Themes And Plugins
Reflections on a WordPress Acquisition Marketplace
There’s a new WordPress acquisition marketplace: FlipWP The other day Iain Poulson sent me a DM on Twitter telling me about a new WordPress acquisition marketplace called FlipWP. You can see the announcement here: Announcing FlipWP 🚀 The private acquisition…
Recapture.io & Abandoned Carts for WordPress
How much would you pay to solve abandoned carts for WordPress? If you’re making money while using WordPress, there’s a good chance you’re using a solution like WooCommerce or Easy Digital Downloads. And if that’s the case, you’re likely also…
In a Contested Market, Build Stand Apart Features
There will always be competition Eleven years ago, when The Events Calendar was created, I’m pretty sure they didn’t realize how many calendar plugins were going to be created. Plugins like Gravity Forms and Yoast SEO also probably didn’t imagine…
My Favorite Pricing Table Example
Pricing tables are a challenge I talk about pricing a lot with my coaching clients (and folks that reach out to me on clarity). So it won’t surprise you that they often ask me to show them a pricing table…
The Simplest Newsletter Plugin for WordPress
Are you looking for a newsletter plugin for your WordPress site? Everyone is out there talking about newsletters. And if you have a blog already, you might be looking for a newsletter plugin for WordPress. In that case, I want…
Going to Build Premium WordPress Plugins? Do This First.
Want to make money with premium WordPress plugins? WordPress powers more than 40% of the web – which is crazy! It’s also 18 years old, which means you might think there’s no more room left to grow. My math says…
Differentiation Needs To Be More Than Rent vs Own
Digital sharecropping is a thing. I get it. If you’ve never heard of the phrase, “digital sharecropping”, then you should check out this 2015 article at Copyblogger by Sonia Simone. The short version is don’t build your digital empire on…
You Can’t Afford The WordPress Plugin You Want
Eventually we all hear this request If you visit a WordPress or WooCommerce facebook group, you’re likely to hear a request for a plugin that does everything. My answer often disappoints them. It doesn’t exist. And if it did, you…
Customizing the WordPress Dashboard Is Now Easy
Make WordPress more friendly for non-technical audiences I’ve been having a conversation with a few folks about the challenge that comes with building WordPress solutions for non-technical customers. And the conversation regularly goes back to customizing the WordPress dashboard. So…
Gravity Forms Makes It Fun to Work With Forms
Gravity Forms 2.5 is Live If you want to talk about the most powerful plugins that have made WordPress what it is today, I would tell you it’s has been form plugins, membership plugins, eCommerce plugins and LMS plugins. The…