Automattic-sponsored Global Community Team Programs Manager Rocio Valdivia has published a proposal to allocate a portion of the WordPress Events/WordCamp budget solely for marketing and advertising. This change aims to attract more newcomers to WordPress events. Rocio Valdivia explained, “The Community Team’s goal for upcoming events is to warmly welcome more first-time attendees. We aim for over 50% of participants …
Justin Tadlock Proposes Idea to Solve Common Theme Issues
The Theme Review Team has been discussing ideas in Slack on how to solve the problem of themes in the review queue suffering from common theme issues. Just Tadlock has proposed a idea he calls Theme Feature Repositories. The idea is to create standardized packages on the Theme Review Team GitHub repo that authors could use in their themes. If …
The Most Common Obstacles to Closing a Sale with Website Clients
Rejection is part of the gig. And you know what? It’s okay if a prospect rejects your proposal, so long as the reason for it is valid. Perhaps your style of communication or work doesn’t blend well with the client’s. Or maybe your pricing is too far out of reach for a company of that […] View original post at …
How to Tell a Potential Client Their Site Sucks – and Offer to Fix It for Them
As I was reading about the weird ways to find new gigs as a WordPress developer the other day, I noticed a comment from kalico that I thought was worth exploring: Adding insult to injury is something every WordPress freelancer should be wary of whenever approaching a new client (or an old one whose website […] View original post at …