, but I don&#8217;t actually know for sure, was a troubleshooting workshop, because when you are trying to figure out WordPress for the first time, when you are trying to figure out any software for the first time, being able to figure out what went wrong is a really important part of that. And so that was like the only workshop that existed over there for quite some time. And so it&#8217;s really nice to see how we have really, not only created a bunch of resources in general, if you all have not looked at learn.WordPress.org lately, it has, like, workshop outlines that you can use to do a training by yourself at your meetup group or at a school or whatever it is.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:07:08] <strong>Josepha:</strong> But then also, I want to say it was maybe two, three years ago, that you all, as a team, the Training Team, started doing these online workshops. And so, when you created the Learning Pathways, considering like how much time and research has gone into this project overall, did you all have learnings that came from those workshops that you had already done? Is this like a collection of workshops or is this something where you can do it at home and learn by yourself and then go someplace else and learn more about WordPress? Like how does that function in what we have already?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:07:45] <strong>Wes:</strong> Yeah, so maybe I should first, maybe let&#8217;s define a learning pathway. So I, I thought about this, but a learning pathway, I would say, is a route taken by learner through a range of modules, lessons, and even courses to build knowledge progressively. So it&#8217;s similar to a course, but of course usually covers like a specific topic or subject where learning pathways usually have a larger goal.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:08:11] <strong>Wes:</strong> So I wouldn&#8217;t say that the online workshops form part of the Learning Pathways project. And maybe I can also clarify that the teacher notes or the lesson plans that you refer to is something that&#8217;s also changing going forward. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:08:23] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Oh, good. Because I wrote some of those, and I am not an instructional designer. And so, ha!</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:08:30] <strong>Wes:</strong> We&#8217;ve actually decided to move away from having two different content types. So, we had tutorials. You know, video tutorials, and we had lesson plans, and as you said, the lesson plans were notes that somebody could use to run an online workshop or to go to a WordCamp or at their local meetup and use that to teach something. But moving forward for Learning Pathways, we are actually just going to have one content type, namely lessons. And then lessons from part of creating a course or lessons from part of creating modules and then Learning Pathways. The other exciting thing, and something we haven&#8217;t mentioned, is that at the end of this month, when we launched the Learning Pathways or the first few Learning Pathways, it actually coincides with a website redesign.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:09:18] <strong>Wes:</strong> So, yeah, beyond the lookout, hopefully, learn.WordPress.org is going to have a brand new face at the end, from the end of July or, yeah, or August. So, yeah, that&#8217;s very exciting.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:09:30] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Excellent. Excellent. So, you said that these Learning Pathways are part of a larger goal. Is that a goal for your learners or a goal for WordPress? A goal for the team?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:09:40] <strong>Wes:</strong> I would say all of the above.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:09:42] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Goals for everybody. We&#8217;re like the Oprah of goals. Don&#8217;t come get me, Oprah. That&#8217;s all I got to say about it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:09:48] <strong>Wes:</strong> Yeah, I think for us as a team, at the end of the day, we want folks to be able to use the content and find the content and utilize all the learning material on learn.WordPress.org. And then, of course, at the end of the day, for learners, we want folks to be able to succeed in whatever they are trying to do. Is it to build their own website? Is it to maybe find a job as a developer? And. Yeah, I mean, the list can go on.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:10:21] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Yeah. So, on the subject of wanting to help people succeed, I think that as far as I hear from the majority of contributors that I have worked with over the years, like helping other people figure out how to do this and making sure that they can succeed is always something that is top of mind for contributors to open source probably in general, but definitely to WordPress. Like, we really care about helping other people figure out how to have the same sort of benefits that we&#8217;ve had in the project and with the software. So if you have somebody who is familiar with all the bits and pieces of WordPress and really, really want to like show up and help teach some things. Is it the case that they can take part in like running a Learning Pathway? Is it something where we mostly need people to help us build some content? Like if we&#8217;ve got people who are just desperate to help other people succeed in WordPress, what kinds of things can they show up and help do on this project?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:11:22] <strong>Wes:</strong> Yes, please come to the Training Team. There are many ways to get involved. If you just want to review content, you can do that. But yeah, we do have a need for content creators, folks, you know, creating a video lesson or putting their hand up and saying, I will actually create an entire module or an entire learning, a Learning Pathway. We do have some awesome contributors that&#8217;s part of the Training Team that are already doing that. Some people are writing scripts. Some folks are actually, you know, creating everything from the beginning to the end. So they are writing the script, they recording the video, publishing the video, et cetera. And then we&#8217;ve, of course, have people reviewing content. We&#8217;ve got folks running online workshops. If maybe creating video content is not their, is not their forte, they can can run online workshops. So yeah, many ways getting involved.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:12:16] <strong>Wes:</strong> But Josepha, I wanted to point something else out that I haven&#8217;t done. I think there was a real need for Learning Pathways because, at the moment, if somebody new to WordPress or new to developing with WordPress wants to find learning content. You know, where do they go? What&#8217;s the main platform to go to? I think most people probably go to YouTube, right?&nbsp;But a lot of the content there are, are scattered and fragmented. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>So a lot of learning material or learning about WordPress is all over the place. It&#8217;s not in one place. And as I said, a place where you can actually learn from A to Z, learn progressively learning in a structured way. Yes, we know there are courses available that you can pay for, but the awesome thing about this project is that we are providing these Learning Pathways, these learning resources, for free for folks to be able to work through at their own time. I know that&#8217;s something else you asked earlier on. So yes, this is a course in quotation marks; this is a Learning Pathway that somebody can start whenever it suits them, you know, in the comfort of their own home, and they can work through the Learning Pathway from the beginning to the end. Or, if they feel I actually know everything taught in module one and two, I&#8217;m going to start at module three, they can do that. They basically come in at their skill level.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:13:43] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Yes. I think it&#8217;s really important to try to meet people where they are. And I know that it&#8217;s difficult because, like, we don&#8217;t take a lot of data from our users. You don&#8217;t have to give us basically anything in order to use WordPress. And by basically, I mean you literally don&#8217;t have to give us anything to use WordPress.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:14:01] <strong>Josepha:</strong> And so we always have some difficulty in figuring out what is it that our users need the most in order to succeed the quickest. And so I agree that there was a real need for this not only because, like, there&#8217;s plenty of content for getting from, like, some knowledge to a good amount of knowledge. There&#8217;s almost no content around, like, I didn&#8217;t know CMSs existed until yesterday, and now I need to quickly learn how to do it because it&#8217;s become a thing I need to do in my job. There&#8217;s some really clear, like use cases for being able to onboard quickly and progressively.<br><br>And I understand that, like, having a clear, structured way to learn doesn&#8217;t always fit with the idea of meeting people where they are. But I do really think that, that like what you were saying, it can be as structured as you need it to be. But also, if you get into it and you think to yourself, you know, I know this information already. I can move on to the next module. I can move on to the module after that. Similar to the way we do that at WordCamps also. If you get into a session and you thought it was going to be useful for you, and you discover that it&#8217;s not once you&#8217;re there, you don&#8217;t have to stay. You can go to a different room where they&#8217;re teaching about SEO if it turns out that you don&#8217;t need to learn about JavaScript today.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:15:23] <strong>Josepha:</strong> And I think that that&#8217;s, it&#8217;s kind of the value that this is hoping to bring, like, because it is a little bit built one on top of the other when you discover that you have already learned something, you can easily try out the next step and know that it&#8217;s probably a good next step.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:15:38] <strong>Wes:</strong> Exactly. And if you maybe want to teach this to other folks. The plan is to, you know, we had lesson plans. We have a lot of lesson plans on Learn. But the plan is also to, instead of having, as I said, two different content types, is to have lessons but then add a tab where you can click on teacher notes and actually teach something as well if that is your goal. But yes, our lessons and modules also include quizzes and, hopefully, some practical activities. We&#8217;ve incorporated WordPress Playground where, where folks can actually, you know, test out what they&#8217;ve learned or test their knowledge. So yeah, I agree with you that you can basically join the Learning Pathway wherever you feel the most comfortable.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:16:28] <strong>Josepha:</strong> So we&#8217;ve been kind of in the weeds of the project itself, the program itself, and if you want to like do stuff with that and in that. Let&#8217;s switch gears a little bit and talk about just what people who are wanting to join those pathways would need to know. Do you have any advice for somebody who is just today learning about these Learning Pathways and they think to themselves, I definitely want to sign up for one of those. Like, for one, how do they get started? And for two, your like top two or three bits of advice for as they get started? </p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:17:05] <strong>Wes:</strong> So you can make your way to learn.WordPress.org, and you can basically open the, the pathway, and you can start wherever, wherever you want to. We have made it possible to actually view these pathways or our content without logging in with your dot org profile. The other thing I also wanted to mention is that our content is actually hosted on YouTube now.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the great thing is we have these pathways within YouTube as well. So, folks can go to the, YouTube channel and see our content. And, of course, that basically reaches a very wide audience. And hopefully some of those videos will also bring people to the dot org site so that they can access the content.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:17:57] <strong>Josepha:</strong> I think it&#8217;s great that you don&#8217;t have to sign up for a profile. If you are a brand new WordPresser and ran into this in your dashboard and are listening to this podcast now. So dot org profiles are a place where you can kind of log your activity in the WordPress community and the WordPress project. You do not have to have one in order to use WordPress. You don&#8217;t have to have one in order to look at these courses or to learn from them. But I always think that it&#8217;s kind of nice to get your profile set up so that people kind of know who you are and what you&#8217;re doing. And then also your activity shows up. Like, you can see that you enrolled in the course and you get to know for yourself that you made some progress. I know that when you&#8217;re getting started, it&#8217;s hard to, like, see your progress because you don&#8217;t know how far you have to go. And so, like progress when you&#8217;re starting out is really difficult to feel is real. And so I like it just so that you have a few reminders to yourself, like, look how far I&#8217;ve come as you&#8217;re trying to figure out how far you still have to go. And so I like that a lot. