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Balancing an Agency and a Premium Plugin (Beaver Builder), with Robby McCullough – WPCAST041

June 8, 2015

Our guest for this episode is Robby McCullough, one of the co-founders of the Beaver Builder plugin and the FastLine Media agency. Beaver Builder is a great drag and drop page builder, which we’ve used ourselves.

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The Core

  • Available as either a plugin or theme
  • Free version: https://wordpress.org/plugins/beaver-builder-lite-version/
  • Pro and agency versions: https://www.wpbeaverbuilder.com
  • Better than hacking together a combination of shortcodes, widgets, and custom HTML
  • Especially useful for clients, who can make edits visually without understanding code

FastLine Media: The Company Behind Beaver Builder

  • The company is primarily a design agency
  • Located near San Francisco in Campbell, CA
  • Beaver Builder started as a “scratch your own itch” project, launched in April 2014

WordPress Networking

  • WordPress meetups at meetup.com
  • WordCamps at central.wordcamp.org
  • In the news: Automattic acquired WooThemes, could mean big changes to WordPress.com and WooCommerce

Connect with Beaver Builder

  • Beaver Builder Website: https://www.wpbeaverbuilder.com
  • Agency: http://www.fastlinemedia.com
  • Twitter: http://twitter.com/fastlinemedia
  • Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/FastLine-Media/106732702687887
http://media.blubrry.com/wpcast/wpcast.fm/wp-content/blogs.dir/483/files/episodes/WPCAST041.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 27:57 — 25.6MB)

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Filed Under: Podcast • Tagged With: automattic, beaver builder, fastline media, meetup, page builder, robby mccullough, woocommerce, woothemes, wordcamp, wordpress.com, wysiwyg

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