Gaby Galea from WP Mayor presents you with all the tools, services, and knowledge you need to build and run your WordPress business. Through this podcast, you'll be introduced to WordPress professionals who provide products and services to help maintain your website. Get to know their products, how they work, and the team behind them. The podcast will occasionally delve deeper into more business-related discussions such as the process behind maintaining a WordPress product, affiliate marketing, and SEO. With over 10 years of experience, the team behind WP Mayor has developed strong connections with industry leaders in the WordPress space. While the blog discusses WordPress plugins and services to help you choose the best products for your website, the team also develops plugins such as the Spotlight Social Feed plugin and the WPRSS Aggregator plugin. This allows the team to really understand your needs, while also having a very strong insight into the business side of things. This podcast is for WordPress users, website managers, business owners, designers, developers … virtually, anyone in the WordPress community. You'll find nuggets of information to help grow your business!
In this episode, Gaby and Jean Galea talk to Aaron Edwards and Joshua Dailey, co-founders of Infinite Uploads and WordPress contributors, about Web3, NFTs, and WordPress with Web3 WP. Aaron and Joshua have spent more than 20 years developing and maintaining enterprise WordPress sites. Also, they launched the first (and only) WordPress NFT. Episode Highlights…
In this episode, Gaby Galea talks to Sean Brison, Head of Growth at Lasso, about content creation and running a writing team. Lasso is an all-in-one affiliate marketing plugin for WordPress. Episode Highlights and Topics: Lasso: Built out of necessity based on trials of working with other plugins. Content Creation Fundamentals: Know your target audience…
In this episode, Gaby Galea talks to Rich Tabor, Head of Product at Extendify, about blocks, block themes, Gutenberg, and the future of WordPress. Rich has a knack for designing, building, launching, and scaling WordPress products. Episode Highlights and Topics: Block Editor Backlash: Change is hard, especially when it affects your business/lifestyle. Minimalism: Find balance/happy…
In this episode, Gaby Galea talks to Adrian Tobey from Groundhogg about lessons he has learned in the WordPress plugins business. Groundhogg offers marketing automation and CRM for agencies and small businesses using WordPress. Adrian has built thousands if not millions of marketing campaigns, sales funnels, and email sequences on behalf of other companies to solve…
In this episode, Gaby Galea talks to Jason Schuller and JR Farr, two of the four co-founders of Lemon Squeezy, a plugin that helps simplify the selling of digital products. Lemon Squeezy fits under the Make Lemonade product portfolio and the digital maker crew hopes to continually launch and build new products together. Episode Highlights…
In this episode, Gaby Galea and Mark Zahra talk to Kyle Maurer, Director of Operations at Sandhills Development (recently acquired by Awesome Motive), about general people operations, career progression frameworks, the best way to handle compensation, and organization hierarchy. Episode Highlights and Topics: Company Leader: Clearly communicate the vision to team/employees. Company Culture: Function efficiently…
In this episode, Gaby Galea talks to Lesley Sim, co-founder of Newsletter Glue, a WordPress plugin that helps users send newsletters from within their WordPress dashboard. Lesley and I discuss what Newsletter Glue has to offer and about the business side of starting a WordPress plugin and marketing it. Episode Highlights and Topics: Newsletter Glue:…
In this episode, Gaby Galea talks to David Vogelpohl, VP of growth at WP Engine, about optimizing a WooCommerce store’s performance for increased conversions and WP Engine’s WooCommerce hosting plans. Episode Highlights and Topics: Speed Optimization: David describes how speed directly influences sales. Core Web Vitals: Google uses page performance as a ranking factor. Google…
Few hard-and-fast rules need to be followed when marketing a business online. Search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing (SEM), and search engine sales (SES) are three pillars that can boost website traffic and grow your business. In this episode, Jean and Gaby Galea talk to Jared Bauman, co-founder, and CEO of 201 Creative, a…
Do you need help with your website’s speed? Is it too slow? Configured wrong? Is your cheap hosting not good enough? Do you just want it to go from slow to fast or just fast enough? Speed is only one thing to solve. In this episode, Jean and Gaby Galea talk to Brendan Tully about…
Do you have customers in different countries or that use different languages? If you want to translate your website and go multilingual, you should consider using the Weglot plugin. It makes WordPress sites available in multiple languages in a matter of minutes. In this episode, Jean and Gaby Galea talk to Augustin Prot, co-founder of…
Welcome to the WP Mayor Podcast hosted by Gaby Galea, Content Manager at WP Mayor. In this episode, Gaby introduces listeners to the WP Mayor Podcast, what it is, who it’s for, and why it was created. Episode Highlights and Topics: WP Mayor’s blog discusses WordPress plugins and services to help you choose the best…
What goes into the process of developing, acquiring, starting, and maintaining a WordPress plugin? In this episode, Gaby and Mark talk to Cristian Raiber, CEO of WPChill, a company that offers the Download Monitor, Strong Testimonials, and Modula plugins. WPChill is a WordPress development studio located in Romania. Currently, WPChill’s products power more than 600,000…
Even in 2021, it feels like everybody has a podcast, but the percentage of podcasts to blogs, websites, or social media accounts is minuscule. In this episode, Jean and Gaby talk to Craig Hewitt about starting a podcast with Castos, a podcast hosting and production service. At Castos, Craig comes across people who got their…
