MainWP Blog - Todd Jones

I know it has happened to you before. You are updating your websites and that plugin causes a problem. Again. How many times has that happened? Maybe you are having some kind of conflict. It happens more than we want to think. Every week, you are taking care of your customer’s websites and something always seems to happen. You think to yourself, “I wish I had a staging site set up to test some of these plugin updates.” Never fear Continue reading the post...

I wanted to do a web care survey for a very long time. I haven’t seen that anyone has done one in a while, so I thought 2021 was the right time to do the survey. I got feedback from some fellow web care consultants on questions to ask. I made some mistakes that I will correct if there is another web care survey this year. One mistake I made was with the question of what consultants charge. I should Continue reading the post...

Davinder Singh Kainth launched in  The WP Weekly in July 2020. It quickly picked up steam as there were few newsletters like this one. The newsletter was published online but sent in an email with action-packed, quick-hitting tidbits of info and news. Since then Kainth has published over 75 issues of one of the most popular WordPress newsletters. Late in 2021, Davinder got the idea to host awards in the WordPress spaced based on votes by the community. He launched Continue reading the post...

January is the time when people like to, you know, write their year in review and stuff. I’ve seen a few along the way and I’m sure you have too. If you like that sort of thing, we have three at MainWP. I wrote two last year from the blog and Dennis had a nice yearly report for MainWP. So, for the first article of 2022, at least by me, we will have our January Roundup. Ready? Let’s ride. Yoast Continue reading the post...

Years ago, a friend was preaching a sermon about community and one thing that stood out to me was that community and communication come from the same word. It was one of those “light bulb” moments for me. I never forgot that. We often throw around community in our industry, but few think about what it takes to get there. Communication. It is the center of any community. Think about it. To have a community, there need to be conversations Continue reading the post...

Today’s article is our second installment in our Year in Review at the MainWP blog. We had a lot of articles and several were Q&A, so I wanted to talk about those separately. So today, we will take a look at the Q&A articles for the year 2021 at MainWP. Q&A: Vito Peleg talks Web Agency Summit 2021 and new name web agency summit 2021 In the last couple of years, we have had several virtual summits in the WordPress Continue reading the post...

Notice: This article is completely fiction. No part of this shall be considered true. Hopefully, you will find the Christmas Spirit so that Santa’s sleigh can fly this year. We have had many Q&A articles over the years here at MainWP, but this one is very special! Dennis noticed a testimonial from a guy named Kris a while back. We looked into it and it was actually Kris Kringle. Yes, THAT Kris Kringle! The one and only Santa Claus. After Continue reading the post...

It’s that time of year when we review the year we have had. I am sure you have been doing that already for your own business. In fact, a couple of weeks ago, I was invited to be in a WordPress Year in Review Live podcast. I had fun talking about what has happened and where we are going. What are some reasons we do a year in review? First, I often find I am surprised to learn some kind Continue reading the post...

In the December Roundup, we are going to talk about the State of the Word, a train going to the State of the Word, Big Orange Heart, a few acquisitions, and some worthwhile articles to read. Before we get to those, let me share a couple of pieces of news. The WP Weekly Awards has closed and Davinder is tallying the results currently. He hopes to have them next week. I’m excited to see who won awards in the various Continue reading the post...

Have you ever wondered what your peers charge for web care services? Have you ever wondered what other services your peers offer? Yeah. Me too. That’s why I decided to find out. I created a survey to find out these answers and a few more. And since Google is powerful, I used its form feature to create the survey. It will only take a few minutes to fill out. In today’s article, I will talk a bit about the ins Continue reading the post...