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Why do I need a staging environment? Let me tell you
Does this match your experience? You have a developer working on your website. Whether they're working on it locally (on their own computer), or on some hosting that they have set up for themselves, one thing thing is clear. They aren't coding it on your hosting account. You think nothing of it, because every time they show...
Membership Plugin Review: Memberium, The WordPress/Infusionsoft Membership Solution
We're in the last legs of this 30-plugin review We're just five posts from the complete review of 30 membership solutions you can use with WordPress to build membership sites. Are there more that I didn't cover? The truth is, the answer is yes. There are even more.
Can you build a membership site with WP eCommerce?
Have you heard of WP eCommerce? There's a good chance that if you've been around WordPress a while, you've heard of WP eCommerce. The reason is because it's the oldest, the original, eCommerce solution for WordPress. Years ago, when there was nothing else, I gave it a try and used it on a few sites. It...
How does Rainmaker's Membership solution rate?
The project is wrapping up While it's true that some of the best membership plugins are left to review (MemberPress, iThemes Exchange, WooThemes Memberships & Paid Memberships Pro), we're really getting down to the last group here. If you've missed it, I've taken on the task of reviewing 30 membership plugins. I started back in July and...
Do you know my friend Lisa?
You can imagine what she heard when applying for jobs. You have probably felt it yourself if you're prone to insecurity or the impostor syndrome. \"You didn't finish high school?\" The kind of exterior you have to develop to navigate the world without a degree, much less a fancy degree, is one most of us...
A little secret about WP Engine
The Phone Call \"Should we keep WooCommerce?\" \"Should we stick with WP Engine?\" These were the questions I heard on the phone call I was on. If you don't know - I work for Crowd Favorite, an agency that delivers open source solutions to enterprises. So this call was coming from a serious client who had...
Membership Plugin Review: Wishlist Member
The story behind Wishlist Member is a long one One of the first membership plugins I ever tried was Wishlist Member. That was so long ago it's hard to remember how far back - but something like 8 years or more. This was when I didn't know anything about the WordPress ecosystem. I just knew the...
Custom T-Shirts: Create Your Own Store in 20 Minutes
\"Where can I buy one?\" I was standing on a stage, getting roughly 300 people to repeat after me, \"Hope is not a strategy.\" And if you would have asked others that day if they believed I could get them to do it, most would have said no. But I had a cheat sheet for...
Membership Plugin Review: Magic Members
We're not done yet! The month of July was supposed to be 31 days of membership posts. But I planned poorly. My wife had a surgery in July, we had a week vacation on the beach in July and I relaunched this site and migrated it to a new hosting platform (Rainmaker) in July. So...
The Redesign and Overhaul of Chris Lema
Stepping into a hat store A couple of weeks ago I stepped into a hat store in downtown San Diego. Not a cap store. A real, serious, hat store. I told the gal that I thought it might be time to make a shift from the daily caps I wear (baseball caps that are rarely...
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