Anybody who has designed or developed a WordPress theme or plugin will know, and will have experienced, the situation of getting overly wrapped up in creative inspiration or technical challenges. It’s very, very easy and not categorically a bad thing. Some of the best, most inspired work comes from these scenarios. However, in many cases, this is not always true. Often, (and unfortunately) it may mean that a developer or designer takes their eye off the ball and loses sight of their most important commodity; their users. We’ve all been there, and we’ve all been guilty at some point. As someone […]
WordPress as a service in the wild
In a previous article here on Torque, we discussed reasons why you might want to consider WordPress as a platform for an SaaS. For those who don’t know, and to quickly recap what a SaaS is — it stands for Software as a Service. It is a model of software distribution whereby the software is hosted, maintained, and updated by the provider. In this article we move forward to look at a selection of WordPress-powered SaaS apps currently on the market. In turn we will then look at the approaches they take to using WordPress as a SaaS, and finally […]
Why Choose WordPress to Power (Part of) your SaaS
Software as a Service (SaaS) is a hot topic of conversation. And increasingly WordPress has become involved in this discussion. Here, we will look at specific reasons why you may want to consider using WordPress to power your SaaS — or perhaps power part of your SaaS. But before we dig in, what on earth does SaaS mean? Software as a Service (SaaS) SaaS is a software distribution model whereby software is provided as a service, rather than the more traditional, host-it-yourself software. A SaaS is hosted, maintained, and updated by the provider and, unless free, is typically billed via […]
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