WPBeginner 6岁–回顾过去，展望未来

Today is America’s birthday and (more important) WPBeginner’s birthday, which turns 6 today. It’s crazy to think that WPBeginner is six years old, but it’s true!

今天是美国的生日，也是(更重要的)WPBeginner的生日，今天是6岁。 认为WPBeginner已经六岁了，这很疯狂，但这是真的！

This year’s celebration is going to be a little different. Instead of doing mega giveaways and building 3 schools, I want to take a step back and reflect on this journey, share some key milestones, and what lies ahead.

今年的庆祝活动将有所不同。 我不想退缩并建立3所学校，而是想退后一步，反思这一旅程，分享一些关键的里程碑以及未来的发展。

WPBeginner故事 (WPBeginner Story)

I was 16 years old when I first discovered WordPress in 2006. It didn’t take me long to fall in love with the platform.

当我在2006年首次发现WordPress时，我才16岁。很快我就爱上了该平台。

In 2009 (at age 19), I launched WPBeginner with a mission to make WordPress easy by providing cutting-edge helpful WordPress tutorials that are easy to understand for small businesses, bloggers, and non-techy website owners.

在2009年(19岁那年)，我启动WPBeginner，其使命是通过提供前沿的，有用的WordPress教程使WordPress变得容易，这些教程对于小型企业，博客作者和非技术性网站所有者而言都很容易理解。

Since then, WPBeginner has become one of the largest free WordPress resource site in the industry.

从那时起，WPBeginner已成为业界最大的免费WordPress资源站点之一。

Read the new and updated About Page of WPBeginner.

阅读新的和更新的WPBeginner的关于页面 。

联合国奖 (United Nations Award)

In November, I was recognized as the top 100 entrepreneur under the age of 30 by United Nations. This was super COOL!

11月，我被联合国评为30岁以下的前100名企业家。 这真是太酷了！

自言自语和环境 (Soliloquy and Envira)

In August 2014, through a merger / acquisition deal, I became partner in two top notch WordPress plugins: Soliloquy (Fastest WordPress slider plugin) and Envira Gallery (The best gallery plugin).

2014年8月，通过一项兼并/收购交易，我成为了两个顶级WordPress插件的合作伙伴： Soliloquy (最快的WordPress滑块插件)和Envira Gallery (最佳的画廊插件)。

This was very exciting as I love both of those plugins. I wrote more about this partnership on my personal blog.

因为我喜欢这两个插件，所以这非常令人兴奋。 我在个人博客上写了更多关于这种伙伴关系的文章 。

WPBeginner的YouTube实验 (WPBeginner’s YouTube Experiment)

Last year, we finally decided to focus on WPBeginner’s YouTube channel and put our production in high gear.

去年，我们终于决定将重点放在WPBeginner的YouTube频道上，并使我们的制作变得更加出色 。

The results were phenomenal. We passed 1.6 million total video views and we’re at almost 19,000 subscribers!

结果是惊人的。 我们总共获得了160万次视频观看，而我们的订阅人数已接近19,000！

We have a total of 394 WordPress video tutorials, and we’re creating a new video 5 days a week (Mon – Friday).

我们总共有394个WordPress视频教程，并且我们每周5天(星期一至星期五)创建一个新视频。

While these stats are great, it’s no where near my other List25 YouTube channel which is in the top 1% of all YouTube channels ranked #675. We have almost 1.6 million subscribers there and 300 million video views.

尽管这些统计数据很棒，但与我的其他List25 YouTube频道相距无几 ，该频道在所有YouTube频道中排名前1％，排名第675。 那里有近160万订户， 3亿视频观看 。

It would be really awesome if WPBeginner channel can pass 100,000 subscribers before our 7th birthday. But for that I’ll need a lot of help.

如果WPBeginner频道在我们7岁生日之前可以超过100,000个订阅者，那将真是太棒了。 但是为此，我将需要很多帮助。

Will you help me? Please Subscribe to Our YouTube channel.

你会帮我吗？ 请订阅我们的YouTube频道 。

WordPress作为SaaS(OptinMonster) (WordPress as a SaaS (OptinMonster))

In 2013, we launched OptinMonster which quickly became the industry-standard for WordPress lead generation plugins. In April, we pushed the limits once again by transforming it into a full software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform.

2013年，我们推出了OptinMonster，该产品Swift成为WordPress潜在客户生成插件的行业标准。 4月，我们通过将其转变为完整的软件即服务(SaaS)平台，再次突破了极限。

Which means OptinMonster now works on all websites not just WordPress. The cool part is that we’re using WordPress as our application framework.

这意味着OptinMonster现在可以在所有网站上运行，而不仅仅是WordPress。 最酷的部分是我们使用WordPress作为我们的应用程序框架。

Aside from our awesome team that worked on it, a lot of credit has to be given to our technology partners: Pagely (best enterprise WordPress hosting) and MaxCDN (best CDN for WordPress).

除了我们的真棒团队，在它的工作中，大量的信贷必须给予我们的技术合作伙伴： Pagely (最佳企业WordPress的托管)和MaxCDN (WordPress的最佳CDN)。

SyedBalkhi.com (SyedBalkhi.com)

Thanks to many of you, I decided to relaunch my personal blog at SyedBalkhi.com where I will be blogging regularly and sharing my insights on building businesses online.

感谢你们中的许多人，我决定在SyedBalkhi.com上重新启动我的个人博客，在那里我将定期撰写博客并分享我在网上建立业务的见解。

Since WPBeginner is strictly focused on WordPress, I will be using my personal blog to talk about tips on improving your blogs, getting more traffic, social media tips, general business advice, and some personal stories as well.

