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Standardizing
WordPress Workflowby Tony Zeoli
WordPress Coach, Trainer & Consultant
@tonyzeoli
linkedin.com/in/tonyzeoli
facebook.com/tonyzeoliwp
https://tonyzeoli.com
Background• 23-year digital media career
• Web 1.0 - read only
• Web 2.0 - read, write, publish
• Web 3.0 - semantic
• Web 4.0 - mobile
• Web 5.0 - AI
• Lived through innovation and the evolution of software products
• We didn’t have the connective tissue with APIs we have today
• Slack is really just an AOL Chatroom on steroids
Innovation• Evolution causes Innovation
• Innovation fueled by problem
solving
• Problem solving spawns ideation
• Ideation creates solutions
• Solutions adopted by tribes
• Tribes coalesce around solutions
to solve problems
Tribes• Tribe, in anthropology, a notional form of human social organization
based on a set of smaller groups (known as bands), having
temporary or permanent political integration, and defined by
traditions of common descent, language, culture, and ideology. -
Encyclopedia Britannica
Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/tribe-anthropology
Today’s Tribes• “…despite the years of evolution and technology that have created
the foundation we currently stand on, there is one common
denominator that has remained unchanged, even after centuries of
growth: The inherent desire to form tribes.”
• “Historically speaking, a tribe was a community of families that
bonded over one goal – to survive and raise their next generations.
Today, however, we can define tribes as something less critical, like
individuals who are linked by their social interests.”
Source: https://blog.hubspot.com/insiders/what-are-marketing-tribes
WordPress Tribes• WordPress
• Plugin Developers
• Theme Developers
• SEO Experts
• Social Media Managers
• Bloggers
• Form Builders
• Analytics Analysts
• Digital Marketers
• Podcasters
• Videographers
• Photographers
Common Traits• Leadership
• Trust
• Community
• Economic
• Shared Knowledge
• Accountability
• Support
• Security
• Context
• Popularity
Competing Tribes
Organizational Behavior
• Your perception is your reality.
• Storming, norming, and
performing
• Joharis Window
Overload
Competition for Attention
Even more competition
WP Elevation
Workflow
Build Your Own Toolbox
Avoidance1. But I always use this one…
2. But my friend said…
3. You’re going to use this one…
4. This one seems okay…
5. Oh, I use Theme “Black
Forest…
6. Let’s just install it…
7. Conflicts
8. Going down that road…
9. Let’s use email or just text me,
okay?
10. Do what you want!
Lead Your Tribe• Be the leader of your of your
tribe
• Exude confidence
• Explain why your method(s)
works for your business and
their brand
• Potential Cost (+/-)
• Ease of use
• Simplicity
• Duplication
• Hard conversations
• Education
Their toolbox
• But we already use…
• Sometimes you’re stuck, and that’s okay. You’re joining their tribe.
• Be flexible, but firm in your convictions.
• Other times, remove and replace, as long as it works and doesn’t
increase costs or client (internal/external agrees to pay costs
(time/labor/deadlines) if necessary.
`• Basecamp for simple project
collaboration with clients with tasks
and timelines. Store project assets.
• Trello for agile sprints with card’s for
product backlog items
• HarvestApp for project time tracking
• Evernote for note taking
• Slack for team communication
• Team Viewer, appear.in, join.me,
Skype, GoToTraining for,
FreeConferenceCall.com
• Google Calendar for online meetings
• Drop Box for sharing large files
• Cloudup, Cloudapp for screenshots,
screen records
• Camtasia for screen records
• Email (the last resort!)
My Toolbox: Invoicing
• Generate and send invoices from Harvest
• Take payments through Stripe
• Deposits sent to bank
• QuickBooks connected to bank and Stripe for reconciliation
My Toolbox: Themes
• Bet the farm on Make by The Theme Foundry
• Make Plus companion plugin
• Page builder functionality
• Developed great rapport with support team who are responsive and
help with code snippets and suggestions to solve problems
My Toolbox: Plugins• JetPack
• Akismet
• All in One SEO Pack
• Gravity Forms
• WooCommerce,
Cart66
• The Event Calendar
• OptinMonster
• WP Smush
• Cloudflare (free SSL)
• Adsanity
• Edit Flow
• Co-Authors Plus
• Blubrry Powerpress
• Google Analytics
Dashboard
• Video Background
Plus
• Featured Video Plus
• WP Charitable
• Open Menu
(restaurants)
My Toolbox: Hosting
• Got off of cheap shared hosting plans with CPanel
• Moved to WordPress managed hosting with WP Engine
• Daily Backups, Staging, Git connectivity, SFTP, 24-hour chat
support, multisite, free SSL, push storage to Amazon, and more…
• Bill clients monthly for hosting, or get referral fees through affiliate
program
GSuite
• Moved email to Google GSuite
• Better Spam protection
• Other integrated services, like Hangout
• Email, Docs, Calendar, Drive, Sheets, Groups
• Better team collaboration
Agreements
• Adobe Sign
• DocuSign
• Or, I just set up terms in Harvest App, client accepts estimate and
accepts the terms.
Use Cases - Client 1
• Removed Ninja Forms in favor of Gravity Forms
• Client didn’t even know how they got Ninja Forms, nor did they know
where their license key was
• Rebuilt and launched new forms in Gravity Forms
Use Cases - Client 2
• Client using unsupported theme from Theme Forest
• Switched to Make theme framework by Theme Foundry
• Now client has support for theme and a page builder
• Easier for me to manage
Use Case: Client 3
• Client using Yoast SEO
• Was not using to full extent
• Switched to All in One SEO Pack Pro
• Export/Import Data
• No cost to client; hour of my time to work in tool I know
Questions
Links• Slides:
• https://slideshare.net/tonyzeoli
• https://tonyzeoli.com
• Sites:
• https://tonyzeoli.com
• https://digitalstrategyworks.com