For long-form interviews, news, and commentary about the WordPress ecosystem. This is the companion show to The WP Minute, your favorite 5-minutes of WordPress news every week.
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The WP Minute brings you WordPress news in under 5 minutes -- every week! Follow The WP Minute for the WordPress headlines before you get lost in the headlines. Hosted by Matt Medeiros, host of The Matt Report podcast.
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Short, bite-sized conversations with indie hackers that have started small, profitable and bootstrapped businesses. You'll learn how they come up with ideas, what they do to validate, find those first customers and make a sustainable income. Episodes every Tuesday.
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The We Are Here podcast celebrating entrepreneurs living and working in the South Coast MA area. Host Matt Medeiros interviews some of our area's leading business owners and community builders to learn how they've built their business. From New Bedford to Fall River, listen to the podcast to learn key business-building advice from entrepreneurs in our area. Tune in every season and stay connected at https://southcoast.fm/subscribe
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LMScast with Chris Badgett
By WordPress LMS Elearning Expert Chris Badgett and Entrepreneur & Online Marketing Business Strategy Expert Chris Badgett on Teaching, Education, WordPress Development & Online Business.
LMScast is a podcast for innovators like you in the WordPress LMS e-learning community. LMScast is produced by Chris Badgett, part of the team behind the #1 WordPress LMS plugin called lifterLMS. Each episode brings you valuable insights with one goal: to help you generate more income and impact through a learning management system built on WordPress. LMScast is for you the entrepreneur, the teacher, the expert, or the online marketer.
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You love listening to podcasts, but what do you know about your favourite podcast host? Podcaster Stories, with your host Danny Brown, allows you to meet the people behind the shows. Each episode sees a podcaster share their story, and how it shaped them into the person they are today. Stories that listeners of these shows may not know. The podcaster's battle with addiction, abuse, serious health issues, and a lot more. Podcaster Stories is perfect for both podcasters themselves and podcast ...
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WordPress Resource: Your Website Engineer with Dustin Hartzler
Dustin R. Hartzler | WordPress Website Engineer
Join us for an entertaining and informative look at creating a high quality website for your business or personal blog by using WordPress. If you already have a website, this podcast can help you create a high quality site. A website doesn't have to be the hardest part of owning a small business. With this show, I will show you how you can take charge of keeping your website maintained and always up to date. This show focuses on WordPress and how it is the best solution for small businesses ...
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Podcasting For Business Growth Masterclass with Matt Medeiros
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In this LMScast episode, Matt Medeiros from The WP Minute shares that formative events he experienced as a child inspired his passion in music and radio. Matt became motivated to engage in these interests by his uncle’s passion for building his own radios. And his father’s profession as a radio presenter. His choice to start a podcast was influence…
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Inside Automattic Special Projects w/ Derek Hanson
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Use Code: WPMINUTE20 20% off (or 4 months free) on Startup, Professional, Growth, or Scale plans. In this episode of WP Minute+, I sat down with Derek Hanson, a Technical Account Manager at Automattic and emerging WordPress content creator. We explored his role within Automattic's Special Projects team, the current state of WordPress, and his perso…
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Marketing Automation in WordPress with FluentCRM and More
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In this LMScast episode, Shahjahan Jewel shares the story of how FluentCRM started as an internal tool for WP Manage Ninja before becoming a full-fledged product. He also shares insights about marketing automation Shahjahan Jewel is the owner of WP Manage Ninja, a business recognized for developing well-liked WordPress products including FluentCRM,…
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How Buy Me A Coffee grew to millions of users - Jijo Sunny
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Today I’m joined by Jijo Sunny, who is the co-founder of Buy Me A Coffee, one of the most popular donation and membership platforms on the internet. They’ve processed 10’s of millions for creators and have built a 26 strong team. Since founding Buy Me A Coffee, Jijo has dabbled in all sorts of projects, including a stint in YC with a podcasting app…
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The WordPress Paradox: Open Source vs. Commercial Interests
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Use Code: WPMINUTE20 20% off (or 4 months free) on Startup, Professional, Growth, or Scale plans. In this extended episode of WP Minute+, I sat down with Mark Szymanski for an in-depth discussion about the current state of WordPress, its philosophy, and the recent developments in the WordPress community. We explored the complexities of WordPress as…
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Becoming a WordPress content creator
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Use Code: WPMINUTE20 20% off (or 4 months free) on Startup, Professional, Growth, or Scale plans. In this episode of WP Minute+, I sat down with Mark Szymanski, a rising WordPress content creator, to discuss the challenges and opportunities in WordPress content creation. We explored the changing landscape of the WordPress community, content strateg…
