Founder and CEO of WPBeginner and Awesome Motive Inc, one of the most prominent WordPress software companies in the industry.
Over 25 million websites use WordPress plugins and software apps developed by Syed Balkhi and his team.
Started using WordPress in 2006 and has over 16 years of experience building websites with WordPress.
WordPress Core Contributor along with many other Open Source software contributions
Experience
Syed Balkhi is one of the most well-known WordPress experts in the world with over 16 years of experience. He graduated from University of Florida and have been building WordPress websites since 2006.
In 2009, Syed created WPBeginner as a free online resource to help beginners and non-techy small business owners learn WordPress. At the time, no other WordPress training resource existed for beginners, and this led to WPBeginner growing in popularity and becoming the Wikipedia for WordPress.
Syed was recognized as the top 100 entrepreneur under the age of 30 by the United Nations, and his work is featured in top publications like Entrepreneur, Forbes, Inc, Business Insider, The Guardian, Wired Magazine, and more.
Over the years, Syed has been a featured speaker at highly reputed conferences all around the world including Traffic & Conversion Summit, Affiliate Summit, Marketing School Live, Blog World Expo, dozens of WordCamps, and more.
About WPBeginner
WPBeginner is the largest free WordPress resource for beginners to learn WordPress. We are part of the Awesome Motive family and reach over 100 million visitors every year. Our content is fact checked and reviewed by our Editorial team for accuracy and integrity. You can learn more about us and our editorial process.
Today, I’m extremely excited to announce that WPBeginner Growth Fund has taken an investment stake in Wisetr, the parent company behind the popular WordPress sales funnel and automation plugin called WooFunnels. Over 18,000+ smart store owners use WooFunnels sale funnel builder to create high-converting checkouts,… Read More »
If you visited WPBeginner in the last few weeks, then you probably noticed that we got a new website design. While it has a lot of similarities to the last one, there’s a lot that changed behind the scenes. As I promised in the newsletter,… Read More »
Today, I’m extremely excited to share that all Sandhills Development products are joining Awesome Motive, and they’re now part of the WPBeginner family of products. This includes several popular WordPress plugins including Easy Digital Downloads, AffiliateWP, WP Simple Pay, Sugar Calendar, and many more. These… Read More »
Today, I’m extremely excited to share that SearchWP has joined Awesome Motive, and it is now part of the WPBeginner family of products. SearchWP is a powerful WordPress search plugin that helps you improve your site search to deliver more relevant results. Over 30,000 websites… Read More »
Today WPBeginner turns 12 years old — which means we pretty much have a teenager on our hand Like every year, I want to take a few minutes and do a quick recap of all the major things happening in business as well as my… Read More »
It’s always mind blowing for me to see the impact WordPress makes on the global economy. MemberPress, the leading WordPress membership and course platform, announced today that they have passed the milestone of $1 billion dollars in creator earnings. This is a conservative estimate and… Read More »
Today, I’m extremely excited to announce that WPBeginner Growth Fund has taken an investment stake in Uncanny Owl, the parent company of a fast growing WordPress automation plugin, Uncanny Automator, and a suite of e-learning plugins for WordPress. Over 25,000+ websites use Uncanny Owl plugins… Read More »
Today, I’m extremely excited to share that PushEngage has joined Awesome Motive, and it is now part of the WPBeginner family of products. PushEngage is a leading push notification software with over 10,000+ customers in 150+ countries who use the platform to reliably send over… Read More »
Today is July 4th which means WPBeginner is officially 11 years old. We’ve come a long way Like every year, I want to take a few minutes and do a quick recap of all the major things happening in business as well as my personal… Read More »
Today, I’m extremely excited to share that Smash Balloon has joined Awesome Motive, and it is now part of the WPBeginner’s family of products. Smash Balloon offers the most popular social feed plugins for WordPress. Over 1,300,000+ people use Smash Balloon plugins to easily display… Read More »