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No One Wants To Set Up Your Plugin
This is not as negative a post as the title may suggest. But it is true. Especially for feature-rich solution-oriented plugins - like membership, courses, or eCommerce plugins. No one wants to set up your plugin. They want it to work. They want the results. But they don't know what every checkbox means. They don't...
59,000 Plugins - How Do You Choose The Right Plugin?
How do you know if the plugin you want to use is the right one? If you're like me, then you have felt the pain and frustration of adding a plugin to your WordPress site, only to see the whole site break, fall apart, or slow down dramatically. And if you're not technical, good luck....
How To Use Presto Player with LearnDash
You may not know this but I've been offering courses for years and years. But most of the time it's not been on my main site. I've used Teachery, Teachable, Thinkific, and most recently Podia. But today I started to move my storytelling course to my own site (in a subdomain). Today I thought I...
Related Post Plugins Can Leave You Handcuffed
Related Post Plugins are great. They present a set of posts that your readers may enjoy. And that keeps them on your site longer and keeps your bounce rate lower. All of that is great. But related post plugins can really hurt you at the same time - because of the performance hit that they...
Using the Blocksy Theme with LearnDash
Blocksy Surprised Me I've told you before that this site is powered by the Blocksy Theme. I even showed you one of the coolest features (dynamic blocks) before showing you how to do it with other plugins. But today I was surprised by Blocksy (again). I am moving my online courses to a sub-domain of...
A lot of people only run a single site
If you follow me on social media, you've likely seen all the images to know that I spent last week running my conference in Cabo, called CaboPress. While there, one topic came up often among product owners - pricing. The default approach that many plugin owners take, when it comes to pricing, is to create...
Peer-to-Peer Fundraising with WordPress
What is Peer-to-Peer Fundraising? You've heard of crowdfunding, right? So what is peer-to-peer fundraising? It's like that but on steroids. In other words, Peer-to-Peer fundraising is a type of crowdfunding fundraising that lets tons of people create their own campaigns but aggregates all the funding to a single cause. If that sounds powerful to you,...
How Long is a Lifetime?
The other day I wrote about lifetime licenses. In the software world, and specifically in the world of WordPress, sometimes a plugin author will offer a lifetime license. And that's when you wonder, \"How long is a lifetime?\" There are several ways to answer this question. Technically, how long is a lifetime? The technical answer,...
The Best WordPress Theme for Bloggers
Confession #1: I'm Picky On this site I don't sell you a lot of stuff. Sure you can buy an eBook, or fill out forms for my coaching or public speaking, but the thing most people spend time doing on this site is reading my blog. So I'm perfectly happy writing about the best WordPress...
Can a Solo Developer Exist in WordPress?
There's been a lot of talk about companies, hosting companies specifically, buying up plugins. With all the consolidation, people have started wondering, out loud, if a solo developer can still exist in the WordPress ecosystem of today. They note that there's no formal method for such a solo developer to monetize their efforts. And how...
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