Tag: Web Developer
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Scaling your product offering after launch
You’ve launched your product. Customers are purchasing and everything is going really well. You’ve reached the point where your product contains all of the features you feel are necessary in the core offering, yet you want to expand. Today, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on how to expand once having reached this perceived plateau.
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Removing limitations to achieve success
All too often we are faced with roadblocks, hurdles and limitations within everything we do. Whether it’s in our personal, work or digital lives, there are often items which stand in the way of us achieving our goals. Success, however, comes flooding through when we remove or refactor these limiting beliefs. Today, I’d like to […]
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Introduction to WordPress Plugin Development
A presentation illustrating the basics of developing plugins for WordPress.
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Communications Theory in Product Design
As you all know, I love listening to podcasts and being creative. Listening to the myriad of podcasts that I do, I find concepts from one podcast often apply to the field discussed in one of the others. While listening to a podcast on trading card game design, the topic of communications theory and game […]
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On lazy engineers and automating business
Tips and tricks for automating common business tasks and fostering a “lazy engineer” mindset.
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Learnings While Scaling WooCommerce
WooCommerce has, at the time of writing, passed over 6 million downloads (and several million active installations) on WordPress.org. What many aren’t aware of is, WooCommerce reached the 5 million download mark with only 3 engineers officially working full time on the project (while working on several other projects as well). Throughout this process, we […]
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Fostering creative thinking
Where in I discuss creative thinking, how to learn this behaviour and how to apply creative thinking in a business context.
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Crafting meaningful customer relationships
When setting up a service or product-based business, there is a concept referred to as “lock in”, where the customer buys in to your ecosystem and, as they add products to their purchase history, it becomes increasingly more difficult to switch away to a competitor. While corresponding over an email chain with friends this morning, […]
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Set a custom rewrite rule for author archives in WordPress
In the comments of my post on custom rewrite rules in WordPress, I received a query regarding creating author profile URLs using a rewrite convention of “/profile“. The WordPress author archives are a great way to create profiles for each author on your WordPress-powered website (in fact, it’s done for you by default). The author […]
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Test your knowledge of WordPress with “The WordPress Test”
So… you think you know WordPress, huh? 😉 Well, why not test your skills and see where you rank on the world’s stage? Presenting… the WordPress test! I blogged the other day about using Smarterer and Code School for online education. As a starting point, take the test below and see how you stack up. […]