Cloudways WordPress Interviews 2016 – 2017

I owe what I know today to quite a many people who can be mentioned here [WordCamp], so I feel a responsibility to pass that on to the next generation of WordPressers.

WordPress has a great future as long as they continue to develop the community along with the software.

I think as WordPress grows, it is becoming more and more important! Crowd Favorite and others have proven that WordPress can handle large ecommerce websites with millions of transactions daily.

This constantly growing WordPress community is full of excellent experts in the fields of design, development, marketing and much more.

It’s all about the right tool for the job to me ? WordPress can do a lot, but it’s not everything to everyone, and that’s good to keep in mind.

You need to find a way to truly connect with an audience, not just sell to them. Be willing to help, have thick skin, and do your best.

Core committers are the ones who not only write and verify patches but can also directly commit such changes to the WordPress code base.

The [WordPress] community is everything, although the leadership of Automattic has also played a very big role as well as other WP providers over the years like ManageWP, Envato, and Woo.

WordPress has been an easy way for beginners to get started with web development. It’s kind of been the Visual Basic of the web.

I love networking with others in my industry, in person, in Facebook groups, and in other forums. I give advice, ask advice, and help others with their tech issues where I can.

[I] recommend managed hosting pretty consistently. Very few clients want the challenge or responsibility of managing their own hosting stack, and few will do it as cost effectively as a managed hosting provider.

I think Cloudways is doing a wonderful job of marrying all of those attributes into a viable, long-term solution for customers.

“[Use Cloudways] not only when hosting WordPress, but to host files, to speed up the entire web experience for people coming all over the world.

Codeable and Cloudways can accomplish great things together.

I think the key to success today is about finding a niche that you can focus on becoming particularly good at.

I think WordCamps are terrific — they help us build community, which I feel are the fabric of WordPress.

Over time, WordPress became a much better solution, but in its early development it was just one of many blogging scripts available and it really didn’t do anything that the competition wasn’t doing.

The best way to learn is through real world experience. Start by tweaking existing themes and seeing how those themes work. Then move into building your own custom themes and plugins.

I don’t think WordPress will ever be known for being fast. It’s just not built with performance in mind.

WordPress is one of the leading technologies that empowers people to share information.

A lot of the insecurity and slowness of WordPress is from third party plugins.

The core is not the problem. The problem is usually themes or plugins – added coded.

The (WordPress) community is awesome!  I have amazing friendships because of it.

I love WordPress! Today I could create any kind of website with WordPress, regardless of customization. And when I am stuck, there is the incredible community.

I can’t recall exactly when I started using WordPress, though I do remember how easy it was to use and customize compared to Blogger.    

If you are just starting out with WordPress, the most important thing you can do is reach out to your local community.

By jumping in and doing it yourself, you’ll learn more about WordPress, and learn it more deeply than by simply following the herd.

I do what I can to demystify the process for beginners.

WordPress can be used as a foundation for web application development.

I’m looking forward to what will happen to the theme market as JavaScript powered themes using the REST API enter it.

I’d much rather everyone learned accessibility, deeply, as that benefits everyone, not just individual developers.

It (WordPress) is an ecosystem that simply grows itself at this point in time.

It (WordPress) is an ecosystem that simply grows itself at this point in time.    

I first discovered WordPress when starting my second project; the client wanted to be able to update their content and WordPress made total sense to empower the client to do so.

WordPress was the thing that made me believe that I could learn development.    

When [REST API] finally gets implemented, it’s really going to revolutionize what we can do with WordPress and how we can use it to build better things.

You can be an amazing designer or a skilled developer, but skills like marketing, planning, productivity, organization and taking care of admin tasks are critical to your survival

When people or businesses use products for WordPress, the products should just work, and if they don’t work, then a support channel should be available instantly to provide help.

Managed hosting is the best way to ensure that our client’s sites are secure, performant and stable.

If you can, you should use server side caching like Memcache, which caches the whole site in the server memory. That’ll make it incredibly fast.

These days, I recommend Managed WordPress Hosting such as the one that Cloudways offers instead.

Freelancing is great if you’re the type of person who can thrive living that kind of lifestyle.

The Community definitely plays a huge role in bringing success to WordPress.

Where we are based there are not many WordCamps nearby, however, we plan to travel America next year, so we want to visit the big one and enjoy Matt’s ‘State of the Word’ address.