wordpress development

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk with Brad Touesnard of Delicious Brains about migrating, deploying, and hosting WordPress.

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Show Notes

3:50 - Why did start Delicious Brains?

5:25 - What plugins does Delicious Brains make?

11:40 - Migrating WordPress

16:50 - Migrating databases

24:20 - How do you do version control with WordPress?

37:06 - What’s the easiest way to deploy and host WordPress?

40:23 - What are some examples of managed WordPress hosts?

46:58 - What does your deployment process look like from beginning to end?

50:22 - Thoughts on headless WordPress

53:12 - Is serverless WordPress a thing?

Links

• Delicious Brains
• WP Migrate DB Pro
• WP Offload Media
• WP Offload SES
• SpinupWP
• Heroku
• Now.sh
• WP Engine
• Flywheel
• Advanced Custom Fields
• Composer
• WP Packagist
• WordPress.org
• React
• Laravel
• Pagely
• Kinsta
• GoDaddy
• WordPress.com
• SiteFround
• Buddy
• Digital Ocean
• Laravel Forge
• npm
• Codeship
• Gatsby
• Laravel Vapor
• Installing via Composer
• WordPress deployment workflow
• Managing your WordPress site with Git and Composer

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In this Hasty Treat (Short episode) we answer your questions about Freelancing - how to charge more, building a portfolio, finding clients and our thoughts on using pre-made WordPress themes.

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Show Notes

1:00

• Our first episode on Freelancing - how to slam dunk freelancing

4:00

• Q: Ideas on building a portfolio and landing those first customers
• Your portfolio doesn't really matter as a web developer
• Your reputation and referrals is key
• Reputation in the community is important
• Put yourself out there!
• You have to tell people what you do
• You have to ask people if they need work
• Good communication is key

8:00

• Q: What are some strategies for budging and quoting?
• Understanding what a website is worth to a client
• Talking to your client ablut pricing
• Asking how much they have available to spend
• Chunking the project into multiple bits so they can build on it

14:00

• Q: How do you tell your existing clients that you need to charge more?
• Clean Scope / Scope Creep
• Quote in Features and pieces, not entire projects
• Fixed Pricing
• Becoming a better/faster developer
• Getting more expensive as you move
• Don't charge hourly
• Taking big Ls

18:30

• Q: What is your opinion on value based pricing?
• We're huge proponents
• Clients don't like hourly billing
• The client should know what you are paying and what you are getting

22:00

• Q: When is it okay to use WordPress and pre-made themes? Is that cheating?
• The beauty of open source
• The business Wes answer
• The developer Wes answer
• Building your own starter files
• Undoing other developer's work

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