Weglot, a multilingual plugin which has been in the WordPress market for a little over a year, has closed $450K in seed funding from SIDE Capital. Co-founder Rémy Berda reports that there are now more than 10,000 websites using Weglot and the company has passed 30K€ in monthly revenue. Over the past six months Berda and his small team have …
Project Management Tools for WordPress to Help You Stay on Track
It takes more than a cup of coffee and a monitor covered in sticky notes to organize a WordPress project. Whether you’re building a client website, launching a new plugin or running a SaaS, the success of your project depends on your organizational skills. And if your organizational skills are somewhat lacking – or even if they’re […] View original post at …
WPHugs: A Community Devoted to Educating, Discussing, and Raising Awareness of Mental Health
In the past two years, there has been an increased effort in the WordPress community to raise awareness of mental health. Cory Miller, Rich Robinkoff, Michele Butcher, and others have presented on the subject at numerous WordCamps. A common theme that surrounds mental health is the fear of discussing it openly. WPHugs.org, a passion project by Leo Gopal, aims to provide a safe space …
5 Lessons From the Great Pepsi Shakeup
Hitching your advertising to a trendy topic has great potential, both for better and worse. View original post at Entrepreneur…
How to Tell a Potential Client Their Site Sucks – and Offer to Fix It for Them
As I was reading about the weird ways to find new gigs as a WordPress developer the other day, I noticed a comment from kalico that I thought was worth exploring: Adding insult to injury is something every WordPress freelancer should be wary of whenever approaching a new client (or an old one whose website […] View original post at …
WordPress Community Team Considers New Retreat-Style WordCamp
photo credit: Jesse Bowser The WordPress Community Team is debating the merits of a new type of WordCamp, a hybrid event with the traditional WordCamp content in a retreat-style format. Sven Wagener and the Köln meetup group in Germany, which has more than 700 members, have proposed a new style of camp that would potentially be called “WordCamp in the …
How to Create a Standout Personal Brand
Here’s what solopreneurs, influencers and rebels with a cause can learn from TV and radio personality Charlamagne Tha God about standing out, and staying relevant long-term. View original post at Entrepreneur…
15 Instagram Marketing Tips to Help People Fall in Love with Your WordPress Business
Why is Instagram so awesome? Let me count the ways: There are over 400 million users on Instagram every day. No character limits! It’s all about the visual content. Your posts don’t get buried like on Facebook or Twitter. Companies on Instagram receive the highest follower engagement rates (2.3%) out of all social media platforms. […] View original post at …
Seattle to Host WooConf 2017 in October, Conference to Focus on Developers
WooConf, the official WooCommerce developer’s conference, is returning for its third edition October 19-20, 2017. In line with previous years’ events that were hosted in major U.S. tech hubs (San Francisco and Austin), WooConf 2017 will be held in Seattle. The organizing team, which is made up of almost a dozen people from around the world of WooCommerce, is planning …
3 Lessons in Creating a Winning B2B Brand Voice
B2B brands reap big benefits when they put time and effort into the kinds of customer experience strategies that B2C brands are executing every day. View original post at Entrepreneur…