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Here is Indira reading her own story aloud. My background is in Quality Assurance: testing features, observing behaviour, and making sure things work as expected. For a long time, I believed open source contribution mostly meant writing code. Since I wasn’t a developer, I saw myself more as someone learning from the community than contributing…

Here is Ray reading his own essay aloud. When I was in eighth grade, I wanted to be a commercial artist. It wasn’t common thinking at the time (and for some it still isn’t) for art or design to be considered a practical career path. The thinking was, within art there was fine art for…

WordCamp Kampala 2026 returns as a gathering of the region’s WordPress community, bringing together developers, designers, content creators, entrepreneurs, educators, and tech enthusiasts for two days of learning, collaboration, and impact. Organized by the WordPress Kampala Meetup, this community-driven event continues to grow as a key platform for knowledge sharing and innovation within Uganda’s evolving…

When I started running a multi-author WordPress blog, I learned something important: readers develop favorite writers. But when they type an author’s name into your WordPress search box, nothing shows up, even if that author has published many posts. This happens because the default WordPress search feature does not include author names. Even if the…