August 7th, 2025 Issue
Dreaming was fun before you started your entrepreneurial journey, right? But soon enough, you find yourself working longer hours, grinding through weekends, and juggling five things at once. Balance starts slipping. And while the hustle is exciting, real fulfillment comes when you align your health, family, and business. Train your mind, take care of your body, and get organized. That’s when the dream starts feeling real again.
~ Team WPfounders
Latest Stories
"A business that has no competitors doesn’t have a market. Empires fall not because of outside forces but from the inside."
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"You need to realize very early that a business is not just the thing you love, but it’s a thousand other things that you probably hate."
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"Be passionate about solving real problems, focus on gaining knowledge first, and money will eventually follow."
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Read The Latest Updates!
- Atarim: A new fully embedded AI creative team launched and is available in early access.
- Enqueue: Event for WordPress developers happening in Sydney, on November 28th.
- WPML: Better-than-human AI translation tool, launched by WPML called PTC (Private Translation Cloud).
- FlyingPress: A new tool, called the Flying TTFB, to check Time to First Byte from 22 global locations.
- MaxiBlocks: New starter sites added to the templates collection of MaxiBlocks.
- Hostinger: WordPress AI Agent called Kodee announced, join the waitlist to get access.
- Human Made: WPCampus and Human Made release report about The State of WordPress in Higher Education.
- WordPress.org: All ReadMe files of plugins are now required to be written in English.
- WedDevStudios: Brad Williams announced Algolia AI Search integration in WP Search with the Algolia plugin.
- JetSloth: New Gravity Forms Feed Error Alerts plugin launched by Sloth.
Podcasts
- The WP Minute: Kurt and Toby discuss the complexities of pricing, client relationships, and ethics.
- OpenChannes (Do the Woo): Host Adam Weeks talks with Miriam Schwab and Amy Kamala about the impact of sponsored contributors.
- WP Builds: Nathan chats with Matt Schwartz about automating WordPress forms.
- SDM Show: Rob Cairns talks to Todd Jones about Copywriting.
- Seriously, Bud?: Bud talks to Robert Jacobi, a man with a handlebar mustache who speaks multiple languages and makes dinner every night.
- WP Tavern: Nathan talks to Mariya Moeva on the Impact of Google’s SiteKit on WordPress.
Discounts By The Founders
- 80% off on BigScoots (Code: WPDiscounts80)
- 50% off on Glow (Code: WPD50)
- 50% off on WP Umbrella (Code: WPDISCOUNTS)
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Here’s to a more balanced life!
