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This post is the first edition of the World of WordPress Roundup. We will take a look at a few things within the WordPress community. Don’t let DIY builders scare you! The roundup today talks about DIY builders in a couple of different articles. Both Jonathan Perez and Chris Lema discusses what may become a WordPress designer’s dilemma. It’s really not. Should DIY Builders scare WordPress developers Jonathan Perez – Sure Fire Web Services Jonathan opened this discussion on his Continue reading the post...

W3 Total Cache is one of the more popular caching plugins with over 1 million active installs and there is a current report of high risk explot that has been disclosed: No update on W3 Total Cache SSRF reported over 4 months ago. Fix is basically adding 1 character #responsibledisclosure #wordpress #plugin — Klikki Oy (@klikkioy) September 23, 2016 I’m not a security expert so I’ll send you over to SecuPress for more information on the vulnerability so you can Continue reading the post...

Once, when I was working for an Website agency, we got a new customer, primarily because the SEO efforts were failing with the previous site. Being the only person who claimed to know anything about SEO remotely, the owner started discussing with me about making sure the site would perform well. I studied the old site, and frankly, was quite surprised by some basic things that were not completed for SEO. When developers hand a website to a client, we Continue reading the post...

Today I am happy to announce the all new MainWP Users Facebook group. A place for MainWP users to gather and discuss MainWP, WordPress and running multiple WordPress sites. About the Group The MainWP Users group is independent of MainWP and is being administered by Ivica Delic, a longtime MainWP user and active Facebook groups admin. His admin duties include groups such as the WordPress Speed Up Group as well as many others listed in Quality WordPress Groups and I Continue reading the post...

My friend Darrell is always telling me, “you need a niche.” I believe him. He has made a living doing digital marketing for copier dealers across the world. His niche is pretty solid. He knows the industry inside and out. He knows the problems they face and how to solve them. I have no problem with his reasoning. Often, it takes time to have that kind of insight to a niche. What he has done is touched on a larger Continue reading the post...

Building and running a WordPress business has a lot to do with our chosen development platform. We usually know WordPress inside and out. Business, as you know, is much more than the tool you use or the service you sell. Many core competencies in business have little or nothing to do with WordPress. Often, they are forgotten. Forgetting many of these core competencies can have a disastrous effect. Money Management One of the top reasons businesses fail is money. I Continue reading the post...

I’m excited to introduce you to our new MainWP roadmaps! We created the roadmaps in an attempt to be open with our vision of MainWP and allow you to comment and add your own ideas of what we should be working on. By using Trello, these new roadmaps will provide a better visual representation of what is happening with the MainWP team and what is being worked on. However, we won’t be adding specific bugs and minor features fixes to Continue reading the post...

As a WordPress entrepreneur, you have probably seen or read about the use of blogging for your business. The professional name for blogging is content marketing. Do you stare blankly at the screen when you try to write a blog post? Are you struggling to develop a process for writing a blog post? The truth is, it takes hard work and some planning to write blog posts for your WordPress business. After all, you are a developer, not a writer. Continue reading the post...

See if this sounds familiar. You get a request from a possible new client, and he needs a WordPress proposal by the following day. He tells you that he needs a WordPress website for his business. He gives you some information about the industry he is in and says he needs something that really “pops,” or stands out, so that he can differentiate him from others in the same industry. “Great,” you think, and you get to work. You blow Continue reading the post...

With the announcement on Friday of the sale of ManageWP to GoDaddy (and confirmed today) I have received a fair amount of questions about it and I have also seen MainWP brought up in numerous comments, so I thought it was best to take a moment and address the acquisition and how a sale of a SaaS (Software as a Service) management solution such as ManageWP differs from the sale of a open source stand alone solution such as MainWP. Let me start Continue reading the post...