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
Interview: Chris von Nieda from WPsitehelpers
WPsitehelpers is a WordPress website maintenance service founded by Chris in 2015. The company is located in Arizona, USA, but the team members work from all over the world. They provide fast & friendly WordPress help to people with WordPress websites who need support and are not sure where to turn. For a low monthly… Read More
Interview: Steven Watts from Newt Labs
Newt Labs started as a design and development service, mainly doing custom WordPress sites. Steven would work with clients to design and develop solutions to help solve problems and achieve different goals. It’s served him as a side gig from 2010 – 2016, whilst he was constantly working his way up through digital marketing agencies…. Read More
Interview: Chad Warner from OptimWise
In 2010, Chad Warner started a small company that quickly grew into a WordPress agency. The fact that the company had a chance to work on hundreds of different WordPress-related projects help them gain experience in the field. Chad is fully involved in OptimWise and manages operations and leads sales and marketing efforts. He also… Read More
Interview: Makis Mourelatos from FixMyWP
Having experience as a software consultant helped Makis to start a small WordPress maintenance company based in Athens, Greece. FixMyWP now has people working from other locations in Europe and the USA as well. The company started operating back in April of 2013. Since then, the team at FixMyWP has cleaned more than 2,000 WordPress… Read More