Waking up early is killing your productivity, creativity and social life. And for what? Developers don’t reach peak productivity until 2pm. No wonder this post on waking up early was so controversial. Circadian neurologist Russel Foster says there’s no evidence that waking up early increases your wealth, it just makes you “horribly smug.” His words, […]
5 Must Join Slack Workspaces For WordPress Pros and Developers
Slack mimics the way large groups naturally communicate but with tide pod emojis, savage bots, magic 8 ball decision making and of course gifs! No wonder the WordPress community has started to use Slack to coordinate activity. Slack stands for Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge (I say we just stick with Slack). It’s more than […]
The WordPress Agency and Freelancer Guide To CRMs
Every business that provides a service needs a CRM – we learned this the hard way. Don’t be like us. If you take nothing else away from this post, the most important idea is that if you don’t separate ‘sales’ from the rest of your business, it will suffer. One-person freelancers, agencies, and other businesses […]
How To Make Money Offering A WordPress Maintenance Service
How would you like an extra $100-$300+ per client every month? If your WordPress development, design or marketing business isn’t offering a WordPress site maintenance package you’re missing out on a huge opportunity. Give your clients peace of mind and spare them the horror they would suffer if left to their own devices, all while […]
The Non-Developers Guide to Git and GitHub
Git is notoriously difficult for beginners to learn, especially for non-developers. It took me at least 3 (alright more like 20) attempts before I learned how to use Git and that was only because I Googled, “Explain Like I’m 5 Git.” Most of us navigate our computers with visual queues. “Here’s my document. I want […]
12 Days of WhiPmas and the Best WordPress Puns of the Year
Can you believe!? The WhiP is my second longest newsletter relationship. I looked through my Gmail archives and the oldest issue I was able to dig up was issue 345 from December 2015. I’ve been reading the WhiP for half its life and like the best relationships, it has been a delightful partner all the […]
Say Hello To The Future Of Image Optimization – Smush 3.0 Is Here!!!
Smush 3.0 is here and she comes bearing futuristic image optimization superpowers for WordPress! Your favorite image optimization tool now powers a Global Image Delivery Network – 40 Tbps, 45 points of presence, WebP compression and AUTOMATIC IMAGE SCALING. Sounds pretty awesome…but what does it all mean? With +13.5 million downloads, Smush has proven itself […]
WPMU DEV Dashboard Now With Built-in Analytics And Plugin White Labeling
The WPMU DEV dashboard plugin is currently used on a quarter of a million sites (Wowzas!). And why wouldn’t it? It unlocks better security and performance, backups, one-click installations, automated updates, reports and improved support access. Some would say it’s the magic behind the magic 🙂 The WPMU DEV Dashboard plugin works behind the scenes […]
WPMU DEV And WordCamps – Starting With WCUS 2018!
When it comes to WordCamps, we are longtime listeners, first-time callers. What I mean is that from early on, we have enjoyed attending and occasionally speaking at different camps around the world, but besides a few smaller exceptions, we’ve not really gone ‘all in’ on sponsoring. That’s changing for us in a pretty big way […]
Building Plugin Stacks for Complex WordPress Sites
With the right plugin stack, WordPress can produce some powerful and complex sites. But WordPress has no central authority coordinating everyone’s efforts, so plugin incompatibilities are a big problem. That’s like, the textbook definition of complexity: Complexity characterises the behaviour of a system or model whose components interact in multiple ways and follow local rules, meaning there is […]