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Meet LifterLMS Developer and Entrepreneur Brian Hogg
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In this LMScast episode, Brian Hogg shares about his career journey. His journey is a combination of technical expertise in teaching and community development for the software development area. Brian Hogg is a developer at LifterLMS. He started his career at very young age and gained experience of 20 years in technical area by traditional education…
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How focusing on customer happiness led to success for KnowledgeOwl - Marybeth Alexander
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Marybeth Alexander is the founder and Chief Executive Owl of KnowledgeOwl, a bootstrapped knowledge base software founded in 2015. Started as an idea within SurveyGizmo, where Marybeth was working at the time, the company has since flourished into a small, profitable, sustainable business ultimately being built to improve the lives of the founders,…
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Protecting Content Creators from Corporate Overlords
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Use Code: WPMINUTE20 20% off (or 4 months free) on Startup, Professional, Growth, or Scale plans. In this episode of WP Minute+, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Doc Pop, a veteran content creator and WordPress enthusiast. Our conversation spanned Doc's impressive 16-year journey in digital content creation, from his early days making zines …
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WordPress is Thriving in Nigeria w/ Emmanuel Eluwa
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Use Code: WPMINUTE20 20% off (or 4 months free) on Startup, Professional, Growth, or Scale plans. In this episode of WP Minute+, host Matt Medeiros interviews Emmanuel, a WordPress agency owner and community organizer from Port Harcourt, Nigeria. My conversation with Emmanuel was truly enlightening and left me feeling optimistic about the state of …
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LMS Website Developer and Community Builder Dale Berkebile From Brandwise Tell His Story
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In this LMScast episode, Dale Berkebile discuss about his goal to get people to own creativity and make the world a better place. He says that the main goal of his work is to help people become creative and forward-thinking leaders, because he believes that change can’t happen without leaders. Dale Berkebile’s website is “Brandwise“. Dale was moved…
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Use Code: WPMINUTE20 20% off (or 4 months free) on Startup, Professional, Growth, or Scale plans. In this livestream recording of our impromptu "emergency" episode, host Matt Medeiros and guest Mark Szymanski dive into recent discussions and frustrations within the WordPress community. The conversation was sparked by a live stream hosted by Paul Ch…
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Use Code: WPMINUTE20 20% off (or 4 months free) on Startup, Professional, Growth, or Scale plans. In this episode of WP Minute+, host Matt Medeiros sits down with Cory Miller, founder of iThemes and current owner of Post Status. Cory shares insights about his new role at A2 Hosting, the challenges of burnout in the WordPress ecosystem, and how Post…
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Pro Tips from BuddyBoss LifterLMS and Mobile App Expert Chris Lassiter
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In this LMScast Chris Lassiter shares his own experiences with BuddyBoss and LifterLMS tools on their customer visits. Chris Lassiter is an experienced WordPress professional and AI enthusiast. He is the owner of Learn AI Now. Chris guides individuals on navigating and customizing BuddyBoss, ensuring they can confidently utilize the platform to its…
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Use Code: WPMINUTE20 20% off (or 4 months free) on Startup, Professional, Growth, or Scale plans. In this episode of WP Minute+, host Matt Medeiros sits down with Kevin Geary, founder of Geary.co and creator of the Automatic CSS product. Kevin, known for his strong opinions on WordPress and Gutenberg, shares his insights on the current state and fu…
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Introducing Bricks to WordPress Agencies: Insights from Brendan O'Connell
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Use Code: WPMINUTE20 20% off (or 4 months free) on Startup, Professional, Growth, or Scale plans. In this episode of WP Minute+, we sat down with Brendan O’Connell, a WordPress agency employee, freelancer, and content creator. Brendan shared his journey in the WordPress ecosystem, from his early days with Divi to his current role at an agency and h…
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Insights From Web Designer Course Creator and Coach Erica Nash
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In this episode LMScast, Erica Nash has taught the creation of courses, web design, and design in general for a long time. Erica Nash, an web designer and course creator with a lot of experience. She is motivated by her passion of learning and her conviction in the potential of education to change people’s lives. whether she is teaching high school…
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Imagine if Wix invested in open source? Imagine if Wix gained on WordPress? Imagine if Wix conquered our beloved CMS? Imagine if Wix focused on one area in WordPress: Data Liberation. I don’t think the closed-source CMS will supplant tens of thousands of WordPress professionals 1-click installing WordPress for their clients any time soon, even with…
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What would we do with those keys to the Kingdom?