由于WPBeginner严格专注于WordPress，因此我将使用我的个人博客来讨论有关改善博客，增加流量的提示，社交媒体提示，一般业务建议以及一些个人故事。

I’d love it if you guys join me there

如果你们在那里加入我，我会喜欢的

我最喜欢WPBeginner (My favorite on WPBeginner)

Over the years, my responsibilities have definitely changed. While I may not write every single article or record any videos, I’m still the guy who reviews everything and press the publish button (daily). We have written tons of awesome articles last year, but here are some of my personal favorite:

多年来，我的职责已经发生了变化。 虽然我可能不会写每一篇文章或录制任何视频，但我仍然是负责审核所有内容并按“发布”按钮的人(每天)。 去年，我们写了很多很棒的文章，但以下是我个人最喜欢的一些文章：

• How to Resize and Make Images Larger without Losing Quality如何在不损失画质的情况下调整图像大小并放大图像
• Beginner’s Guide to WordPress User Roles and PermissionsWordPress用户角色和权限新手指南
• When Should You Change Your Web Hosting (7 Key Indicators)何时应更改虚拟主机(7个关键指标)
• 14 Tips for Mastering the WordPress Visual Editor掌握WordPress可视编辑器的14条提示
• 25 Most Useful WordPress Widgets for Your Site适用于您网站的25个最有用的WordPress小部件
• Thinking of Starting a WordPress Web Design Business – Here 7 Things You Must Do考虑开始WordPress网站设计业务–这是您必须做的7件事
• 9 Most Useful .htaccess Tricks for WordPressWordPress的9个最有用的.htaccess技巧

接下来是什么？ (What’s Coming Next?)

If I start sharing all my notes, we’d be here for a few days. Every day, I get awesome emails from you (WPBeginner readers) with suggestions on things we can do to improve. There are so many things that I’d like to do, but here are some key ones:

如果我开始分享我所有的笔记，我们会在这里待几天。 每天，我都会收到来自您(WPBeginner读者)的精彩电子邮件，其中提供了我们可以改进的建议。 我想做很多事情，但是这里有一些关键的事情：

WPBeginner Redesign

WPBeginner重新设计

The last complete redesign we did was in June 2012. Although we’ve made tons of improvements, it is starting to feel a bit dated (and YES I know that it’s still not mobile-responsive).

我们上一次完成的重新设计是在2012年6月。尽管我们进行了许多改进，但它开始显得有些过时了(是的，我知道它仍然没有移动响应能力)。

There hasn’t been a single day this year where I haven’t received an email or comment about the site not being responsive. The reality is that 91% of WPBeginner users are on desktop. The other 3% are on tablets. Both of those screen sizes are large enough for our site. However there are 6% of users who visit the site using mobile, and their experience is less than pleasant.

今年没有一天，我没有收到有关该网站没有响应的电子邮件或评论。 实际情况是WPBeginner用户中有91％在桌面上。 其他3％在平板电脑上。 这两个屏幕尺寸都足以容纳我们的网站。 但是，有6％的用户使用移动设备访问该网站，他们的体验并不愉快。

I’ve already started working on the first sketches of the redesign, and it’s looking great.

我已经开始研究重新设计的最初草图，并且看起来很棒。

Mega Tutorials & eBooks

超级教程和电子书

WordPress has grown so much since I first started WPBeginner. There are now complex topics like memberships, eCommerce, etc that simply cannot be covered in one article.

自从我第一次启动WPBeginner以来，WordPress的发展已经非常Swift。 现在有诸如会员资格，电子商务等复杂的主题，而一篇文章根本无法涵盖。

I’ve long ignored those complex topics because I personally don’t like the concept of “series” posts.

我长期以来一直忽略那些复杂的主题，因为我个人不喜欢“系列”帖子的概念。

However this site is not about me, it’s about YOU. After talking with several readers over emails and in-person, I think we have come up with a solution that works. I’m calling these Mega Tutorials which will be available in both Web & eBook formats.

但是，此站点不是关于我的，而是关于您的。 在与几位读者通过电子邮件和当面交谈之后，我认为我们提出了一个可行的解决方案。 我称这些巨型教程为Web和电子书格式。

谢谢大家 (Thank You Everyone)

I want to say thank you to everyone who has supported us in this journey. I really do appreciate all of your retweets, personal emails, content suggestions, and the in-person hugs / interactions at the events.

我想对在此旅途中支持我们的每个人表示感谢。 我真的很感谢您的所有转发，个人电子邮件，内容建议以及活动中的亲密拥抱/互动。

You all are AMAZING and without you, there is no WPBeginner.

你们都很棒，没有你，就没有WPBeginner。

I look forward to another solid year ahead of us.

我期待着我们又有坚实的一年。

Yours Truly,
Syed Balkhi
Founder of WPBeginner

敬上，
赛义德·巴尔基(Syed Balkhi)
WPBeginner的创始人

P.S. We’re hiring a full-time (remote work) content person with great communication skills and expertise in WordPress. If you or someone you know would be interested in being part of WPBeginner, then please send us an email with your resume.

PS：我们正在招聘一名全职(远程工作)内容人员，该人员在WordPress中具有出色的沟通能力和专业知识。 如果您或您认识的某个人有兴趣成为WPBeginner的一员，请给我们发送一封包含您的履历的电子邮件 。

翻译自: https://www.wpbeginner.com/news/wpbeginner-turns-6-reflections-on-the-past-and-a-glance-at-our-future/