A bit of slightly off-topic background - I was working an unskilled job I hated, wanted a way out, started learning HTML/PHP/MySQL, read about affilliate marketing (urgh!), had an idea, followed some tutorials, built an AM membership website as a path to teach myself some skills, sold it to a competitor for a sweet sum. Was purchased for the user base only and not the site's minimally functional admin!

Result of this was a bit of breathing space allowing me to quit my job, and while thinking about what else I could actually do, I came across WordPress. Had heard of it before but thought it was just a blogging platform, which I had no interest in. I dislike writing and the idea of blogging my thoughts out to the world fills me with dread!

Looking into WordPress some more, and others such as Joomla, Drupal etc, I started to realise more and more what WP was capable of. This was 2012, and the exact reason why I started with WordPress escapes me, but it did seem to me at the time there was WordPress and then there was "the rest".