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With the beta of WordPress, 6.6
releasing and seeing the advancements

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being made with site building features
like overrides for sink patterns.

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I can't help, but be excited
for where WordPress is headed.

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And I know you might have
your druthers with it all,

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but I'm hoping you invest now.

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Because the future is bright
for our favorite platform.

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Uh, building websites with AI.

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Isn't convincing me all that much.

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Even if our pillar sponsor blue host
promises me a robot friend to help me

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build whatever I want with WordPress.

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Seriously though.

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Check it out.

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I like to be in control of the process,
tune the things I need craft a layout

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that hits the right marks for my brand.

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Give me a bunch of patterns blocks
and some ready-made templates.

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And I'll adjust the 10% that's leftover.

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The rock based theme
does a great job at this.

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I recently used it on a new project,
our beloved medium, a six part audio

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documentary highlighting the impact of
radio throughout history coming soon.

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Blocks patterns, templates.

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All jiving together in your new web
development canvas, the browser.

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It's the no code process users
have been longing for since visual

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composer left your site with a bunch
of unhinged shortcodes this is an

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exciting time and it's something
we should be sharing with others.

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We need to keep WordPress thriving.

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Even if you're using some
other tool to build your pages.

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WordPress remains your foundation.

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Roseo Valdivia highlighted that
even with the number of in-person

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events on the rise, new attendees
to WordPress events have declined.

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In the post.

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She prompts us with these four questions.

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Number one.

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What motivated you to attend
your first WordPress event?

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What were you hoping
to gain or experience?

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Number two.

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If you've organized an event in
the past couple of years, what

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relevant feedback have you heard
from new to WordPress attendees?

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Number three.

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What unique value or benefit do you
find at other non-word press events

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that you think could bring value to
our WordPress events and number four?

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What type of new event or content
do you think would be great for

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attracting and keeping new WordPress
users of any level to WordPress events?

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If you look at the graph, which is linked
up in the blog or the newsletter, which

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starts to decline in 2017 and putting
aside COVID though a massive contributor.

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I feel this follows the same dip
of WordPress burnout or exhaustion

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of I've, as I've explained it
before in the past that we felt

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when Gutenberg was first announced.

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Once again, I've talked about this
in the past, but the rollout of

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Gutenberg came with a perfect storm.

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In tech years, WordPress
was already ancient.

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There was a rise in proprietary
tools like Shopify and Wix that

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satisfied the lizard brain.

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A lot of us early adopters
in tech are looking for.

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The communication of it all was
highly criticized, including by yours.

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Truly.

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But looking back, I couldn't use
the classic editor to build pages

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or write blog posts ever again.

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Then you thrust the whole industry
into warp speed with COVID and

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lockdowns and yeah, I'm still
trying to gather my brain cells to.

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Take a step back and ask yourself,
are you not excited for this software?

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Are you just fighting the current
because you don't like change.

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I'm not talking about
the politics of it all.

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I think it's something you
can abstract from WordPress.

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The software.

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But to deeply evaluate the enjoyment
of building a site with WordPress.

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When WordPress events were at the height.

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WordPress was fresh and exciting.

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But most importantly, we needed
a place to learn more about it.

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The advancements of the site
editing experience can be that

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revival moment for WordPress events.

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Get people excited about building
and publishing with WordPress again.

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A place to incorporate the real
essence of the open source project,

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where we can stake our claim at
the table to provide the necessary

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feedback to improve the tool.

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Maybe loosen up the stuffiness of local
meetups, encouraging and promoting

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education and awareness at a local level.

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Linux opened my eyes to open
source Drupal showed me how to feel

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more powerful as a non-developer.

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And then WordPress gave me all of
that plus an amazing community on top.

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For years, the builder audience
and WordPress was passed over

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for the advanced developers, but
that's all catching up to us now.

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It's time.

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We revisit sharing with others.

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What they can achieve with WordPress.

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Keep WordPress.

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thriving.

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And by the way, I've
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t-shirts at the WP minute.com/shop.

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Or you go to the WWII minute.com.

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It's right on the homepage.

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It's a thriving branded.

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T-shirt.

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Uh, with some fun abstraction of Gutenberg
Esq stuff in there, it's kind of fun.

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Check it out.

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The WP minute.com/shop.

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Uh, 20% of the profits will
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of all sales happening.

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In the month of June, it also
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So if you like content like this and
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