If you’re reading this article you’re likely either a business owner doing their due diligence to avoid overpaying on a new WordPress website or a website designer, trying to figure out a pricing strategy. For this article, i’ll mostly be focusing on WordPress as it’s the CMS and framework we use and it’s also the most popular one on the internet holding over a 27% market share. To clarify further we’re talking about developers coding with the open source code from WordPress.org – not the wordpress.com version which is a more closed off version. You don’t have to look far online to see people promising the world for some very affordable looking prices, yet when you email some experienced digital marketing/web agencies you may get some eye-popping numbers back. So if they’re both on WordPress – what’s the difference when the price differential is in the thousands? Everyone is a copy cat …
What is a WordPress Plugin?
WordPress is an open source CMS for building and creating websites. It’s one of the webs best tools for content marketing and that’s why it makes up over 28% of the internet today, trusted by huge websites like Sony and Disney. It’s also hugely scalable and that’s why businesses of every size should consider it as their foundation, as it doesn’t have the limited services or terrible content transferring tools of other platforms. WordPress plugins are a major part of why WordPress has become so successful and similar to Apples slogan of ‘there’s an app for that’ in WordPress for any question typically asked, the common reply is ‘there’s a plugin for that’. Plugins are very much like an extension is to chrome or a app is to your phone. It expands the software and makes it even more powerful! So what is a WordPress plugin? A plugin typically …
1 Major Reason why you shouldn’t download Gutenberg… Yet
If you have updated to WordPress 4.9.8 you will have seen the callout for ‘Try Guttenburg’ within your WordPress dashboard that’ll look like the image below. If you haven’t updated to WordPress 4.9.8 or indeed are on a version of WordPress that isn’t even 4 – well I strongly recommend you talk to your website developer as your website is at serious risk of being hacked into and are likely falling behind in other areas like following new major privacy laws like GDPR What is Gutenberg for WordPress? Gutenberg, named after Johannes Gutenberg, who invented a printing press with movable type more than 500 years ago. The printing press being, of course, one of the most vital inventions in human history allowing for the mass creation and spreading of information. Fitting then, of course, WordPress would name a drastic overhaul to their ancient text editor to a more content …