WordCamp Central: WordPress Campus Connect Jinja 2025 Recap: Piloting Africa’s First and Largest Campus Connect Program Across 12 Campuses in Eastern Uganda

Bringing WordPress and Web Design Skills to Over 1,200 Students Across Eastern Uganda WPCC Jinja at Mpumudde High School Jinja Summary Over a five-month period (with a two-month holiday/national elections break) the WordPress Jinja community successfully piloted Africa’s first and largest WordPress Campus Connect program, reaching 12 schools and institutions across Eastern Uganda. Through hands-on […]

How to Turn Your Membership Site into an App (The Easy Way)

It’s a common misconception that you need to hire a developer or spend $10,000+ to build an app. You can actually turn your membership website into a branded app in under three hours and on a much smaller budget. Forcing your members to repeatedly log in through a phone browser is a major cause of […]

HeroPress: I Don’t Have It All Figured Out. I Show Up Anyway.

Here is Indira reading her own story aloud. My background is in Quality Assurance: testing features, observing behaviour, and making sure things work as expected. For a long time, I believed open source contribution mostly meant writing code. Since I wasn’t a developer, I saw myself more as someone learning from the community than contributing […]

How to Find and Delete Duplicate Images in WordPress Automatically

Every time you upload a photo, WordPress creates five or ten different hidden size variations to fit your theme. These extra files consume your storage and slow your site backups. Plus, most of these extra image sizes are never used on your site. They sit on your server like digital clutter and can even increase […]

Matt: Song Creation

I’m in New Orleans for the first time in 7 years for a beautiful wedding. My Mom’s side of the family emigrated here in the 1860s, and there’s a deep comfort in the art, traditions, and weirdness of Creole culture. Good music and food are ubiquitous. I met up with WordPresser Blake Bertuccelli-Booth to catch […]