http://wptweetnews.com/
Chris built a WP news aggregator from his Twitter list.
The first 7 days on blogging and marketing 1Fix.io
The 1Fix.io website (blog) went public on Jan 3, 2014. For the first 7 days I tried several channels to do marketing. Here’re some thoughts I’d like to share.
I find it’s kind of hard to promote a new plugin. After publishing my first plugin – Completely Delete, I was so happy but didn’t know what to do next. I’ve read the Plugin Submission and Promotion on WordPress Codex, but got no luck for 2 WordPress Activities and Announcement Sites they recommend were stalled for a long time. Then I checked out several WordPress communities on Google+ to see if I could write some promotion or introduction about my plugin, got no luck again for promotion posts are not allowed in most of these communities.
Later on I joined the ManageWP.org to see what I could do there. The guideline said “Do not (mainly) self-promote” so I guess it should be fine if I share my first blog post “Delete a post with all its children in WordPress” there. It went just okay and I got 5 votes for that post. That encouraged me to keep sharing good resources there. I’d also like to upvote for other members’ contributions, and I do enjoy reading articles from some not so famous sources.
Mike Jolley on Developing WP Post Series
This video is a live screen recording while Mike Jolley developed the WP Post Series plugin. It’s pretty cool that he challenged himself to get the plugin done in one day. Check his originally post on mikejolley.com.
Skip dashboard when log into WordPress
This gist is useful if you, like most of my clients, don’t want to do an extra click after logging into WordPress.
Matt Mullenweg @ The Lean Startup Conference 2013
Matt spoke with Sarah Millstein about how Automattic iterates, approaches hiring, and management.
This quote from his talk via Post Status is pretty inspiring:
We do trials. Everyone that joins the company, we hire them on a contract basis first. Nights and weekends. We’re not asking them to leave them a job or anything like that. So it’s… and it’s a mutual trial. So it’s a standard rate: $25 per hour – same for whether you’re coming in as a CFO or as a Happiness Engineer.
Play with AppPresser
AppPresser is really something big in the WordPress community these days. I decided to buy the Agency bundle (USD $499 before a 30% off discount), not only because of this tweet from Chris Lema:
I just bought unlimited mobile apps from @apppresser before they realize that their price is too cheap! Go now! Or you can’t blame me later.
— Chris Lema (@chrislema) January 8, 2014
But also AppPresser itself is very impressive. Check out this example app!