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Joan Boluda

Member Since: February 6th, 2011
Mataró
boluda.com
CEO at boluda.com
@boluda on WordPress.org, @joan on Slack

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WordPress evangelist, you can find me on Twitter, Facebook or Google+.

WordPress Origin Story

I discovered WordPress 10 years ago, on december 2004! Back then I used to code all my websites from scratch. The problem was that when my clients wanted to change something, they had to ask me. And it was a pain.

Content Management System

So I started looking for those called CMSs. The beauty of them was that theoretically they offered a user interface where my clients could make some changes on the site without knowing any coding at all.

I tried them all. PHP Nuke, Joomla (formerly Mambo), Drupal… but Oh, man! WordPress was head and shoulders above the rest. It was so easy to set up a site, compared to the others. But more than that, the best part was the user admin interface. So clean, so easy to understand for everybody. It offered the minimum options, and the usability was great. And it was open source!

WordPress

So I started to migrate all my clients’ websites to WordPress. I didn’t get paid for that. It was on the house. But it was a win-win situation. My clients got the best CMS on earth for free, and I freed up plenty of support time. They didn’t depend on me to change a typo on a page anymore.

Since then, I’ve been working with WordPress on a daily basis. I developed websites, Intranets, e-commerces, apps, social networks… even blogs 😉 The limit is your imagination (and your server, of course).

I like to think of WordPress as a framework I use to develop websites. It’s like PHP on steroids. It has its own CMS related functions library, which is great and useful, and it provides a useful admin interface for my clients to login and change everything. What else can I ask for? Oh, well… the community.

The community

That’s maybe the most important part of WordPress. The community behind it. Thousands of people developing plugins to extend the WordPress functionality out-of-the-box, and giving them away for free! Thousands of people answering questions on the forums, writing documentation in the wiki, developing awesome free themes, translating it, or even contributing to the core.

Even I developed some lazy plugins! How cool is that?

The future of WordPress

WordPress was born in 2003, so it’s eleven years old. Now it powers more than 20% of the websites that use a CMS. In that lifespan it changed so much that now it has nothing to do with those first releases.

Now it’s heading towards a PHP framework more than a blogging platform. As its creator Matt Mullenweg said, I see the future of WordPress as a web operating system. Long life to WordPress! 🙂

My future

I work as a freelancer. I’m a WordPress specialist (and evangelist, so to speak). I make my life developing websites with WordPress, offering SEO services to raise my clients’ ranks and fixing WordPress emergencies and problems. I also develop my own projects that help to make some extra money.

I work from home, so I don’t have to drive to an office. I don’t have to pay gas, public transport or to have lunch away from home. I can eat at home, with my family, and I have a great flexible work schedule. And I hope to keep doing it for a long time.

Of course it’s not all peaches and cream, but I’m happy!

So… thanks, WordPress!

Posted a reply to "Schema", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi there! Ok, that's great to know! I just wanted to give Google the original…

14 hours ago
Posted a reply to "Schema", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi there Angelo! I love Blubrry Statistics, and I would love to keep the redirection…

16 hours ago
Created a topic, Schema, on the site WordPress Support Forums

19 hours ago
Committed [1415526] to Plugins Trac:
Adding contributors

2 months ago
Committed [1415525] to Plugins Trac:
Adding Català languaje

2 months ago
Committed [1415524] to Plugins Trac:
Updating last release

2 months ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Bilbao 2016 coming up on June 11th

2 months ago
Posted a reply to "Wishlist", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
You're welcome! :)

3 months ago
Created a topic, Wishlist, on the site WordPress Support Forums

3 months ago
Created a topic, Awe-fracking-some, on the site WordPress Support Forums

4 months ago
Posted a reply to "Add Schema name to Download items?", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Yeah, that always happens with variable pricing. That fix will be appreciated :) Best!

5 months ago
Posted a reply to "Display campaign stats", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Great, thks! :)

5 months ago
Created a topic, Front end submissions, on the site WordPress Support Forums

5 months ago
Created a topic, Thank you., on the site WordPress Support Forums

5 months ago
Posted a reply to "Display campaign stats", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Great theme! How can I get it? I already signed up!

5 months ago
Posted a reply to "Which newsletter / email marketing provider do you use?", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Eric! MailPoet would be great :) Best, Joan

5 months ago
Created a topic, Really nice, on the site WordPress Support Forums

5 months ago
Committed [1334838] to Plugins Trac:
updating title

5 months ago
Committed [1334836] to Plugins Trac:
updating title

5 months ago
Released a new plugin, Hide products count

5 months ago
Committed [1333663] to Plugins Trac:
Initial release

5 months ago
Committed [1333662] to Plugins Trac:
Adding assets

5 months ago
Posted a reply to "Memory limit not consistent", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi John! Yeah, that was the case. Great! Thanks :)

6 months ago
Created a topic, Memory limit not consistent, on the site WordPress Support Forums

6 months ago
Created a topic, Love it, on the site WordPress Support Forums

6 months ago
Committed [1320846] to Plugins Trac:
First release and assets

6 months ago
Created a new ticket, #35228, in Core Trac:
Typo in comments

6 months ago
Committed [1316261] to Plugins Trac:
Updating

6 months ago
Committed [1316259] to Plugins Trac:
Updating

6 months ago
Created a topic, List disabled users, on the site WordPress Support Forums

7 months ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Cantabria 2015 coming up on November 7th

10 months ago
Created a topic, Warning: error_log() has been disabled for security reasons, on the site WordPress Support Forums

11 months ago
Created a topic, Best theme ever, on the site WordPress Support Forums

12 months ago
Created a topic, Pretty slick, on the site WordPress Support Forums

1 year ago
Created a topic, Pretty slick plugin, on the site WordPress Support Forums

1 year ago
Wrote a new post, Se necesitan voluntarios y tu puedes ser uno de ellos, on the site WordCamp Barcelona 2015:
Organizers note: Make sure you update the "to" address and other fields before publishing this…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to "Conflict with EDD", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Interesting! I'll keep an eye on it. Thanks again, awesome plugin :)

1 year ago
Posted a reply to "Conflict with EDD", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi again! It happened after updating EDD. But when I deactivated your plugin and activated…

1 year ago
Created a topic, Conflict with EDD, on the site WordPress Support Forums

1 year ago
Created a topic, Awesome., on the site WordPress Support Forums

1 year ago
Created a topic, post_parent="0" not working, on the site WordPress Support Forums

1 year ago
Joan Boluda’s profile was updated

1 year ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Barcelona 2015

1 year ago
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Barcelona 2015

1 year ago
Created a topic, Same country, different languages, on the site WordPress Support Forums

1 year ago
Posted a reply to "Great plugin, keep up the good work", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Nice! Sounds good! :)

2 years ago
Created a topic, Great plugin, keep up the good work, on the site WordPress Support Forums

2 years ago
Posted a reply to "broke my site", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Dan! Yeah, sure. I can give you acces to the site. So far, this…

2 years ago
Posted a reply to "broke my site", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Dan! The thing is that as soon as I activate the plugin, (Sandbox site,…

2 years ago
Created a topic, broke my site, on the site WordPress Support Forums

2 years ago

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