Improving Your WordPress Site’s Performance
Let's Say You Wanted to Lose Weight We're going to talk about your WordPress Site's performance, but first let me walk you thru a thought exercise. Imagine you wanted to lose weight. Would you believe someone if they told you ...
Is Your Site Working For You?
Today I delivered a talk as part of Jennifer Bourn‘s Content Camp (Website Copy Edition). My session was on your offer pages, and the follow-up to the talk is a working session where we get to have a discussion and ...
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 ...
Plugin Developers, Don’t Ignore This Growth Strategy
There's this riddle / puzzle that I heard as a kid. A guy is standing at the window of his office, in a 24 story building. He decides he's done and jumps. Halfway down, he hears a phone ring and ...
How To Create a Membership Site With WordPress in 10 Steps
Introduction There's never been a better time to create a membership site than right now. We saw the big jump in both membership sites and online courses in 2020 from COVID and the trends suggest this will continue this year ...
Four Steps to a 90+ PageSpeed Score
As I was walking upstairs to pick a topic to write about tonight, I couldn't help but think about the conversations that I've been having with folks inside Nexcess and outside, on an almost daily-basis. Everything is about performance. Site ...
Picking Your WordPress Hosting Partner
Picking the right hosting provider for your Wordpress site is completely driven by you. Knowing what motivates you will help you make the right choice.
Securing WordPress Sites
You’ve seen bon qui qui on MadTV, right? She’s known for a lot of things but I like her most because of her commitment to calling security. Unlike the video, you can call security as often as you need when your WordPress site gets hacked.
Using WordPress Without Writing Any Code
What's the best No-Code platform out there today for creators? When it comes to building apps today, you no longer have to be a developer. The No-Code movement has spawned tons of platforms out there that support creators as they ...
Building Landing Pages with the Block Editor (Gutenberg)
Landing pages used to be owned by the Page Builders The power of WordPress page builders, like my favorite Beaver Builder, were most brilliantly demonstrated on landing pages. Building landing pages with them was fast and easy and they looked ...