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
How to Grow a Plugin to 100,000 Users in a Year
For the past elevenish months, since September 2016, we’ve been maintaining, developing and growing the Under Construction WordPress plugin to get it up to 100,000 active installations. That number is not an epic achievement – there are quite a few plugins with +100k installations. However, the growth rate of more than ten thousand new active… Read More