Things are working as planned as I have noted before in this previous post that I spend much time reading and I was more of a theoretical person then practical. I described myself as a professional student to some extent.
In my free-time, I contribute to open-source projects on WordPress.org and outside the WordPress ecosystem as well. I have established a new online business, lucidarabic.com, not staminacode.com, which is now defunct.
This new online business focuses on providing various language services, however, I am pivoting to mainly focus on teaching Arabic language and adding content about Arabic culture.
However, getting back to the growing more of a practical person this online business is teaching me new firsthand experience and reinforcing techniques and knowledge learnt from books.
The new Lucid Arabic website, is gaining more visitors especially after about a year. I have created many Arabic vocabulary lessons and I published them. However, I have created more than 60 Arabic grammar practice exercises and around 30 Arabic grammar lessons as well, but did not publish these yet.
Why not published yet?
The Lucid Arabic site structure needs to change, such as a section for:
– Vocabulary for beginners
– Vocabulary for intermediates
– Vocabulary for advanced
– Grammar for beginners
– Grammar for intermediates
– Grammar for advanced
For a well structured site that is easy to navigate and to build it in a SEO optimized way, there is some work that needs to be done to redirect the old vocabulary lessons. There are many plugins available for this purpose. The URLs of each sections should be well thought of.
In regards to the quizzes and tests, I was pleased to find a 100% free and open-source plugin named H5P that I am using to create practice exercises. These exercises need to be linked to each section, vocabulary and grammar.
Also, I’ve also thought about creating pronunciation audio recording. However, first and foremost, it’s more strategic to finish 50 grammar lessons at least and the related practice exercises.
Growing as a localization specialist & developer
Since, I am happy and grateful to find the H5P plugin which suits my needs, I have localized it to Arabic, this is my way to give back and thank the community for their contribution building and maintaining H5P.
Furthermore, I am also tinkering and studying redirection plugins to grow as a WordPress plugin developer. For this, I use WordPress documentation, local server and various AI tools to better understand the plugin code.
Conclusion
Experimenting with a WordPress website to start a new business and to gain more knowledge is a nurturing experience, Google Analytics shows a growth on my site even though I only publish one lesson a week. Further, analysis of the data will support growing the traffic. Consequently, my plan creating high quality courses and tests looks promising. Finally, this goes hand in hand with gaining more technical programming skills in PHP and JS.
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