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:18:58] <strong>Wes:</strong> You won&#8217;t be able to access all the content on Learn without your dot org profile. But one of the things we&#8217;ve made possible is to access these Learning Pathways, the new ones being launched without, you know, removing those blockers. So, of course, when you work through a Learning Pathway, you will be able to track your progress, and you will be able to see which lessons you have completed. So yeah, one of the pieces of advice I would give to somebody starting with the Learning Pathways actually to first go through the modules. And go through the lessons to see which things you know and feel comfortable with so that you don&#8217;t waste time maybe going through the first module and say, oh, I know this, and you&#8217;ve wasted time. Rather do a bit of research, a bit of reading, and then find the right place for you to start the journey.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:19:45] <strong>Josepha:</strong> That&#8217;s excellent. I also, just as a learner, I try to always learn some stuff. And also, as you get older, it&#8217;s harder and harder to learn things partially because like you&#8217;re in a set path, but also, and here&#8217;s my advice to new learners: you worry about looking foolish. Like you, you worry, you&#8217;re showing up, and you don&#8217;t know anything about anybody else in the classroom. And so there&#8217;s this feeling of like, what if I&#8217;m the only person who does not know how to make this work? What if I&#8217;m the only person who can&#8217;t figure out what Wes meant by &#8220;Playground&#8221; or whatever it is? There&#8217;s this real feeling of looking silly when you&#8217;re doing something like this.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:20:25] <strong>Josepha:</strong> I can&#8217;t control what anybody else says or does to anyone else, unfortunately. But what I can say is that I think that there&#8217;s never a bad time to start something you wish you had done, right? Like, the best time to have learned how to use your CMS, your website, make your website work was probably a year ago or something, but the second best time is today. And so, like, why not go ahead and get started and be part of that small group of adults that are learning new things every single day? I think that&#8217;s great. And so that&#8217;s my tip is to just embrace looking silly sometimes because you&#8217;re making some choices about your future, and that&#8217;s always a good choice.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:21:04] <strong>Wes:</strong> And I would also say test your knowledge. So you&#8217;ve mentioned WordPress Playground. And as I said, we&#8217;ve incorporated into the Learning Pathways, but sometimes you watch a video, or you read something, and you feel like, oh yeah, I know this, but you know, the proof is in the pudding. So go and test it out. Use a test website or use WordPress Playground and test yourself to see if you can actually implement this or do something. So yeah, that&#8217;s definitely one of the other tips I want to highlight; you know, they also say you, you learn by doing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:21:38] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Yeah, absolutely. And also, like if you have gotten to a point you&#8217;ve done the learning, you&#8217;ve done some practicing, you think you&#8217;ve got it and want to like try to figure out what other things can be done with it. I recommend this is how I did a lot of my early WordPress learning to organize an event with your local meetup.<br><br>Like, I did not know enough about WordPress when I started organizing WordPress meetups. I literally knew nothing. And I basically brought people in and was like, hey, we need people to teach us about this, us being half me. Come in and teach us. And, and that can be a really good thing, partially because, like, you get to know your local folks and see what&#8217;s going on and get a sense for, like, what is out there, especially if you&#8217;re learning this in order to run a business or to accomplish something for your job that you already have, like knowing what&#8217;s out there is super helpful. But then I find that once you embrace the fact that sometimes you will look silly, and that&#8217;s the only way that we can know we&#8217;re learning something. Like once you&#8217;ve embraced it, having some people who are willing to look a little silly with you is kind of, kind of fun, kind of nice. Also, like we&#8217;re all going to look at this problem that we definitely don&#8217;t understand and hopefully look like, at the end, we know what we&#8217;re doing, but between looking at it the first time and at the end of this meetup, we&#8217;re all going to look a little bit silly, ask silly questions. And I think that that&#8217;s a really helpful thing, too. But yeah, knowing some basic information is a great place to start before you do that, especially if you get anxious about looking silly. And I think these pathways are going to really help to get folks a little bit of a leg up on those big questions that they have as you&#8217;re starting to learn how to use WordPress.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:23:18] <strong>Josepha:</strong> So we talked about, like, tips and tricks for learners in general. But if you had something that you wanted to share with us that, like, you&#8217;re really excited about for either the Training Team or for the Learning Pathways in general, I think the Learning Pathways are slated to be shipped by, like, end of September or something. So, like, a lot of them are coming quite quickly.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:23:38] <strong>Wes:</strong> So I am most excited about the website redesign and the new look and feel of the website. And also, you know, one of the goals for us as a Training Team is for learn.WordPress.org to be one of the places people come to and learn about WordPress. 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Do you have any experience with Shopify and the direction it&#8217;s going as opposed to Woo and the direction Woo is going?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marius:<br />The experience is, as with anything else, it&#8217;s about changing the problems you deal with. When you move from one country to another, you actually change the problems you&#8217;re dealing with. Same with changing platforms.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Niels:<br />I think you&#8217;re not actually solving the issues; you&#8217;re just moving to different issues.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marius:<br />And sometimes you&#8217;re choosing to solve some unknown issues you weren&#8217;t even aware you were going to have to solve. But getting specific about Shopify, I kept watching the Google Trends, WooCommerce versus Shopify, for quite a while. For the last one or two years, I was writing some articles on that and performing some analysis myself. The difference is like five to one, five times more searches for Shopify than for WooCommerce as reported not by individual keyword searches but by Google Trends. And this eventually translated into almost a change of market share. It depends on the source you&#8217;re looking at, but they&#8217;re both on average around each at 25%. Some would report 20 to 30 WooCommerce versus Shopify, some would say 30 to 20. And in terms of problems, I think Shopify has created an excellent user experience team, great product managers. Basically, they have built an excellent wizard. If you remember the old-time wizards like a step-by-step wizard, they will just ask some questions and then they&#8217;ll point you in the right direction later. WooCommerce picked up as well. They came with their own wizard that pops up and helps you.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Niels:<br />For the first setup experience.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marius:<br />For the first setup, but yeah, they came in after Shopify, as per my knowledge. 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It&#8217;s better.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marius:<br />I would guess that they got, I won&#8217;t say they stole it, but they got inspired by Stripe, which was the first in the market that actually built an excellent payment experience. And let&#8217;s face it, that checkout process is the reason to exist for the shop, for our work, for our agencies when we build e-commerce. And that little chain at the end is not perfect.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Niels:<br />We&#8217;re actually talking with a couple of payment providers because we also have an accessibility consultancy business. We have three certified accessibility professionals on our team, and we&#8217;re now talking with several payment providers, payment gateways, to get their checkouts accessible for people with keyboard accessibility issues or people using screen readers. Every year, we do research on the biggest e-commerce platforms in the Netherlands and how accessible they are. For eight out of 15, you are not able to reach the final steps of the checkout with just the keyboard. So there&#8217;s a big opportunity for a lot of WooCommerce shops or WooCommerce shop owners to get a bit of a competitive edge because if you are the one doing accessibility or getting your checkout accessible, you&#8217;re blowing away the competition on other WooCommerce shops or on other platforms.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marius:<br />And besides the competition, there&#8217;s the legal compliance in most of the countries.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Niels:<br />And especially next year, there&#8217;s the European Accessibility Act coming through, which forces European countries to have legislation for the accessibility of web shops that make more than 2 million in revenue a year or have more than 10 employees. So next year in June, there&#8217;s going to be pressure on everyone to make sure that their web shop is accessible. And I&#8217;m expecting a lot of shops to handle this the same way that they did with the privacy legislation—look the other way for as long as possible until it&#8217;s too late and then start implementing it. Our experience teaches us that the process of getting your organization up to speed with accessibility, making the changes needed, and making sure that it&#8217;s legally compliant is a process of several months. So if it&#8217;s going to be next June that you have to be compliant, you&#8217;d better start now, or you&#8217;re going to be too late.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marius:<br />I actually have positive examples on this end. One of our customers invented and patented a device, a gear, they&#8217;re manufacturing it for professional tennis players and they&#8217;re selling it all over the world. A few months ago, we had this talk with them, and we got a couple of people on our team certified in accessibility, and we had to implement quite a few changes there just so they are prepared. But they have done it not because of the European Act—they are based in Europe, but outside of the EU—they have done it literally for business reasons.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Niels:<br />That&#8217;s what I always say. The stick is the European Accessibility Act—you have to do it because it&#8217;s the law—but there&#8217;s a huge carrot. I don&#8217;t understand how every marketer is focused on performance. Everyone likes a fast website, right? Faster is better. Google rewards fast websites. This is the mentality. But for accessibility, it&#8217;s exactly the same. An accessible website is a benefit for everyone. If you break your arm, you&#8217;re temporarily disabled, and you have to find another way to use a website that you like to shop on. People who can use accessibility features spend longer on your website. User engagement goes up, and a lot of the changes that you&#8217;re making are not even visible to the end user. They&#8217;re just good UX, good user experience that you&#8217;re building. Not having to press tab 120 times to put something in your cart or having the autocomplete for your address actually make sense. So it&#8217;s a process that benefits everyone, and there&#8217;s a very large segment of people that actually benefit directly from a better accessible experience.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marius:<br />And I was recently talking to somebody here in Switzerland, and they were so frustrated with a website from a pretty big company here called Manor because they had a really hard time checking out. They said, &#8220;Hey Marius, why won&#8217;t you reach out to them and tell them this and tell them that?&#8221; And that was someone who wouldn&#8217;t normally need accessibility features.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Niels:<br />We work with the biggest retailers in the Netherlands. These are companies making hundreds of millions in revenue every year. We&#8217;re testing, like A/B testing, the accessible variants as opposed to the non-accessible variants to gather data on how much more effective it actually is to have an accessible &#8220;Add to Cart&#8221; button or an accessible search function.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marius:<br />And on the accessibility and automated testing, we played a lot with some legacy frameworks. Years ago, we started with Codeception, and after writing quite a few thousands of lines of code, we eventually realized that it was a waste of time—it wasn&#8217;t reliable. You would execute the same script two times in the same browser, and you would get different results and errors. So we eventually switched over to Cypress, which is client-side JavaScript, and that worked pretty well for us. So now, for certain clients, we do run batteries of tests as well just to make sure this integration problem doesn&#8217;t fall on their shoulders and that we can give them peace of mind that their checkout still works. You also mentioned in the beginning that you work for some government websites and large e-commerce websites. Maybe you can share a few notable projects?