Author: Matt
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How WordPress powers a financial media site w/ Evan Medeiros
It’s easy to overlook WordPress’ capability to expand in parallel with a growing online business. From starting as a simple blog to grow awareness, all the way to fueling a digital e-commerce engine powered by WooCommerce. There’s a certain flexibility — almost luxury — business owners have when the first brick in their foundation starts…
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WPGraphQL: Playing a role in the web’s operating system
“Operating system for the web” has lingered around the ol’ noodle since I heard Matt Mullenweg mutter those words some 6 or 8 years ago. The headline made news again on Techcrunch back in 2019, along side the news of Automattic raising $300m from Salesforce Ventures. I don’t feel the need to get caught up…
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Hecto.io: Helping newsletter creators monetize
Curiosity. Curiosity is what the nocode movement has reignited for me. When I think back to my days of using Drupal 5 with the powerful combination of CCK + Views modules, two things come to mind: Why the heck doesn’t WordPress do this natively yet, some tweny years later?! What are my opportunities with nodcode…
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Raising VC funding in the WordPress hosting ecosystem with Miriam Schwab
Entrepreneur, a term that has lost its potency over the years, is finding it’s way back home in today’s story. There are those of us that start businesses out of the desire to control our own destiny, but then grapple with the inability to see the forest through the trees. Every reason why we started…
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In defense of Elementor vs. Webflow
WordPress product pricing is too cheap. Elementor, the most popular page builder for WordPress these days, has announced a price hike which will come into effect on March 9, 2021. Comments are as you expected: Are you freaking kidding me? You guys are hugely successful which means you already make a pleasant amount of cash…
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The WordPress community w/ Matt Mullenweg
After Automattic released their experiment with selling $5,000 websites, I published a video, I spell it wordpress now. A video which has been viewed over 1,400 times and caught the attention of today’s guest, Matt Mullenweg co-creator of WordPress & Founder of Automattic. I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing Mullenweg back in 2015, and have…
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Founder marketing
We’re back, with another fine episode of the Matt Report podcast. Don’t forget to subscribe, over at mattreport.com/subscribe because there’s a new podcast coming. I’ll hint at it today and give you the loose backstory on how this all came together. Plus, we’ll hit on my upcoming interview with Matt Mullenweg, simplifying my WordPress branding,…
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Collaboration in the WP Builds content business
There’s a saying being traded around the online business building world, which goes something like this: “Build in the open.” A sentiment that might lead you to believe that this is a method reserved only for people building products or software companies. Though, I’d challenge you to disrupt the phrase and leverage it for building…
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Pivoting a purpose driven business during a pandemic w/ Amber Hinds
Let’s say you’re a services business — you know, you make websites for people and sell them at fair market value. But, every so often, you get a little jealous about all of these product people running around printing money. You want a piece of that action. Managing customer expectations are daunting. Your master product…