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DradCast Episode 39: Pricing Drelema

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April 3, 2014

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Show Notes Host Chris Lema started using WordPress in 2005 because of how user-friendly it is for customers. He’s still active in the WordPress community—consulting with different companies to help them think through strategy. Chris attends about 6 WordCamps a year, in addition to starting his own WordPress events. One such event is in Cabo, where folks can spend time relaxing in villas while talking shop about WordPress. He is also the creator of WPwatercooler, one of the more popular WordPress weekly shows. You can contact him on twitter @chrislema, or on his website. Sippin’ On Brad Captain Morgan Private Stock Dre […]

Hosting Recommendations at WordPress.org: Time for Change?

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April 3, 2014

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WordPress.org should update their hosting recommendations’ page. A few days back, I received this email from an old client of mine: “Hi Sufyan! I needed some help from you regarding WordPress hosting for my site. I’m right now hosted with Bluehost but my site has been performing very slow and keeps throwing up server error messages (I have attached some screenshots for you to look). When I write to Bluehost support about this they tell me their servers are fine and the problem is at my end. I am using the regular plugins only like Akismet and WP Super Cache. […]

Dictator: Configuring WordPress One State at a Time

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April 3, 2014

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On March 31, Daniel Bachhuber announced the release of Dictator. Dictator aims to alleviate the difficulties of website configuration by providing users with the ability to easily configure WordPress to YAML state files. This has been cultivated through the way that Dictator understands WordPress as states. Bachhuber breaks down exactly what states are in the announcement: States are collections of regions. Each state file has the state declaration along with tracked configuration details for each region. Regions have a defined schema which produces the translation between the human-readable YAML file and how WordPress stores state in the database. Additionally, Dictator provides users with the […]

Speed up to a Higher Rank and ROI

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April 2, 2014

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The web isn’t what it used to be. In the past, before the web frontier was conquered, anyone could throw up a website and make money. This is because search engine ranking was fairly straightforward and easy to understand. Your site could be successfully ranked simply by using keywords, avoiding the use of images for links, and keeping words at the bottom of the page to a minimum. Today, the landscape has drastically changed. The, once empty, web has become Times Square. There’s advertising in all directions, with millions of people playing the same game. So, naturally, maintaining a high […]

5 Other WordPress Businesses That You Could Start

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April 2, 2014

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Unless you got here by mistake, you’re here because you’ve heard how popular, and maybe even how easy, WordPress is. And if that’s the case, maybe you’ve considered stepping into the ecosystem. Maybe you’ve wondered what kind of business opportunities exist—especially if you don’t feel confident going out on your own yet, and don’t love working for an agency. Or maybe you don’t feel like your experience warrants the rate you would need to charge to go on your own. So even if everyone you know talks about the jobs listed below, you’re not sure if they’re a right fit […]

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