WordPress SaaS

WordPress SaaS: Validate Your Market Before Building

May 20, 2023

So you’re ready to build your SaaS. But how sure are you that customers will purchase your product? This is a very valid and very important question, regardless of which platform you’re building your SaaS on. If you don’t have an answer then you probably should stop what you’re doing and figure it out. The easiest way to get an…

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WordPress SaaS: Multi-tenant vs Multisite vs Standard Sites

May 19, 2023

There are three deployment strategies you can use when building your SaaS on WordPress. We cover these three deployment types in our prior article, Planning a WordPress SaaS. However, the comparison between the three deployment options is just part of that article. In this article we’re just pulling that information out so it can stand on its own. If you…

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All About Updating Your WordPress Based SaaS (WaaS)

May 15, 2023

Understanding what you need to do to update your WaaS is an important consideration when deciding what architecture you will use to deploy it. This article on OpenSaaS.io covers the three primary WordPress SaaS architectures along with the options for updating files, database and configuration data.

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The Ultimate Guide To Building A SaaS On WordPress – Part 3

May 12, 2023

Introduction In part one of this series you configured your WPCloudDeploy (or OpenSaaS)account, created a basic template site and connected it to your WooCommerce store. Then, in part 2, you fleshed out your template and got it to the point where you have a basic MVP (minimum viable product). In this part of the series we’re going help you start…

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The Ultimate Guide To Building A SaaS On WordPress – Part 2

May 8, 2023

Introduction In part one of this series you configured your OpenSaaS or WPCloudDeploy All Access account and created a basic template site. In this part of the series we’re going to select a base template and then tweak the template site to lock down permissions and remove menu items that are not suitable for your customers. Select a Template In…

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The Ultimate Guide To Building A SaaS On WordPress – Part 1

April 27, 2023

Prefer a Video Course? Check out How To Build A WordPress SaaS Video Course Introduction If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’re thinking about building a SaaS project using WordPress as the foundation. There are a number of reasons to build a SaaS project on WordPress. Among these are: As you might expect, there are a number of…

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Planning A WordPress SaaS

January 8, 2023

Introduction There are many reasons to use WordPress as the foundation for your SaaS. Among these are: Architecture Options When building a SaaS on WordPress, one of the first things you’ll have to decide is your deployment architecture. WordPress offers three different architecture options for a SaaS: Architecture #1: WordPress Multisite WordPress has a feature called “Multisite”. It allows multiple…

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Introducing Multi-tenant Features & Services

January 8, 2023

There are three ways to build out a WordPress SaaS (WaaS): Of course, each option has its advantages and disadvantages and, for a long time, WPCD supported only the first two. But now we’re happy to introduce support for Multi-tenant deployments as well. Features Our implementation of Multi-tenancy offers the following features: and more! Versioning You can create a new…

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