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Plugged Into Programming - From WordPress Plugins To Micro SaaS
Jamie Robe
37 episodes
1 week ago
We are exploring what it means to be a creative solo-programmer / solo-founder, and how to harness the power of WordPress by developing our own custom plugins. Plugins can be stand-alone products, all the way to the core of a micro SaaS, WaaS, or even XaaS bootstrapped business. Along the way we will learn how to code in PHP, JavaScript, and leverage the cool functions and hooks and libraries that come with the WordPress framework. The potential for creating new experiences and value for users is limited only by our creativity. Hosted by Jamie Robe, solo-founder of PluggedIntoProgramming.com
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We are exploring what it means to be a creative solo-programmer / solo-founder, and how to harness the power of WordPress by developing our own custom plugins. Plugins can be stand-alone products, all the way to the core of a micro SaaS, WaaS, or even XaaS bootstrapped business. Along the way we will learn how to code in PHP, JavaScript, and leverage the cool functions and hooks and libraries that come with the WordPress framework. The potential for creating new experiences and value for users is limited only by our creativity. Hosted by Jamie Robe, solo-founder of PluggedIntoProgramming.com
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Day 6 - Taking the micro-SaaS bull by the PayPal horns!
Plugged Into Programming - From WordPress Plugins To Micro SaaS
31 minutes 36 seconds
2 years ago
Day 6 - Taking the micro-SaaS bull by the PayPal horns!

I was just listening to another podcast yesterday that had Seth Godin on as a guest. He has a new book out called "The song of significance". Anyway, Seth gave some advice to help people focus on creative projects. I am qupting him from what I jotted down while at a stop light yesterday: "What is the very very hard thing, that if it happens, your project will work better?". In other words, figure out the part that maybe you don;t know as much about (or down-right do not enjoy as much) and hit it first.

So I took the bull by the horns and selected the payment gateway and membership level/user registration part. Not as flashy as the other parts of the micro-SaaS I am redoing in this ongoing test - but critically important for so many reasons.

In this pod I will talk about my 11 hour saga today (on my vaca day off from J1) ... Ok I did eat a few meals at home... but it was a solid focused day. I am very happy :)

  • Some gotchas on having to create a new business level paypal - they would not let my old paypal create APIs any more.
  • How to get the pro version of jetformbuilder - the crocoblock super advanced form builder that I get with my license level. Turns out you get the free plugin from the WP repo and the pro parts are add-on that I get with my license.
  • Building the form was the easy part
  • Created a CCT using jetengine - to store some buyer info
  • Learned about the post submit actions on the jetform settings on Gutenberg.
  • A few gotchas due to even 1 year old youtube videos and other docs being outdated - crocoblock is modernizing everything all the time - which is great.
  • Got some help from the cocoblock chat support - excellent and fast info
  • Got some help from a youtube chat with some random user helping my with a 5 month old chat
  • Completed the tests - finally getting a user registered, CCT record on the order inserted, an email to the admin sent, and a jetformbuilder form record being saved into a sort of form log

All very cool. I learned a lot and it is full steam ahead.

Thank you Seth Godin for inspiring my direction today - as now I can get to the fun parts :)


Plugged Into Programming - From WordPress Plugins To Micro SaaS
We are exploring what it means to be a creative solo-programmer / solo-founder, and how to harness the power of WordPress by developing our own custom plugins. Plugins can be stand-alone products, all the way to the core of a micro SaaS, WaaS, or even XaaS bootstrapped business. Along the way we will learn how to code in PHP, JavaScript, and leverage the cool functions and hooks and libraries that come with the WordPress framework. The potential for creating new experiences and value for users is limited only by our creativity. Hosted by Jamie Robe, solo-founder of PluggedIntoProgramming.com