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I wonder if people are generally upset that Mullenweg has control of “WordPress” or that he has control over a large chunk of the “open web.” Placing his irresponsible reactions aside for a moment, I think we should abstract why we might feel the way we do. The fight “for WordPress” is futile. It’s a distraction really. One must stop vying for shar…
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Use Code: WPMINUTE20 20% off (or 4 months free) on Startup, Professional, Growth, or Scale plans. In a recent episode of the WP Minute+ podcast, Matt Medeiros sat down with Nyasha Green, a WordPress developer, course creator, and podcaster, to discuss her new podcast, "The Hopeful Workspace." Nyasha shared her experience of being laid off twice wit…
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How Track Conversions on Your LMS Website with Derek Ashauer from Conversion Bridge
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In this LMScast episode, Derek Ashauer emphasizes the need of maximizing WordPress LMS websites and Tracking conversions. Derek Ashauer is from Conversion Bridge, a platform that integrates with various analytics tools and WordPress plugins to streamline the process of tracking and improving conversions. From his vantage point, a sale is any activi…
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Ranking #1 in Google with Lorem Ipsum and making a career out of scientific SEO - Kyle Roof
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Kyle Roof is the co-founder of High Voltage SEO, PageOptimizer Pro and Internet Marketing Gold. An agency, software and course business respectively which all focus on mastering SEO. I’ve spoken at length on the podcast before about how SEO can be such an effective tool for indie hackers to use, so Kyle is the perfect guest to talk to today. Timest…
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Use Code: WPMINUTE20 20% off (or 4 months free) on Startup, Professional, Growth, or Scale plans. In a recent episode of the WP Minute+ podcast, Matt Medeiros sat down with Kim Coleman, co-founder of Paid Memberships Pro, to discuss the often-challenging topic of raising prices for WordPress plugins. Kim shared valuable insights into why WordPress …
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In this LMScast episode, Sandy Ellingson talks about her path from early childhood development to becoming a significant person in the RV business in an interesting conversation with Chris Badgett. Sandy Ellingson is a vibrant professional with a broad background in technology, finance, early childhood development, and the recreational vehicle sect…
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Get all the links here. With the beta of WordPress 6.6 releasing, and seeing the advancements being made with site building features like Overrides for Synced Patterns — I can’t help but be excited for where WordPress is headed. And I know you might have your druthers with it all, but I’m hoping you invest now because the future is bright for our f…
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In this LMScast episode, Jason Coleman discusses insights into entrepreneurship, starting a consulting business. Also shares about important ideas from his company’s journey route map. In 2006, he and his wife Kim started their own consulting business. Jason Coleman, CTO of LifterLMS and co-founder of Paid Memberships Pro. At first, they focused on…
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Finding success with a QR code app after selling his previous indie business - Ramy Khuffash
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Ramy Khuffash is the founder of Hovercode, a QR code generator he’s working on full time. Previously, Ramy founded Page Flows, a library of inspiration videos for product designers that he sold last November. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 00:56 Email Octopus Sponsor 02:30 Page Flows Acquisition 05:03 What did Ramy buy after he sold his company 05:56 Start…
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WordPress Media Corps — you might even chuckle when you hear the phrase. This experimental initiative is a team that replaced the WordPress Marketing Team. Not commercial WordPress, mind you, but the open source dot org side of the house. If you’ve been following me for any amount of time, you don’t need me to spell out how important this initiativ…
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In this LMScast episode, Will Middleton talk about his path from high school dropout to successful solopreneur by the time he is 22. Will Middleton is from WP Course Guide. Will talks about how he first felt unsatisfied with regular schooling and how he decided to become an entrepreneur because he was afraid of living an empty existence. His introd…
