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Crowdfunding has quickly become a normal way to generate capital for new projects and products. However, the approach suffers from many of the drawbacks of a non-subscription business model. Most crucially, you’ll need to rely on a high number of customers in order to reach your goals. Patreon was created in part to provide a consistent, ongoing income source to help creatives keep doing what they do. However, with the recent release of its WordPress plugin, the platform has now become an excellent way to create a membership website with WordPress. In this post, we’ll discuss the benefits of creating […]

Moving your WordPress site to a new domain can be as exhausting as moving homes. In fact, it’s even more exhausting! At least when you move homes you don’t have to worry about the harm it’s going to do to your SEO. And this is the scary bit: when we move our WordPress site, it’s natural to get anxious that all the hard work we put into our SEO campaigns is going to go to waste. Our rankings will plummet, and we’ll lose visibility. The good news? That’s not going to happen if you do this right. The bonus good […]

What began as a blogging platform 14 years ago, has now grown to power everything from ecommerce to enterprise sites. 2017 was a huge year for WordPress, and its growth is in no way slowing down. Every quarter it ticks up powering more and more of the web, most recently at 29 percent according to a December 1, 2017, report from W3Techs. This week, WP Engine announced a $250 million investment from Silver Lake, the global leader in technology investing. This is huge news for WordPress. Not only does the CMS power nearly a third of the entire Internet, an investment of this […]