Themes & Plugins

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 abkeypresout 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 ...

Comparing WordPress form conditional logic in 2021

Form Conditional Logic is Available Everywhere If you read the post I wrote the other day about choosing the right WordPress form plugin, you'll recall that I created a grid with all the features to compare. One of the features ...

How to write a support request (that won’t get ignored)

I know. It's hard to imagine that anyone would need a lesson on how to write a support request – because most of us know how to ask for help. But sadly, the more that software eats the world, the ...

The Success of WooCommerce Premium Extensions: Should You Do It Too?

It's hard to remember the world before WooCommerce premium extensions. If you've not been in the WordPress community for a long time, you might not remember when there were only two kinds of plugins – free and premium. No extensions ...