Project Red Flags for the Solo Dev
As a solo WordPress developer, you wear every hat—coder, designer, project manager. But autonomy comes with risk: one overlooked red flag can sink your project. Ignoring warning signs breeds burnout,… Read more
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Posts tagged: Business
How to Tame Scope Creep in WordPress Development
Scope creep occurs when a project’s requirements expand, usually through incremental, unplanned requests. In WordPress development, this often takes the form of requests like “Can we add a newsletter pop-up… Read more
Mike Davey
May 1, 2025
DE{CODE} 2023: Developer Focused WordPress Education
You know code…but do you know DE{CODE}? Hosted by WP Engine, this 100% virtual event is dedicated to helping WordPress developers build smarter, maximize conversions, and modernize the user experience.… Read more
Mike Davey
Mar 3, 2023
2021 Year in Review: Tripled, Acquired, Reborn, and Humming
TL;DR — Despite the pandemic, we had a great year as a team and as a business. We tripled the size of the team, acquired ACF, shipped and published a… Read more
Brad
Jan 6, 2022
2020 Year in Review: Business in the Front, Business in the Back
TL;DR – 2020 has been a difficult year for us, but we still did very well and feel very fortunate. Despite the fear and uncertainty of a pandemic and hiring… Read more
Brad
Jan 4, 2021
2019 Year in Review: Double the Products, Double the Fun
TL;DR – We launched two new products this year (SpinupWP and WP Offload SES), kicked off a new chapter for WP Migrate DB Pro, made big improvements to WP Offload… Read more
Brad
Jan 8, 2020
The End of Jigoshop? What Happened to The Once-Popular Ecommerce WordPress Plugin
I woke up this morning to an email from an old client from my days as a freelancer building WordPress sites, asking about SCA compliance. I built them an ecommerce… Read more
Iain Poulson
Sep 24, 2019
Delicious Brains In Berlin: Our Fifth Annual Company Retreat
Back in June, our team got together for our fifth annual retreat. After a couple years of not basing retreats around a conference, the team decided to give the conference-based… Read more
Caillie West
Aug 6, 2019
2018 Year in Review: Our Most Productive Yet
This has been the most focused and productive year for Delicious Brains, Inc., yet. We shipped a bunch of new features for our existing products and built two new products.… Read more
Brad
Jan 15, 2019
Delicious Brains In Jamaica: Our Fourth Annual Company Retreat
Back in May, our team met up for our fourth annual company retreat. This time around we had decided on somewhere hot (for May) and Jamaica ended up receiving the… Read more
Iain Poulson
Jun 19, 2018
2017 Year in Review: Hiring, Firing and Revenue Details
This past year was a rollercoaster of a ride. Some high highs and low lows. We added team members and had to let some go. We saw dips in revenue… Read more
Brad
Feb 6, 2018
Delicious Brains in Nova Scotia: Our Third Annual Company Retreat
Back in August, our team met up for our third annual company retreat. We chose a location (literally) close to my heart: Nova Scotia. This year was the first year… Read more
Brad
Dec 19, 2017
2016 Year in Review
For the last couple of years, I’ve published a “year in review” post on my personal blog. (In fact, that’s all I’ve published on my blog in the past two… Read more
Brad
Jan 10, 2017
Freemius Monetization Review: An Easy Way to Sell Your Plugins and Themes
Ever since building my first WordPress plugin I have been interested in the different business models around monetizing plugins. A while back I heard of Freemius, a monetization service for… Read more
Iain Poulson
Aug 30, 2016
Delicious Brains in Vienna: Our Second Annual Company Retreat
A few weeks ago, our team descended upon Vienna, Austria for our second annual company retreat and WordCamp Europe. After last year’s retreat around WordCamp Miami we had decided that… Read more
Brad
Jul 19, 2016
Hey WordPress Developers, Your Clients Should Own Their Plugin Licenses
Before we get into this I want to say that WP Migrate DB Pro doesn’t really apply here. It’s a developer tool so the developer should own the license, not… Read more
Brad
Jun 14, 2016
The Awkward Addon Pricing Model For WordPress Plugins
The release of WP Offload S3 this year saw our portfolio double in size and, like our flagship product WP Migrate DB Pro, WP Offload S3 comes with addon plugins… Read more
Iain Poulson
Jan 7, 2016
Struggles Developing a Commercial WordPress Plugin
Building software to sell is a tricky business. It isn’t always as simple as writing code and getting people to buy it. WordPress commercial plugins come with their own set… Read more
Iain Poulson