Five years ago I left my day job to become a freelance web designer. Not long after that I started StudioPress, and three years later merged to form Copyblogger Media.
None of this would be possible without WordPress.
If you’re like me and make your living with this incredible platform, feel free to share this post or proudly embed the graphic on your blog.
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Very nice. I couldn’t agree more.
After completing my Engineering opted blogging/freelancing as my carrier because of WordPress I never feel that I’m jobless anymore…
Good for you Vivek, I’m sure this is the story of countless others.
Thank you WordPress & Brian Gardner for creating Revolution theme. Thus, revolutionizing WordPress theming scene.
I’m not sure about that, but it definitely helped kickstart the theming industry.
Awesome! I’m also eternally grateful to Matt, the community and StudioPress for allowing me to put food on the table with WordPress
What does this mean?
Psst. You’re still a housewife, you just make money now doing stuff you love.
I know, right? Blows my mind on a daily basis.
You could be like that ad in every sidebar, holding up a cheque: “I make thousands a month working from home!”. Only for real
Thank you WordPress!
Thank you Genesis StudioPress and iThemes for your beautiful frameworks.
I run my freelance business now and I remember when in 2007 I discovered WordPress and never looked back, it was love at first sight…
Very nice. I really liked the image so I shared it too: http://perezbox.com/2012/06/thank-you-wordpress-i-echo-brian-gardner/
Thanks for all that you have and will bring to the table.
Cheers.
You betcha Tony, and appreciate you posting it as well!
I concur! Posted my echo of thanks with Brian’s image.
http://wpforce.com/thank-wordpress/
Just to think, WordPress brought us all together on this blog as well
Vivek said for me too
Love the graphic Brian.
WordPress —-> Revolution Theme —-> StudioPress —-> Genesis —-> makes for an element of my business that I never expected, and am truly grateful for. Thank you WordPress and Brian Gardner!
You’re welcome Jen. It’s great advocates like you who help keep us in business.
Before WordPress, I was a house wife, too. I was standing in that yellow wood looking down two roads. When I decided to take the road that was grassy and wanted wear, I found a whole new world. And I can NOT tell you what a difference it has made in my life. It has given me hope and allowed me to dream big dreams… and that, my friend, nothing short of a miracle.
Thank you Brian, StudioPress and Copyblogger. I’m so incredibly thankful to be holding hands with you and travelling this road together!
YEP! Couldn’t agree more…..Without WordPress and studiopress, I would be BOARD STIFF, jobless and not making ANY money!
Thanks Brian and especially the studiopress community.
Thank you WordPress & Brian Gardner for creating Genesis theme.
I remember Brian’s Revolution theme from about the same time (5 years ago) which changed the game in my opinion regarding using WordPress for anything. I had been using WordPress.com for a couple years (?) before that.
Without that spark I never would have found the ThemeShaper and Justin Tadlock, and I am also a lifetime member of StudioPress, and ThemeHybrid and nothing else. I have a nice community of great developers that I trust and feel that’s all I need to know:)
Darn I forgot to say thank you!
WordPress has also lined my pockets too in the past. It’s a wonderful community. We’ve just discovered your Genesis theme and are now using it over at http://www.deardiary.net where our diary platform had its biggest change ever since launching in 1999. It’s now solely run on WordPress with some beautifully written in-house plugins. Glad you are able to enjoy the freedom of working for yourself
Amen! Thank you WordPress and Studiopress for my awesome business! I love working with both products everyday!
LOL…I was told to put up a website to show people I can ‘make’ them a website. My friends and family love them. I even say I use WordPress and the Genesis framework.
So thanks to WordPress, Studiopress and Brian Gardner
I make money, have fun and you make me look good
Well yeah,
Wordpress is great, whats not great is how you turn everything, i mean everything, into advertising for yourself.
Yeah simple big/small text mixup is not even the greatest Art, but sure copy and paste this code and advertise for Brain Gardner.
If you wanna thank wordpress link to wordpress and nothing else! And please show some guts and appove this comment! Make your own graphic, i am sure it’s gonna at least as good as this.
Gonna thank 3 WordPress contributors by random now Jacob Chappell, Lee Willis (leewillis77), Ulrich Sossou.
Thank you WordPress.
By the way your comment form content is overflowing into nowhere (Firefox 13.0.1). But i am used to such things in Studipress themes.
I’d love to engage more about this if you wish.
This is my blog, and I can post anything I want – which includes graphics that show appreciation and link back to my site.
For people who want to show the graphic, they can easily remove the code that links to my site if they wish. In fact I’ve seen people do that, and fully understand their decisions.
