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Introduction WordPress is an incredible platform on which to build your next SaaS. It’s been around (what feels like) forever, has a huge community of developers, is well understood, has tons of themes and feature plugins and uses a battle tested tech stack. However, building a SaaS on it is not the same as building one from the ground up…
Read MoreWPCloudDeploy has never been marketed through intermediaries. It doesn’t even have a presence on WordPress.org. However, we believe it’s time we started using more sophisticated methods in how we reach out to potential new customers. So, today, we’re introducing an affiliate program. Because the average price for our products is far higher than for other WordPress plugins, we’re hoping that…
Read MoreIt’s that time of the year again where we look back and try to figure out if we spent our time productively. I think we did. This year we focused a lot on improving our SaaS builder features – trying to make it easier to deploy and manage larger SaaSes on WordPress. To that end, we introduced: We think at…
Read MoreLast week we updated our AWS images to WPCloudDeploy v5.5. Today, we’ve updated the DigitalOcean image to v5.5 as well. You can use the button below to view the latest listing. With this new image you can try out the latest self-hosted version of WPCloudDeploy for free. It is just one tool in our suite of options that we provide…
Read More2023 is almost over and so, as we always do every year, we’re reviewing how our pricing has performed. We’re only going to be making a minor tweak this year – We’ll be removing the business plan from the pricing page. Why Remove The Business Plan? Less than 5% of our customers selected this plan. Obviously it’s not something customers…
Read MoreYou can use just about any backup & restore plugin or service to move sites from other hosts to WPCloudDeploy and WPCD.Cloud. Generally, we recommend UPDRAFT PLUS for importing sites which provides a lot of flexibility but it can sometimes be a little complex for newer users. Migrate Guru on the other hand can be dead simple at the cost…
Read MoreIn March of 2022 we added WPCloudDeploy to the Amazon Web Services Marketplace. Today, we’ve updated that image to the latest version – 5.5.1. Please use the button below to view the latest listing. The version we added last year, v4.x, is no longer available. You can use this AWS image to try out the self-hosted version of WPCloudDeploy for…
Read MoreAnyone who’s followed our operations for any length of time know that we do not usually offer discounts on our products. But, every year, when BFCM rolls around, we feel the pressure to make some kind of discounted special offer. Over the last four years or so we’ve developed a strategy around our offers. And it’s very simple… We create…
Read MoreWhen we publicly launched the WPCloudDeploy project we wrote a lengthy article about why we built it. A lot has changed since then and that article was written from the perspective of a reader circa 2020. So we figured it’s time we wrote an updated article that would make more sense to a new 2023/2024 reader. Searching And Not Finding…
Read MoreDid you know that WPCloudDeploy operates a few related SaaS products all built on the WPCloudDeploy product line? These services illustrate what is possible with WPCloudDeploy while also making it easier for folks who prefer to use SaaS products. We recently received a question asking about the differences between the various services which is what prompted this article. WPCloudDeploy WPCloudDeploy…
Read MoreAs WordPress’ Full Site Editing functionality aggressively moves forward, there have been a lot of discussions around what is going to happen to the page builder market. Ironically, as the block editor and FSE have become more mature, there are more page builders than ever! When work started on the block editor and FSE there were, maybe, five well-known page…
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