How do you come up with blog topics?
Do you already have a list of blog topics? Today is 25 days of blogging in a row. Yesterday, after my longer post on the size of the WordPress market for premium plugins, a ready hit reply (to the newsletter) ...
How big is the market for your premium plugin in 2021?
Want to enter the world of WordPress premium plugins? Think that it's too late to create a premium plugin? Most people in the space might agree with you. After all, there's a plugin for everything. Right? Well, hold on a ...
This site now runs on the Blocksy theme
The Blocksy theme is one of four really fast themes The other day I told you about several themes I was checking out as I start to move from a pagebuilder-based site to Gutenberg. That list, if you recall, included ...
Are you watching Elasticsearch and the licensing dynamics at play?
There's a ton that I don't know. Let's start with that. There's a software solution out there that isn't just about search. It's called Elasticsearch by a company called Elastic. And they recently announced a change to their licensing. It's ...
My Favorite Appointment Scheduling Software
Does your appointment scheduling software end up rewarding bad behavior? I don't know if this has ever happened to you, but it happens on a weekly basis to me. And it's so incredibly annoying. Yes, I'm about to rant about ...
Software Licensing for WordPress Plugins
Need license keys for your WordPress plugin or theme? If you've ever wanted to monetize the code you've written, especially (but not uniquely) in the WordPress ecosystem, you've likely thought about how you'd go about protecting it. After all, giving ...
Last Week in WooCommerce: WooCommerce Reviews
WooCommerce Reviews are Powerful Every week I share with you what's been going on in WooCommerce in the last week. This past week the latest version (4.9) was released. They made some things faster (including the API), and they worked ...
Recurring Revenue & Extending Your Team
Recurring Revenue is the Name of the Game If you're running a digital agency, creating recurring revenue is critical. But to do that, you likely have to extend your team. And just the other day, I told you that more ...
Endangering Ecosystem Flexibility
What made WordPress incredible (and helped it grow) If you were around in the old days, like 2005, there were a lot of different blogging platforms. You could find them using a variety of different programming languages (in case you ...
More Resources Won’t Help
I remember reading a story, when I was first managing people, about Bill Gates and his approach to resources at Microsoft. According to the story, he regularly rejected requests to add resources to the development teams. When I first heard ...