Day 2 - First experiences with getting support from Crocoblock

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Plugged Into Programming - From WordPress Plugins To Micro SaaS

Jamie Robe

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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 2 - First experiences with getting support from Crocoblock

Plugged Into Programming - From WordPress Plugins To Micro SaaS

10 minutes 21 seconds

2 years ago

Day 2 - First experiences with getting support from Crocoblock

This is Day 2 of this series exploring how far I can push crocoblock's ecosystem of plugins to build a micro-SaaS app.

I really like the ease of working on Custom Post Types or CPTs using Jetengine. Jetengine seems to be the original crocoblock plugin and it handles a lot of things, and its interface for building CPTs is pretty easy to use. I have made CPTs for years with code and also with PODS.

I did get a reply to my questions I submitted on Day 1 (late in day), using the support ticket system. I am in Florida (UTC-5) and they seem to be in Ukraine (UTC+3), and I had a reply waiting for me around 6:30am or so on Day 2. Very fast turnaround and the ticket was helpful. Giving me 2 links.

The crocoblock knowledge base is extensive with documents, tutorials, and a huge video collection. Tons of YouTube videos are made by crocoblock staff, and there are lots of good ones from independent people too.

I also decided to do the dreaded deed and join Facebook. I had a Facebook account MANY years ago and cancelled it after 24 hours. I just don't like the feed system, people trying to friend you, etc. But crocoblocks has a private Facebook community group, and I joined to get into it. You have to wait for a few hours so they vet you. I used the same email I used to register my license of crocoblock.

One my first day I posted a hello to everyone and got some responses :). There are 23.7k members! It does seem very active. On my first day while I was reading I decided to reply with an answer to someone's question - it was clearly about using AJAX so I felt I could answer them about using javascript to make the live updates in the client. They said it was helpful.

That was about it. Day 2 was a J1 day as well, so I have limited time to put on this on weekdays (just like many of you). But I am able to use my time wisely and I will keep pushing forward! Till next time - keep on it.