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Mel Choyce
You’re better than you think you are 💪🏽
This just in: oppression reportedly lowers self-worth
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Mel Choyce
Seeking out Stories
Earlier this year, I got involved with an organization called Get Her Elected, which seeks to pair women running for office across the United States with talented, remote volunteers. I spent the year following the 2016 elections full of anxiety and despair, fearing for my future safety and the safety of my family, friends, and countless…
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Mel Choyce
Recreating “Here at the End of All Things” in Gutenberg
It’s that time again — another Empathy Challenge at Automattic! This edition’s challenge is to replicate a post to the best of our abilities in Gutenberg, the new editor coming to WordPress later this year. Because I’m a giant nerd and also because there was a variety of different content within the post, I selected…
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Mel Choyce
Paying my way to success: a follow-up
You might remember last month when I wrote about paying for site views. That post was in response to a prompt from our Head of Design, John Maeda, to write about how a blogger could gain 1000 views with a budget of $20. The point of the exercise was to empathize with our blogging customers.…
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Mel Choyce
Paying my way to success
Some changes are coming to the Automatic design blogs. Previously, we were tasked with writing an article each month on a topic of our choice. However, we’re now moving to quarterly posts. For our next article, we were given a specific prompt to follow: The topic for your January 15, 2018 post is to first…
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Mel Choyce
What’s Coming in WordPress 4.9
As y’all might remember, I’m currently co-leading the release of WordPress 4.9. Since we’re winding down toward release, I wanted to take the opportunity to walk through some of the key features of the release. Drafting and scheduling changes in the Customizer In WordPress 4.9, you’ll be able to draft your customizations before publishing them, or…
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Mel Choyce
Building 10 non-profit sites in 8 hours on WordPress.com
This past weekend, a few of my colleagues and I participated in Out in Tech‘s Digital Corps hackathon in NYC. Along with about fifty other volunteers, we worked to create websites on WordPress.com for ten international organizations fighting to protect LGBTQ+ rights. Because participants were constrained to building sites on WordPress.com, it was a great…
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Mel Choyce
From No Code to Pro Code
I’m lucky that Automattic sponsors my time to work on the core WordPress software full-time. This allows me the time and focus to take on more leadership responsibilities in the community, including my current role as Customization Design Lead and the co-lead for the upcoming WordPress 4.9 release. ✌️ One of our major goals during…
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Mel Choyce
Back to Childhood: Blocks are the Future
Check out my previous post about the future of site building & customization in WordPress. Last month, my colleague Joen wrote a great post about blocks and the Editor Focus for WordPress in 2017. Joen designed a fantastic blueprint for blocks in WordPress that the Customization Focus will continue to flesh out and build on…
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Mel Choyce
Building a Site That’s Right for You
Hello everyone! I’m Mel Choyce, a product designer on the Apollo team here at Automattic. Apollo is comprised of the Automatticians who contribute full-time to the open source side of WordPress over at WordPress.org. I’m the design co-lead of WordPress’ customization focus for 2017. Prior to joining Apollo to work on this focus, I was…
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