Displaying 1 To 10 Of 10 Comments Jason Schuller Did It – I Can Do It To Of course you can do it. Apart from consulting, most of the monetization / advertising strategies listed above are all page view driven. To increase page views I would look at every other successful web dev / wordpress related website out there and see what they’re doing content wise and then ask myself if we’re adding that kind of content and if not, how can we get / create that kind of content…. I would then reach out to top devs and work with them to have them guest post, as you already may have. Increasing the amount of content, diversity of content and channelling high profile and smart people from the community that can bring value will not only drive page views because of the great content they bring but because you’re tapping into their sphere of influence as well when they share that they’ve guest posted or been featured on your blog and likely even link to you. More quality content plus more quality links will equal greater organic search traffic and you’re on your way. Obviously I would participate in every WP related community out there and share what you know as doing so will help introduce the WP Tavern brand to the uninitiated. I would also profile and write about every major WP related topic, company, plugin and dev house possible, doing so will help you rank for those terms and bring more organic traffic. Ultimately, if there is any WP topic not covered already on the blog, I would cover it. I would cover a topic like “WP Seo” and then have every top name in the space give their two cents on the topic to create the best WP SEO article or series of articles, ever….etc…. you get the idea. I would also be asking myself: What can we do that’s not being done in terms of content, features, etc.? What are my readers telling me they want to hear about? What do I want to read about that is WP related and not being covered in the space? How can I involve readers? How can I leverage sponsors data / knowledge to educate my readers? What kind of workshops (webinars) can we hold to educate and why aren’t we the go to people for everything WP related … and on and on… hope this helps. :) » Posted By Trace On May 6, 2010 @ 1:47 PM WordPress Dev Chat For 4-22-10 Nice, it sounded like the menus had actually been pulled from 3.0 and delayed or pushed into a temporary plugin according to some of the commentary on the dev blog, but maybe there’s hope after all. Great to hear. » Posted By Trace On April 22, 2010 @ 7:26 PM Steps To Diagnose And Repair The Pharma Hack Is FTP the definitive entry point or that still in the air? » Posted By Trace On April 16, 2010 @ 6:56 PM No More Unlimited Support Or Upgrades For GravityForms After May 1st Just bought developers license, looking forward to some multi page forms, we rock some pretty cool multi page forms on cforms (leadpressdemo.com, click go at top of page for fast rate quote), but backend is a little too complicated for average folk, so it would be nice to upgrade and transition our users to GF. Something else that would be key (and necessary for our specific usage) is the ability to have the next page of the form dependent on a variable on the page, so if someone has a drop down with “red” or “blue”, each choice will take the user to a different page 2 depending on the choice. In our case, choosing “purchase” would take the user to pages 2,3 and 4 dedicated to purchase transactions and choosing ‘refinance” would do the same for refinances….. » Posted By Trace On April 14, 2010 @ 9:12 PM Anyone know when they will be launching multi page forms? » Posted By Trace On April 14, 2010 @ 8:14 PM Tickets all the way. I haven’t seen forums that enable you to manage and monitor support requests the way support ticket suites do. They feel like organized chaos, because they are. And stuff gets lost. And overlooked. If you’ve ever dumped your support question in a forum and never gotten a response, that’s no fun. With a ticket, there’s a higher level of accountability. Too many times things get lost in forums, at least in my experience. It depends on the price point of the product and degree of difficulty of the product as well though. I associate higher dollar products with support tickets and lower price point products with forum or FAQ support. Let’s be real here, FAQ’s can be helpful, but I don’t think they constitute customer support. Forums are great because users can help each other, which might be fine if you purchased a $20 piece of software, but not ok when you’re running into issues with a $1000 dedicated server. Short of phone support, I believe tickets are the most comprehensive way to give your customers the fastest and best service possible. :) Support tickets also provide a more organized means of not only reviewing tickets for quality control but documenting issues over time and then returning to past issues if needed. » Posted By Trace On January 29, 2010 @ 7:08 PM Listener Poll: Is WordPress A Community Run Project? I don’t have enough experience to directly contribute to the code base, so I can’t really answer the question in regards to WP, but I will say that in my experience with non-code related group tasks, there is probably nothing worse than the decision making or lack thereof that occurs in heavily democratic committee like decision making structures. The bottom line is that everyone has an opinion, but that doesn’t mean they are all equal in terms of quality. This is even true of customer opinions. As much as you want to value that feedback and each voice, some opinions are simply just noise and your business will be hurt by acting on them. In fact, I know many entrepreneurs who swear that their pricing model is not tweaked enough (read high enough) until they get a certain percentage of complaints / gripes from users. So the feedback can be useful, but not necessarily for the reason one would think. What’s the old saying? A camel is a horse built by committee? Something like that. The point is that is that if WP is not as responsive or open to direct community feedback (no clue if this is true), it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a bad thing (although I can see how it would frustrate folks) and in fact may be one of the distinguishing characteristics that have helped WP progress as successfully as it has…. » Posted By Trace On July 10, 2009 @ 8:39 PM Here’s my idea: Many blogs / websites (especially commercial oriented) have standardized data such as phone numbers, addresses, names, company names, zip codes, website URL’s, twitter addresses, email addresses, and on and on…. that need to be populated through out the theme / content. The issue is that much of this data needs be populated in the footer, footer, or other places that necessitate editing code (many are unable to edit code). Sometimes websites that are built for businesses contain the same boilerplate content in the legal, privacy, about, and related pages. Many times these pages include many occurences of words that need to be replaced with relevant data; example: “Company Name” can be reached at “Phone Number” in cases of abuse. Alternatively, you can reach “Company Name” via twitter at “twitter account”. There can be pages and pages of this content that needs to be replaced each time this boilerplate content is given to a new client. Also, if the client ever wants to change the “Company Name”, “Phone Number”, “Address” or related around the site, they must hunt through content on many pages and code if they want to change occurrences of this data. I think a great plugin would contain an options page that would enable users to define fields and corresponding tags that will populate the related data through the theme or in posts with boilerplate content. Example: user can create field for “Phone Number” in options page and define tag for it such as >?php plugin(phone); ? <. Anywhere the tag is placed in the code or in posts (will need non php tag for posts) will populate the corresponding data as defined in options page. If the website owner wants to change the phone number and it occurs through the content and in footer / footer / sidebar / etc. 20 times, instead of hunting down these occurrences one by one the end user can simply change the “Phone Number” field in the backend options page and it will automatically change sitewide…. This could be useful for: 1) developers that use template content as described above 2) developers that want to simplify content customization for the end user 3) developers that want to create themes that are easily customized 4) end users that want to create content with elements that are easily changed across pages / posts 5) affiliates or related that want to set up tags to populate a URL across many pages / posts that want to be able to change affiliate links in the future without necessitating rummaging through months and years of content…. » Posted By Trace On April 29, 2009 @ 2:45 AM Don’t be an ass, ya ass! » Posted By Trace On April 24, 2009 @ 6:11 AM Comparisons Between Most Popular Theme Frameworks Would loved to have seen Thesis in there… think it is a better candidate than Carrington….if forced to choose between three… » Posted By Trace On April 7, 2009 @ 5:08 PMComments Posted By Trace
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