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Author: Jean Galea

Jean Galea is an investor, entrepreneur, and writer. He is the founder of WP Mayor, and the plugins WP RSS Aggregator and Spotlight. He also runs the Good Life Collective. Connect with him on X or visit jeangalea.com.

Articles written by Jean Galea

Interview with Gilbert Pellegrom, developer of the Nivo Slider and Showcase Plugins

Today we have with us Gilbert Pellegrom, who describes himself as a Web Developer, Software Engineer & Part-time Entrepreneur living in the North of Scotland. Perhaps you will quickly recognise him when we talk about Nivo Slider, the massively successful WordPress slider he built and continues to refine. I was very glad to have the opportunity to gain an insight into Gilbert’s work life, and I think you will find the interview very interesting….

A Collection of WordPress Projects on Github

Github is an open source collaboration tool and code repository. There are a number of WordPress projects thriving in this ecosystem, and Themergency have listed a few of the best WordPress projects hosted on Github.

Taking a Look at PSD to WordPress Conversion Services

As demand for WordPress sites continues to grow, we are seeing quite a number of PSD to WordPress conversion shops open up online. Some of them have been in the business offering PSD to HTML, and are now offering PSD to WordPress as an additional offering, however there are also those who specialise purely in Photoshop to WordPress conversions.

Interview with Amir Helzer, Creator of WordPress Multilingual Plugin WPML

It’s time for another interview in our series, this time we have Amir Helzer with us. Amir is the founder of WPML, one of the very best Multilingual plugins for WordPress. Amir has been working on WPML for a number of years now, and has built a team of 15 people who are involved with this project. In the interview, Amir tells us how he got started with WordPress, some tips for building a company around WP, and also introduces two new plugins, Types and Views.

Interview with Matthew Ruddy, developer of Riva Slider

Today we continue our series of interviews with WordPress developers by having a chat with Matthew Ruddy, developer of the excellent Riva Slider. If you’re looking for a slider plugin, that’s one of the best WordPress sliders available, and you should definitely give it a try. Matthew is still very

What the GPL Licence used by WordPress Means

As many of you surely know, WordPress is released under the GPL licence, as are many other open-source software e.g. Linux.

Although you might know that WordPress is GPL-licenced, you might not be aware of what the licence actually consists of and how it affects us as users and developers. Let’s take a look….

Interview with Pippin Williamson, a WordPress Freelance Plugin Developer

We continue our series of interviews with WordPress rockstars today by having a chat with Pippin Williamson, a very talented plugin developer who is known for his many plugins available on CodeCanyon, as well as his tutorial site Pippin’s Plugins.

Pippin has managed to create a freelance business focusing on WordPress plugin development, and I am sure it will be very interesting for those of you out there who dream of concentrating fully on WordPress work in a freelance environment.

Being a freelance developer myself, I found Pippin’s hardware setup as well as his views on marketing oneselff very interesting. Read on…

Best Question & Answer Plugin for WordPress

If you want to implement a Question and Answer site, similar to the uber popular Stackexchange or Yahoo Answers, you have a variety of WordPress-based solutions you can try out. Let’s see what these options are.

Dean Wormald: Meet a Travelling WordPress Freelancer & Entprepreneur

Today we team up with Dean Wormald from ‘You Make the Website’, a very interesting character who talks to us about working with WordPress, travelling and freelancing. He also gives us an insight into his plans for this year, including the launch of some very interesting tools for freelancers.