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Using Affiliate Sales to Grow a WordPress Agency
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Use Code: WPMINUTE20 20% off (or 4 months free) on Startup, Professional, Growth, or Scale plans. n this episode of the WP Minute+, Matt Medeiros interviews Alex Standiford, the creator of Siren Affiliates, a new affiliate plugin for WordPress. Standiford explains that Siren Affiliates is designed to help businesses create diverse affiliate program…
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How to Monetize Your YouTube Channel with Online Courses with Christian Taylor
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In this LMScast episode, Christian Taylor from Craylor Academy discuss his path to YouTube, which began as a pastime when he was roughly ten years old. Christian describes his present arrangement as a primarily single creator who receives help from two independent contractors, a creative director and a video editor. He discuss about Monetizing YouT…
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From Tweet Hunter's 8 figure exit, to starting all over again - Tibo Louis-Lucas
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Tibo Louis-Lucas is a serial founder, most well known for starting Tweet Hunter and Taplio in 2021, before selling the company in 2022 for 8 figures. Since then, Tibo has gone on to acquire an AI video creation tool, Typeframes, which he spun Revid.ai recently. He actually announced after recording this that he has left Tweethunter and is back to f…
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Use Code: WPMINUTE20 20% off (or 4 months free) on Startup, Professional, Growth, or Scale plans. In this episode of the WP Minute+, Matt Medeiros interviews Scott Stapley, CEO and co-founder of BigScoots, a managed WordPress hosting company. Stapley shares the story of how he and his business partner started BigScoots in 2010 while still in colleg…
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How to Increase Your Website Speed with NitroPack
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In this LMScast episode, Mihail Stoychev explains that NitroPack began in 2013 with a focus on optimizing websites for the OpenCart platform. Mihail Stoychev is the co-founder of NitroPack, a company focused on website optimization. The spark was a request from a big e-commerce business that was losing customers owing to sluggish website performanc…
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I really enjoyed the conversation lead by Brian Coords on the topic of version control for WordPress developers and builders. He was joined by my recurring cohost, Mark Szymanski, as he asked the tough questions many beginners might be facing in their early development days. Yes, that’s the same Mark that cohosted the episode of Crossroads of WordP…
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Building a $200k MRR bootstrapped maid software for a price sensitive niche - Amar Ghose, ZenMaid
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Amar Ghose is the founder of ZenMaid, a Maid Service software that has just hit $200k MRR. Amar is a seasoned bootstrapped entrepreneur, having started ZenMaid back in 2013. Amar’s story shows the power of sticking with something through the hard times, and having an unsexy niche (aka not selling to other indie hackers) can lead to a phenomenal ind…
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Use Code: WPMINUTE20 20% off (or 4 months free) on Startup, Professional, Growth, or Scale plans. In this thought-provoking podcast, Matt and Mark dive into the current state of WordPress, discussing its target audience, marketing strategies, and potential challenges that lie ahead. The conversation covers a wide range of topics, offering insights …
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Upload and Track SCORM Content in WordPress with LifterLMS
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In this LMScast episode, Kurt Von Ahnen delves into the intricate process of migrating from traditional SCORM-based learning systems to more agile platforms like WordPress integrated with LifterLMS. Kurt is a LifterLMS user and LifterLMS expert. His expertise includes handling SCORM content and migration initiatives, in addition to dealing with pla…
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6 Biggest WordPress Moves While Mullenweg Was On Sabbatical
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The Biggest WordPress Moves While Mullenweg was on Sabbatical Matt Mullenweg is returning from his 3 month sabbatical, dubbed “Samattical”, which kicked off February 1, 2024. He handed the CEO reigns back to Toni Schneider and placed Daniel Bachhuber in charge of WordPress.com in his absence. I thought we’d see the whole organization coast while th…
