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Going out of Business – Save WPBeginner

HAPPY APRIL FOOLs DAY

Dear WPBeginner Users,

Uzzz Productions have been slammed with a major financial obstacle due to this recession. After having a group meeting with all WPBeginner editors, Uzzz Productions staff, and our financial manager, we have decided to pull the plug on this project. April will be the last month, you will see new articles on WPBeginner, and this will be the last month that we will provide our Free WordPress Blog Setup service. We will continue to provide support on all previous articles until the end of April, 2010. After April, all old articles will stay alive as a database for others to use, but we will not provide any more support or new content.

This was a tough decision, but after analyzing our profit/loss report, it seems that WPBeginner is taking up more time than we can spend. We have been providing free support for every user that emails us. While that was an ideal goal to make things free, it was not sustainable.

We are giving ourselves more time to figure out a better solution by delaying the kill date to April 30, 2010. During this time, all options will be considered including selling the site, or putting more adverts on the site. If this trouble continues, then we will have to do the unthinkable (Shutdown this site).

How you can save WPBeginner?

Recommend your friends to our site, so we can have higher traffic. This will convince advertisers to advertise on our site.

You can join our Twitter community and our Facebook community. Sharing our articles in social media networks will bring more exposure to WPBeginner, which will help us get more advertisers.

Buy Products from one of our partners using our link (who will then pay us a commission which will certainly help a lot). These products will also help you in blogging, so it is a win win situation.

OIOPublisher
Aweber
Market Me Tweet
Gravity Forms
Studiopress Themes
Digging Into WordPress – eBook
Almighty Thesis Theme

Last but definitely not least, you can make a generous donation (every penny counts) to subsidize our operating cost.





Warm Regards,
WPBeginner Editorial Staff (Syed, Amanda, Zain, Muhammad, and David)

Was that convincing enough?? Nah guys, we are always here. This is an April Fools Post. Don’t want to get you guys pissed thinking that we manipulate April Fools Day for money. Although all your donations and support is still welcomed :)

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Editorial Staff at WPBeginner is a team of WordPress experts led by Syed Balkhi with over 16 years of experience in WordPress, Web Hosting, eCommerce, SEO, and Marketing. Started in 2009, WPBeginner is now the largest free WordPress resource site in the industry and is often referred to as the Wikipedia for WordPress.

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14 CommentsLeave a Reply

  1. Enk.

    haha Good one.. It was a great post but the very first heading ‘April Fools Day’ explained it all.. Very well written and yeah, It was a Win Win situation but for you ! :D

  2. Antonio Fernandes

    Thank god i read the whole thing lol, lol, lol. Would be a shame to lose you guys WpBeginner is a force in the wp world.

  3. Kevin Muldoon

    I was taken in for the first minute or so, before I remembered the date! :)

  4. od3n

    dont read the post again, but the last paragraph. happy april fool!!

  5. Shiva

    Good way of taking advantage of April fools day. :) By the way I am going to try this in my blog next year :P

  6. Dodie

    April Fools will get you donations! =)) NICE!

  7. FAQPAL

    All I can and will say is, READ the post again.

    :)

  8. Bronson

    This is sad to hear, it would be terrible to lose such a great resource.

    I am kinda strapped, but will do do what I can to spread the love and hopefully send some moolah your way to help out.

    Keep the faith boys & girls, something good will happen – you watch!

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