Category: Blog
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Captain Form Plugin Review
Do we need another WordPress contact form plugin? The team behind Captain Form thinks so and they’re throwing their hat into the ring of contenders. There are plenty of form plugins in the WordPress space, so when another contact form plugin hits the market, you might think, “what’s the point?” As someone who runs a…
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I lost my edge and so did you
Have you lost your sizzle? Maybe your pop, panache or mojo? I’ll do you one better and ask, has anyone ever told you you’ve lost it? That happened to me recently and sadly I knew it was coming. I met with a close friend during WordCamp US and she let me know that I’ve lost some…
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How to start a WordCamp
Are you part of a local WordPress meetup and you’re interested in growing that into an annual WordCamp? Or maybe you’re generally interested in what goes on behind the scenes for our heroic organizers? If so, I’ve brought on David Bisset and Ptah Dunbar, part of the organizing team for WordCamp Miami 2016 to chat about their experiences…
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A Timeline of Influencers
Running a digital company isn’t easy. Those that think new age entrepreneurs are just Starbucks sipping hipsters pushing pixels on a laptop screen need to walk a mile in our shoes. There’s a certain “something” missing when you’re not flocking with society on a daily basis. For example, I run a distributed digital agency, which means that…
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WordPress business website teardowns
What is a website teardown? A common practice in which someone evaluates a website “line-by-line” and provides feedback to the website owner within a given context. For instance, in today’s episode, Devin and I teardown four unique commercial WordPress plugin websites submitted by listeners. We’re looking through the lens as if we were landing on…
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11 Ways to support your WordPress theme or plugin
With so many tools and communication channels available to us, choosing how you support your WordPress product can be a real head-scratcher. Luckily, in today’s episode, Devin and I are here to explain the best methods we’ve found that work in our respective businesses. If you’ve been in the WordPress product business for a while now,…
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Be a great podcast guest
We live in an age of information and “how-to do anything” tutorials lay at our fingertips. If you’re looking to start a business online, there’s a massive amount of self-teaching content for you to consume produced by “teachers” that created said content, through the same means. To the point where, literally, anyone from any background…
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Hello, my name is Profit: A guide to talking to your clients about profitable projects.
Dear readers, The following conversation is made available to help agency owners and clients understand the importance of running a profitable web project. If you’re an agency, this can help start the conversation with your clients. If you’re seeking to hire someone, this is a great primer to work with one another. Thanks for inquiring…
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WPCampus: Higher Education and WordPress
Rachel Carden is a web developer & designer within the student affairs division at the University of Alabama. Carden is also the driving force behind the latest WordPress conference, WPCampus. In today’s episode, we discuss the different challenges of managing web projects at large universities and the challenges that come with starting a new community…