Scaling vs Coding: Should You Hire a Lead Engineer for Your WordPress Business?
Do you hand over the coding keys to a lead engineer or do you keep them? This is a question most technical founders will have to answer as their WordPress…
Selling Static Products, Email Deliverability Issues Notifications, and Boosting WordPress.org Reviews
Welcome to the last part of our planned run of four release notes 💃 Let’s face it, page builders and Gutenberg are the future of WordPress site-building, and I’m pleased…
Customer Portal UX Improvements: Downloading Product Versions, Account Closing, Help Scout Docs Integration
We always deliver on our promises 😉 Here’s part three of our four planned release notes. As any software customer — developer or end-user — will attest, it’s pretty frustrating…
Affiliate Links Store Attribution, New Affiliate Portal, and More Affiliate Platform Enhancements
As promised, here’s part two of four planned release notes over the coming weeks. Affiliate programs are an invaluable marketing tool for driving extra traffic to product pages. Many of…
Custom Localhost URL Patterns, Refunding Without Fees, Subscription Cancellation Coupon, and More
What’s new with Freemius? A few days ago, we received an email from a partner raising concerns that we haven’t published any release notes in some time. Fair enough! Truth…
Chris & Artur of Extendify: WordPress Networking Strategies to Find a ‘Best Fit’ Buyer
WordPress networking strategies probably don’t immediately come to mind when you think of plugin and theme development. But Extendify’s Chris Lubkert and Artur Grabowski believe that networking is a crucial…
How to Deal with Nulled WordPress Plugins and Themes (and Their Users)
Nulled WordPress plugins and themes are bad news. You’ve invested time, effort, and resources into designing and building, and then people opt for nulled versions instead of legitimate copies. For…
Contributing to WordPress: The Good, the Bad & the Polyglot
Five months into my WordPress writing career, I watched a rerun of an old Top Gear episode where Jeremy Clarkson admits that he doesn’t know a thing about how engines…
Two Years In: The Impact of COVID-19 on WordPress and eCommerce
After a period of massive growth that saw the majority of markets scramble online to survive, we’re entering a time of deceleration. Growth is slowing, the COVID-19 Stock Market bubble…
Shaping the Space & Driving Change: 56 WordPress Experts to Follow Online
Being a newcomer to WordPress can be daunting, especially when you’re a writer, not a developer, and have no great knowledge of the space. As I started this journey (AKA…
2021’s WordPress Mega-Deal: Marieke van de Rakt on the Yoast Acquisition
At the end of 2020, then-Yoast CEO Marieke van de Rakt and her husband Joost de Valk (Yoast’s Founder and Chief Product Officer) had reached a crossroads. Though they’d created…
How to Optimize Your Checkout’s UX While Protecting Against Credit Card Testing Fraud
Taken at face value, the UX and security fundamentals of a high-converting WordPress checkout are straightforward. If you want prospects to stay the course, you strip away friction points and…
The Gamechangers: Awesome Motive’s Syed Balkhi on Charting a Lucrative WordPress Business Exit
In November 2021, we launched The Gamechangers: a video series that deep-dives into WordPress mergers and acquisitions with the leading entrepreneurs, founders, investors, and business mavens responsible for the big…
How I Got Happier & More Productive: Actionable Tips for Busy Founders
In the last two years, I’ve gone through a growth journey that has helped me transform my life from constantly feeling anxious and unsatisfied to becoming happy, more positive, and…
Is the WooCommerce Marketplace a Good Platform to Sell Your WooCommerce Extensions?
It’s a WordPress tale as old as time (well, at least since monetization became popular). You’ve hit on a great idea for a plugin that fills an underserved niche. You…