Plugged Into Programming - From WordPress Plugins To Micro SaaS

We will start a project with multiple dev phases. First, develop a low code web app using WordPress and Crocoblock jet plugins. Second, use that as the backend for apps built in Flutter and Dart.

When to consider reliability of your emails and how to use a third-party email service like Elasticmail. We will talk thru plug-ins and domain keys to keep you emails from hitting spam folders.

As I work on developing my web app called PetStayCay, using WordPress and Crocoblock as the framwork, I realized I needed to make some changes to my hosting choices. I also do some self coaching which I think will help you on your creative project. How do we cultivate clarity, consistency, and confidence...thru challenging ourselves.

Our minds have been damaged by the educational model where failure is punished and look at negatively. Getting to success in a project, a job, a business, and life in general, is thru a path strewn with pivots, false starts, pauses, and yes failures. Learning is the most important thing you can do, and trying things - even failures - ultimately opens your success surface area.

I am using my PetStayCay web app project to share my approach to business asset development. In this case, I am creating a sustainable online business. My approach starts with 3 pillars: 1. Audience building - even before the first line or code is written or WP plugin is installed 2. Monetization strategy - ideas on how this project will be funded and sustained as I bootstrap it from zero to ? 3....

Start 2024 learning with me as I build and launch a microSaaS using my favorite platform...WordPress. This episodes gives you some basic background on my PetStayCay project. Happy New Year

If you are programming your entire micro-saas, are building it all with plugins and no-code, or a combination = low-code, then documentation is essential. I talk about a log-based type vs system-based type, and how I use both in a typical Wordpress micro- saas. And I am finding documentation important as I continue to test building with crocoblock plugins like jetengine.

I hope everyone listening can visit my redesigned website https://pluggedintoprogramming.com I am celebrating the rebuild of it using jetengine, jetformbuilder, and other crocoblock plugins. All no code! I also reached episode 30 and gave 1000 all times listens. Thank you all very much!

Just some general observations about confusion and project documentation issues when developing a low code micro-SaaS. On Day 7 of my series using crocoblock plugins to see how far I can get with no code development.

I was just listening to another podcast yesterday that had Seth Godin on as a guest. He has a new book out called "The song of significance". Anyway, Seth gave some advice to help people focus on creative projects. I am qupting him from what I jotted down while at a stop light yesterday: "What is the very very hard thing, that if it happens, your project will work better?". In...

My ongoing series evaling Crocoblock as a development tool for micro-SaaS in Wordpress. Today I talk about the exciting possibilities of Custom Post Types (CPT) and Custom Content Types (CCT). Crocoblock plugins support both and it is cool. I also mention some low code thoughts using the actions I can add in a crocoblock form. This includes hooks into WP code as well as my own PHP as secret sauce...

Burnout is common in all jobs and professions but I believe it is especially prevalent in IT and other tech-savvy professions. I will talk about burnout and its opposites, namely time freedom, creativity freedom, and decision freedom.

I have been able to have some fun today, and I believe a light bulb went off in my head about the templating features. I will try to summarize what I have found. As I talk about today's findings, I started off wanting to make an artist portfolio system. So first I used jetengine to create a new CPT (custom post type), called artworks. These are the records that will hold a title and featured i...

Crocoblock has not disappointed me yet. Ticket support is excellent, with helpful tips and links being sent back. Especially now that I am staying on 1 topic per ticket. Got a little confused again with a template that was needed as I began testing the Profile Builder. That is a system they made that can create a frontend dashboard with subpages under a vertical or horizontal menu. This is for you...

This is Day 2 of this series exploring how far I can push crocoblock's ecosystem of plugins to build a micro-SaaS app. I really like the ease of working on Custom Post Types or CPTs using Jetengine. Jetengine seems to be the original crocoblock plugin and it handles a lot of things, and its interface for building CPTs is pretty easy to use. I have made CPTs for years with code and also with PO...

Day 0 was basically purchase and install, while in this Day 1 episode I talk about setting up an smtp service for the dev site, as well as starting to actually build out part of the specialized content structure of the dev site. This app was previously developed using PODS and custom PHP code, so I am basically starting on one CPT called pets. Pets holds a title, featured image and a bunch of meta...

I am doing a 30 day series on my real life evaluation of the crocoblock framework. It is a series of plugins designed for no code development of wordpress sites. I am trying it out as a RAD for one of my own micro-SaaS projects. I called this Day 0, since it was my wedding anniversary and I only had about an hour or so free to purchase it and install on a basic cloudways dev site. Before installin...

We can get so invested in projects that we lose sight of the really important part of creative development, our own personal development. This rebooting process is something to celebrate.

As a solopreneur or one person creative team, facing the chaos of the unknown can seem overwhelming. But you can do it! In these times of pandemics, economic disruptions, and changing markets, you can use your mind to level up to navigate across anything. We will explore some self-leadership to help guide you thru today's complex developments.

One of the most important things you can do in the development of your software app, website, or micro SaaS is to get user feedback. Beta testing is one of the methods to not only find bugs, but also to improve functional design and workflow.

I was reading Reddit this morning and found a great quote in a discussion about IT professionals starting online startups. It goes: There is no right or wrong decision. You make a decision and then you make it right.

Is the complexity of your project hurting you and your users? We all tend toward making our creations more and more complex, but we should all be asking if the complexity adds value to the user or not. The complexity of our creative processes can also add up until it paralyzes us. I was inspired to talk about this after listening to one of my favorite podcasts Copyblogger. Tim and Ethan cohost it...

As creatives, and that could mean engineer, programmer, writer, artist, teacher, solopreneur - we can get bogged down and discouraged by focusing on the money side. Take a few minutes to think instead about your impact. What does your idea, project or product do that makes an impact on others and yourself.

We are programmed to take the safe way. The safe path. But if you let that stop you from moving forward on your project, you are not only depriving yourself but also your future customers, users, and audience. We are going to do a quick coaching on restarting.

We all fall into the planning and thinking trap. It can actually be addictive to keep sketching out business plans, flowcharts, user interfaces, content outlines and on and on. But if we never get those great ideas off the drawing board and into practice, it is not good. The way to move forward is to get started...today. What you do is less important than just doing something. When we take a risk...