The hosted versus self-hosted being renting an apartment vs. owning a home analogy has been done to death. But it’s the perfect framing for creators. And that’s what we’re going to talk about today.
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Today’s episode is a little bit different: I have a guest, Kim Coleman, and we’re going to build a WordPress Membership site. But instead of just picking plugins, we’re doing to do it as a draft. That means we each take turns selecting a plugin or tool, and we cannot choose anything previously selected. It should be a lot of fun!
Are creators (and anyone who doesn’t contribute to WordPress) free riders? I look at that question and wonder why there’s such hostility towards non-contributors, even though they are essential in the march towards that mother of all vanity metrics: 50% market share. Plus, A bit of news about an upcoming series on this show, and a deep cut from an old podcast I used to host about why you need to build your mailing list.
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I’ve been a developer for 20 years. I’ve been a content creator for almost as long…but it wasn’t until a few years ago that I started making more money from my content than from my development work.
Both are crucial for a growing, vibrant WordPress community. But to some, it seems the job of development is more important than the job of content creation. Here’s why those people are wrong.
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The last conference I went to before the pandemic was WordCamp US 2019. After that, the pandemic struck and there was no travel for me for nearly 2 years. During that time, I also made the decision to pivot, and focus less on WordPress and more on Podcasters and Creators. So in my first Creator-focused, non-WordPress event, I noticed a stark difference between the keynotes: one asked us repeatedly to give our time. One reinforced a different idea: that it’s OK to make money.
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The Creator Economy is in full swing thanks to a number of tools and platforms that have made it incredibly easy to get paid by creating content. It almost feels like table stakes at this point. Sign up for a platform, and in a few clicks you’re ready to make money And while WordPress has enabled developers to implement payment options for websites easily, the ease of use for creators is a different story. So it’s time to explore the question: where does WordPress fit into the Creator Economy?
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This episode marks the start of an important shift in the content here at WP Review — something I’ll dive more into after ConvertKit’s Craft + Commerce conference at the end of June. But suffice to say, creators, are growing wary of WordPress. I personally think that WordPress is the perfect tool for the growing creator economy, so here at WP Review, we’re going to spend many of the next episodes talking to creators about how WordPress can help them more than any other platform. And we’re going to start with a type of creator near and dear to my heart: the podcaster.
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Apple has discontinued the iPod. When the iPod came out in 2001, it literally changed the world. And I don’t mean literally like figuratively. I mean, it shifted how people consumed music on the go. Another thing that happened recently was WordPress lost a market share for the first time. How are these two events related? They both happened this week, of course, but what does one have to do with the other? What does this mean for freelancers? There are a lot of similarities between the iPod and WordPress. And that’s what we’re going to talk about.
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MemberPress made some waves this week when it was discovered that they were completely locking out users who had expired license keys. The WordPress way is you get access to the plugin, which you get to keep because it’s open source, whether or not you keep paying for the license. Generally, support and updates are the things that you keep paying for. But why is this the case when virtually every other piece of software we use today is based on, “a keep paying for access” model?
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Niching down doesn’t just need to be about the customers you serve. It can also be about the tools you use. Deeply understanding the tools you use allows you to work more quickly and efficiently because there’s not a constant learning curve. Putting together the perfect WordPress toolkit is important for any freelancer. In Part 1 of this series, we’ll cover my must-have tools.
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