142 – The Business Side of WordPress
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- Learn the importance of child themes
- The proper way to make theme modifications
- Create a child theme from scratch
Main Topic (mattreport.com)
It was my pleasure to talk with Matt Mederios of Slocum Design Studio. Here are a few of the things we talked about in the interview:
- Who looks at the journey of success and failure of a WordPress entrepreneur
- Who are You and What do you do?
- How did you get your start in WordPress?
- What’s your role at Slocum Design Studio?
- Do you consider yourself an entreprenuer?
- How do you get away from the $500 client?
- Tell me about your podcast(s)
- Why do you think there’s a rise in WordPress podcasts?
- Who has been the most successful WP entrepreneur you’ve interviewed?
- Okay that ends the formal interview
- What’s in your toolbox? What piece of software or hardware do you use on a daily basis to run your business? ScreenFlow, Sublime, Vagrant, Wunderlist
- What’s the one plugin that you can’t live without? Gravity Forms
- A favorite WordPress or business book? e-Myth
- A quote that you live and run your business by? Pilgram tending to sheep
- The best business or career advice you’ve ever received? Get out there and do it
- What’s the longest a client project has ever taken? 2.5 years
- If you had to switch to another CMS what would it be? Drupal
- Who should I interview next? Brad Williams, Robert New (WP Bacon) John Saddingtion, Tom McFarlin
You can find out more at MattReport.com or on twitter @mattreport.
Call To Action
- Sign up for next webinar / online classroom where you can learn how to create a child theme and how to properly make modifications to your theme.
Nice episode! Yesterday, I happened to watch Matt Report podcast that interviewed Pippin Williamson, my fav plugin developer. So, a bit surprised that you had Matt for this episode, haha. Thank you for keeping producing quality contents!
Aug 22, 2013JoeyF Thanks! Glad you liked the episode here and with Pippin 🙂
Aug 22, 2013Great time sir, thanks for having me!
Aug 22, 2013Two of my favorite WordPress podcasters on the same episode: DustinHartzler and mattmedeiros.
Aug 22, 2013JoeyF You are welcome! Thanks for listening. Are there any other of your favorite developers that you’d like to hear from on the show?
Aug 22, 2013mattmedeiros The pleasure was all mine 🙂
Aug 22, 2013Umm, honestly I don’t really know many names! Matt Report with Pippin was quite interesting. Pippin’s Easy Digital Downloads plugin is awesome, btw.
Aug 23, 2013Looking forward to your next webinar. 🙂 I don’t handle any child theme, but good to learn a bit, I guess.