When the world was down, the WordPress community was up – Cuando el mundo necesitaba un descanso, la comunidad de WordPress estaba activa
Este ensayo también está disponible en español. This is not meant to be another gloomy story about the year 2020 but a big thank you to the WordPress community. All started four days into 2020 when my biggest client called me to ask to take his website down as he was filing for bankruptcy. I should’ve known it was a bad omen of what was to come. As the year continued and the world succumbed into the unknown, many businesses closed their doors, among them, most of my clients, my own business and my mental health. Of course, when left without income, I applied to as many jobs as I followed people on Twitter who were helping others get WordPress related jobs, but I couldn’t even get an interview. Then Came WordCamp By the time we were busy helping plan for the first WordPress Europe Online, I was asked to become a team rep for design and later joined the 5.5 release team, I even designed the 5.5 About page and showed the world that I am not a visual designer! As time passed, I started looking forward to those weekly meetings with the design team, which brought many lessons…
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