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Why Isn’t WordPress Taught at Schools And Universities?
I’ve taught WordPress for several years in a high school, a couple of universities, and several training academies due to my extensive knowledge of how to run a WordPress agency. Currently, I’m negotiating another short training (24–30 hours) in a couple of months from now that I would like to launch for free on YouTube…
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Can I Use WordPress For Single-Page Applications (One-Page Websites)?
The valid question here is – what are the project details and business requirements behind building a SPA (Single-page application) website? In case you are building just a single static page with no interactions or editability whatsoever, you may very well proceed with plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Successful websites that I can think of…
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Is WordPress Easy to Use?
Three years ago my friend Morten posted a great article called: WordPress is not easy, and that’s OK. How we speak about WordPress. The ease of use in setting up WordPress and start blogging right away has shifted the focus from “launching a blog” to “building a viable system running on top of WordPress”. WordPress…
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How to Overcome the Blogging Platform Stereotype Before WordPress Platform Development?
During our enterprise sales meetings, we often use presentations tailored to the needs of the business, including case studies, showcase entries and established/reputable international brands using WordPress. We have provided numerous WordPress-driven solutions for the automotive industry, a couple of banks, several platforms generating over 10M page views a month, a number of SaaS applications…
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What Are Suitable Hosting Providers For a WordPress Website With 150K Monthly Views?
Our clients are SMEs and fast-paced startups generating between $5M and $100M in revenue, with some popular enterprises generating over $10B. We have worked with most managed WordPress providers such as Flywheel, Kinsta, WP Engine, Media Temple, SiteGround (to name a few). Over the past couple of years we’ve migrated several of our customers to…
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Can I Develop an Airbnb, TripAdvisor, Netflix Clone With WordPress?
WordPress could be a solid foundation for a site like TripAdvisor – and probably Airbnb. Read the complete overview and our relevant experience below. No off-the-shelf solution or a framework would work right away for a platform of a similar scale. And even the best practices on building a product from scratch or using a…
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How Scalable Is WordPress?
Here’s a slide from a WordPress.com presentation for a talk held by Iliya Polihronov back in 2012: A lot has changed over the past 5 years and the numbers are significantly higher now – without having up-to-date stats publicly available now. Millions to Billions of Views With WordPress While Automattic maintainс a massive distributed server…
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Why Use WordPress as a Web Developer?
Before I made the switch to full-time freelancing, I had three years of full-time Java development experience and several years of dabbing into and extending different PHP and Python-based platforms. My initial grande idea was selling websites with my custom built proprietary JSF CMS. It took me 2 weeks to discard my ludicrous business plan…