Category: WordPress
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Episode 2: WordPress startup challenge
What do you get when you combine 3 awesome WordPress startups with 3 awesome WordPress proven entrepreneurs? The Matt Report WordPress Startup Challenge of course! This is one of my favorite events that I do and I hope you enjoy it just the same. This episode is FULL of awesome WordPress goodness. Tune in to…
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WordPress blogs to follow in 2014
Now that those darn daily blogging resoluters are cooling off…who remains and who are you going to follow? Sure there’s Tom and Chris or perhaps even Curtis. We know that Brad and Pippin do their thing too. Oh and John. We can’t forget about John. But who else are you following throughout 2014 in the…
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WordPress business toolkit part 1
Running a WordPress business? Of course you are! If you’re not, you can use these services for any form of online business. In part 1, we’ll briefly cover WordPress hosting, a few plugins, and a couple or my choice productivity tools. There’s some cross compatibility from the blogging tips post, but I’ve wrapped some new context…
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A/B Testing Gravity Forms & Mailchimp
The Matt Report will be getting a minor facelift soon to accommodate the Pro membership portion. Instead of landing on the homepage and seeing the blog roll, the visitor will be presented with a unique landing page with a few new options. I’ll be using the Gravity Forms plugin and the Mailchimp addon to connect…
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My WordPress community
There’s a bevy of reasons why you should join the WordPress community. Become a better developer Find design inspiration Grow your business Help out in the support forum Then there’s the reason of being a down to Earth human being. Making connections not just for the tangible benefit, but to slow down and appreciate the…
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WordSesh the WordPress Olympics
For the first time in my life, I might have the podcasting jitters. WordSesh is in full swing and I’m about to take the mic. For those of you that don’t know, the 24 hour marathon of WordPress “stuff” kicked off Friday evening (EST time.) This Olympian event hosts a cast of WordPress professionals, developers,…
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Managing Gravity Forms with Zapier and Trello
If you’re looking to organize your Gravity Forms contact submissions, I’ve got just the trick for you. I connect my general Contact form and my Challenge application forms to my Trello account with Zapier. I use Trello for organizing thoughts and tasks, so why not use it to organize all of the folks contacting me.…
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WordPress slide presentation the WP Present way
Owning your content is sort of the WordPress way, right? We publish a ton of data from our blog’s to our Facebook accounts. Instagram captures our memories and Twitter declares what we’re thinking at the moment. But this is our data and we’re giving it large platforms that leverage it for marketing and promotion. Today we’re…
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10up founder Jake Goldman invests in seoslides WordPress plugin
Recently at WordCamp Boston 2013, a strange thing happened. Two plugin announcements randomly collided. I attended Steven Word’s talk called “Unconventional WordPress” and unconventional it was. At the end of the talk he unveiled the plugin that powered his presentation WP Present. Later in the day Jake Goldman presented his topic and also unveiled his…