Hey There! I’m Alex
WordPress Developer | Entrepreneur
I’ve been tinkering with web technologies my entire life, and started my career as a web developer in 2015. Since then, I have built dozens of WordPress plugins, scratch-made websites, and web applications.
Current Projects
Siren Affiliates
Siren simplifies creating pay-for-performance programs, helping businesses get results while motivating affiliates with clear success metrics. While this launch is just the foundation, I have many ideas to revolutionize online partnerships. Though it’s called an “affiliate plugin,” Siren is truly in a league of its own, redefining the category.
WordPress Agency
Hire me to launch your WordPress product quickly with a focus on long-term growth. I provide strategic consulting to streamline development, overcome technical challenges, and ensure your product is built for the future. Let’s meet and set your WordPress project up for lasting success.
Personal Updates
My leave from GoDaddy happened the same week my wife decided to start focusing more on her career as an artist, and both of my kids are going to public school for the first time. So, as you can imagine, we’re in the midst of a lot of change right now. It’s stressful, and there’s challenges all around, but we were all collectively ready to mix things up, anyway.
We moved back into a house after our 4 years on the road almost a year ago. I can hardly believe it’s been that long, but here we are. In many ways, we all feel like we’re just…getting started with living at home again, now that the boys are going to school. We don’t plan on going back on the road anytime soon, and will probably end up getting rid of all of our campers for the foreseeable future.
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A Season Of Change
It’s been a heck of a week. I left my job, my wife started working on her art professionally, my kids started going to public school for the first time ever, I released a big Siren update, and I started picking up freelance work.
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Today Was My Last Day At My Day Job
Last week, I made the difficult decision to leave my job at GoDaddy. I’m now considering my options on where I go from here.
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I’m Starting a Podcast About How To Build Better Business Partnerships
This podcast will explore different bootstrapped business topics, with a focus on utilizing your network to create partnerships that benefit both you and them.
Own Your Platform
I believe in the Fediverse, and the ideals of owing your platform.
I treat my personal site as a central hub, so you’ll find everything I post on this site. It’s just my way of trying to make the web a little more decentralized, and own my content.
I am pretty passionate about this idea, and I think you could do the same, too. If you’re willing to spend a little more time sharing your content in one more location, you can do it, too.
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I think I just found my winter break project. I have a collection of plugins on my site that handles syndication. Would be really nice to bundle it up in a PHPNomad Package. Looks like Bluesky really easy to set up.
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Bluesky + Mastodon are the last pieces of the puzzle to allow me to publish from my mobile without actually having the app on my phone. This will allow me to stay connected with the world, but still allow me to keep social as “a place” instead of an omnipresent part of my life.
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I’m on a mission to get social media off of my phone, but I still want to be able to publish content. I don’t want to consume on my phone though.
I think if I can get a Twitter cross poster working reliably, my site plus the WordPress app can get me there.