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Niels:<br />So for e-commerce, we&#8217;re doing a large project, which is a web shop in 10 European countries that makes plastic sheets to measure. You can order online different shapes of plastic sheets, and we&#8217;ve integrated the WooCommerce store from these 10 different shops into a back office where they&#8217;re actually on the factory floor, seeing the orders come in live on the table saws and on lasers. We&#8217;ve made an interface where all these orders are combined and then produced from the tablets in the factory. So it&#8217;s really a full-service, full-flow web shop. And for governments, yeah, we&#8217;re working for our local governments in the Netherlands, state government, and the national government on a couple of projects. What&#8217;s interesting is that we&#8217;re learning lessons from e-commerce that we can then apply to the government because needing a new passport is much like the same checkout flow that you would see in the awareness and decision stages, but there&#8217;s no competitor on the other side.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But you still need to guide people through this funnel, and you need to get them to the next step because if they&#8217;re not</p>\n\n\n\n<p>entering the next step, the intent is really high. So if they&#8217;re not going from starting the application form to finishing the application form, there&#8217;s obviously something confusing about the form. So there are a lot of lessons that we can take from these different types of projects in our portfolio that we can move to other industries, businesses, and verticals in the same way. There are really high security and privacy rules and expectations for governments, banks, and insurers. We&#8217;re taking the lessons we&#8217;re learning there and applying them back to e-commerce to make sure the processes are done in a way that updates are safe, and we have data reliability—all these types of lessons learned from this vertical that really appreciates the security aspects of WordPress development, and we&#8217;re moving it into the &#8220;move fast, break things&#8221; part of WooCommerce development.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marius:<br />WordPress development done right.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Niels:<br />Agree with you, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That&#8217;s basically it. That should be the tagline of the agency—WordPress development done right. So how is this experience for you? 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Basically, all the learnings and the knowledge gathered from more than a thousand projects had to be condensed into the Panasonic website and reviewed for the code of some of the plugins because they actually wanted us to use some plugins in order to &#8220;move fast, break things.&#8221; Now, the Czech Republic and Poland are running on WooCommerce, which is something our team is very proud of.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Niels:<br />Can you share something about what your review process looks like for onboarding plugins made by third parties?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marius:<br />Yeah, sure. We have a list of preferred plugins, which we have reviewed the code for, and we do monitor the code quality of the plugins using PHP CodeSniffer with a WordPress set of rules for security and code formatting and compliance. We also use a couple of tools to check the security of the code besides manually reviewing it, but it&#8217;s always good to use things such as Snyk to go through the code and other tools. Actually, building on this need of our customers—the need being, &#8220;Hey, is this a good or bad plugin?&#8221;—we&#8217;re about to launch WPPluginReview.com, which will be a website that will automatically review the quality of the code using DevOps approaches, like automated approaches, and assign certain color codes just like with fridges—the energy label for the fridge, A, B, C, D, or for buildings. 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If they don&#8217;t, it&#8217;s going to be a liability for us because the creator might abandon the project if they don&#8217;t have a financial motive to continue working on the project. So we have these couple of soft factors that we also take into account when grading plugins. From this, it gets to a score where we say, like, 75 points or above, we&#8217;re like, okay, we don&#8217;t have any serious concerns, let&#8217;s do this. And then 75 to 50 points, we go to the customer and advise them: &#8220;These are our concerns. Do you want to push on and bet on this, or do you want to reconsider or compare other products in the space?&#8221; And then below 50, we highly discourage our customers from using these kinds of plugins because it&#8217;s going to be a business risk.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marius:<br />Yeah, that&#8217;s a clever way to do it, to rank the plugins. Changing topics a bit, before we wrap up today—you are on the very technical side of things, and currently, I run the commercial side of the business—I would be curious from your perspective if you were to… two things I have to ask you. If you were to give advice for other agency owners who don&#8217;t have a CTO by their side, when should they consider getting a CTO by their side? At what point, at what size of the agency, when is this a good time? And the second thing is, what would you expect, or ideally, what would a CTO of an agency expect from the CEO to be or to have in order to foster the best possible collaboration that is the goal?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Niels:<br />Yeah, so one of the things that makes my job as a Technical Director easy is that we have a very clear focus on WordPress and WooCommerce. There are all these new technologies constantly popping up around, for example, headless SaaS that do one thing really well. And then a lot of people get hyped up by the availability of these kinds of technologies, jump on board, and then figure out, like you said before, that you&#8217;re not solving issues, you&#8217;re just having different issues. If you have a very clear vision of the core technologies that you use and a very stable base of things that you develop on, then you can have some freedom putting things on top of it. So if you&#8217;re always working with WordPress and WooCommerce, or if you&#8217;re always working with Shopify, then you can move some parts around without endangering your business or having to retrain your whole company. They call it &#8220;building&#8221; if that stable base is missing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marius:<br />Exactly. It&#8217;s a stable base. It&#8217;s about building and consolidating probably.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Niels:<br />Yeah, and also, once you have that stable base, it&#8217;s easier to tell the story to customers, to either employees, about why you are choosing X and not Y, why you&#8217;re choosing a certain technology and not chasing the other, right? Because it becomes easier to make choices for certain technologies. And then on the opposite side, when you don&#8217;t have a clear vision from the get-go about what is the stable base and what are the dynamic, movable parts, then it&#8217;s time to get a CTO because then you need someone to figure out what this stable base is going to be. What is going to be the technology that we can build on now that&#8217;s still going to be available and relevant in five years? What are the trends going to be in developer experience, and how do we make sure that we don&#8217;t fall behind on the developer experience while maintaining the stable base? Right? These are the tasks that, in my eyes, the Technical Director has mostly—keep things predictable but also steadily moving in the right direction regarding developer experience, stability of the platform that you&#8217;re building, and customer experience. And then, as the second part of your question, since you have a mostly technical background too, but you&#8217;re now more in the CEO position, I would say the hardest thing for CEOs and Technical Directors is balancing innovation with business goals. On one hand, you&#8217;re trying to create new things, create a &#8220;wow&#8221; experience for your customers. At the same time, you have to move into a space where things are known, and not everything is new every single time, which costs a lot of time and reduces predictability. I think the most important thing a CEO can do is be very clear on what the expectations are regarding business goals because this also determines how much room there is for innovation. 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Also, because I&#8217;m technical, I am experimenting a lot with AI nowadays because there is this wave, and I&#8217;m trying to understand—do we want to ride it? Can we ride it? And I&#8217;m writing myself some prototypes to understand how it works. Why am I doing this? It&#8217;s again, to be able to understand—do we want to be there in one, two, three years? Are we able to? And that gives me the necessary bones for the meat to be put on when we have a conversation with somebody about AI. I don&#8217;t just &#8220;blah blah&#8221; by reading some articles; I actually try the OpenAPI, and I know how it works. I know the limitations firsthand, and that helps a lot in being able to both better understand what customers want and need and what can actually be achieved.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it also helps with having meaningful conversations with any future person responsible in our company for AI, like a dedicated CTO or Technical Director for AI projects, eventually AI advisory AI projects. So to answer your question, basically it&#8217;s about allocating a percentage of the time for the present. Normally, I would say for somebody who is doing day-to-day operations, I would say it&#8217;s 90% of the time focused on existing clients. But don&#8217;t forget about the future—at least 10% of the time to be spent on just reading newsletters. I know for some people this doesn&#8217;t sound like work. It sounds like wasting time. So it&#8217;s fine to waste 10% of the time just looking around and reading and trying,</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Niels:<br />Being ready for opportunities.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marius:<br />And seeing them—creating the space for you to see the opportunities.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Niels:<br />Right. So how are you experiencing the volatile space of AI at the moment?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marius:<br />Different trends, different forces. I&#8217;m waiting to see the checks and balances that will come into play, including the regulatory compliances. What I see is a lot of buzz, a lot of HUE effect thanks to the popularization of large language models through ChatGPT. At the same time, while they do lower the costs of their tokens and the usage of ChatGPT, it&#8217;s still heavily subsidized. So I&#8217;m waiting to see when the real price kicks in, what&#8217;s going to happen. It&#8217;s interesting to create a new SaaS product and a new plugin just based on ChatGPT, but then you have this huge vendor bargaining power. You just have one single vendor you&#8217;re building your business on, and if they cut your trunk, you&#8217;re in the air, and it&#8217;ll take a while to rewire yourself to Bard or to the Amazon AI and so on.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So these are all of the risks that you need to take into consideration when considering going with AI. But for some processes inside of the company, I am a huge fan of using AI, for example, to sort data, to search through knowledge bases. You can connect ChatGPT to an API, and you can basically start talking, chatting with your HubSpot and get the latest reports. You can talk with your bank statements through ChatGPT nowadays and ask about your spending trends. 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Now, please calculate the probability of the monkey typing in the <em>Three Musketeers</em> novel.&#8221;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Niels:<br />Right.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marius:<br />Okay. What we have now is we have a very smart monkey that&#8217;s typing on your keyboard, but it&#8217;s still typing randomly—kind of randomly with a very well-trained randomness—but it&#8217;s actually guessing what the next character should be based on the previous characters.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Niels:<br />A context-aware monkey.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marius:<br />It&#8217;s a context-aware monkey. Some call it a very fancy autocomplete that tries to please you—always to please you.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Niels:<br />Yeah. So my current experience has been it makes good programmers faster, it makes bad programmers worse.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marius:<br />Yeah, that makes sense.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Niels:<br />That&#8217;s my current experience. 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I know that my work is contributing to alleviating other people&#8217;s suffering.