{"id":13201,"date":"2022-07-31T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/?p=13201"},"modified":"2022-07-31T23:15:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T23:15:37","slug":"people-of-wordpress-carla-doria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2022\/07\/people-of-wordpress-carla-doria\/","title":{"rendered":"People of WordPress: Carla Doria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
In this series, we share some of the inspiring stories of how WordPress and its global network of contributors can change people\u2019s lives for the better. This month we feature Carla Doria, a customer support specialist from South America on how WordPress opened up a new world for her, and gave her the ability to help the local community<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For Carla, working with WordPress is a vital part of her life. It gave her a career and a community, in which she she would organize the first WordCamp in her city, Cochabamba, and the first in Bolivia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Carla studied industrial engineering and has a master\u2019s degree in environmental studies. Carla had no budget to hire somebody, but she felt confident she could learn things on her own. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLearning to use WordPress requires no code skills or a technical background. It needs an adventurous and playful spirit.\u201d <\/p>Carla Doria<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n She had always been studious, and decided she would figure out how to build a website herself. Carla ended up building a simple blog with WordPress. At the time, she didn\u2019t even have a budget to buy a custom domain, so she used a free subdomain. There were no profits, and any income mainly went to pay the store\u2019s rent. At the time, her previous company contacted her for a job opening that matched her profile. Carla needed that income and decided to closed the store and forget about being an entrepreneur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Back in employee mode, Carla started her new job as a technical writer for a software development company. Since Carla had completed her master\u2019s degree in the UK, she was proficient in English. Her close affinity for computers and technology made it easy for her to translate complex software jargon into simple tutorial steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Carla got more interested in technical writing and started to improve her writing skills. This reconnected her with her previous enthusiasm for writing, and she decided to channel that interest into a blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Creating her blog helped her become more familiar with WordPress and building websites. In 2015, Carla blogged about writing, her thoughts, book reviews, and everything that came to mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Through looking for answers to specific issues using her WordPress blog, Carla found the support forums a useful place to go. Soon she realized that she could also help answer other people\u2019s questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her first experience with WordPress was when she decided to start a small business designing and selling cushions and bedclothes. While Carla sat in the small store she had rented, hoping that people stopping at the shop windows would step in to buy something, she decided she needed to create a website.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFirst steps with WordPress<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLearning to use WordPress is easy. It requires no code skills or a technical background at all. It only needs an adventurous and playful spirit,\u201d said Carla<\/p>\n\n\n\nDiving deep<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n