Andrew Wilder is founder and owner of Nerd Press (formerly Blog Tutor), a full service website support platform for food bloggers and entrepreneurs.
Since 1998, Andrew Wilder has successfully combined his passions for food and technology by helping professional food bloggers and entrepreneurs build, repair and maintain their websites.
Andrew is also founder and creator of the popular food blog Eating Rules and the annual October Unprocessed challenge, which has helped more than 30,000 people change their lives by cutting out processed food.
Andrew is a noted expert in both the culinary and technical fields, having spoken on a variety of topics for conferences such as WordCamp LAX, the International Association of Culinary Professionals, Food & Wine, Techmunch, BlogHer, and BlogHer Food. He has been profiled in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and Eating Well Magazine.
Though he geeks out on technology (and has even contributed to WordPress Core), Andrew’s clients love that he communicates using “real people” language, not confusing jargon and tech-speak.
Andrew is a proud Eagle Scout, and lives in Santa Monica, California with his husband Matty.
Andrew Wilder Show Notes
Contact:
Nerdpress
Email
Monthly Plans
Plugins Andrew recommends
Books:
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All by Michael Pollan:
Food Rules
In Defense of Food
Cooked
Hosting:
Cloudways
Big Scoots
Agathon
Plugins:
WP Rocket
Yoast
Updraftplus
Vaultpress
Broken Link Checker
Social Pug
WP Recipe Maker
Tasty Recipes
Free Caching:
W3 Total Cache
Comet Cache
WP Super Cache
Litespeed Cache
Optimization:
Short Pixel
Web P
Questions:
What did you do before you started what you do now?
Was it fun?
How many years did you do it?
When the person asked you about your rates, did it take you a little while to get to where you felt you were getting what you are worth?
Why do you think Genesis hasn’t fixed the breadcrumb issue?
What are the top five mistakes that bloggers make?
What is number two?
Could you give one or two examples of what people should look for in hosting?
What is number three?
What about number four?
What is number five?
Okay, you said there were more, can you give me a few more?
Do you have to go to Google search console to look for errors or will they send you a notification?
Give me one more mistake?
For everyone that have ads, is there really no hope because of the ads?
What are you top five or ten plugins you would recommend for people?
I like social warfare but do you think it’s wise to keep it even though I haven’t updated it an a while?
Is there any advice that you could give new or fairly new bloggers that would make a difference in those early stages?
Do you still blog on eating rules?
What is the number one thing that crashes a person’s site that you have to fix?
What does your company provide to bloggers, even if they think they can do it themselves?
Beth Neels
Great information, Elaine! I have a whole bunch to check on now.
Elaine
It’s endless, isn’t it, Beth? Thanks for your comment.
Deb Delozier
Such a fun and great interview Elaine! So many good takeaways.
Elaine
Great Deb! I’m so glad you found it helpful. I had a blast chatting with Andrew!
Kylie | Midwest Foodie
Such an informative interview. I love to hear people like Andrew talk about their passions!
Elaine
Thank you Kylie! I had fun talking with Andrew, not only does he know his stuff but he relays it in fun and amusing way!