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Episode 18: Robin Cornett
Introducing Robin Cornett
Robin is a work-from-home mother outside Chattanooga, Tennessee who ended up becoming a developer kind of by accident. She has been working with WordPress for about 10 years.
Show Notes
Website | https://robincornett.com/
Twitter | @robincornett
Episode Transcript
Liam: This is Hallway Chats, where we talk with some of the unique people in and around WordPress.
Tara: Together, we meet and chat with folks you may not know about in our community.
Liam: With our guests, we’ll explore stories of living – and of making a living with WordPress.
Tara: And now the conversation begins. This is episode 18.
Liam: Welcome to Hallway Chats, I’m Liam Dempsey.
Tara: And I’m Tara Claeys. Today, we’re joined by Robin Cornett. Robin is a work-from-home mother outside Chattanooga, Tennessee who ended up becoming a developer kind of by accident. She’s been working with WordPress for about 10 years and we’re really happy to have her here.
Robin: Hi guys, thanks for having me.
Liam: Hi Robin, welcome. Thanks for joining us. We heard just a little bit about you but go ahead and expand on that and tell us a little bit about yourself if you would please?
Robin: Basically I started working with WordPress about 10 years ago because my kids were old enough that I wanted to do something for a job and started my own little business and decided that I needed to have a blog as part of that. I started blogging with WordPress and just kind of gradually went down the trail of trying to figure out how to make it do more and more than what it did straight out of the box and ended up helping a friend rebuild their website in WordPress and then another, and then another. It just kind of kept going from there and here I am.
Tara: You started doing it as a hobby and as a favor, which I know happens with a lot of people who end up in the WordPress space, and then you decided you like it and can make a living from it. Can you tell us about how you make a living with WordPress?
Robin: Well, I am not the primary wage earner in our home. My income is supplemental but I kind of do a mix of client work and then in the last couple of years, I’ve started selling a couple plugins through my site so it is mostly those two.
Tara: Okay. What kind of client work do you do or have you done and how have you found those clients?
Robin: Mostly my clients and I connect through word of mouth or referrals and they kind of vary from small businesses to nonprofits and churches and a few individual bloggers here and there.
Tara: When you’re doing client work and now you’re doing your plugins, do you have a preference of which you prefer or what you’re doing more of if you had a choice? Also along the same lines or carrying that through, which is more sustainable for you?
Robin: I feel like they’re not really separate. A lot of my plugins have happened because of something that I wanted to do for a client and a solution that I ended up building for a client and then decided that I would like to be able to use it again. So I’ve extracted it out and made it into a plugin or something that I can drop into a theme – but primarily plugins, so that I could more easily reuse it on other projects. Some of them I’ve released on the WordPress Plugin Repository and people actually use them, which is a surprise to me every day – I mean, awesome, it’s neat to see that I’m able to help more than just myself.
Tara: Yeah, it’s impressive. I think that you figured out a way to carry one project, expand it into more than serving just one client, scratching that itch is how a lot of things are inv...
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Introducing Robin Cornett
Robin is a work-from-home mother outside Chattanooga, Tennessee who ended up becoming a developer kind of by accident. She has been working with WordPress for about 10 years.
Show Notes
Website | https://robincornett.com/
Twitter | @robincornett
Episode Transcript
Liam: This is Hallway Chats, where we talk with some of the unique people in and around WordPress.
Tara: Together, we meet and chat with folks you may not know about in our community.
Liam: With our guests, we’ll explore stories of living – and of making a living with WordPress.
Tara: And now the conversation begins. This is episode 18.
Liam: Welcome to Hallway Chats, I’m Liam Dempsey.
Tara: And I’m Tara Claeys. Today, we’re joined by Robin Cornett. Robin is a work-from-home mother outside Chattanooga, Tennessee who ended up becoming a developer kind of by accident. She’s been working with WordPress for about 10 years and we’re really happy to have her here.
Robin: Hi guys, thanks for having me.
Liam: Hi Robin, welcome. Thanks for joining us. We heard just a little bit about you but go ahead and expand on that and tell us a little bit about yourself if you would please?
Robin: Basically I started working with WordPress about 10 years ago because my kids were old enough that I wanted to do something for a job and started my own little business and decided that I needed to have a blog as part of that. I started blogging with WordPress and just kind of gradually went down the trail of trying to figure out how to make it do more and more than what it did straight out of the box and ended up helping a friend rebuild their website in WordPress and then another, and then another. It just kind of kept going from there and here I am.
Tara: You started doing it as a hobby and as a favor, which I know happens with a lot of people who end up in the WordPress space, and then you decided you like it and can make a living from it. Can you tell us about how you make a living with WordPress?
Robin: Well, I am not the primary wage earner in our home. My income is supplemental but I kind of do a mix of client work and then in the last couple of years, I’ve started selling a couple plugins through my site so it is mostly those two.
Tara: Okay. What kind of client work do you do or have you done and how have you found those clients?
Robin: Mostly my clients and I connect through word of mouth or referrals and they kind of vary from small businesses to nonprofits and churches and a few individual bloggers here and there.
Tara: When you’re doing client work and now you’re doing your plugins, do you have a preference of which you prefer or what you’re doing more of if you had a choice? Also along the same lines or carrying that through, which is more sustainable for you?
Robin: I feel like they’re not really separate. A lot of my plugins have happened because of something that I wanted to do for a client and a solution that I ended up building for a client and then decided that I would like to be able to use it again. So I’ve extracted it out and made it into a plugin or something that I can drop into a theme – but primarily plugins, so that I could more easily reuse it on other projects. Some of them I’ve released on the WordPress Plugin Repository and people actually use them, which is a surprise to me every day – I mean, awesome, it’s neat to see that I’m able to help more than just myself.
Tara: Yeah, it’s impressive. I think that you figured out a way to carry one project, expand it into more than serving just one client, scratching that itch is how a lot of things are inv...