WordPress Archives - Wandering Jon

8 Years of WordPress

July 16, 2014 by Jon Brown 3 Comments

I noticed a cool little note in my WordPress.com notifcation feed today (techincally it’s actually from 3 weeks ago).

It’s pretty amazing to think it’s been 8 years since I started working with WordPress. Back then it was just a .com account to create this very travel blog, then titled “World Wide Wanderment”.

Get it… like WWW? and wandering… Oh I was SOOooo clever!

At the time WordPress was at version 2.0.3 and I was using the “Connections” theme on .com, it’s retired but you can see it here: https://theme.wordpress.com/retired/connections/

Here’s a couple screenshots of what 2.0.3 looked like on the backend…

Ah memories. It wasn’t until a couple years later I went from blogging with WordPress, to actually working with WordPress, but what a great 8 years it’s been and oh how much I’m looking forward to the next 8. Big news coming soon.

Speaking at WordCamp Orange County 2014

June 2, 2014 by Jon Brown 9 Comments

I’m speaking at WordCamp Orange County 2014 next weekend on Finding Work/Life Balance as a Remote Worker.

I’m super excited. I get to talk about two of my favorite non-WordPress topics at my favorite WordPress conference!

2013 WP Stats

December 30, 2013 by Jon Brown Leave a Comment

One of the many cool things that the folks at Automattic do is provide a year end stat report for anyone on WordPress.com as well as anyone running WP Stats (part of JetPack) on self hosted WordPress sites.

Well, 2013 wasn’t exactly an “amazing year” for traffic on WanderingJon.com, but suspect 2014 will be different now that I’m blogging again!

Checkout my report here: https://jetpack.me/annual-report/12537792/2013/