Apparently you have a bone to pick, so feel free to elaborate on that.
Well the site you linked still named you just removed the link, and you mention no licence of something in the Post instelf, so ppl don’t know if its legal to completly cut you out of it and take the grapfic just by reading the post.
You for sure know that most ppl will just copy paste this into all their blogs right away! Sure you can’t do on your blog whatever you wan’t but that a cheap andswer.
I just think its pathetic how you advertise. If there is one little moment, just one where you NOT should think about yourself then this moment is when you thank the Software and the community that helped you get rich. But you failed, you again think about advertising yourself that every moment. That’s just pathetic.
Some Questions: Was Genesis always GPL? Did you ever contribute to WordPress core? Did you even accuse someone of “confusing ppl” for telling them that it’s legal to download your software for free? Well to that one i can give you the andwer: Yes you did! Because i am that person. And did you ever threaten someone with a lawyer just for asking a simple trademark question? Well again: Yes you did!
Thanks for appoving, actually i thaugt you never would, my opinion of you has gone better a little
P.S. It’s capital “P” dangit. WordPress.
Well said! Totally agree, Brian.
Nice graphic Brian and good to see you allow others to use it, which i have and link back. This way everybody wins!
Im just learning WordPress. So far, so not good. I find it tough to learn things like what’s a plug-in and where do I find them. And as an example, when I want a table to align things, why do I have to use weird code instead of just being able to create a table and go? But I am overwhelmingly HOPEFUL that in time I will be the evengelist that you are. WP couldn’t be growing in popularity the way it is if the majority of the people had this impression. Like I said. I am learning. Thanks for giving me continuing HOPE.
Great Brian and wordpress certainly helping lots of people beginning their career and I am one of them and learning new techniques to go to the advance level.
WP is definately one of the greatest human creation. I immediately fall in love the first time I use it.
brian, thank you for being YOU on your own blog! i love your response and your public display above.
i just posted it and didn’t think for a second to remove your link. as a creator, i believe in providing credit where credit is due. thank you for being awesome and encouraging us to be thankful for the amazing platform i love!
WordPress is one of my saviour.
The greatest CMS of all time.
We posted the graphic on our blog too! WordPress and StudioPress allow us to deliver a better product to our customer, so thanks to you, too, Brian!
http://www.visiondesign.com/2012/06/thank-you-wordpress/
Awesome, Michelle – thank you so much!
WordPress has been a boon for everyone — even those of us who do not directly earn a living via the software. As a journalist, nearly 100 percent of the news operations I’ve encountered use WordPress as their CMS. As the creator of a local news startup, WordPress has given me the flexibility and power previously available only in expensive software available only to corporate news titans.
Lastly, I have to comment on your success, Brian. I remember the first WordPress theme you put out for public consumption. I remember the day you told your boss you were going to work for yourself and the first clue that you’d really hit it big with the inclusion of your theme by WordPress.com. How time flies.
Ed
Thank you, Brian.
Thank YOU Matt. Really.
+1,000,000
Simple post, but truly truly inspiring, Brian.
WordPress, you make my life easy, and have also made me quite a bit of money.
Thanks WP!
I agree with this sentiment entirely, WordPress and the community around it changed my life. Although it’s impossible to predict what would have happened otherwise I can say that without WordPress my business would look very different today!
Hi Brian G, I wrote from Costa Rica, definitly WP has been changed all, I left my job as an expert tax to build Web sites and the big decision was influenced by Genesis and the potential it offered.
It would be exciting to hear, how you take the desicion to create Genesis, what time during in create Genesis and how long did it take to create the first themes and launch the product.
This is awesome. Yes Thank you WordPress for making my job as an SEO consultant so much easier. Thank you for having a love affair with Google. because of you, my clients now rank faster on Google thank ever before.
Let’s not forget you..Brian Gardner. Thank you for bringing us StudioPress. Because of your vision, you have made it so much easier to build my site. Thank you for continuously featuring our work at Marknet Group on your showcase. Because of this, we have had many more clients.
Godspeed,
Alex Miranda
prunderground.com
Alrighty!!
Only one word answer here…”AMEN”!
Heh, I know – right?
This is completely unrelated but I just have to say, nearly every time I visit your blog I have to ask myself, “Did he redesign?” and I honestly cannot remember if I have or have not seen the current design before. Really messes with my mind.
Heh, it’s been a few weeks (at least) since I’ve redesigned. To be honest, I really like the flow of the current design, so *gasp* it’ll probably be some time before I do it again.