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15 Obstacles That Enterprises Report in WordPress and Development Partners

SMEs (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) have been one of the key strategic audiences that DevriX works with under the core retainers proposition. There are some peculiar misconceptions (or legitimate concerns) that enterprise representatives always outline during meetings and calls regarding their hesitation while considering WordPress for a new product or a platform rebuild. Over the past decade, we have built WordPress-driven software solutions for automotive manufacturers, airline brokers, banks, large educational institutions, enterprise digital media publishers, eCommerce brands, certification authorities, and many others. Some of the common rebuttals arise as early as the presales calls or discovery sessions. I will… Continue Reading
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How to Find Leads for a WordPress Development Company?

In order to grow as a professional WordPress developer, you have to work with businesses that believe in expert development and value long-term results. More often than not, business owners are fooled by the media and marketing collateral online explaining how easy development is, solutions sold for $20 - $100, or site builders that would supposedly “revolutionize your business online”. Here are some tips that would steadily grow your value and bring some business to you. 1. Perfect Your Skills When I switched to full-time freelancing, I already had a 5-year technical college degree, 4 years of full-time development experience,… 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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WordPress Code Architecture and Maintenance

In my last post on WordPress services and pricing I've mentioned that I prefer to work on different assignments and avoid the "cloning" pattern - such as building standard 5-page business websites all the time, 20 times a month. Working and experimenting with different APIs, trying to bend a platform in a non-standard way, providing features that others were unable to implement before are the challenges that bring joy in my work. However, to be realistic in most projects, I need to rely on code snippets and patterns. I have a private GitHub repository with some of my previous projects, keeping… Continue Reading
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What Is the Best Language or Framework For Building a SaaS Application?

I’ve seen successful SaaS applications online built on every single web programming language that I’ve ever heard of. Some of the more extreme ones specializing in certain fields do include Haskell, Erlang, Go, Dark, and others for certain applications behind the scenes. A subscription-based business can leverage a SaaS framework or proceed with a custom build, depending on the business needs and the long-term goals for scaling the solution forward. Here are the 4 main considerations when selecting a language for your SaaS. 1. What Are the Business and Technical Requirements? All programming languages and frameworks are tailored to solving… Continue Reading
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WordPress Outsourcing and Hiring Talent (A Complete Guide)

With a 33% market share across the web, WordPress is the most sought-after technical platform. This commands the need of hiring professional WordPress developers who serve tens of millions of businesses utilizing the platform. While this guide on hiring and outsourcing uses WordPress as a leading context, it's just as applicable for other technical stacks and web technologies. I've used the same strategies for PHP projects built from scratch, as well as Java, .NET, Python, JavaScript platforms over the past 12 years. Hiring for technical roles covers more than one of the most impactful business challenges that threaten every business.… Continue Reading
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Landing the First WordPress Job

One of my email list subscribers asked me how to find a remote WordPress job. I was facing the same issue looking for my first remote WordPress job, so here's the list of the options if you're looking for a full-time WordPress job as a remote worker. Build a Portfolio If you are coming from another area close to WordPress, but not WordPress itself, the best bet for you is to build a portfolio. Work on some free plugins or themes, start a decent pet project based on WordPress, adopt a plugin or help with some pull requests on GitHub. Even if you… Continue Reading
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Blogging And Helping the WordPress Business Ecosystem

There's been a good amount of WP drama lately for various reasons, but one of the most important ones is struggling. Because that's where many people are in the WordPress community - they struggle. Freelancers work with non-educated customers asking for cheap changes. Agencies have a hard time growing since decent clients tend to avoid WordPress for reasons. Now, I'm amplifying that for a reason. Of course there are some clients who pay good amounts and look for high quality. But the vast majority of customers are not there yet, and the main reason they are after WordPress is low cost. WordPress… Continue Reading
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On WordPress Development Retainers

With over 40 people working at DevriX right now, we have revised our service solutions and focused on promoting a type of service that combines our recurring revenue goal with iterative development solutions for some of our clients. While we do provide maintenance services, we realized that a development retainer would be incredibly useful for most of our leads. This month we've started a new WordPress development retainer and signed a discovery session for another large one coming next month. There are a few more in our pipeline which our sales rep is looking into, sharing our process with our prospects and getting some valuable feedback for… Continue Reading
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How to Make Money Blogging for Beginners (10 Success Stories of Bloggers)

There are thousands of ways to make money online, but blogging is one of the most preferred and proven methods to generate income. If you are blogging for money (that you should be—eventually) and have not yet discovered the actual ways to see money coming into your account, then you need some real ways that you can copy and incorporate into your blogging strategy. Choosing the right blog niche is just as important. Your niche directly impacts your earnings. Researching trending and evergreen niches can attract loyal readers and introduce affiliate programs, sponsorships, and tailored ad opportunities. Aligning content with… Continue Reading