Forty Blogging Topics for WordPress Freelancers

Sometimes people just get stuck.

You're looking at an empty page, a blank screen, and you have no idea what to write about.

So here’s a few ideas. Forty to be exact. And all you need to do is make them your own.

That’s it. Write down your opinion because your voice is your own, it’s unique, and it will shape the way you see a situation.

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Once you write it down, and press publish, you’ll discover that while your specific take is uniquely yours, there are many folks out there that see the world similarly to you.

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So without further delay, here is a list of forty blogging topics for WordPress freelancers just like you – so that you’ll not be stuck for a pretty long time.

Your Training

1. How did you learn WordPress?
2. What’s the best resources for learning WordPress?
3. Where do you get answers for WordPress questions?
4. Have you read any great WordPress books?
5. Should you specialize as a plugin or theme dev? Which?
6. Are there great online courses to learn WordPress?
7. Are there great online courese to learn WP development?
8. Do you need to learn to code to build a WP site?
9. What is cowboy coding and does it matter?
10. How do you train your customers to use WordPress?

Your Company

1. When is it time to hire an employee (beyond yourself)?
2. Can you run a successful WP agency with just two people?
3. Where do you go when you have too much work to do?
4. How do you manage vacation if you’re your boss?
5. What do you charge to build a WP website?
6. Do you offer both design and development for a WP site?
7. If you only offer design or dev for a WP site, why?
8. When is growing your agency the wrong call?
9. What is your perfect customer? How do you know?
10. How do you fire a customer who is the wrong client?

Your Development

1. What plugins do you put on every business site? Blog?
2. Are commercial plugins worth it? Why?
3. Do you love or hate SaaS products with monthly fees?
4. Have you ever built a custom plugin? How did you do it?
5. Have you ever re-sold work you did for a diff client?
6. Which plugins will you refuse to use – ever again?
7. How do you evaluate plugins? Features? Cost? Code?
8. Do you code custom themes? What tools do you use?
9. Do you standardize on one theme framework? Which one?
10. How long does it take you to build a custom theme?

Your Clients

1. What lesson have you learned from your customers?
2. What lesson have you had to share with your customers?
3. What’s the biggest misconception prospects have?
4. How do you help customers find success?
5. Do you give customers advice on their projects? Why?
6. Will you code something you don’t agree with? Why?
7. Will you discount your labor? Why or why not?
8. How do you feel about scope creep?
9. Do you charge a deposit? Why or why not?
10. How do you know when a project is off the rails?

So there you go. If you write three times a week, that’s an entire quarter of content you could produce.

If you write once a week, that’s almost a year’s worth of content.

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