Driving Revenue Growth in the WordPress Ecosystem
My Version of the Story Starts in 2016 I left Crowd Favorite at the start of 2016. We’d just had a major health scare where my wife was bleeding internally and we had to rush to an ER (where things…
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Endangering Ecosystem Flexibility
What made WordPress incredible (and helped it grow) If you were around in the old days, like 2005, there were a lot of different blogging platforms. You could find them using a variety of different programming languages (in case you…
Building a Subscription system for shippable products?
If you're building a subscription system for shippable products and want to deliver your products to multiple addresses, here's how.
WordPress Learning Management Systems: Question Banks for All
If you're looking to build a WordPress learning management system, then it's likely you'll need a question bank, and now you can, with key plugin support.
Trademarks in the WordPress ecosystem: An interview with Carl Hancock
If you've thought about creating a WordPress product, you've wondered how to deal with your GPL code shared everywhere. My interview with Carl Hancock helps.
From Support Forums to Ticket Systems
When you hear someone announce they're moving from support forums to ticket systems, you can get worried. Here's why you shouldn't.
Premature Optimization is a Timing Mistake
In the end, your success or failure is a combination of what you control (your decision making) and what you don’t (timing). Most people aren’t really great at decision making. But that’s something you can get better at. So let’s…
Changing Things Up
Life is a Series of Choices The last job I had before graduating from college was at the fourth largest YMCA in the country. After I graduated, I went to work full time at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, a government-funded research…
What Do Customers Really Want?
We Want Bags of Cash, Right? My buddy Shawn, of WP101 fame, likes to tell a story about what customers really want. It starts with this idea that you’re interviewing someone about what they want, and they say they want…