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

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.

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