Joe McLean 🧑‍💻📱🖥️

Full-service marketing agency co-founder. Tweeting about WordPress, AI, marketing and other tech. Husband to 1, dad to 4, child of God.

[Joe McLean 🧑‍💻📱🖥️ @_joemclean]

I've been building websites for 19 years.

I used to think that those who don't build their WordPress sites from scratch and used templates cheated.

Each site was taking 3 months to develop, and when I started getting more clients than I could handle, I had to find a better way

[Joe McLean 🧑‍💻📱🖥️ @_joemclean]

@natmiletic @PPCKirk

[Joe McLean 🧑‍💻📱🖥️ @_joemclean]

@ConnorShowler Local

[Joe McLean 🧑‍💻📱🖥️ @_joemclean]

@jamonholmgren I was born there and we always pronounced it with two syllables: “ore-gan”

[Joe McLean 🧑‍💻📱🖥️ @_joemclean]

@florinpop17 @lovable @supabase @stripe How is it compared to Claude?

[Joe McLean 🧑‍💻📱🖥️ @_joemclean]

@EmmettNaughton We need to connect!

[Joe McLean 🧑‍💻📱🖥️ @_joemclean]

@mhp_guy We go to parks and camp

[Joe McLean 🧑‍💻📱🖥️ @_joemclean]

I had the best day of work this week!

My marketing agency partnered with a fly fishing outfitter to film social media content.

This rainbow trout is my personal record!

[Joe McLean 🧑‍💻📱🖥️ @_joemclean]

We're hiring for a Project Coordinator! If you know someone who would fit this, please encourage them to apply! (This is required in-person job)

https://t.co/qhbbBkawc9

[Joe McLean 🧑‍💻📱🖥️ @_joemclean]

@natmiletic Is this the same as CMD + Shift + R?

[Joe McLean 🧑‍💻📱🖥️ @_joemclean]

@jamonholmgren I’ve only ever heard Tom Haverford’s cover

https://t.co/wM4j0qhZtH

[Joe McLean 🧑‍💻📱🖥️ @_joemclean]

@dustinhyle I ditched Elementor last year for Bricks Builder for performance. Still have about 20 client sites on Elementor and it’s like rolling dice to see if the theme editor will load or not.

[Joe McLean 🧑‍💻📱🖥️ @_joemclean]

@jamonholmgren Yeah! 🤐

[Joe McLean 🧑‍💻📱🖥️ @_joemclean]

One of my 2025 goals is to get healthy. Peaked at 275 lbs around Christmas with high BP. Logging <1800 cal/day for one month, now at 261 lbs. Started cardio and strength training, feeling sore but better already!

[Howard Pinsky @Pinsky]

Comic Sans is the Nickelback of fonts.

[Joe McLean 🧑‍💻📱🖥️ @_joemclean]

This isn’t isolated either — just last month, a WooCommerce update wreaked havoc on the same store.

Currently, I’m building a new project with @my_surecart. If it performs well, I may have to migrate all my Woo stores.

Not to mention… WooCommerce is quite expensive

[Joe McLean 🧑‍💻📱🖥️ @_joemclean]

WooCommerce updates are once again wreaking havoc on my client’s subscription site (pulling in 5 figures a month).

Today, payments were failing or kicking customers back to the home page after checkout.

Huge thanks to @blogVault for the quick rollback. Backups saved the day. 🙌

[Joe McLean 🧑‍💻📱🖥️ @_joemclean]

@PPCKirk I actually shattered my windshield on the families minivan when I shut the back hatch on a stack of baseboard trim.

[Joe McLean 🧑‍💻📱🖥️ @_joemclean]

@dustinhyle I’ve been using Claude for almost a year, it’s superior to ChatGPT for any programming needs.

[Joe McLean 🧑‍💻📱🖥️ @_joemclean]

@andrewhart Every grocery store needs this!

[Joe McLean 🧑‍💻📱🖥️ @_joemclean]

@Pinsky That last one 😂