Author: Dave

I’ve never been a one project person and when I started self employment 52 weeks ago I had a few other ideas already on the go. Mid way thru the year I decided to hit pause on them to focus on plugins, which turned into one big project producing ToggleWP. HeadsUpWP and Launch That Website…

Moving from “What have I done?” to a solid plan for Year 2 Looking back at this first full year of self-employment, the biggest takeaway is just how much of a roller coaster it’s actually been. It started with the classic transition from corporate life – trying to figure out how to manage my own…

Last year’s trip to Basel was my first WordCamp. I didn’t quite know what to expect, which meant I was less prepared than I should have been. This year I started planning way in advance, and thanks to Claude Design I arrived with a master plan. The conversation starter – Rock, Paper, Scissors I’ve never…

Welcome to my 2026 year in preview post. Instead of writing about what happened in 2025 (short version, I left Corporate in late June to run my own business), I’m going to visualise what my potential 2026 would look like. In Dec 2026 I can look back at this and see how accurate I was…

Part 2 starts off in early 2024 with a tweet from Andrew Palmer, at that point the owner of WP Plugins+, staying he was looking to move on from the plugin business and was looking for a new owner for his selection of legacy divi 4 based plugins. At that point I was trying to…

Lets start off by rewinding back to early 2023 when my WordPress hosting side business had been running for just over a year and I had a handful of clients. I’d been planning to offer website builds as an additional service, but hadn’t put together any content together at that point. While lurking on Twitter…

Late last year I started work on the Nag Me Not browser extension as a sister project to the WordPress plugin. The plugin focused on cleaner dashboards for client accounts, while the extension would have been for support / maintenance people who log in to many different sites each day. It covered the core blocking…

What would you bet on in a three horse race? A plugin, a portal, or a portal with plugin.

Find out about “Our” short, medium and long term plans.