MainWP Blog - Todd Jones

Mark Watney may have said it best, only he wasn’t talking about WordPress Site Care, he was talking about surviving on Mars. Watney, played by actor Matt Damon, is a NASA astronaut in the movie The Martian. Actually, he was botanist on a mission to Mars to see what could and could not grow on the planet. Through an incredible series of mishaps, he was stranded on Mars when his crew had to make an emergency evacuation. They presumed he Continue reading the post...

In this month’s WordPress Roundup, we are taking a look at Gutenberg, GDPR, Theme Frameworks and learning more about Thin Content from Yoast. Buckle up! Let’s ride. April 2018 WordPress Roundup My Gutenberg Experience Thus Far – WP Tavern Are you ready for Gutenberg? One of the most anticipated new features for WordPress, Gutenberg is set to be released around or after WordPress 5. Jeff Chandler of WP Tavern recently posted an article about his experience with Gutenberg to date. Continue reading the post...

If you are looking for easy money, then hop on down to Easy Street, where you can hang out with Miss Hannigan, Rooster, and Lily (remember Annie?). It didn’t work out so well for them. You remember, they tried to scam Daddy Warbucks’s out of the reward by pretending to be Annie’s missing parents? Every business is hard. My friends who run the coffee shop work long hours, but they love their job. My office building neighbor runs a lawn care Continue reading the post...

In a very short time, Sujay Pawar has garnered global attention. His team, Brainstorm Force has produced some of the most popular products in the WordPress space including Astra Themes and Ultimate Addons as well as ConvertPro and All-in-one Schema Pro. Recently, the company announced that the Astra WordPress theme has been installed on a whopping 40,000 websites, all within less than a year. It is fast becoming one of the most popular themes due to its ease of use, fast performance, Continue reading the post...

Security is pretty important. In fact, security is damn important. Hackings of your website can cost you valuable downtime, embarrassing visuals, get you in trouble with Google and cost you the chance to make money. Yet it happens every day. This is why it is necessary for someone running a business on their website to have security measure in place. Security measures come down to two basic things: Preventative, and the ability to restore. To restore, this means you have Continue reading the post...

Recently, in the WordPress Plugin Suggestions Facebook Group, I ran across a tool I had never seen before. It allows WordPress developers to make a bulk install of plugins to a new WordPress install. This is a great idea since we often use the same plugins every single time. Therefore, I decided to take a look at the tool and see for myself how it works. I was pleasantly surprised. The plugin installer is a freemium product. There is a Continue reading the post...

We’ve all been there. Panic sets in. What will the customer think? How did this happen? Will I ever recover that website? Will I have to recreate everything? You think, “Well, make some coffee because it is going to be an all-nighter.” Blood rushes throughout your body, you feel flushed and you can feel the adrenaline rushing through your veins. You think, “Did I have a backup?” What if you don’t have a backup? Your server crashes, someone hacks the Continue reading the post...

In this month’s podcast roundup, we take a look at some brand new podcasts and hear some fresh voices. Podcasts are enlightening. One thing that makes a podcast so great is you get to listen in on a conversation between two veterans. As we continue the Podcast Roundups, I thought it might be good to look for fresh voices. This month, I tap into two new podcasts and we revisit one that is well known. This month, we listen to Continue reading the post...

You are just trying to make a living, right? I mean, you become a WordPress developer to have flexibility, freedom, and the ability to take care of your family. WordPress has been an awesome tool. You can create sites for your clients very affordably and they can actually update and write blog posts themselves. You decided, along the way, that you would support your clients’ ongoing website to both help your client with all the techy stuff and to make Continue reading the post...

Joshua Vandercar has been a MainWP customer for slightly over a year. He is the owner of Typewheel, a digital creative company in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He lives with his wife and four kids. Previously he taught mathematics and has served in various outdoor and cross-cultural ministry organizations. For the past six years, Vandercar has been digging into WordPress leading to the development of plugins and themes. He also contributed to WordPress core and spoke at WordCamp Minneapolis. Vandercar agreed to Continue reading the post...