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now that I&#8217;ve become more of an accessibility advocate, and have met folks that have agonized over navigating their bank statements, for instance, or applying for vital needs. I know that every day that I spend on this accessibility problem, I am doing good for others in the world. And I just have not found anything in web design or web development that gets me to that point of doing moral good day in, day out. And that&#8217;s what keeps me working hard.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:14:05] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> The word which is popping into my head is meaningful. You&#8217;ve given yourself a meaningful reason to build websites. If profit was the thing that you were after, maybe you would derive some meaning from that, but I think most people, when they examine life, they kinda quickly work out that profit is interesting, but it doesn&#8217;t really provide all that much meaning. Where, it sounds very much like this really does, on some very basic level, very core level in your being, it provides you with that sense of purpose and meaningfulness, which is really nice.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another intuition that I just had, whilst you were talking was, using the example of the person in the wheelchair who cannot access the restaurant because the door is slightly above, and there&#8217;s no ramp and what have you. The crowd gather round, and in the real world you witness that, and you see it, and everybody&#8217;s taken aback. Hang on, that&#8217;s wrong.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the internet is very often a fairly solitary thing. You know, you&#8217;d be sitting in a room, perhaps by yourself, you might be, I don&#8217;t know, on a couch, browsing on an iPad, or an iPhone, or something like that. But broadly speaking, you&#8217;re doing it by yourself. And so there&#8217;s never that sense of crowd watching and gathering that kind of moral outrage, that, whoa, hang on, this isn&#8217;t right.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But also, if you can&#8217;t access the web, because the web is the thing that you simply can&#8217;t access because it&#8217;s broken in some way, where do you even go to report this kind of stuff? How do you begin to say to a website owner, hang on, your website isn&#8217;t working because I can&#8217;t find the phone number, with the technology that I have, my screen reader, I can&#8217;t find the phone number on your website to report it?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So there&#8217;s all these strange things which somebody like me in the world, walking around, I can see the wheelchair problem, but I&#8217;m not encountering the accessibility problems because, A, I don&#8217;t experience them myself, B, it&#8217;s probably fairly solitary and, C, it&#8217;s probably really difficult for these people to have a voice because the technology itself is kind of like a gatekeeper.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:16:00] <strong>Blake Bertuccelli-Booth:</strong> That&#8217;s a really important note. You know, I haven&#8217;t really thought of it as like, the web is solitary and so that you&#8217;re not seeing the person struggle. And also, people are very polite in this world. My friends who use screen readers are amazingly polite, even though they&#8217;re sometimes called out as trolls.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a really good friend who I went to a conference with, and we were staying in the same hotel room, and I happened to be in the bathroom, he didn&#8217;t know I was in there taking a shower. I heard from the other room a string of curses, like it just went on this tangent. And I came out and I said, Kevin, what&#8217;s wrong? And he, his job, he had to use Facebook for a task in his job, and Facebook just wasn&#8217;t accessible to him.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>They kept saying things to him, and it started to aggravate him in such a way. And like that aggravation, he&#8217;s never shown before. He is a very sweet person. I, you know, wanted to say like, I want to record you and bring this to the forefront of the internet.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem though with that, and this is something that I see a lot, is that, people who do raise the flags online, and they can do it in a very non-judgmental way, are immediately degraded to the place of trolls. So we have this culture online of trolls, and I see it again and again, where there are very justified comments to a website&#8217;s accessibility. And those comments are completely unanswered, in a way that, if someone was in a room expressing these comments to a group of others, they would be completely heard and really taken care of.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I&#8217;ve heard this from my friends who do rely on assistive technology, they don&#8217;t want to speak up anymore because they&#8217;ve had a few experiences of being completely silenced, because they&#8217;re put in a place of trolls, because they&#8217;re put in a place of a complainer. When they&#8217;re just saying, we can&#8217;t access this website.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:17:51] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> And you can imagine, in my scenario, if I went into a shop, only to discover that every single item was on shelves 30 feet in the air, and there was no ladders available. Well, carry on, honestly do your shopping. What&#8217;s the problem? Look, everything&#8217;s there, I can see it all. Just get it into the cart and go and check it out.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The outrage would be almost instantaneous. But the majority, and I think we&#8217;re going to talk about this 80, 20 split, and concentrate on the 20. I think that 20% is maybe not in conversation with the majority of people. And you are in a position where you see this more, and so you probably have a sense of that outrage, and a sense of that injustice, whereas, I imagine the people who are building websites typically, perhaps don&#8217;t.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so there&#8217;s that empathic journey that you&#8217;ve got to go on. You&#8217;ve got to educate yourself, you&#8217;ve got to expose yourself to people who have these things. I don&#8217;t know, maybe that&#8217;s through YouTube videos, or listening to podcasts like this. But you have to go through something where you feel a sense of moral outrage, for want of a better word. Maybe that&#8217;s too strong a term, but you get the idea.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>A sense of moral injustice, and that something needs to be done. And if you&#8217;ve never been through that, it may be hard to understand what&#8217;s going on. So maybe we need to talk about what you&#8217;ve just talked about, the whole troll thing and what have you. Anyway, there you go.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:19:04] <strong>Blake Bertuccelli-Booth:</strong> It&#8217;s very exciting to see when someone starts to care about accessibility, because it does click in a person&#8217;s mind, like a developer, designer&#8217;s mind, in a way that it goes beyond learning a new technical craft. And it does, to bring it back to morality, it does strike something deep, where like, oh, the way that I use headings will make somebody&#8217;s life better. And of course, I want to make somebody&#8217;s life better. It&#8217;s easy for me to use headings this way, I can use a heading instead of a div, or these type of really easy things.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then it becomes so ingrained in the work that they do every day, that the work they do gains purpose. And this is something that I find really exciting about talking to lots of different developers and designers. And usually what happens is, it&#8217;s a developer, designer who&#8217;s doing it for many years like myself, and it&#8217;s just, I don&#8217;t want to design another website, I feel like this is pixel pushing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I start to talk about accessibility, or when someone who I work with who uses screen readers comes and shows a demo, and they show like how the work that you do can impact the life of someone, and how big the problem is. All of a sudden the work of the designer and developer has amazing meaning.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a call to action for any designer, developer that&#8217;s just like, oh, this is just work to me. Look into accessibility. Meet somebody who uses assistive technology, because your work can actually mean something to people in a very, very big way. And it&#8217;s very exciting to see when that happens because, like myself, I&#8217;ve seen others who&#8217;ve gone from, I want to start a farm and never look at a computer again. To, this is really vital, and now every day I wake up and I look at the numbers of websites that I&#8217;ve fixed and issues that I fixed, and I see how that&#8217;s affecting people every single day.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:21:02] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I&#8217;m about to say something, and I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ll hit the target, or if it&#8217;ll land correctly, but I&#8217;m going to try, and that is to say that, life is already difficult enough for people who have accessibility needs. The world is already, I imagine, a little bit harder to manage in certain respects, and obviously there&#8217;s a whole spectrum of that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the internet offered this fabulous promise of kind of the world brought into your hand, or onto your desktop, or what have you. And so it kind of feels like a one, two punch really. If you have accessibility needs, that the very thing which promised so much is, well, not taken away from you because it was never there for you, but it&#8217;s not provided for you.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life is hard enough. Here&#8217;s this fabulous thing, the internet, which could have made life so much easier, and yet it never was that easy for you. So it feels like that&#8217;s a double punch. Does that make sense? Have I overstated that a little bit? Did I go in the wrong direction?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:21:58] <strong>Blake Bertuccelli-Booth:</strong> No, I think that, I have dyslexia so I just confuse grammar and words, and I read a page and letters are flying around. And it does feel like a breath of fresh air when I&#8217;m looking at a page that is formatted in a more broad, large, fonted way. I feel like, oh, I can actually understand the concepts here. And it feels like a relaxation almost.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>One thing I would say is like, the users that I work with, or my friends who rely on assistive technology. The bigger issue that I focus on, because they would go happily do something else, I&#8217;m thinking of my friend Jay, who&#8217;s this amazing blind fellow who loves oldie tunes he calls them, like old records and old vinyls. Usually, if he comes to a website that&#8217;s not accessible, he just shuts his computer and goes and plays music, and he doesn&#8217;t really go deeper.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The issue that I see though is less of like suffering, and we should help others because they have a life of suffering, and more of a idea that knowledge should be shared. And if we want to really focus on these values that have created the internet, of transparency, of free access to information, all the core open source values, if we really believe in those, then we&#8217;re going to make sure that that 20% of the world, the over 2 billion people, have access to that knowledge.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And with over 94% of the million most popular homepages failing accessibility tests, to me that is failing to give people access to vital knowledge, and that failing to give the potential to unlock new knowledge. And if we&#8217;re not doing that, then I just don&#8217;t understand what we really believe in. Then we don&#8217;t actually believe in these open source principles. That we don&#8217;t actually believe in the principles of a free internet, because we are excluding people. It&#8217;s much more of a moral problem than it is the headache of these people, because there&#8217;s so many other things that folks would rather be doing than navigating an inaccessible website.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:24:07] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, I prefer your encapsulation of the argument a lot more than mine, and I thank you for sort of stepping in and saving me there. That was a much better way of describing it. Thank you.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So Project Eudiamonia is something that you&#8217;ve been working on. This is an automated web accessibility testing suite, which you&#8217;ve developed over at Equalify. First of all, we should probably get over the, what is the word eudiamonia? Both you and I had a fun chat about this before we hit record, but it&#8217;s called Project Eudiamonia. We&#8217;re going to get into the data and the stats of that in a moment but, what&#8217;s eudiamonia? Because it&#8217;s a real word.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:24:38] <strong>Blake Bertuccelli-Booth:</strong> So eudiamonia is a challenge to ask what, well, eudiamonia is. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve used it. And the deeper kind of concept that I like behind that is that, it&#8217;s like the end fulfillment of knowledge. It&#8217;s like this ancient Greek concept that says, this is really what you should strive after, and this is why it takes work to get to this end goal of like ultimate knowledge. And it&#8217;s really fulfillment, so it is a little bit selfish. But again, I&#8217;ve used it in this kind of WordPress sense in the WordPress world, because I like to challenge people to ask questions. And I love when people ask me, what is eudiamonia? And so that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s called Project Eudiamonia.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:25:20] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Ideal, and I&#8217;ve fallen right into that trap, so that&#8217;s perfect. Great. So it&#8217;s more about the data I think, the next part of this episode. And the data that you&#8217;ve presented, to me at least anyway, is all to do with the WordPress properties, so specifically .org. And you have set your tool off, maybe we should actually explain what the tool is, and then we can get into the data. So, what is the project and the tooling that you are using to capture the data that we&#8217;ll get into?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:25:46] <strong>Blake Bertuccelli-Booth:</strong> So I&#8217;ve developed a open source accessibility platform called Equalify, and Equalify will use different rules that establish accessibility. One of the most popular ones is the Axe core rule set. And what it basically does is it scans websites against these rules. It sees how headings are used on a page, or how color is used, and then decides if a webpage passes or fails at these rules, to establish a baseline of accessibility.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, it&#8217;s really important to note that it&#8217;s not necessarily saying, you&#8217;re accessible, or you&#8217;re not accessible. It&#8217;s just saying that your page fails at certain tests around accessibility because you aren&#8217;t really, if you pass all of the tests of the best scan, you&#8217;re going to get around 40% of the issues, maybe 50%. You&#8217;re not going to get all the issues, but it&#8217;ll give you a picture of accessibility.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what we&#8217;ve done is we&#8217;ve developed a piece of software that will scan a bunch of pages, basically it&#8217;ll crawl through, or look at a site map, and scan all of those pages. And then it will come up with a report on violations, or of rules that we scanned. And so we&#8217;ve created a framework. I like to think of it as like a WordPress for web accessibility, that we can plug in different rule sets, and we can customise our reporting.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so for WordPress, what we&#8217;ve done is we&#8217;ve started to, keyword is started, because this is very early in our process, but we&#8217;ve started to construct a framework for how we assess accessibility within the WordPress space.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And we&#8217;re starting with just .org properties. So those are like wordpress.org and all the properties around that. We&#8217;ve established around 448 properties that we&#8217;re looking at, 448 URLs that we&#8217;re looking at. And then every week I&#8217;m trying to scan new pages. So I think the last scan we had over 120,000 pages. Then we&#8217;re kind of focusing in.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right now it&#8217;s a little bit chaotic, where we just have all of this data and it doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean action. But what we&#8217;re doing is we&#8217;re taking this data, finding key patterns, and the things that the WordPress community wants to focus on, and then building out automated reporting of issues. So that when somebody, like right now, WordPress is going through a big redesign, so when somebody wants to assess the general accessibility of the thousands and thousands of pages that show different plugins in the WordPress directory, that they can quickly get a picture of that, and that the key issues can be reported automatically in GitHub.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:28:40] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay, so I&#8217;m just going to try and reprise what you just said, and if I make any mistakes just please interrupt me. So your tool is a bit like Google Bot, if you like. It goes around and it crawls, and you provide it with certain rules. Almost like the plugin architecture of WordPress, you plug in what it is that you want it to go out and look for. And at the moment you&#8217;ve trained it on the wordpress.org properties, and you found 448, I think you said, of those, of which there are about 120,000 pages that you&#8217;ve been crawling.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And you&#8217;re saying also that no system is perfect. Even if it passes every single thing that your tool could throw at it, you&#8217;re still only at about 40%. There&#8217;s still going to be 60% of errors that it won&#8217;t catch. Is that simply because of the technical limitations, the kind of things that an automated tool just cannot find at the moment?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:29:27] <strong>Blake Bertuccelli-Booth:</strong> There&#8217;s a little bit of technical limitations. The bigger issue is how we define accessibility. So what I spoke about earlier, the web content accessibility guidelines, these like central guidelines. They&#8217;re not perfect and there&#8217;s a lot of gray areas, and leeway to how you define something as being accessible.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is kind of by design because the web content accessibility guidelines, for better or for worse, are largely made for user evaluations, to build tests for users to go through and evaluate, rather than a robot tool.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is some work, and I&#8217;m doing a lot of it, around AI and how we can start to assess technology in a little bit more of a, we can start building tests in a more complex way. But it goes back to, when you say accessibility and I say accessibility, how we define what an accessible website is. There&#8217;s not really an agreed statement of, this is what accessibility is. And, if we are going to say the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines are what accessibility is, the rules aren&#8217;t good enough to have any technology, let alone any human being, understand every opportunity to break those rules.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:30:43] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Got it. Right, okay, that&#8217;s cleared that up. So even the rules themselves, around accessibility, are still in a state of flux and need to be refined. And I&#8217;m guessing that&#8217;s going to be, well, we have this thing in the UK called the Forth Bridge, and it&#8217;s this bridge which never gets finished being painted. They paint from one end, two years later, they get to the other end and they finish painting it, and by that point, where they started was already starting to blister and rust, so they could go back and begin again. And it&#8217;s the Forth Bridge, never ever gets finished painting. It&#8217;s like that. These guidelines will constantly be updated, new devices will come out, new HTML specs, and things will come out, and upset the apple carts. So it&#8217;s a never ending kind of carousel of things going on.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:31:21] <strong>Blake Bertuccelli-Booth:</strong> And I would say that we shouldn&#8217;t expect that any accessibility guidelines, or anything around technology ever came to some kind of golden truth, because that&#8217;s not actually even good in my mind, because you are squashing innovation in this space, and innovation is really central to it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard so much critique around, well, like we don&#8217;t even know what accessibility is because it&#8217;s changing all the time. But like devices are changing, and the HTML spec that you mentioned is changing, and CSS is changing. Those changes, while it&#8217;s a pain when you&#8217;re a developer and you have to learn something new all the time, it actually is furthering our world because we&#8217;re getting a lot more new technology that&#8217;s doing amazing things.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>My critique of the rule set is really that it&#8217;s not changing fast enough. That we should have much quicker changes, and it should be rapid. I think the 2.2 version was introduced not too long ago, or officially adopted not too long ago. And like 3.0 is kind of on the radar. It will be adopted, there&#8217;s not like a firm date set, but that&#8217;s deplorable. We should have new rule sets with at least the regularity that a new WordPress releases. I don&#8217;t understand why we can&#8217;t. That&#8217;s where I put my stake in the ground.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:32:37] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay, thank you. So you&#8217;ve decided to go into the .org project and, is there a reason why you did that? Because obviously you&#8217;ve got a business, you could be doing this for clients. What was the theory behind that? I don&#8217;t want to put words into your mouth. Why pick .org and go at it? And we&#8217;ll get into the data in a minute.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:32:55] <strong>Blake Bertuccelli-Booth:</strong> I can&#8217;t ignore WordPress, and that is really the biggest reason why I feel like we have to focus on it. Over 40% of the internet is run on WordPress. And when I have dabbled in other CMS worlds, or open source worlds, it doesn&#8217;t feel as impactful to work on those projects as it does with WordPress every single day.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other kind of main piece is, I really love the people working on accessibility in the WordPress community. I love Joe, I love Alex, I love Amber. They&#8217;re great people, and it&#8217;s really been fun to meet them and hang out with them. When you&#8217;re part of an open source community, I&#8217;ve found you really should like the people who you&#8217;re talking with, and like that ethos.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So there&#8217;s impact the people of the community, and the third and final piece, I think WordPress is a amazingly human centered technology. And when you blog, you&#8217;re having to deal with all sorts of amazing creative forces, and accessibility lends itself so well to that human-centric economy and technology.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I think that we have not really tapped into that as much as we can. And so there is an amazing potential to activate, not only the contributors to the WordPress Core project, but to every user that uses WordPress. Because they are subscribing to something that says, we value human creativity, we value your kind of weirdness.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:34:32] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, interesting. So the numbers themselves though, we alluded to the fact that you found 448 .org properties, 125,000 pages. Now here&#8217;s the big numbers, I guess. The identified violations, and I&#8217;m just reading these off the show notes and you can add some context to these in a moment, just over 2.1 million, which seems like quite a large number. But then you break that down into something a bit more manageable I think, 1.13, so 1,135 issues, so it looks like many of those issues repeat multiple, hundreds, thousands of times. And that makes it a little bit easier to parse I guess.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But just tell us what this all breaks down to. Is it that wordpress.org has just done a really bad job, hasn&#8217;t kept up with the time? Is it simply that there&#8217;s just so much out there, you know, 125,000 pages, that&#8217;s not easy to fix quickly? What&#8217;s your takeaway from all of that data?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:35:26] <strong>Blake Bertuccelli-Booth:</strong> So, of the millions of pages that Equalify has scanned, we&#8217;ve seen around 40 issues per page. And this is not just WordPress, this is like all the pages that we&#8217;ve scanned on the internet that our clients, or that we&#8217;ve done ourselves. And then also the typical kind of web accessibility credo is that you get around 50 issues per page.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the way these numbers break down is that it&#8217;s pretty average. It&#8217;s not anything beyond the blue. It just looks like these .org properties just haven&#8217;t been super paying attention to the accessibility, but they&#8217;re not doing things that are like actively trying to thwart accessibility, so it&#8217;s not that bad.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So 2,112,224 violations is one of the last scans we did. These big numbers are really good because what these big numbers are saying is they&#8217;re basically capturing all the little HTML nodes, all the pieces of HTML that are failing the test. And then what you could do with these 2 million plus pieces of HTML is you can then see, okay, they&#8217;re patterns. Oh, look, this one plugin is creating this piece of HTML, and that piece kind of comes over, and over, and over again. And that&#8217;s when you can start to do really impactful things with very little work.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am like most developers, where I want to be really lazy about my work, and I want to do something that is extremely impactful with as little work as possible. And so, like the other day, I think I found like something that 80,000 violations would be solved by fixing just like a small labeling of a navigation element.