Category: WordPress Business

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What You Need to Understand When Building SaaS for Business with WordPress Multisite

We have built 7 successful SaaS solutions on top of WordPress, some having tens of thousands of subsites in a Multisite environment. I’ve personally consulted and built extensions for a couple more with over 100K subsites in a network, which was pretty cool. Basically, no project is complicated or problematic until it grows. Real issues are faced once your regular traffic and user base grows and you start hitting various limits in terms of performance and security when serving data to your visitors.  1. You Need to Bridge the Disconnect Between SaaS and Enterprises Let’s leave WordPress aside for a… Continue Reading
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On WordPress, Windows, Knowledge and Testing

I had an interesting conversation with a friend earlier today. It started with the persistent state of WordPress in some point of time, backing up and restoring a state after a failure, testing plugins here and there and keeping the site as useful, flexible and stable as possible at the same time. The gist of that was the conflict between "keeping up and using the best tools" and "making the software fast and stable". Windows I haven't been using Windows for several years now, but I am supporting and maintaining my family's hardware and software (and there is a Windows-specific… Continue Reading
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Building a WordPress Website

With 2.5 billion people using Internet over the world (and counting) positioning a business online is crucial. Picking the right solution for your business website is just as important, as it would determine different factors, such as: the cost of building a website the ease of maintenance and extensibility availability in terms of experts being able to create and extend the platform in time available resources for the look or functionality Why WordPress? WordPress has been available for 10 years now and unlike many platforms, it's user base has been growing with time. With approximately 70 million websites based on WordPress… Continue Reading
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The Cost of a Project

I just got back from the supermarket. While leaving with my groceries, I overheard the following conversation: Come on, you even teach while sitting - that's such a lack of motivation!I do what I got paid to do.So, if you were earning X extra every month, you would be more excited?Sure. The Human Motivation There are various psychological research studies out there on human motivation, the bounders one would like to reach, the progressive lust for more and so forth, but it was an honest and valid response. Normally I would argue because it's a lousy job in a way… Continue Reading
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Choose Your Leaders – Time and Knowledge

The world is built and based on several simple rules and everything else relies on them. One of the main concepts is the leadership - each group has a leader (or few) responsible for managing everything important for a community. The Big Picture On a larger scale this could be the president, the God, the corporation's CEO etc. Leadership unites masses in a way that the effort is channeled in the same direction, leading to better results and team work. Open Source On a technology level, there are leaders who have been significantly helpful for a given product, language, platform,… Continue Reading
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The “Work For Myself” Myth

There is a common myth that working as a freelancer, consultant or a company owner means "working for myself". In my opinion that's often a wrong perspective for people who are tired of working the wrong jobs for the wrong managers, trying to find an escape from this by running their own business and finding the holy grail. Let's revise several work scenarios in the WordPress development world. Junior developer - managed by the other devs in the team, fully dependent on everyone else Senior developer - with a team leader or a software architect laying out the foundations of the project,… Continue Reading