Choosing the Right WordPress Form Plugin
How do you decide which WordPress form plugin is the right one? Especially between Gravity Forms, Formidable Pro, and Ninja Forms. Here's my take.
Driving Revenue Growth in the WordPress Ecosystem
My Version of the Story Starts in 2016 I left Crowd Favorite at the start of 2016. We'd just had a major health scare where my wife was bleeding internally and we had to rush to an ER (where things ...
My Site’s WordPress Plugins List
A couple weeks ago I told you that I had changed my theme. One reader wrote back and said, essentially, that's nice but can you get us your WordPress plugins list? I had two immediate thoughts: Are there any extraneous ...
I don’t care about the feature list, I just want less work
This is an opinion. Just an opinion. If you don't want to hear it, come back tomorrow. More product, agency and business advice then. But this is advice I'm starting to give many of the product developers I'm talking to ...
Can Jetpack Speed Up Your WordPress Site?
If you've heard of Jetpack, you either love it or hate it In the early days of Jetpack, many of the folks I know thought it could be helpful. Then, it got bigger and bulkier and most folks thought it ...
WordPress Marketing Automation
Not everyone can afford an external marketing automation platform Let me start by saying that when it comes to marketing automation platforms, I'm always ready to recommend several solutions. I've worked with a ton of them, and recently compared ConvertKit ...
How big is the market for your premium plugin in 2021?
Want to enter the world of WordPress premium plugins? Think that it's too late to create a premium plugin? Most people in the space might agree with you. After all, there's a plugin for everything. Right? Well, hold on a ...
This site now runs on the Blocksy theme
The Blocksy theme is one of four really fast themes The other day I told you about several themes I was checking out as I start to move from a pagebuilder-based site to Gutenberg. That list, if you recall, included ...
Software Licensing for WordPress Plugins
Need license keys for your WordPress plugin or theme? If you've ever wanted to monetize the code you've written, especially (but not uniquely) in the WordPress ecosystem, you've likely thought about how you'd go about protecting it. After all, giving ...
Building a membership plugin? You need these 11 features.
Speaking at WordFest Live 2021 Later this month I'll be speaking at WordFest Live 2021. My session is titled, “Selling Access to Content: A Review of your Options.” In my talk, I'm looking at membership and LMS plugins for WordPress. ...