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so what I&#8217;m hoping, and what I&#8217;ve seen in other communities is that, when you attribute these big numbers to issues, and then you actually have a really quick way of fixing these big numbers, that it motivates people to do the work, even though it&#8217;s a very small bit of work.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I&#8217;m testing that within the WordPress community. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s going to work. I don&#8217;t know if these big numbers are going to actually discourage work. We&#8217;ll see. Right now, it&#8217;s kind of at the point where it&#8217;s all a test. Maybe WordPress contributors like thumbs up emojis instead of numbers of violations they fixed. 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So those are things to look out for, and if people are interested in any of those areas, that&#8217;s somewhere they could step in and get involved.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abha:<br />Thanks, Kathryn. I think, as we&#8217;ve said at the beginning of this show today, that we are only representing some of the very, very many contributors that have been involved even in the beginner&#8217;s cycle of this project. There&#8217;s a huge number of contributors who took part, and not all of them at the same time. One of the great things about training is that you can actually take part at different time zones. I&#8217;m just going to go over to Laura to tell us a little bit more about how people would navigate through getting involved. Where do they start? How would they actually get involved if their time zone is not the same as the meeting, particularly on the learning pathways?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laura:<br />Okay, great. I&#8217;d be happy to point everyone in the right direction. If we go to make.wordpress.org/training, you&#8217;ll find our homepage, where we have our current focus areas. If you open up the welcome box, you&#8217;ll find the basic getting started link. We have done our own lesson on how to get started, and we walk you through setting that up. It is a self-guided onboarding program, and we also have a guided program that&#8217;s run by Kathryn. We try to match people up if they&#8217;d like to go through the guide program with a mentor. You meet with that mentor a couple of times to get one-on-one or maybe a group presentation of where to go and what you&#8217;re interested in. We do use GitHub, and sometimes that can be a little confusing. That was brand new for me, so I was a little scared about that. I didn&#8217;t want to break the site by clicking on the wrong button. So, having people within our team to walk you through is really beneficial on that aspect of it. The other part of your question was how to get involved with the learning pathways. That is really easy by going to learn.wordpress.org. As we said, the site is really clean and user-friendly now. Right at the top, in the second navigation, there&#8217;s Learning Pathways. When you click on that, you have either Develop with WordPress or Start with WordPress. You can also scroll down the page, and there&#8217;s a Get Started section that also has those two links that will start you on those two pathways.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abha:<br />Thanks, Laura. We can also put some of these links in our show notes, but if you&#8217;re not sure and want us to help you connect with one of these wonderful panelists today, just message us on Do the Woo. Connect with us on one of our social media channels, and we&#8217;ll be glad to signpost you and connect you to the right people. One of the things as a trainer that I&#8217;m particularly pleased to see is that we have not just a journey going in one direction—we have learning pathways that can go in multiple directions. In modern-day training, that reinforcement of learning is a key part of how lessons and learning take place outside WordPress. I&#8217;m going to go to Kathryn on this. In terms of the structure, you&#8217;ve got modules, courses, lessons, but also you&#8217;ve got the pathway at the beginning and the pathway at the end. You can also jump in and do single module refreshers. Could you share a little bit more, with some examples, of the kind of single modules that are likely to be popular or that you&#8217;ve already had feedback on as being very useful?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kathryn:<br />Sure. I love the fact that everything is very accessible in terms of being able to hop in and out of a section of a course. The sections are modules, as you mentioned. 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You might say, &#8220;Hey, wow, this is really cool. Let me move right on to Intermediate Theme Development,&#8221; and you can skip everything else in the Beginner Developer pathway because you already know that stuff. That&#8217;s one possible example of how someone could hop in and use a chunk of that course.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abha:<br />Has there been a course or a lesson or an area that has been particularly popular, and that you think people who haven&#8217;t tried WordPress before should start with?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kathryn:<br />I think the Beginner WordPress User pathway is the most popular one so far. It is one of the first ones that came out, but I think a lot of people have jumped in there. It&#8217;s just a really great area to dive in and get started if you&#8217;re completely new to WordPress because, like I mentioned before, you&#8217;re going to have sections on just a little bit of everything. It&#8217;ll give you a good grounding on how everything works. 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There&#8217;s a lot of content, a lot of resources, a lot of different things that you can pay attention to and focus on—so much so that it can become overwhelming and may lead people to move away from WordPress or something like that. Learn provides this place where you can go, pick a learning pathway, and just follow it. As you follow it, you know you&#8217;re getting a complete overview of what the people who built the learning pathway think you need to know about WordPress development—and they did a great job of that. Once you get through that course, then you can start attending Developer Hours, diving into some more complicated documentation with the context that the course provides. I think that the courses and learning pathways provide that really great first step to then start consuming the other content in the WordPress space so you don&#8217;t get overwhelmed. Some people might just want to dive in and get their hands dirty, but I think that the courses provide a very great entry point for developers, especially those who are new to WordPress.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abha:<br />Nick, do you think that Learn.WordPress.org can become that one-stop shop for intermediate and advanced developers in the near future, or are we talking about a longer cycle?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nick:<br />Well, I think that the learning pathways we have so far are great, and I think they cover a lot. I don&#8217;t think, given the amount of content—there&#8217;s so much to know around WordPress—you could probably spend years of your life just learning about building custom blocks, focusing on a very small area of WordPress. So I don&#8217;t expect that Learn WordPress will be able to cover absolutely everything, but I think it can provide people with a really good foundation for WordPress development. 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But when you build a plugin, you need to know how to register a plugin—the first step—and then you need to know how to do the thing you want it to do. Those are two completely different things. If you don&#8217;t know how to build a plugin, you can&#8217;t get the plugin to do what you want it to do. So, being able to direct that user to the Introduction to WordPress Development, they get all the foundation so they know how to do all the basic stuff, and then they can jump to building what they want. Whereas if they&#8217;re trying to jump to all these different documentation articles, it becomes very confusing. This user was quite frustrated with that experience. Learn WordPress provides the solution for them to really get up to speed and then build their skills further.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abha:<br />And of course, the more people that get involved and help build some of these intermediate and advanced areas for users and developers, the quicker we&#8217;ll get to these solutions too. 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So, I really like that aspect of it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abha:<br />Again, we can put that link in because it&#8217;s really good. I remember doing that as part of a training day contributor event, where we created lots of thumbnails and helped each other—it was actually quite fun.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laura:<br />Yes. Yeah, we had a thumbnail of fun.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abha:<br />It was amazing. I had great fun on that. Contributing can be fun. If you subscribe to this channel regularly, or just hear me talk about WordPress, you&#8217;ll know that contributing can definitely be fun. On that note, I&#8217;m going to head back to Kathryn. For me, and for many people out there, the idea of a project keeping pace with a release is really hard because releases happen quite a few times a year, and there&#8217;s a lot to try and capture. 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It&#8217;s not one of the glamorous areas of maintaining the site, but it is something that really has to happen because we want people who do a search for something to find an up-to-date video that looks like what they see in their dashboard and reflects the steps that are currently relevant. We don&#8217;t want people getting frustrated by looking at an outdated lesson or screenshots or anything like that, but it isn&#8217;t a simple problem to solve. We have opened a discussion in the community; there&#8217;s a post that talks about how we want to create a plan. Is it going to be a process of going through things on a quarterly basis, on a semi-annual basis? Are we going to tie it to releases? How do we go in and update? Are there going to be priority areas that should be updated first before others? So, that is a whole set of questions that we are going to work on with the community to establish some guidelines. We&#8217;re also going to look at what other sites do. How do other sites maintain older content, and if so, for how long? What is a reasonable and realistic way for us to go about this because we have limited resources in terms of who&#8217;s going to be doing this work? I guess the short answer is: to be discussed, and we&#8217;ll know more once we&#8217;ve had more discussions with the community about how we&#8217;re going to go about this.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abha:<br />Thanks, Kathryn. Again, we can put a link to this so that people can still take part. I presume it&#8217;s not a closed discussion; it&#8217;s an open discussion, and we want to have as many views as possible. One of the things that I always get feedback on when I do presentations on Learn WordPress to meetups is that this content isn&#8217;t necessarily in my local language. So, with this refreshed website, is there still room for content that&#8217;s not just in English? 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We have guests coming up who have been working in this area. I&#8217;m going to go back to Nick. For people who think, &#8220;Okay, the site&#8217;s got a refresh, it&#8217;s got a little bit more categorization, a better understanding, but it doesn&#8217;t answer what I need to learn,&#8221; what should they do? How can they influence the next focus for Learn?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nick:<br />Yeah, absolutely. I think it&#8217;s really important to stress that everything we do on WordPress.org, especially Learn, is driven by contributors and the feedback we get from the community. Laura, being one of the leads for the training team, can speak to this as well, but if you see something that&#8217;s missing, advocate for that. Share it with the training team, share it with folks because if you&#8217;re seeing something that&#8217;s missing, it&#8217;s likely that others are looking for that as well. There&#8217;s only so much time in contributor time to get things done, but the more people advocating for certain topics, the more likely it will be created. Or if you end up learning about that yourself, consider contributing it back. I remember when I started on the training team long, long ago, all the online workshops I did for Learn were on topics I didn&#8217;t know about before I did the learning. I would learn the topic and then present it to the community. That&#8217;s a great way of learning the topic, and we move forward. It&#8217;s a very collaborative, very positive environment on the training team. I really encourage folks to get involved. It&#8217;s how I started contributing to WordPress, and it&#8217;s led me to where I am today, so I can&#8217;t say enough good things about it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abha:<br />Laura, if people want to connect with the team reps like yourself in training, how do they do that?