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Use Code: WPMINUTE20 20% off (or 4 months free) on Startup, Professional, Growth, or Scale plans. In this episode of the WP Minute+, Matt Medeiros interviews Rafal Tomal, co-creator of the new Rockbase WordPress theme. Tomal, a renowned designer in the WordPress community, discusses his journey from working at Copyblogger and StudioPress to foundin…
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How WordPress is Helping Beginner Developers
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WordPress is amazing not just because it’s a great tool to publish words on the internet, but that it has the potential to encourage you to learn more about the web — if you want. If you remember the golden age of automobiles, enthusiasts would change their own oil or make the repairs themselves to avoid bringing them to the dealership. An act to s…
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Building WP Minute, a 5-figure side project without a huge audience - Matt Medeiros, WP Minute
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Matt Medeiros is the founder of WP Minute, a weekly podcast highlighting WordPress news in less than 5 minutes. He’s a podcasting expert, having previously worked as Director of Podcasting success at Castos and now hosts & produces Breakdown, a podcast by Gravity forms. This episode talks about how you can make a sustainable 5-figure side project, …
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How to Build an eLearning App Without Coding Using Gravity View
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In this LMScast episode, Zack Katz shares a comprehensive overview of GravityView and its associated plugins developed by GravityKit. Also he shares how to create a app for your LifterLMS website with GravityView. Zack Katz is the founder of GravityKit. He is a prominent figure in the WordPress community. In this episode, He highlights how Gravity …
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Announcements Custom Post Types in WordPress Admin WordPress Training Team’s Site Redesign Where the Cloud Touches the Ground How WordPress is Creating a Faster Web Is there a plugin for that? With more than 50,000 plugins in the WordPress repository, it’s hard to find the perfect one. Each week, I will highlight an interesting plugin from the repo…
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Bluehost Unveils Cloud Hosting Built for WordPress Professionals
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Use Code: WPMINUTE20 20% off (or 4 months free) on Startup, Professional, Growth, or Scale plans. In a recent interview on the WP Minute+ podcast, host Matt Medeiros sat down with Chris Vano, Senior Director of Product Management at Bluehost, to discuss the company's latest offering: Bluehost Cloud, a WordPress hosting solution powered by WP Cloud.…
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Maximize Course and Coaching Revenue Through Partnerships with Siren Affiliates
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In this LMScast episode, Alex shares information on Siren Affiliates, a platform made to enable collaborations outside of conventional affiliate networks. Alex Standiford is owner of Siren Affiliates. He highlights how adaptable Siren Affiliates is, able to work with a variety of collaboration models outside of affiliate marketing. It facilitates c…
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I recently had the pleasure of meeting Sam Harrison, a professional Webflow consultant and content creator. He was open to co-host a WordPress vs Webflow debate with me, while also unpacking how business is going for his services company. Heading into the debate, I spent a a few hours watching his content and really enjoyed his Webflow Components B…
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Building a $700k ARR newsletter - Manu Cinca, Stacked Marketer
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Manu Cinca is the founder of Stacked Marketer, a daily marketing newsletter he bootstrapped to $700k. In 2023, he acquired 2 newsletters to bring the subscriber count to 100k and raised a small 250k funding round to help boost growth.By James McKinven
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Use Code: WPMINUTE20 20% off (or 4 months free) on Startup, Professional, Growth, or Scale plans. Matt Medeiros, host of the WP Minute+ podcast, recently had an engaging conversation with Adam Zielinski, the creator of WordPress Playground, a revolutionary tool that allows users to run WordPress entirely in their browser without the need for a serv…
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