Business, Interview

Birgit Pauli-Haack on Serving Nonprofit & Community

Matt Medeiros continues Season 8 with his interview with Birgit Pauli-Haack. Birgit is a web developer in Naples, Florida and started as a freelancer in 2002. She became a developer because there was not enough software to do what she wanted to on the web. She uses WordPress and Cold Fusion on a few sites in her…

February 8, 2019 Matt 0

Business, Freelancers, Interview, Work/Life

Mental Health with Dan Maby of WP&UP

Matt Medeiros starts 2019 and the second part of Season 8 with his interview with Dan Maby. Dan is a self-described wearer of many hats and is the director of Blue 37, a digital agency based in London. He recently founded a new community called WP&UP that supports and promotes positive mental health within the WordPress…

January 21, 2019 Matt 0

Business, Clients, Freelancers, Interview

Beaver Builder in a Gutenberg world

Matt Medeiros finishes Season 8 with this interview of Robby Mccullough, who is a co-founder of the Beaver Builder page builder and is from the Bay area. Matt and Robby discuss how the Gutenberg release in WordPress 5.0 may impact Beaver Builder, whether Automattic could have looked at purchasing Beaver Builder, and how a small…

December 20, 2018 Matt 2

Business, Clients, Interview, Marketing

Why exiting solopreneurship is the right move

Matt Medeiros continues Season 8 with the roundtable format asking the question is there change in the WordPress ecosystem? John Turner and Phil Derksen are the special guests that share what significant changes they have made in their careers and what they see in the WordPress ecosystem. Listen to this episode: John Turner joined Awesome…

December 13, 2018 Matt 3

Blog, Business, Interview

What does it feel like to sell your decade-old business? Cory Miller explains.

In this episode, Matt Medeiros interviews Cory Miller from iThemes and jokes with him as being his most interviewed guest on the Matt Report. The big news for 2018 is that Cory’s business (IThemes) was recently purchased by Liquidweb. Matt and Cory talk about the climate around WordPress, how they are working for different hosting companies,…

February 14, 2018 Matt 0

Blog, WordPress

The blue-collar WordPress worker and the 2,500+ websites built to grow the CMS

I’m not foolish enough to think that the entirety of WordPress’ growth is driven by our love for the software, but that we consultants are responsible for a sizeable portion of it. A portion that shouldn’t be ignored and one that should be welcome to the discussion more often. Under-represented. Perhaps. You can listen to…

November 14, 2017 Matt 21

Blog

How to disable Jetpack upsell ads

We live in a world of monetized Jetpack. Gone are the days where commercialized plugins were looked at under a watchful microscope, and leadership at Automattic felt that charging for plugins was, well, plain wrong. Today we’re seeing Jetpack as the revenue bridge between .org and .com offerings — and a very big bridge at…

September 13, 2017 Matt 12