Building & Growing a WordPress Agency

Running a WordPress agency means juggling projects, clients, and finance. These articles include tips on project workflows, pricing, team collaboration, growing a business, and best WordPress agency hosting built on WordPress.

All content has been written with freelancers, small teams, and digital studios in mind.

Your Web Design Business Has Grown: How Do You Manage Legacy Clients?

Your Web Design Business Has Grown: How Do You Manage Legacy Clients?

One thing you may not expect with web design business growth is the continued pull of legacy clients. So, how can you keep old clients happy while forging ahead?

Building WordPress Websites That Better Respect User Privacy

Building WordPress Websites That Better Respect User Privacy

In recent years, privacy has become one of the most important topics in our society. With the rise of services that use and sell user data, serious discussions have been…

Changing Hands: Should You Worry When a WordPress Plugin Has a New Owner?

Changing Hands: Should You Worry When a WordPress Plugin Has a New Owner?

Recently, a number of big-name and trusted WordPress plugins have been sold. How concerned should we be? We try to make sense of it all.

Tips for Building Online Courses with WordPress

Tips for Building Online Courses with WordPress

Check out our tips for building online courses with WordPress. We’ll provide you with a plethora of things to consider from the very start.

What Web Designers and Their Clients Need to Know About SEO

What Web Designers and Their Clients Need to Know About SEO

The following is a Q&A with Yoast content manager Edwin Toonen, where we dive into what you and your clients need to know about SEO.

What to Look For in Maintenance-Only Clients

What to Look For in Maintenance-Only Clients

Are you looking for maintenance-only web design clients? Here are some things to consider, along with how to determine your business goals.

How Many WordPress Plugins Are Too Many?

How Many WordPress Plugins Are Too Many?

It seems like one the existential questions of our time – at least, for web designers. But for years, many of us have been trying to figure out the “right”…

What I’ve Learned About WordPress Maintenance

What I’ve Learned About WordPress Maintenance

For the past decade, much of my design and development work has been centered around WordPress. I’ve spent a good bit of time both building and maintaining websites that utilize…

How to Train Your Clients to Use WordPress

How to Train Your Clients to Use WordPress

As WordPress continues to power more and more websites, it stands to reason that many site owners will want to learn how to use it. One of the strengths of…

As WordPress Changes, the Pressure to Adapt Rises

As WordPress Changes, the Pressure to Adapt Rises

WordPress is changing. How can we adapt to this evolutionary shift without falling behind? We’ll show you how to make the appropriate adjustments.

Thoughts on WordPress Achieving 40% Market Share

Thoughts on WordPress Achieving 40% Market Share

How did WordPress gain such a massive market share? And what does it have to do in order to maintain its dominance?

How to Scale Your Web Design Business

How to Scale Your Web Design Business

Strategies for scaling your web design business, from expanding services to hiring, to meet growing client demands.

A Faster and Safer Way to Troubleshoot WordPress

A Faster and Safer Way to Troubleshoot WordPress

Whether you’re building a new WordPress website or applying updates to an existing one, troubleshooting issues can be a very time-consuming process. It can also be a bit risky –…

11 Things I Learned From Freelancer to Agency Owner

11 Things I Learned From Freelancer to Agency Owner

I’ve spent the last 10+ years freelancing and bouncing back through different agencies. While there were plenty of perks both working for yourself and in an agency atmosphere, It always…

Existing vs. New Clients – Who Should Get the Bigger Share of Your Attention?

Existing vs. New Clients – Who Should Get the Bigger Share of Your Attention?