WordPress Heroes

WordPress Heroes – RankMath’s Bhanu Ahluwalia

WordPress Heroes – RankMath’s Bhanu Ahluwalia

Ever wonder how WordPress products are made and established? Our WordPress Heroes series aims to fill you in and give you the backstory behind various successful SaaS and WordPress businesses. This month’s story comes from Bhanu of Rank Math, a relatively new yet free WordPress SEO plugin, with a rating of 4.9 on WordPress with 80k installations!

So settle in with your coffee, tea, wine or whisky, and see how this 8 month old WordPress SEO plugin became such a hit! (Speaking of SEO, you might want to keep your website images optimized with this easy peasy tutorial).

Now, without further ado, let’s hear it for Bhanu.

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WordPress Heroes – Delicious Brain’s Brad Touesnard

WordPress Heroes – Delicious Brain’s Brad Touesnard

For this month’s WordPress Heroes story, we’ve got Brad Touesnard of Delicious Brains who’s been the creative force behind a variety of WordPress plugins. He got his start after experiencing a pain point migrating a WordPress site for an agency he worked for at the time. (We’ve also got a tutorial on migrating a WordPress website from localhost to live server if you’re looking for that).

We welcome you to grab your favourite beverage, and curl up to read how this savvy entrepreneur started and created his own SaaS (software as a service) company.

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WordPress Heroes – Autoptimize’s Frank Goossens

WordPress Heroes – Autoptimize’s Frank Goossens

Welcome back to our second ever WordPress Heroes story, featuring the entrepreneurs and creatives leading the WordPress community! We created this series for those intrigued about the process of creating an SaaS company or a WordPress plugin, some of which we use daily.

So grab your coffee mug or wine glass and take a moment to hear from our next successful entrepreneur. Frank Goossens is the person responsible for growing and furthering Autoptimize, a clever tool that can increase your page speed loading time, and as a result increase your Google PageSpeed insight score. Without further ado, let’s hear from Frank!

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WordPress Heroes – WPBeginner’s Syed Balkhi

WordPress Heroes – WPBeginner’s Syed Balkhi

We’re launching a new interview series called WordPress Heroes featuring your friendly, neighbourhood WordPress community leaders!

If you’ve ever wanted to go for coffee with a SaaS founder or a WordPress company leader to pick their brain and glean some helpful advice, this is a great opportunity to do just that. So grab your cup of coffee, tea, or wine, and settle in to see just how far they’ve come and what they’ve learned in the process.

For our first interview, we’re excited to be featuring Syed Balkhi, a successful and young entrepreneur creating company after company in the WordPress environment and beyond. He’s been featured in the top 100 entrepreneurs under the age of 30 by the United Nations and he’s also been quite involved in philanthropic work. Without any further ado, let’s hear from Syed himself in our first ever WordPress Heroes series.

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