March 19th, 2025 Issue
Your earliest customers are more than just users—they’re partners in shaping your product’s success. As a founder, working closely with them helps you uncover their biggest pain points and the limitations they faced before. By solving their problems, you create loyal advocates and an easier path to appealing to a broader audience.
~ Team WPfounders
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"Client work is a great way to discover interesting problems in the world. Many of the most successful businesses in the WordPress space originated from these starting points."
~ David Smith of Gravity Wiz
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“If you build an environment that attracts, retains, and builds the best people, you’ll then build the best products and provide the best service for your customers.”
~ Dusty Davidson of Flywheel
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"Our motto is to focus on creation a innovation & not on chasing competitors. We have a clear vision that serves as our compass, guiding us towards the right path."
~ Yoni Luksenberg of Elementor
Read StoryInspirational Quote of the Month
"I taught myself a lot, from many different angles—from freelance design to getting things on the web during the mid-‘90s, as the whole “internet” thing was really taking off for the general population."
~ Tom Fanelli of Convesio
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Read The Latest Updates!
- Matt: Craylor Made recently published his interview with Matt Mullenweg he did during WCAsia 2025.
- Elegant Themes: Elegant Themes has acquired DonDivi.
- Cloudways: WordPress Security Bootcamp happened on 18-19th March.
- Patchstack: State of WordPress security 2025 whitepaper published.
- Newfold Digital: WordPress contributions hours cut down from 329 hours to only 20 hours per week.
- WP Engine: The De{CODE} 2025 event is happening on April 15.
- WordSesh: The virtual event is happening on 13-15th of May, 2025.
- 10up: Fueled & 10up have launched a real-time tracking monitoring service for website health vitals.
- WPBakery: A recent study finds that Classic theme submissions still dominate WordPress.org, with 70% being classic themes.
- WordPress.org: WordPress 6.8 Beta releases are now available for download, with final release to happen on 15th April.
- Gravity Forms: Launched a brand new Brevo Add-On that allows you to manage your email list and enhance engagement with your leads and customers.
- Analytify: Introduced version 6.0 with faster, smarter & more intuitive Google Analytics for WordPress.
- Cloudfest: The world’s largest cloud industry event, is running through the 20th of March.
- Mark Ashton: Introduced a new plugin “SnipVault” the ultimate WordPress code snippets plugin for developers.
Podcasts:
- The WP Minute: Matt Medeiros talks with Robert DeVore about “how open source changed his life”.
- Do the Woo: Mark Westguard talks with Steve Burge about “the challenges and wins of creating a suite of WordPress plugins”.
- WP Builds: Nathan Wrigley talks with Akshat Chaudhary about “Airlift’s one-click optimisation”.
- SDM Show: Rob Cairns talks with Ahsan Parwez about “WP Founders and Webhosting”.
- Seriously Bud: Bud Kraus talks to Remkus de Vries, a guy who teaches us that an object that is in motion stays in motion.
- WP Tavern: Rahul Bansal shares his thoughts on how he built an Enterprise WordPress agency.
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Your first customers are your strongest foundation!
