There are several pricing models that exist out there and I thought it might help our business discussions to look at them and to highlight the biggest difference between cost-based and value-based pricing. Cost-Based Pricing Flat Pricing The most simple of cost-based pricing approaches is to simply charge a single price. It’s also the one that most people are used to—like when you walk into a store, grab a product, and it has a single price tag on it. If your production costs are clear, and your margin determined, then a flat price may not give you the best profit, […]
What to Look for in a WordPress Backup Solution
There are two kinds of WordPress users—those who have lost their site and those who will. If you own a website, then you are sure to hit this situation at some point. Why, you ask? The most common causes are host failures, hacks, software issues during upgrades, or plain human error. Here are 10 important factors to keep in mind while choosing your WordPress backup solution. 1. Automatic Backup If your backup solution involves spending hours copying your files and database to a safe location, you’re in trouble. This approach is fraught with problems. Apart from being time consuming, manual […]
My Experience With Ghost
It’s been well over a year since John O’Nolan expressed his angst about WordPress no longer being a pure blogging tool, and announced Ghost to the world. In the short span of one year, Ghost has earned a good number of followers and users, and it continues to grow in popularity. I tried Ghost shortly after it was first released to the public, and I found it to be too limiting. Obviously, you can’t expect to have everything right in the first release, so I decided to wait. Recently, Ghost 0.4 was released, and I decided to give it another […]
How WordPress 3.9 Will Look and Function
WordPress 3.8—code name Parker— was released on December 12 of last year, and surprised many as it introduced a more sophisticated back end UI with updated typography. Overall, the update was a success, and the new, customizable UI was a hit. The newest iteration, WordPress 3.9, has been officially announced to be released on April 16 2014. Although 3.9 isn’t set to usher in any drastic changes like its predecessor, it does introduce a fair amount of new features that are likely to be well-received by the WordPress community. Let’s take a quick look at exactly what the new version entails. Theme […]
Diving into Dictator: A Provisioning Tool for WordPress
Some of you may have seen the announcement of a new WP-CLI package known as Dictator. Dictator allows you to define the “state” of your WordPress install. It keeps a running record of your WordPress configuration options, broken up into three categories. “Settings” stores basic site information like title, description, and active theme and plugins. “Users” stores the name, email, and display_name of each user. “Terms” holds categories, tags, and other post metadata. All of this information is stored neatly in a small YAML config file. That way, you can hand off a config file to various members of a […]
Dissecting WordPress: single.php
WordPress is used by bloggers, which isn’t surprising being that it was originally a blogging platform. Although it has become much more than that, it still functions as a blogging tool for many. For those bloggers out there, I will now dissect SINGLE.PHP, the template that displays a single post. This is part of series of articles centered around dissecting the different components of WordPress. If you were able to understand, and make sense of, my discussion on PAGE.PHP, you’ll find SINGLE.PHP to be quite simple. It features the “loop,” navigational elements, the comments template (which I will also review here), […]
The Expanding World Of WordPress Innovation
With a growing number of innovations centered around WordPress, the community has begun to immerse itself in the broader realm of mainstream technology. WordPress businesses are starting to compete, and find their place, among other popular technology — and WordPress, as an ecosystem, is evolving. One illustration of this can be seen in AppPresser’s recent nomination as one of the 6 About to Break at MacWorld/iWorld. To understand how AppPresser — and WordPress more broadly — fit into this scene, I reached out to the co-founder of AppPresser, Scott Bolinger, to share his experience. Macworld/iWorld is an annual, Apple-dedicated trade show. Each […]
Hosting Recommendations at WordPress.org: Time for Change?
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. […]
5 Other WordPress Businesses That You Could Start
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 […]
WP RSS Aggregator Review: Do More with RSS Feeds
RSS (Rich Site Summary) was invented to make sharing feeds of content from an external site really simple. Still, it can’t be easily done with WordPress right out of the box. And why should it? That’s why we have plugins. Introducing WP RSS Aggregator WP RSS Aggregator was built in order to accommodate this need. The plugin allows you to add any number of RSS feeds to your site, then output them on posts and pages using a shortcode. You can set a limit of how many posts to show for each feed, and then choose which feeds to output […]
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