I had a great opportunity to share some of my thoughts on WordPress, Automattic, and WP Job Manager – a great job board plugin on which I am working. Thank you, Ciprian, for this interview! Cheers 🙂
Category: Automattic
People behind WordPress! The greatest company in the world! And I am not saying this just because I work there but because of all the things this company does in order to make the web a better place.
Imagine this scenario – you are filling in a form, which has a couple dozen fields or more. You are about to fill in the last field and all of a sudden, your internet stops working. Or your browser becomes unresponsive. You get the picture! 😱
I believe that quite a few of us experienced a similar scenario. And I am not sure which emotion prevails when we learn that nothing we entered into the form fields is there now. Is it the confusion, anger, fury, agony, or hopelessness, or a mix of all of those? I could never tell 🙂
After a couple of times (let’s say that ~twenty times can still be considered as a couple of times, just this once 😎) of having the aforementioned scenario in front of me, I found the solution! Introducing Lazarus!
After adding this extension to your browser, you’ll notice this small icon in every form you fill:
This means that you no longer need to worry and that everything you insert into a form will be saved!
This add-on is definitely a stress-preventer 🙂 I spend most of my working hours at Automattic writing replies to our customers and I no longer need to copy my replies in tickets before I hit the Send button. More importantly, I don’t have to worry whether I forgot to copy my reply before sending it. Yes!
Useful Add-ons?
During the last 5 years, I came across lots of great browser add-ons and I ended up using quite a few of them. In one of my next posts, I’ll share all the add-ons I use on a daily basis and how they help me. Cheers 🍷
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An Interview
A few days ago, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Anariel Design. I shared a few details from my past, my opinions on Customer Support and WordPress, and a few other things you might find interesting.
You can read the full interview here. Thank you for this opportunity, Ana!
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Banana Split – Nashville
I came to Nashville for a team meetup. So nice to see my colleagues in person again! Working remotely at Automattic got us all used to using chat for communication and it feels great to spend some time together.
I couldn’t miss ordering a banana split after dinner, of course. Nashville, you pass the test 🤣
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Mobile Blogging Just Got Better
It’s been a while since I started my mobile blogging quest. My impressions so far – it’s a bit more time consuming than writing a post on a computer, however, it’s more fun and it does add a special flavor to publishing. In other words, I can say that I now definitely prefer this way of writing posts 😀
To handle the images I want to use in my posts, I installed the apps Pixabay and Pixlr which help me when I need to download free photos and edit them and the ones I take with my camera. I also use the Trello app to keep my ideas for future blog posts at one place.
Edit: One of the readers, Paola Mesber, also suggested this tool for compressing images in order to reduce their size while maintaining the quality. Cheers 🙂
So, after choosing the WordPress mobile app as my tool of choice for publishing blog posts, I was quite surprised to learn that it even got better with the latest update! The new Aztec editor it uses is incredible! You can now use undo and redo buttons, add bulleting, pagination, read more links, and lots more. I am so happy to see that this app is getting the attention and developer love that it really deserves.
Cheers to lots more blog posts published via the Automattic’s WordPress mobile app 🍷