As part of our series on 7 different products that can be created using the WordPress plugin programming framework, we are looking at a type of web app. Data-driven, web applications are software that helps businesses, corporations, non-profits, and government organizations collect, store, and analyze data. These are usually complex in terms of data storage (more…)
Plugged Into Programming Podcast: The pro and cons of building a micro SaaS product
Micro SaaS is a type of Software-as-a-Service product, and today’s show looks at the pros and cons of creating one as your business model. This is part of a series looking at 7 different types of products that can be built using the WordPress Plugin Programming Framework. This is what we focus on at wpPluginCollege.com (more…)
Plugged Into Programming Podcast: Creating and Selling WordPress Plugins as Software Products
Selling or licensing plugins is what I call the “traditional” business model in the world of WordPress programming. There are over 50,000 free plugins found in the WordPress.org/plugins repository, all open source. Many of those have up-sells to paid, premium versions. There are also hundreds of premium plugins sold directly from websites and other commercial (more…)

In this episode we are exploring an important part of web programming that is hidden in plain sight to most of us – it is called the DOM. This stands for the Document Object Model, and it is created to represent the html document in the web browser every time code is sent from a (more…)