Interview: Stefano Ginella from WOptimize
WOptimize.io is a newborn baby in the WordPress support and maintenance world. It has been launched in October 2017, thus it’s still quite small – right now the team counts only two members. The business has its headquarters in Italy but since the team considers themselves digital nomads they’re usually not in the same place… Read More
Interview: Nigel Jennings from WP Hero
WP Hero started a couple of years ago and like a lot of support and management services, it morphed out of a web design/services company. They are a bit different though; there are two co-founders from different parts of the world – Nigel from Ireland and David from the US. The guys met in India… Read More
Interview: Phillip Koo from Zen WP
Zen WP was a separate venture of advertising and creative agency (still growing today) in California back in 2013. At that time, Zen WP was actually called MemberFixers, which provided a range of technical support and services for membership websites on a subscription basis, not only for WordPress but also for Drupal. During the early… Read More
Interview: Brad Williams from Maintainn
Maintainn is a WordPress maintenance company owned by WebDevStudios (WDS), a web design and development agency that specializes in creating WordPress websites for small businesses and enterprise level projects. In total, WDS has a team of 29 (not including COO, Lisa Sabin-Wilson, and Brad Williams), but Maintainn has five full-time employees that provide WordPress support… Read More
Interview: Rikard Degler from SteadyWP
Before becoming a freelance WordPress developer in 2012, Rikard was working as a test engineer for SonyEricsson in Sweden for a couple of years. Today, Rikard is a project manager. He handles all communication and makes sure everything runs smoothly at SteadyWP. Although running a WordPress maintenance company, his full-time work is with Kriesi Media, providing… Read More
Interview: Steven Kaufman from ValiusWP
ValiusWP was founded and based out of Sacramento, California. Currently, the company has got 3 full-time employees and several contracted ones that help on more ad-hoc projects. The team has offices in Italy and California with employees spanning the globe from Hungary, the Philippines and, South America. Over the last ten years, Steven’s experience includes… Read More
Interview: Bodhi McGee from Total WP Support
Bodhi McGee is a WordPress developer and designer working with websites since 2010. Before that, Bodhi was involved in e-learning for the SPCA of Australia and TAFE education in Australia. He is head of support at Total WP Support which means that every client will contact Bodhi before the job is delegated as needed to… Read More
How to Optimize a WordPress Database to Run Faster
“If your business isn’t online, it doesn’t exist” was a common saying in the middle of the last decade. It was, is, and will be true, but it’s no longer enough. Nowadays, your business not only needs a website but it should load quickly on any mobile device. People aren’t patient enough to wait for… Read More
Interview: Rob Dobson from WPMaintenance.Love
Rob originally built websites. But not being much of a designer, he moved into digital marketing. He still finds himself building websites for smaller digital marketing clients an eventually this started to be solely using WordPress. After finding out that several digital marketing clients of his used WordPress websites and wanted them optimised both for… Read More
Interview: Marcel Sobieski from WPMatic
WPMatic is a Polish company established in 2007 with four offices in Germany, Poland, and two offices in Moldova. WPMatic’s team has 18 guys and girls, and they’re always ready to hire more people to specially dedicate them to the clients’ projects. WPMatic has tens of white-label clients (like digital agencies and other software development… Read More