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How WP Realm Began

18 June 2012 by Remkus de Vries 18 Comments

For the last two years, I have been thinking about setting up a (more) international WordPress blog, but the thought of doing it alone prevented me from getting started. As an internationally orientated European guy, I was missing something on the various blogs covering news about WordPress.

It wasn’t until the very first WP on Tour in January of this year that the idea was rekindled, but nothing was set in stone. Yet. A couple of months later a bunch of us who had attended WP on Tour crashed WordCamp NL and the idea got picked up again – made even more concrete. After a little debate via our Skype group chat we came up with the name WP Realm and I thus I registered the domain.

We outlined it in our “Hello world!” post:

This is a community blog, focusing on the WordPress community worldwide, and redressing a current imbalance in WordPress blogs that are too often US-centric. That means reporting on WordPress news and events across the world, from France to Serbia to China to India to South Africa to the USA and everywhere in between! Our focus will be on WordPress businesses, blogs, events, people, and services. As a community project, we’d love for you to get involved, whether it’s helping with the design and development, to reporting the news, to writing an editorial, or just giving us your feedback.

Having a group of people who wanted to build a site made me think that we should actually build this site as a group. You know, open-source that baby 😉 This is what we have been busy with for the last couple of weeks and the result of our hard labor is what you see today. The site is far from finished, but we like the Lean Startup approach and just wanted to get the site out there. We have a couple of ideas for future releases, but for now, we just wanted to get our platform launched.

I hope you like what we’re doing here and visit us often. Add us to your Feed Reader, follow us on Twitter, circle us on Google+, Like us on Facebook – all that good stuff.

Welcome to WP Realm!

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About Remkus de Vries

Avid and heavy WordPress user since 2005, so effectively a WordPress oldtimer. Started as developer and agency owner, now works as Head of Partner & Customer relationships at Servebolt.

Co-founded WordCamp Europe in 2012, and WordCamp Netherlands back in 2009.

Principal owner of WP Realm.

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  1. Luc De Brouwer says

    18 June 2012 at 18:00

    Very cool, and I’m extremely proud to be a part of this!

    Reply
    • Siobhan McKeown says

      18 June 2012 at 18:04

      I’m also proud and pleased and excited to be part of it 🙂

      Reply
  2. masonjames says

    18 June 2012 at 18:41

    w00t! Congrats and best of luck 🙂

    Reply
    • Remkus de Vries says

      18 June 2012 at 18:42

      Thanks Mason!

      Reply
  3. Hugo Baeta says

    18 June 2012 at 18:48

    Booooom! Awesome! Congrats on the soft launch, I’m looking forward to seeing this project evolve 😉

    Reply
    • Remkus de Vries says

      18 June 2012 at 18:50

      Thanks Hugo 🙂 We’re excited about where this project is headed too!

      Reply
  4. Eric Hoanshelt says

    18 June 2012 at 22:39

    This looks good guys! Can’t wait to see this blossom!

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    • Remkus de Vries says

      19 June 2012 at 09:14

      Thanks Eric, appreciate it!

      Reply
  5. Anthony Hortin says

    19 June 2012 at 08:17

    Congrats on the launch, guys! Looking forward to seeing where it goes 🙂

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    • Remkus de Vries says

      19 June 2012 at 09:15

      Thanks Anthony. We’re curious too 😉

      Reply
  6. Rocío Valdivia says

    19 June 2012 at 09:24

    Proud to be part of this band of brothers! 🙂

    Reply
    • Remkus de Vries says

      19 June 2012 at 17:28

      Likewise 😉

      Reply
  7. Mike van Hoenselaar says

    19 June 2012 at 15:07

    Hopefully this spot will be the number #1 WordPress blog soon. Best of luck! If we can help. Just ask.

    Reply
    • Remkus de Vries says

      19 June 2012 at 15:09

      Thanks Mike. Let me turn it around though: How do you think you can help us?

      Reply
  8. Nathan Powell says

    20 June 2012 at 14:33

    Congrats on the launch. On my phone, the responsive design looks good except for the comments section.

    Reply
    • Remkus de Vries says

      20 June 2012 at 14:44

      Thanks Nathan, we’re still ironing out some layout issues and comments is one of them ;).

      Reply
  9. melanie cameron says

    28 June 2012 at 04:47

    What do you mean US-centric??!?!?! Doesn’t the world revolve around US in the US?
    hahaha Cool, congratulations! I s’pose I will have to find out what all this hoopla is about.

    Reply
    • Remkus de Vries says

      28 June 2012 at 10:50

      Hehe.. as long as you guys keep running world series on only one continent I think it does, yes 😉

      Reply

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