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Making My Business Siren-Centric
I’ve spent way too much time trying to build separate sales pipelines when the answer was right in front of me—Siren. Instead of growing Siren in spite of my business, I’m building my business around Siren. Every product, every service—Siren is the core. 🚀
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What Really Happens When Your Lead Developer Quits
Everything seems perfect until your lead developer quits. Suddenly, hidden knowledge vanishes, features slow to a crawl, and new hires struggle to decode mysterious decisions. This post explores what happens, and how to avoid this fate.
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Seriously, Time Budgeting Is Life-Changing.
Following up on a new methodology of budgeting time in the same way as budgeting money. (Hint – it’s still life-changingly good)
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Four Ways to Handle Technical Leadership
Your business faces critical tech decisions, but every quick fix piles up hidden debt, draining your focus just when you need momentum most. There are four strategic ways to solve this problem.
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PHPNomad As A Static Site Generator
PHPNomad’s documentation site is now being built using…PHPNomad!
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Re-Acquainting Myself With Being A Visionary
Between late night binges playing Phasmophobia, I’ve been doing a lot of “future work” lately. Thinking about Novatorius, Siren, and what it all means. How does it all connect to my beliefs, and my life, and what’s the purpose of all of it.
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Work Life Balance Is A Lie.
Work-life balance is a trap. It frames work and life as opponents in an unwinnable war. Seek harmony instead. Let work flow with life’s rhythms, not against them.
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PHPNomad As An MVC Framework
So PHPNomad can run as an MVC framework now. That’s neat. I needed a way to make Siren run outside of WordPress. After careful consideration, I decided the best route to take was to set up the last couple of packages needed to just make PHPNomad capable of running as its own MVC framework. I spent a weekend creating the strategies that WordPress handles for Siren using various Symfony packages and other dependencies. After that, I structured it so that the app runs PHPNomad, registers the routes embedded in the application properly, and allows you to create views specific to…
At Novatorius, We Help Our Clients Leverage WooCommerce to Unlock More-Effective Sales Funnels
We help turn half-formed offers into complete funnels that convert. For larger brands we consult and implement enterprise-grade e-commerce with custom third-party integrations, subscriptions, tax/shipping, analytics, and performance hardening.
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Interview with Alex Standiford and Nathan Wrigley.
On the podcast today we have Alex Standiford. Alex has established himself as a familiar face in the WordPress ecosystem. With a background that includes time at GoDaddy and Sandhills Development, a stint in freelancing, and now as the creator behind Siren Affiliates, an affiliate solution for WordPress, he brings both technical depth and many other qualities (as you’ll hear!). Over the years, Alex has become a passionate contributor to the WordPress community. This episode sets its sights on a topic that’s everywhere right now… AI. I know, sight, right!?! But before you reach for the skip button, the conversation…
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Pruning My Business Back to The Essentials
You can be closing deals, paying people, and still be building the exact business you promised yourself you’d never run again.
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When to Pull in an Outside Tech Partner
I used to think I was doing developers a favor by keeping them out of the early planning. Turns out, I was just setting them up to fail. Here’s what I’ve learned about when to actually bring in outside help, and why timing makes all the difference.
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Founder of Novatorius & creator of Siren Affiliates. WordPress engineer and partnership advocate helping businesses grow with flexible incentive programs.
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