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I sure did make the right decision 10 years ago when I decided to create websites ONLY in WordPress!

I posted this in 2019 – who knew it would become so relevant in 2021?

“If you can put a man on the moon how come you can’t do something about traffic?” a regional manager said in 1970.

Jack Niles, a NASA rocket scientist’s solution was telecommuting, a term he is credited with coining in 1973.

Except for in-office, in-home Trainings and classes I teach, I work from home – and have for most of my life. Do I sometimes (often) go for a run, a bike ride or dip in the ocean in the afternoon? Yes, but I make up the hours after the sun sets. I wouldn’t have it any other way!

If you get a job at Automattic (WordPress creators), you don’t have to worry about moving. Hell, you don’t even have to get out of bed.

The company, is completely distributed, meaning its 230 employees work from home. Or they can work from home. Matt Mullenweg, the CEO of Automattic, notes that the company has a physical headquarters in San Francisco. “Well, you’ve got to have somewhere TO get mail,” he explains. While a handful of employees work in the San Francisco office, the rest are flung across 170 cities. “It allows you to get the best and brightest people in the world,” Mullenweg says. Automattic gives its employees a monthly stipend of $250 to get a co-working space if their home office situation isn’t great. As an Automattic employee, you also get up to $3,000 to set up your home office.

by Todd Wasserman

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Overall the latest version of WordPress is great EXCEPT for the Auto Updates that is now the default. While it is very important to keep WordPress, your Theme and all of your Plugins updated it’s best to do them individually and only 1 a day! Why? Because otherwise, one Update could conflict with another Update and if you don’t do them individually you won’t know which one is causing the issue. Here is my suggestion on how to keep up with your Updates – it’s Free, Quick and Simple: Updates

Here’s how you can Turn off Auto Updates: Dashboard: Go to Settings.

If you’re still getting WordPress updates added automatically call your Host.

Or Contact me if you need help.

Squarespace and Wix, both of which advertise heavily to small business, have 0.9 and 0.5 percent share among CMS-users respectively.

WordPress Powers 30 Percent of All Websites
The new figures come from W3Techs, a company which monitors and surveys web technology usage. When compared to the other top content management systems (CMS), the lead WordPress has is even more impressive. It is also worth mentioning, the result is for the entire web, whether a website uses a CMS or not.

And a large percentage of these sites are owned by small businesses looking to simplify their online presence. WordPress provides an affordable solution offers the functionality and features a business needs to effectively run its website.

The numbers W3Techs came up with are based on the scans it performs of the top 10 million websites as determined by Alexa rankings. The process takes three months to average the results, and based on this finding, WordPress holds a commanding lead.

What WordPress Offers
Whether you are building your first small business website or looking to upgrade, WordPress has an all-in-one solution with the scalability you need as you grow. This includes an open source CMS platform with a community of developers, tens of thousands of plugins, built-in SEO tools for optimization, social media integration, hosting, mobile ready design and insights.

Thanks for your wisdom Michael Guta