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So, what’s your career plan? Do you have one? Maybe you don’t? If you don’t, let’s do something about it. Welcome to the final post in this series on how to build a successful career with WordPress. Hopefully, the earlier articles in this series have helped you to identify your career priorities and learn how to approach specific career paths. …
There are two main ways to monetize WordPress: you can use it to set up an online store and sell products, either physical or virtual. Or you can use it to power a Software as a Service (SaaS) business, like our own Edublogs. Both of these sound like a great way to earn a living: you don’t have to deal …
Imagine for a moment that your hosting provider has suffered a massive server failure and completely lost every trace of your WordPress website(s). Once you stop hyperventilating, think about how you’ll repair the damage. Will you be able to quickly get all of your sites back online without any major data loss? Not to brag, but my answer would be …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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? …
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 …
Whether you’re working for a client or developing your own WordPress projects, you don’t need me to tell you that speed matters. A lot. And contrary to the well-known cliche, it’s really the lack of speed that kills when it comes to the web. If you depend on WordPress for your livelihood, then it had better perform: Ignore site speed …
