Did you know over 26 million Americans didn’t have health insurance in 2019? It’s not a secret that medical costs in the United States are expensive — and in various cases, people leave the hospital with substantial debt. That’s precisely why companies offer benefits to their workers. However, health insurance can be tricky to navigate as a business, especially when your employees are contractors. Should you give your blogging staff medical coverage? Here are some things to consider. Coverage Requirements for Small Businesses First, you’ll want to know whether you’re required to offer health care. If you employ more than […]
Press This Podcast: Traffic Building From Zero For Brand New Websites with Adam Riemer
Welcome to Press This, the WordPress community podcast from WMR. Here host David Vogelpohl sits down with guests from around the community to talk about the biggest issues facing WordPress developers. The following is a transcription of the original recording. David Vogelpohl: Hello everyone and welcome to Press This the WordPress community podcasts on WMR. This is your host, David Vogelpohl, I support the WordPress community through my role at WP Engine, and I love to bring the best of the community to you hear every week on press this as a reminder, you can find me on Twitter @wpdavidv, […]
Torque’s Social Hour: Luke Carbis, the Triage Lead for WordPress 5.8
The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream about WordPress news, events, and life in quarantine. In this week’s episode Doc with Luke Carbis, a WordPress Core contributor and WP Engine employee, about his new role as the Triage Lead on WordPress 5.8. We also talk about criticism of Google’s FLoC program and other WordPress news. Join us next Wednesday from 3-4pm PST for the next episode of the Torque Social Hour with Francesca Marano and Taco Verdo from Yoast.
Press This Podcast: Hidden Profits & Faster Workflows for WordPress Agencies With Vito Peleg
Welcome to Press This, the WordPress community podcast from WMR. Here host David Vogelpohl sits down with guests from around the community to talk about the biggest issues facing WordPress developers. The following is a transcription of the original recording. David Vogelpohl: Hello everyone and welcome to Press This the WordPress community podcasts on WMR. This is your host, David Vogelpohl, I support the WordPress community through my role at WP Engine, and I love to bring the best of the community to you hear every week on press this as a reminder, you can find me on Twitter @wpdavidv, […]
Lessons Learned Working for a SaaS Company and Why I’m Passing on the Torch
In December 2018, it was time to start selling my first WordPress plugin. I started Googling around for solutions and quickly stumbled upon Freemius – a SaaS for selling plugins and themes. Like most other newcomers to the platform, I was thrilled at the prospect of how easy it would be to monetize my plugin. Little did I know that just three months later, I would become the Head of Marketing at this rapidly growing startup, a brainchild of the Founder and CEO Vova Feldman. My WordPress Story I started as a freelancer building websites back in 2010 and slowly […]
Fluent CRM Wins Plugin Madness 2021
2021 has already been a wild year and Plugin Madness was no different! In its sixth year, the bracket-style competition came back bigger than ever. After a hard-fought battle Fluent CRM has emerged victorious. FluentCRM was considered the underdog, but the team took to Twitter and got the votes. The plugin took on giants in the space like MetaBox, Yoast, and finally WooCommerce to come out on top. FluentCRM is a customer relationship management system that lets you get to know your customers better than ever before. With this plugin, you can import customer information, segment contacts, automate customer emails, […]
5 Top Scheduling Plugins for Your WordPress Website
Managing a business often involves juggling several responsibilities – some mundane yet essential. Tasks such as scheduling client appointments or reservations may be crucial to your bottom line. However, you could be losing valuable time managing this process manually. Fortunately, there’s a clear-cut fix – delegating to a plugin. Although settling on a solution that suits your workflow can be a bit involved, we’ve done some research to make it easier. A WordPress scheduling plugin can help you redirect your efforts to more critical business tasks, and improve the User Experience (UX) for your customers. In this post, we’ll discuss […]
Press This Podcast: The Rise of Headless WordPress with Jason Bahl Creator of WPGraphQL
Welcome to Press This, the WordPress community podcast from WMR. Here host David Vogelpohl sits down with guests from around the community to talk about the biggest issues facing WordPress developers. The following is a transcription of the original recording. David Vogelpohl: Hello everyone and welcome to Press This the WordPress community podcasts on WMR. This is your host, David Vogelpohl, I support the WordPress community through my role at WP Engine, and I love to bring the best of the community to you hear every week on press this as a reminder, you can find me on Twitter @wpdavidv, […]
Torque’s Social Hour: Jason Cohen, the founder of WP Engine
The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream about WordPress news, events, and life in quarantine. In this week’s episode Doc will talk with Jason Cohen, the founder and CTO of WP Engine. In this episode we talk about decoupled architecture, headless WordPress, and full site editing in WordPress 5.8. Join us next Wednesday from 3-4pm PST for the next episode of the Torque Social Hour.
Headless WordPress Hosting: 8 Excellent Options to Host Your Site
Thinking of trying headless WordPress for yourself? It’s definitely not for everyone. You have to do a lot of confusing setup while working with a technology that isn’t very well documented online. But the real difficult part may be finding hosting suited for headless WordPress. While you can host a headless instance on any server, a specially configured one will help you tackle common issues without needing to handle it all on your own. And thanks to headless WordPress’ growing popularity, there are quite a few hosting providers ready to accommodate you. Each of the eight hosts below are perfectly […]

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