Hello everyone! Today we are interviewing Raitis Sevelis, the Head of Product at Visual Composer. I had the pleasure of meeting Michael Makijenko, Visual Composer CEO, and Raitis at several WordCamps, including WordCamp Riga, Visual Composer’s hometown, where I had the opportunity to give a crash course on building sustainable plugin and theme business in […]
Divi Sensei: Jan Thielemann’s Story of Traveling the World While Building a Plugin Business
Today we’re excited to interview Jan Thielemann – a self-taught Divi module developer who built his WordPress business Divi Sensei and sells a host of other Divi modules and add-ons! He not only learned WordPress plugin development, but also built his business while traveling the world. His Divi modules started gaining organic popularity and gained […]
A Conversation with Coywolf—Updating to PHP 7.3 with WP Engine
Most WordPress users know the importance of keeping their plugins and themes up to date but, more often than not, PHP gets left behind. In fact, close to 50% of WordPress sites are running on a PHP version lower than 7.0. PHP, or hypertext processor, is the scripting language used by WordPress, and running the… […]
Getting to Know Matthew Allen, Co-Founder of AmaLinks Pro
This week we have an interview with Matthew Allen from Dumb Passive Income who recently co-founded and launched an Amazon Affiliate plugin for WordPress, AmaLinks Pro.
Getting to Know Robert Abela, Founder of WP Security Audit Log
This week we have an interview with Robert Abela. He is a fellow Maltese, like myself and Jean, and also the founder of a great WordPress plugin, WP Security Audit Log. Robert has grown the plugin to over 80,000 active installs and an average rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars on wordpress.org. That’s no […]
David Braun and TemplateMonster – From a Web Design Studio to One of The Top WordPress Themes Marketplaces
Today I’m interviewing David Braun, the CEO & co-founder at TemplateMonster: one of the leading marketplaces in the WordPress products ecosystem. If you have ever considered starting a marketplace for WordPress themes and plugins, or you are just curious to learn about some of the challenges in running a successful marketplace business – I have […]
Miriam Schwab And Strattic Are Completely Redefining The WordPress Website Security Arena
I’m super stoked to finally be interviewing Miriam Schwab, who is the CEO & Founder of Strattic, a serverless security solution for WordPress & Open Source CMSs. She’s also(!) the CEO of illuminea, a top WordPress development agency, and an inspiring woman in general. Miriam, thanks for agreeing to answer my questions! I know you’re
$25M in Sales on Envato: A Q&A with Markus from ThemeFusion
Recently, ThemeFusion hit the $25 million mark in sales on Envato’s Themeforest marketplace. This is a massive milestone for any company and one that needs to be celebrated. David Scott, Envato’s PR & Communication’s Manager, decided to get to know a little more about this milestone, how they got here, and what’s next. The result is a […]
Our WordPress Plugins Are A Hybrid Model Between Products And Services – David Aguilera From Nelio
David Aguilera is the Chief Product & Quality Officer at rapidly growing Nelio. We met at the last WordCamp in Paris and, after chatting for a while, I figured it would be interesting to get his take as a WordPress product & services guy and publish it for the Freemius blog readers. David, thanks for agreeing
How Benjamin Denis Took His WordPress Plugin From An Idea to 10K+ Active Installs in 1 Year On His Spare Time!
This time we are interviewing an exciting entrepreneur from France. Benjamin Denis is the creator and owner of several WordPress plugins, who focuses (when he’s not working full-time at a web agency) on building and growing SEOPress – a WordPress plugin (freemium) that helps website owners optimize their SEO. Benjamin, thanks for agreeing to provide