Have you ever thought about, or are you considering, selling your time as a WordPress professional, either as a freelancer or through finding paid employment? The two ways of working are quite different – one can involve a lot of autonomy while the other follows the more traditional model that people have been using for their careers since jobs were first …
8 Must-Do Steps for Securing and Hardening Your WordPress Website
Imagine with me for a moment that you’re a hacker looking for ways to hijack reputable websites and use them to funnel unsuspecting traffic to a nefarious phishing scam. How would you target websites for maximum impact? One option would be to locate and target a single vulnerability that affects hundreds or thousands of sites. If such a thing could …
WordPress Careers Masterclass: Selling a Service (Client Work)
Have you thought about making money with WordPress by selling a service? In other words, working with clients to provide them with a service such as a consultancy, or a more tangible outcome like a website? Welcome to the third post in this series on how to build a successful career with WordPress. In the first post in this series, we …
10 Fun Ways to Halloween-ify Your WordPress Site
Halloween is one of the best times of year to shake things up and have some fun. If you love this time of year as much as I do, then you’ve already decorated your house and office with cobwebs, candy bowls, and crazy-spooky characters. But who says spreading the Halloween spirit needs to stop there? If you run a WordPress …
Running a Subscription Business? ChartMogul is *Amazing* (And We’ve Scored You $600 Off!)
We’ve just solved the hardest problem we’ve had for years: easily and accurately working out, displaying and digging into our Software as a Service (SaaS) metrics…. and it’s all thanks to ChartMogul. Honestly, we’ve never found a better tool for simply hooking into your payment providers (for us, Stripe and PayPal, but they also support Braintree, Recurly, Chargify and more) …
WordPress Careers Masterclass: Selling Your Code (Themes and Plugins)
Are you interested in a career selling your code? Specifically, coding themes and plugins that you can then sell for profit? Welcome to the second post in this series on how to build a successful career with WordPress. If you followed part one of this series, WordPress Careers Masterclass: How to Forge a Successful Career, you should have some ideas …
Kinsta Managed Hosting Review: Blazingly Fast and Solid Features
Kinsta is a relative new-comer to the WordPress managed hosting scene, but since launching in 2013 has quickly become a force to be reckoned with. Marketed as “Better, faster, stronger managed WordPress hosting,” the web host uses Google’s Cloud Platform to provide fast speeds from the web giants secure and reliable data centers, paired with Kinsta’s simple and intuitive hosting panel. …
WordPress Careers Masterclass: How to Forge a Successful Career
Welcome to this new series on WordPress careers! In this six-week series, you’ll learn about the wide range of options available to you if you want to forge a career with WordPress. This series will be useful for you if you can answer “yes” to any of the questions below: Are you starting out with WordPress and want to develop your career? …
How We’ve Made Website Monitoring Easy with The Hub
Whether your WordPress empire consists of a single domain or 100 websites, I’ve no doubt that keeping on eye on your empire’s health is of utmost importance to you. The health of any organization, whether it consists of wo/men or megabytes, can be ensured by keeping an eye on just a few key metrics. In the world of government, factors …
New Hub Feature! Update ALL Your Plugins & Themes (Not Just Ours)
We’ve just added a new feature in The Hub, our member dashboard, which we think you are going to like: the ability to update all of your plugins and themes from the one easy dashboard, and not just WPMU DEV ones! So now, in order to manage updates (or, in fact, update every single plugin and theme on every single one of your …










