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Ever since I started listening to WordPress podcasts, one of my favorites is the WP Builds Podcast. David Waumsley and Nathan Wrigley do a fantastic job of covering regular WordPress topics and having great guests on the show. WP Builds Podcast also does a great job of helping us learn the stories about various WordPress professionals. The guys are also MainWP users. Recently, they hosted a webinar on how they use MainWP. This month’s Q&A is with Nathan Wrigley and Continue reading the post...

So, you have your WordPress site care business launched and you are growing confident each day with your process. You have several clients who are helping you generate a nice recurring revenue. Now, you are wondering how you can add more value to your clients and add more income to your revenue. Today, we are going to go over a few ways you can add value with additional services and products for your WordPress site care business. WordPress Site Care Continue reading the post...

In this month’s podcast roundup, we look a building your email list with WP Blab, running an independent business with the Matt Report, and we listen to Jason Resnick talk about automation on the Office Hours podcast. Saddle up my friends, it’s another podcast roundup. Giddyup. April Podcast Roundup WP Blab WPblab EP97 – WordPress Plugins – Building Your Mailing List Episode 97 of The WPBlab includes hosts Bridget Willard and Jason Tucker as they interview MailChimp email marketing expert Continue reading the post...

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...