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laura:<br />Yeah, usually the best way is to join the Slack training team. The Getting Started guide walks you through setting up a WordPress.org account and joining our Make WordPress Slack channel. You can see the different teams you can be involved with. People are involved with multiple teams too. It&#8217;s open to what you&#8217;re interested in. Our team currently has three team reps so that we can have coverage for a lot of different areas. We&#8217;re in multiple time zones, which is really beneficial so that we can focus in on and have presentations. We started doing coffee chats with our contributors. If they have questions for a more experienced contributor, they can ask those questions. We&#8217;re doing onboarding chats within our teams to meet with people face-to-face on Zoom so that they might feel a little more comfortable on camera too, and maybe we can get those people to do presentations. A lot of our contributors also have a connection with their community, with their local meetups. Learn.wordpress.org is a great resource to bring back to your local community. A couple of people have done presentations or are teaching a group of people using the WordPress user pathway, so they&#8217;re kind of testing for us, but they&#8217;re also using it for their community too. We&#8217;re excited to hear that feedback from people using the learning pathways within their communities.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abha:<br />It is about that feedback. Nothing in WordPress moves forward without feedback. So, if you&#8217;re looking at the site, taking a course, or plunging into a module and taking some of Kathryn&#8217;s suggestions, trying out some of those courses—if you have feedback, there&#8217;s always a link at the end of each module that allows you to give feedback as well. Please do share it. Please remember, this site and its content are produced by contributors just like you—users of WordPress, people who love it. Be part of that. As we come toward our close today, I&#8217;ve got a few quick questions for the panel. Kathryn, I&#8217;m going to come to you first. Now you&#8217;re based in Canada—is it Montreal you&#8217;re in?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kathryn:<br />Yes, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abha:<br />A wonderful part of the world. Kathryn, we do a lot of talking about food on this program. I did warn you ahead of time to tell me about your favorite recipe and what it says about the culture and things that are around it. 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But I discovered this recipe that&#8217;s a little easier than making individual butter tarts, and it&#8217;s Butter Tart Squares. It&#8217;s got layers of pastry crust, a layer of the goo, and a layer of pecans, and it&#8217;s just delicious—and it&#8217;s a very Canadian thing. So, those would be my two that I would share.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abha:<br />I am so hungry now. I think I need the Never-Fail Chocolate Cake in my life. What I didn&#8217;t tell you, of course, is that whatever you suggested, you might end up making live on one of the shows that we&#8217;re working on—a series of shows. But I think after hearing the Never-Fail Chocolate Cake, that&#8217;s going to be really popular with our audience, who will vote on the best recipes they want to see done live. So, I&#8217;m going to go to Nick, who looks a bit worried.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nick:<br />Yeah, I&#8217;m a bit worried. I don&#8217;t cook as much as I should, or what I cook is not something that is worth sharing on this show—it&#8217;s quite boring. But one thing I do want to share is that my wife is Italian, and one of the things we cook quite a bit—I always pronounce this wrong, or however you want to pronounce it—is gnocchi, which is like a potato noodle with fresh homemade pasta sauce. Gnocchi is a very traditional dish, and our family&#8217;s been passing down the recipe forever. It&#8217;s very simple to make but very good. So that&#8217;s our go-to home-cooked pasta-type meal.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abha:<br />Well, I can tell you to ease your concern that you&#8217;ve got a little time to practice how to pronounce it, and we may just have that on the show. Of course, we will be talking all things Woo at the same time, as you would expect. But it is to build on our WP recipe, and we&#8217;ve got some great ideas that we&#8217;re going to be sharing as well. So let me have those recipes. Laura, what have you got for us?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laura:<br />So my recipes come from—I married into an Italian-Lithuanian family, and we have a lot of really good stuff. Bacon buns are a Lithuanian thing from my father-in-law, and it&#8217;s a yeast dough with ham predominantly, and then a little bit of bacon. Some people like to put onions in it too. So we&#8217;ve always made trays of bacon buns for different holidays. I&#8217;m also a big baker, so my go-to is éclair cake, which is graham crackers and vanilla pudding. When you let it sit overnight, it tastes like an éclair. So that&#8217;s been a family thing on my side of the family. Growing up on the south side of Chicago, our churches would have recipe books—that&#8217;s how the church would raise money. This was a recipe book from my aunt, and everyone&#8217;s made it in our family.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abha:<br />I love that idea. We&#8217;ve got some plans with how we&#8217;re going to support other contributors</p>\n\n\n\n<p>with our recipe stuff too. So yes, I think all three of you passed that test. I now know that Bob will be sitting there in the background on the show thinking about chocolate, bacon, and potatoes. So thank you very much for joining us. Before we go, I&#8217;m just going to ask Nick to share, I think, one of the most important things about the Learn WordPress project. It uses so many different skills and disciplines to make it happen and create the end result—to create the learning, the reflection, the understanding, and the localization. What makes it special, and what skills and disciplines from the people listening to the show would you like to appeal to come and get involved?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nick:<br />Yeah. Well, thanks for the question. I think you&#8217;re right; it is a very important one. So obviously, if you&#8217;re interested in creating educational material, the training team&#8217;s great for that. But if you&#8217;re a developer, a designer, or a copywriter, contributors from across the spectrum came together to make this possible. There&#8217;s actually an ongoing effort for WordPress.org as a whole to upgrade different areas of the site, with Learn WordPress being one of them. That includes people from the marketing team, marketing folks, people from Meta—the developers that maintain the website—we have designers, and then there&#8217;s me, who just floats across all sorts of different teams. It&#8217;s really a broad spectrum. So no matter what your skill set is, if you&#8217;re passionate about Learn, there&#8217;s a place for you, whether it&#8217;s creating educational content or even just helping with the architecture of the site. There&#8217;s an entire GitHub project board with features that we&#8217;d like to implement, which will require development, and that is something folks can help contribute to, as well as design work. So really, I just want to stress that no matter what your current skill set is, there is a place for you to contribute to both Learn WordPress and the broader WordPress community as a whole.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abha:<br />And we hope to see you there. And of course, if you do get involved with any of the things we&#8217;ve highlighted in the WordPress Way, then let us know. We won&#8217;t necessarily share your story if you&#8217;d rather we didn&#8217;t, but it does help us feed into the other interviews we do, and we&#8217;d always love to hear from our audience as well. Do look out for our next shows. We&#8217;ve got multilingual, a big reflection on the releases of this year later in November as well, and we&#8217;re going to fly over to a couple of other places as well. If we haven&#8217;t featured your country or your area of WooCommerce, do get in touch. I&#8217;m Nonstop News UK on Twitter. You can get my details from the make.wordpress.org profiles as well. All that remains for me to say is thank you to my wonderful panel today and goodbye from me.</p>\n</div>\n\n\n\n\n<p>In this episode of <strong><em>The WordPress Way</em></strong>, host <strong>Abha Thakor</strong> is joined by <strong>Laura Adamonis, Nick Diego, and Kathryn Presner</strong> to discuss the latest updates to the Learn.WordPress.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>All three are contributors to the WordPress Training Team, and share insights into the newly refreshed learn.wordpress.org site, including the introduction of progressive and user-friendly learning pathways designed to cater to different types of learners at various skill levels. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>They explore how the site offers a comprehensive and trusted resource for WordPress users, developers, and future contributors, with a special focus on making learning more accessible and tailored to individual needs. </p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Takeaways</h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Refreshed Learn WordPress Platform</strong>: The newly updated learn.wordpress.org site offers tailored learning pathways for different types of WordPress users, including beginners, intermediate users, and developers. 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‘জন্মগত স্বেচ্ছাসেবী’। এবং আমি গর্বের সাথে বলি যে আমি একজন।</p>\n\n\n\n<p>আমি অনেক স্কুল ইভেন্ট এবং কার্যক্রম সংগঠনে জড়িত ছিলাম। আমি এমন প্রকল্পগুলিতে অংশগ্রহণ করতে ভালোবাসি যা আমার মূল্যবোধ এবং শক্তিগুলির প্রতিফলন করে। স্বেচ্ছাসেবা আমার শক্তি ব্যাটারি চার্জ করার মতো; যত বেশি করি, তত বেশি শক্তি পাই।</p>\n\n\n\n<p>বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় জীবনে প্রবেশ করার পর, আমি বিভিন্ন ধরনের স্বেচ্ছাসেবী দলের সাথে পরিচিত হয়ে অভিভূত হয়ে পড়ি। দরিদ্রদের শীতকালীন পোশাক সরবরাহ করার জন্য একটি দল ছিল, রক্তদান করার জন্য একটি দল, এবং একটি দল ছিল আন্ডাররিপ্রেজেন্টেড সম্প্রদায়গুলিকে সহায়তা করার জন্য। কয়েকদিন পর, আমি জানতে পারি যে আমার পড়াশোনার সাথে সম্পর্কিত স্বেচ্ছাসেবী দলও রয়েছে, যেমন Mozilla Makers Community, Women in Tech, Open Source Network Groups, ইত্যাদি। সময়ের সাথে সাথে, বিভিন্ন অপারেশন স্টাইলের কারণে আমি সহজেই আগ্রহ হারিয়ে ফেলি। আমি সেখান থেকে ‘অবদান রাখা উচিত’ এই অনুভূতি পাইনি। আর কয়েকদিন পর, আমি সেগুলি থেকে পিছিয়ে পড়ি এবং অন্য স্বেচ্ছাসেবী দলে সক্রিয় থাকি।</p>\n\n\n\n<p>এখনও পর্যন্ত আমি WordPress-এর নাম উল্লেখ করিনি, আসুন আমাদের প্রথম পরিচয়টি নিয়ে কথা বলি। আমার বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় জীবনে, আমি WordPress-কে শুধুমাত্র একটি PHP ফ্রেমওয়ার্ক হিসাবে জানতাম যা ব্যবহারকারীদের জন্য অনেক নো-কোডিং কার্যকারিতা সরবরাহ করে। তাই, আমি শুধুমাত্র আমার প্রজেক্ট সম্পূর্ণ করার জন্য WordPress ব্যবহার করতাম। তখন আমি WordPress-এর জগতে পরিচিত ছিলাম না, তাই আমি আরও অন্বেষণ করার সুযোগ পাইনি।</p>\n\n\n\n<p>বছর কয়েক পরে, ২০১৯ সালে, আমি প্রথমবার শুনেছিলাম যে আমার শহর, ঢাকায় WordCamp হচ্ছে। আমি জানতাম না এর কিছুই WordPress-এর সাথে সম্পর্কিত ছিল; আমি ভেবেছিলাম এটি একটি টেক ফেয়ার হবে। কিন্তু, প্রথম WordCamp-এ উপস্থিত হয়ে আমার সমস্ত ধারণা বদলে গেল।</p>\n\n\n\n<p>আমি WordPress-এর সবচেয়ে প্রতাপশালী কমিউনিটিতের সাথে পরিচিত হলাম। সেদিন, আমি একটি বিশ্ব আবিষ্কার করলাম যেখানে চমৎকার ক্যারিয়ারের সুযোগ, নেটওয়ার্কিং, নতুন বন্ধুত্ব গঠন, এবং আরও অনেক কিছু ছিল, যেমন WordPress-এ কন্ট্রিবিউশন শুরু করার উপায়। তখন থেকেই WordPress আমার হৃদয়কে জয় করে নিয়েছে, এবং আমি এখনও এটি সম্পর্কে অনেক কিছু শিখছি।</p>\n\n\n\n<p>WordPress কমিউনিটিতের সবচেয়ে বড় শক্তি হল এটি সকল ধরনের বৈচিত্র্যকে গ্রহণ করে এবং কমিউনিটির সাথে একাত্মতার অনুভূতি দেয়। কমিউনিটিতে কাঠামো এতটাই সংগঠিত যে যে কেউ তাদের পছন্দমতো সময় এবং বয়সে অবদান রাখতে পারে। আপনি যদি বিরতি নেন, সম্প্রদায় আপনাকে আবার উষ্ণ অভ্যর্থনা জানাবে। এখানে কোন বৈষম্য নেই, সবাই সাহায্য করে এবং আপনাকে উৎসাহিত করে। যদি আপনার নতুন, বক্সের বাইরে চিন্তা করার আইডিয়া থাকে, সম্প্রদায় থেকে সবসময় সমর্থন পাবেন। এই সমস্ত কারণগুলো আমাকে WordPress-এ অবদান রাখতে উৎসাহিত করেছে।</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-ক-ভ-ব-wordpress-আম-র-স-বপ-ন-এব-আক-ঙ-ক-ষ-গ-ল-ব-স-তব-য-ত-কর-ছ\">কীভাবে WordPress আমার স্বপ্ন এবং আকাঙ্ক্ষাগুলি বাস্তবায়িত করেছে</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>এখানে আমি WordPress থেকে কী পেয়েছি তা নিয়ে আলোকপাত করতে চাই। বড় হওয়ার সময়, আমার দেশে বাংলাদেশে সবচেয়ে সাধারণ শৈশব স্বপ্ন ছিল ইঞ্জিনিয়ার, ডাক্তার, বা পাইলট হওয়া। আমি এর ব্যতিক্রম ছিলাম না। আমি বড় হলাম, এই স্বপ্নগুলোকে হৃদয়ে ধরে রাখলাম। একটি নির্দিষ্ট সময়ে, যখন আমাকে উপরের তিনটি থেকে একটি বিকল্প বেছে নিতে হয়েছিল, আমি ইঞ্জিনিয়ার হওয়ার সিদ্ধান্ত নিয়েছিলাম। আমি স্বপ্ন দেখা শুরু করলাম যে আমি আমার উচ্চতর শিক্ষার জন্য একটি সুন্দর ইউরোপীয় দেশে যাব, বা National Geographic Channel-এর টেক ক্রু হব, এবং আরও কত কিছু।</p>\n\n\n\n<p>তখন, একটি অলস বিকেলে, আমি যা স্বপ্ন দেখেছি এবং আমি এখন কী, তা নিয়ে চিন্তা করছিলাম, তখন আমার ভেতর থেকে একটি উত্তর পেলাম যা আমি সত্যিই চাই। আমি ভ্রমণ করতে চাই, নতুন মানুষ এবং সংস্কৃতির সাথে পরিচিত হতে চাই।</p>\n\n\n\n<p>একজন পাইলট হওয়া আমাকে নতুন দিগন্ত অন্বেষণ করার ক্ষমতা দিত। একই সুবিধা আমি পাবো যদি আমি একজন সরকারী ডাক্তার হিসেবে কাজ করি, যেমন নতুন এলাকা এবং শহর পরিদর্শনের সুযোগ এবং মানুষদের সাহায্য করা। আমার সমস্ত শৈশবের কল্পনা এক বাক্যে সংক্ষিপ্ত করলে, এটি হবে আমি উড়তে এবং সীমানা অতিক্রম করতে চেয়েছিলাম।</p>\n\n\n\n<p>আমি সবসময় &#8220;Forrest Gump&#8221; সিনেমার একটি লাইন দ্বারা মুগ্ধ ছিলাম: &#8220;Dear God, make me a bird. So I could fly far, far away.&#8221;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>তবে, স্বপ্নগুলি বাস্তবায়িত করা এবং সেগুলি বাস্তবে রূপান্তরিত করা সহজ প্রক্রিয়া নয়। আমার নিজ দেশের থেকে কাগজপত্র প্রক্রিয়াকরণ এবং অর্থ পরিচালনা করতে সময় লাগে। এছাড়াও, আমাকে দ্রুত চাকরি খুঁজে বের করতে হয়েছিল। একটির পর একটি ঘটনা চলতে থাকে, আমার স্বপ্নগুলি ধীরে ধীরে অন্ধকারে চলে যায়।