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.
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 »
Today, I’m extremely excited to announce that WPBeginner Growth Fund has taken an equity stake in Rymera Web Co, the parent company of the popular Wholesale Suite plugin, Advanced Coupons plugin, and an upcoming WooCommerce inventory management plugin, Inventoroo. This is the first investment of… Read More »
When I started my first business, I thought about getting a landline phone, but it would have kept me tied to a desk. Instead, I used my personal phone number for business calls, thinking it would be simpler. That turned out to be a mistake.… Read More »
The first time I tried to build an online store, I spent hours staring at the WooCommerce settings, feeling completely overwhelmed. Every option seemed important, and I worried I was making a mistake that would cost me sales down the road. Like you, I just… Read More »
When we celebrated our tenth anniversary, I shared that our hosting infrastructure received a massive upgrade. Since then, many readers have emailed me asking exactly how we made our site load so quickly. It is true that our site loads faster than most static site… Read More »
Last year, I decided to do something that was never done before in the WordPress community. I created the WPBeginner Growth Accelerator, first-ever growth fund focused entirely on WordPress businesses. Today, I want to take the exciting steps and open up the second round of… Read More »
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Set, controlled and used by Google Analytics to collect and store data and then send that data to Google Analytics. OptinMonster provides the name if there is no existing tracker found on that page.
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Used for countdown elements {elementId} in campaigns {id} to determine when it should complete.
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Used specifically with slide-in campaigns {id} to determine if it has been closed or not by a visitor.
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Used to determine if a visitor has successfully opted in to any campaign on your site to unlock content when using our Content Locking feature.
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Used to determine if a visitor has successfully opted in to a campaign with the ID of {id} on your site.
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Used to determine if a visitor has been shown a campaign by the slug.
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om-{id}
Used to determine if a visitor has interacted with a campaign ID of {id} on your site.
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Used to determine when a new visitor becomes a returning visitor.