Category: Build in Public

  • WordSaaS 3: A frontend interface block

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    Robert

    One thing I need for the particular SaaS I’m building is a block that let’s subscribers edit question and answer sets when they log into their accounts. They are in essence configuring the behavior of blocks on their own site, but when on the SaaS site they are not editing on the back end. They…

  • WordSaas 2: A SaaS Architecture

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    Robert

    Let’s talk about what it might look like to build a SaaS on WordPress. For this article, let’s talk about the broad outlines of what we’re likely to need, how that might map onto WordPress and some potentially relevant plugins, and the choices that I’m planning on using in my own case. As mentioned when…

  • WordPress SaaS confidential

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    Robert

    Clearly, there are at least a few people who consider WordPress as a platform on which to build a SaaS website—if you google for “WordPress SaaS” you’ll see them popping up in places like Reddit and in blog posts. There aren’t as many SaaS launchers looking at WordPress as I might have expected, though, and…

  • Best WordPress Blocks Plugins to Push Your Gutenberg Imagination

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    Robert

    Gutenberg arrived on the WordPress scene five years ago by now, but plugins that implement more-than-basic blocks were relatively slow in coming. Still, five years: so you might think everyone would have it all figured out by now. But no. And plugins that implement more-than-basic blocks were relatively slow in coming. For one thing, there’s…

  • Quite the laundry list

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    Robert

    As mentioned in previous blogs, the arrival of the WCUS conference was a self-imposed deadline for me to actually launch PeakZebra as a set of app-building blocks, even if it was a soft launch. While I did meet the minimal requirements for the goal I’d set, it’s also fair to say that it turned out…

  • Soft Release Minus One

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    Robert

    My original vision fro PZ Blocks was that they would be relatively low cost and that they would require minimal interaction with PeakZebra once you’d downloaded. You know, if you’re not charging a lot, you simply can’t afford to spend a lot of time tweaking things for individual customers. My thought was that you’d get…

  • Deadline almost, five days out

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    Robert

    I’ve been working on PZ blocks for a good long while now, but sometime early in the summer I realized I needed a deadline. Or, to be perfectly honest, it was my therapist who realized I needed a deadline. Once the suggestion was put to me, it seemed obvious that the deadline had to be…