</p>\n\n\n\n<p>যখন আমি WordCamps সম্পর্কে জানলাম, আমি আনন্দে ভরপুর ছিলাম। WordCamp এমন একটি ইভেন্ট যা আমাকে নতুন মানুষদের সাথে মেশার, বন্ধু বানানোর এবং আমার সান্ত্বনার অঞ্চলের বাইরে যাত্ৰার সুযোগ দেবে। সেই মুহূর্ত থেকে, আমি বাস্তবায়নের চিন্তা শুরু করি। কীভাবে আমি WordCamp-এর অংশ হতে পারি? কীভাবে আমার শহরের বাইরের WordCamp-এ অংশগ্রহণ করতে পারি; আমি এসব ভাবতে শুরু করি। এবং WordCamp-এ যোগ দিতে আমার ৩ বছর সময় লেগেছিল, এটি ছিল WordCamp Kolkata 2022। এটি ছিল আমার জীবনের সবচেয়ে সুখের দিনগুলির মধ্যে একটি, যখন আমি WordCamp Kolkata 2022-এ স্বেচ্ছাসেবক হিসেবে নির্বাচিত হয়েছিলাম। তারপর থেকে আমার WordCamp অ্যাডভেঞ্চার চলতে থাকে। এখন আমার ঝুলিতে আরও আছে WordCamp Asia 2023, WordCamp Sylhet 2023, এবং WordCamp Sylhet 2024।</p>\n\n\n\n<p>এছাড়াও, আমি শীঘ্রই আসন্ন WordCamp Asia 2025-এ সংগঠক হিসাবে থাকব। যখন আমি আমার জীবনের এই সংবাদটি শেয়ার করেছিলাম, অনেক শুভেচ্ছা এবং ভালোবাসায় পূর্ণ হয়ে গেলাম। এছাড়াও, আমি শুনেছি যে আমি ভাগ্যবান ছিলাম, কারণ আমি পরপর WordCamp-এর অংশ হতে পেরেছি। তবে, আমি জানি এটি আমার সাড়ে তিন বছরের বাস্তবায়নের ফলাফল। যখন কেউ তাদের ভালোবাসার কিছুতে সফল হয়, এটি সাধারণত কয়েক মাস বা বছরের অধ্যবসায়ের ফল এবং স্বপ্নগুলোকে ছাড়িয়ে না যাওয়ার কারণে ঘটে।</p>\n\n\n\n<p>WordCamps-এর মাধ্যমে, আমি বিশ্বজুড়ে অত্যন্ত ভালো বন্ধু পেয়েছি, যেমন Rahul, Sunita, Dominica, Maya, Emma, এবং Prema। এখন আমার মনে হয়, যদি আমি আমার WordCamp যাত্রা শুরু না করতাম, তবে কীভাবে এই মানুষগুলির সাথে পরিচিত হতাম। সীমানা পেরিয়ে, আমি কখনো ভাবিনি যে এমন মানুষদের সাথে দেখা হবে যাদের সাথে আমার চিন্তা এতটাই মিলে যাবে।</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-ক-ভ-ব-আম-make-wordpress-কম-উন-ট-ক-ন-জ-র-দ-ব-ত-য-ঘর-ব-ন-ল-ম-nbsp\">কিভাবে আমি Make WordPress কমিউনিটিকে নিজের দ্বিতীয় ঘর বানালাম&nbsp;</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>আমার WordPress-এর যাত্রা শুরু হয় আমার চাকরির মাধ্যমে। এরপর আমি WordCamps সম্পর্কে জানতে পারি, যা আমার জন্য এক পরীর দেশ ছিল। কিছুদিন পর, আমি Make WordPress কমিউনিটিতে যোগ দিই, যা আরেকটি জাদুকরী স্থান ছিল। আমি জানতে পারি যে WordPress-এ অবদান রাখার জন্য বিভিন্ন উপায় রয়েছে, যেমন ডিজাইন করা, ডেভেলপ করা, CLI ব্যবহার করা, ডকুমেন্টেশন লেখা, টিকিট সমাধান করা ইত্যাদি। তবে, আমি বুঝতে পারছিলাম না যে কোথা থেকে বা কীভাবে শুরু করা উচিত।</p>\n\n\n\n<p>সবচেয়ে সহজ উপায় হিসেবে অনুবাদ শুরু করার কথা আমি প্রথম বুঝতে পারি যখন আমি WordCamp Dhaka 2019-এ অংশগ্রহণ করি, যা ছিল আমার প্রথম WordCamp। আমি WordPress.org-এর Polyglot পৃষ্ঠায় গিয়ে অনুবাদ শুরু করি। কিন্তু, আমি Polyglot টিমের কাছ থেকে কোনো নির্দেশনা বা সমর্থন পাইনি। আমার অনুবাদগুলো কি ভুল ছিল? আমি কি ভুল স্ট্রিংয়ে যোগ করছি? আমি কোনো তথ্য খুঁজে পাইনি। অবশেষে, আমি এটাও ছেড়ে দিই।</p>\n\n\n\n<p>কয়েক বছর পরে, আমার বর্তমান অফিসে, আমাদের মালিক, আসিফ ভাই, আমাদের অফিসের সমস্ত উৎসাহী মানুষকে ডেকে প্রথম পদক্ষেপটি কীভাবে নিতে হবে সে সম্পর্কে একটি সংক্ষিপ্ত বিবরণ দেন। এবং তা ছিল Make WordPress নামে একটি Slack চ্যানেলে যোগদান করা। এরপর আমি এক সম্পূর্ণ নতুন জগতে প্রবেশ করি। সেদিন, আমি জানতে পারি যে সাপ্তাহিক Slack চ্যানেল মিটিংয়ে অংশগ্রহণ করাও একটি অবদান হিসেবে গণ্য হয়।</p>\n\n\n\n<p>এরপর আমি আমার পছন্দের চ্যানেলগুলোতে যোগদান করি এবং মিটিংয়ে অংশগ্রহণ করতে শুরু করি। সেখানে, আমি বিভিন্ন কাজ খুঁজে পাই যেখানে আমি যুক্ত হতে পারি। এছাড়াও, উল্লেখ করা প্রয়োজন, আমি অসাধারণ মানুষদের সাথে পরিচিত হই, যেমন কোর্টনি, বেন, আভা, পূজা, ডেসটিনি, সি রি, ইভিট, ইত্যাদি। এখনও, আমি শিখছি এবং এমন জায়গায় অবদান রাখছি যেখানে আমি নিজেকে উপযুক্ত মনে করি।</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Make WordPress কমিউনিটিতে কিছুদিন অংশগ্রহণ করার পরে, আমি &#8220;কোর কন্ট্রিবিউশন&#8221; ধারণাটি সম্পর্কে অবগত হই। আপনি যদি আসন্ন WordPress সংস্করণে অবদান রাখেন, তবে তা কোর কন্ট্রিবিউশন হিসেবে গণ্য হবে। ডকুমেন্টেশন লেখা, দীর্ঘস্থায়ী WordPress ব্যানার তৈরি করা, টিকিট সমাধান করা, আপনার তৈরি করা টিকিটগুলি আসন্ন WordPress রিলিজের জন্য নির্বাচিত হওয়া এবং অন্যান্য অনেক উপায়ে আপনার অবদানকে কোর হিসেবে গণ্য করা হবে।</p>\n\n\n\n<p>আমার কোর কন্ট্রিবিউশন স্বীকৃতি পাওয়ার জন্য, আমি আমার WordPress গার্ডিয়ান, রবিন ভাই থেকে সাহায্য পাই। তিনি আমাদের টিকিট পরীক্ষা করার এবং সেগুলোর সমাধান দেওয়ার উপায়গুলি শিখিয়েছিলেন। এভাবে আমি সর্বশেষ WordPress রিলিজে অবদান রাখি। WordPress Core-এর অবদানকারীদের মধ্যে আপনার নামটি দেখতে পাওয়া একটি বিশেষ ধরনের উষ্ণ অনুভূতি।</p>\n\n\n\n<p>এখন আমি কোথায় যাব? আমি ইতিমধ্যে Polyglots, Training, এবং Marketing Slack চ্যানেলগুলোতে অবদান রেখেছি। এখন আমি আমার দিগন্ত প্রসারিত করতে চাই এবং ডকুমেন্টেশন ইত্যাদির মতো অন্যান্য চ্যানেলগুলিতে সক্রিয়ভাবে অবদান রাখতে চাই। আসুন আমরা সামনে থাকা পরবর্তী সুযোগগুলি এবং আনন্দগুলি অন্বেষণ করি।</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-ভ-ল-ব-স-যত-ন-আর-ফ-র-দ-ওয-র-গল-প\">ভালোবাসা, যত্ন, আর ফিরে দেওয়ার গল্প</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>আমার WordPress কমিউনিটিতে বেড়ে ওঠা এবং এগিয়ে যাওয়ার প্রেরণা যে ভালোবাসা থেকে আসে, তা ছাড়াও, WordPress-ভিত্তিক কোম্পানিতে কাজ করে আর্থিক স্বাধীনতা অর্জন করাটাও একটি বড় কারণ। আমি WordPress কমিউনিটি থেকে যে ভালোবাসা এবং গ্রহণযোগ্যতা পেয়েছি, তার জন্য আমি সত্যিই কৃতজ্ঞ। এখানে আমি আমার নিজেকে প্রকাশ করতে পারি।</p>\n\n\n\n<p>কিছু ছোট কিন্তু উল্লেখযোগ্য ঘটনা রয়েছে, যা অবশ্যই স্বীকৃতি পাওয়ার যোগ্য। যখন WordCamp Sylhet 2024 হলো, তখন আমি Contributor Day-এর টেবিল লিড ছিলাম, এবং আমার আট মাস বয়সী ছেলে সারা সময় আমার সাথে ছিল। যেহেতু এটি আমার প্রথমবারের মতো কোন ইভেন্টে বাচ্চার সাথে অংশগ্রহণ করা, তাই আমি বেশ চিন্তিত ছিলাম কিভাবে আমি এটি পরিচালনা করবো। কিন্তু Contributor Day-এর স্থানে পৌঁছানোর পরপরই, আমার সব চিন্তা মুছে গেল।</p>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image2.jpg\"><img width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Mumtahina and Aurora in front of the contributor day sign at WordCamp Sylhet.\" class=\"wp-image-7298\" /></a>\n\n\n\n<p>আমার প্রিয় লিড এবং আয়োজকরা, অফিসের টিম সহ, আমার বাচ্চার যত্ন নিয়েছিল যাতে আমি আমার কাজ নিখুঁতভাবে করতে 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But it&#8217;s not something that&#8217;s going to just completely replace everything.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>In our approach with every one of our products, we&#8217;re creating tools that users—human beings—use to make their lives easier and to cut out the annoying stuff so they can focus on the fun stuff, like designing sites and actually building out the core structures and frameworks behind these WooCommerce websites and things like that, while cutting out the annoying tasks. For me, the reason we started CodeWP was that we had built WooCommerce sites for probably about five years at that point, and there were so many little extensions that you could make to the platform with these code snippets. We had this huge library of code snippets, and every time we wanted to extend a WooCommerce site, we&#8217;d have to go find the snippet, then go to the documentation reference, then spend eight hours on Stack Overflow, then go to three GitHub issues, and try to string together the information we needed to extend this snippet to extend WooCommerce.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>That was not something that people really enjoyed doing. At least in our company, we really enjoyed thinking about how we could solve these problems. But</p>\n\n\n\n<p>the difficult research and the challenge of stringing it all together were not something we enjoyed. So that was our first approach with AI: how can we cut out these tasks that we never really liked in our agency and make it so that&#8217;s something you don&#8217;t have to focus on anymore? Obviously, someone building a WooCommerce site isn&#8217;t going to use our tool to try to cut out the developer. It doesn&#8217;t work like that. You have to really know what you&#8217;re doing to leverage AI, but it&#8217;s one of those things where it does make our lives easier and allows us to focus on more fun things.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>To get back to what people should be aware of regarding AI and what should be debunked here, it&#8217;s not a wonder machine. It&#8217;s not something that will do everything for you, read your mind, or anything like that. I think we&#8217;re very far from that right now. What it&#8217;s used for in practical applications is just to make people&#8217;s lives easier—those who are in the trenches actually doing things and getting things done. For us, the applications are pretty pointed because that&#8217;s where AI can thrive. If you try to tackle massive tasks that require a lot of logic, creativity, and thought, it doesn&#8217;t work that way. But to enable creators, builders, and WordPress users in our approach, you can really bring value without causing issues or stepping on any toes.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jonathan:<br />You started out with this context of the agency and building WooCommerce stores, so you already had that sort of broad context. You&#8217;ve talked about repetitive tasks as a prime example of where AI can help. Would you expand on that within WooCommerce specifically? When you&#8217;ve had this service background building WooCommerce sites, and you&#8217;ve been in the product space for years now, so you have a broad context. If someone is thinking about AI within the WooCommerce context, is there anything beyond repetitive tasks, or within repetitive tasks? Can you just give us a broader perspective on where you see the opportunities for AI to be applied within WooCommerce?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>James:<br />Yeah, so I&#8217;m actually really excited to be on this podcast. This is something that we&#8217;ve been really focused on with our upcoming product, AgentWP. We got started with CodeWP, which is an AI code generator. We looked at how people really wanted to use this tool, and there was a lot of usage towards WooCommerce. A lot of that usage was what we had essentially built it for—extending WooCommerce with code and cutting out the research bit for these really simple implementations, making it easier to build more complex implementations with code. But there were also a lot of requests outside of what CodeWP was intended for, in terms of creating product descriptions, giving statistics, troubleshooting, and all these different things. So a lot of the usage in CodeWP led us to determine that there&#8217;s a really big opportunity here for another product. This product could be one that lives in WordPress, lives in WooCommerce, and really integrates with that individual site, database, file system, frontend, and backend to give really valuable answers to users in a more generic way—something that&#8217;s not always code, but could be, &#8220;Hey, here&#8217;s your error log in English,&#8221; or &#8220;Here&#8217;s a statistic about your WooCommerce store,&#8221; or anything like that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>That research from CodeWP led to this product called AgentWP. That&#8217;s the product that goes into a WordPress site. We love WooCommerce, and we know how powerful it is, but it can also be pretty difficult to navigate sometimes and pretty complex, even as an agency, but definitely as an end user. So we&#8217;ve always, from the beginning of developing this AgentWP product, thought about how we could solve common WooCommerce problems. With this beta that we&#8217;re launching fairly soon, we came to the conclusion that WooCommerce can be extended in a few ways. Right now, the core way is statistics—really understanding your data. WooCommerce themselves have made really awesome improvements to the analytics side of things, in my opinion, transitioning from the scary Reports page to the beautiful React-based analytics page. But still, there&#8217;s so much data to sift through and even understand what it means. I think there&#8217;s a really big opportunity to have a natural language interface with your WooCommerce data and, zooming out, with all of your WordPress data as well, and leverage artificial intelligence to take a user&#8217;s request and turn it into a statistical response. That was a big focus of ours for the beta, to kind of prove out, &#8220;Okay, this product, the idea here is it lives in WordPress, leverages WordPress data, and then it uses or converts the user&#8217;s request into some form of action, response, or message in some form.&#8221; Our core implementation to solve this was with WooCommerce statistics, so users can ask anything about their store, and the agent will go and create a query on demand to get that information and then present it to the user. Then you can continue onwards and ask additional questions like, &#8220;Hey, let&#8217;s dive into this specific product and see if we can get analytics or insights about whether we should even focus on this product based on this data compared to all the other data.&#8221; These are things that you can&#8217;t really do with charts.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>That was a really big use case that we wanted to solve for, and we did. It extends out to the remainder of WordPress, but we actually started with WooCommerce because that was something that in the agency landscape, when we were building WooCommerce stores, we always found issues with. And then in terms of building WooCommerce, we always would break it. We would always try to extend it, and we&#8217;d always install a plugin and have to do our plugin check to figure out which one was conflicting. So I think there are a lot of different implementations here, but the core ones for us were statistics and troubleshooting—not in truly the code sense, but just making it easier to find problems in WooCommerce because everybody who&#8217;s built a WooCommerce store knows that you could get very complex with these things. You could legitimately have a use case for 30 plugins sometimes, 20 plugins sometimes. In my opinion, that&#8217;s very different from standard WordPress development, where you try to keep your plugins down, but with WooCommerce, it just bubbles up. So having this interface where you can use natural language to navigate around your WooCommerce site and understand what potential issues could be popping up, that was something we really wanted to fo