Learn to the tip to see the one factor we now have to say about pineapple on pizza…
In as we speak’s version:
- Congrats to the primary ever winner of the Kim Parsell Memorial WordCamp Europe Scholarship – Lena Stergatou!
- What’s 122 ft tall and has skis for eyelashes and spruce bushes for arms?
- WP Provides a Hand celebrates 5 years of nicely, giving a hand.
Scorching Off The Presses: All of the Jingle Bell That’s Match to Rock
Sleigh Whaaat?!
2024 is sort of over already? Rattling, my clumsy little fingers simply acquired used to typing it. You’re telling me I’ve to begin typing 2025 quickly? Ugghhhh…
Anyway, we received’t take up an excessive amount of of your time since you’ve acquired vital stuff to do, like taking part in Xbox along with your cousins, destroying your aged mother and father at Scrabble, fumbling with the meeting directions for that new scooter and combating the post-Turkey sleepies.
However Christmas has us feeling all Santa-mental… so right here’s a bit of music for you:
Have Your self a Merry Little DEVmas 
Have your self a merry little DEVmas
Might your plugins load proper
Any more, all errors will likely be out of sight
Have your self a merry little DEVmas
We’ll hold sending memes
And an replace on the latest WordPress themes
Right here we’re as in olden days
Posting silly puns galore
Whereas devoted readers who’re pricey to us
Touch upon our blogs as soon as extra
By way of the years all of us will work collectively
If the websites enable
Perhaps we are going to change the world with code, one way or the other
So have your self a merry little DEVmas now!
It’s Giving… Uh… Giving.
Feeling such as you need to be extra beneficiant this vacation season? Even if you happen to haven’t been spooked by three guilt-tripping ghosts, you is likely to be fascinated by how one can give again. We actually are, particularly after listening to that WP Provides a Hand is celebrating it’s fifth birthday!
The charitable initiative unites companies to donate a portion of their income to assist numerous non-profit organizations. Over the previous 5 years, 29 corporations have collectively raised greater than $52,000 for 19 totally different charities. Good one!
The 2024 marketing campaign continues to be in swing, with collaborating corporations donating a share of their gross sales till December twenty ninth. A few of the charities supported embrace SOS Kids’s Villages Latvia, World Bicycle Reduction, Italian animal shelter ENPA Mira, One Tree Planted and UNICEF.
Lena Stergatou Wins WordCamp Europe’s First Kim Parsell Scholarship
The primary ever WordCamp Europe Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship has been awarded, and the recipient is Greek WordPress developer Lena (Eleni) Stergatou.
Beforehand unique to WordCamp US, this scholarship now consists of WordCamp Asia and Europe, recognizing contributors from around the globe who embody Kim Parsell’s spirit of group and advocacy for ladies in tech.
Lovingly known as #wpmom, Kim contributed numerous hours of volunteer time to the WordPress mission and her dedication lives on within the individuals she impressed.
Inaugural winner Lena describes herself as a “Code Wrangler” and “Happiness Engineer” and has experience in multisite setups, Greek translations and plugin growth. She holds a Diploma in Electrical and Pc Engineering from the Democritus College of Thrace, and presently develops internet companies for the Greek academic group on the Pc Expertise Institute (CTI Diophantus).
Lena says, “I like to debug, repair damaged issues, prolong functionalities and share them with others.”
The scholarship will cowl Lena’s journey to the host metropolis of Basel, Switzerland, lodge lodging for the occasion length and a WordCamp ticket for the June 2025 occasion.
Lena, you’re a legend and we’re very blissful for you! Have enjoyable in Switzerland!
Go Away, I’m Working On My Novel!
So, if this winter is while you plan to lastly hunker down and end that ebook you’ve been planning to put in writing, we’ve acquired excellent news for you.
Now you can use the WordPress Block Editor to put in writing your ebook – then export it as an EPUB file that may be learn on any e-book app like Kindle or Apple Books.
It’ll deal with every heading as a chapter, so you may simply navigate the content material from throughout the e-book reader. You may even add a canopy with a customized picture.
Writing a ebook on WordPress ain’t a brand new factor. In reality, we wrote a tutorial on find out how to arrange an internet ebook utilizing WordPress waaaaaay again in 2012.
(2012?! In web years, that weblog publish is roughly the identical age this very bitchy cuneiform pill.)
However prior to now, it wasn’t as simple to do that and also you’d have wanted to make use of one of many many third occasion companies on the market to show your weblog posts right into a ebook. As developer Ella writes within the weblog publish linked above, that is positively a full circle second for Gutenberg!
A Few Enjoyable & Festive Details
- Apparently when Robert Might wrote the story of Rudolph the Pink Nosed Reindeer in 1939, he virtually named him Rollo, Romeo or Reginald. Think about Santa saying, “Hey Reggie! Carry that glowing nostril over right here for a sec, will ya?” (Supply)
- As a way to ship presents to all the kids on the planet, Santa must fly at a pace of 4,705,882km/h. Yeeeesh. (Supply)
- On-line procuring on cellular made up 51% of vacation purchases final 12 months. (Supply)
- Based on Gen Z, Brussel sprouts are like, completely lit, fam. (Or at the very least they have been in 2023.) They turned a TikTok trending veggie and supermarkets within the UK reported a 150% growth in gross sales final 12 months. (Supply)
- You’ll get a frosty reception if you happen to ever go to Bethel, Maine… it’s the place the world’s largest snowperson was constructed. At 122 ft tall, she was only some ft shorter than the Statue of Liberty, her eyelashes have been produced from skis and her buttons produced from truck tires. (Supply)
A Stocking Stuffed With Blogs & Sources
All you need for Christmas is the “good, outdated Twitter?” Eric Karkovack from the WPMinute hopes Bluesky will likely be a recent new begin.
OpenVerse, the platform that’s like Santa’s workshop for openly-licensed inventive media, now has a Darkish Mode toggle that makes searching very simple on the eyes.
For those who may ask Santa for any characteristic, enhancement or bug repair on Gutenberg/WordPress, what wouldn’t it be? Riad Benguella requested the query, Martin Dubovic recapped the responses.
And since we will’t ship you precise sweet on your stocking, how about some eye sweet? These inventive web site layouts shared by Jamie Marsland ought to do the trick.
Performing some final minute adorning? Right here’s a web site that calculates the quantity of baubles you’ll want primarily based on the peak and width of your tree.
And if you happen to’re all about these twinkly gentle vibes, this web site will assist you to discover the most effective embellished properties and official shows in your space.
Sippin’-Boozy-Scorching-Chocolate-In-Your-Fuzzy-Onesie Distractions
Apparently my Elf Title is Noodles BrightToes, what’s yours?
Talking of elves, wanna use code to make an elf dance? After all you do.
Set the cosy winter vibe by including falling snow to your WordPress.com web site.
And as for pineapple on pizza? We’ll defer to the knowledge of Mario.
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