How we communicate We're not quite the same as other WordPress businesses
We don’t like email. It’s archaic. We prefer communicating through our Discord server.
Discord is better than email – it gives you a chance to chat LIVE with us and our performance fanatic customers.
Public questions in our Discord channels & through our website Q&A are heavily prioritised over private messages.
In fact, we do not guarantee to answer private messages at all.
Private messages should be used only to send credentials or other private info that cannot be made public.
On the other hand, Dave Hilditch answers public Discord questions EVERY DAY as well as our website Q&A.
Answering in public makes it far better for other customers to learn too, and makes it far easier for our Knowledge Base article writers to create generic FAQs for others to follow.
Public Q & A Answered Immediately
We receive notification in Discord
We answer as soon as possible
Our website benefits from the SEO of the Q &A
Other customers can find the answer
Our KB writers can write up generic FAQs
Clunky old-school interface
Not a real-time chat system, Discord is better
Preferred
Discord Channels Answered Immediately
We receive notification in Discord
We answer as soon as possible
Other users get to see activity and assist
Potential customers see liveliness of Discord
Is searchable by others inside Discord
Our KB writers can write up generic FAQs
Uses the fantastic chat interface of Discord
We can paste screenshots, videos and more
Better for everyone! Come join our Discord!
This is the best option. Do this!
Private Discord DMs Ignored
Not searchable by other users
Not readable by our KB writers, can’t make FAQS
Not good for our SEO
Should be used only to send private credentials
Any DM should include a link to our channel chat
Annoys Dave
How we prioritise Learn how we prioritise and how best to work with us
We develop performance-focused plugins and provide performance-analysis and optimisation services.
You can see our overall priority categories further down this page, and you can see them in practice in our live public Trello board.
Our Trello board is synchronised with our Bitbucket issue trackers for each plugin.
We operate the board from left to right, top to bottom.
When we work We're not robots, but we do our best to answer questions every day
We aim to answer questions on our public Q&A or public Discord channels as soon as possible. That means that even when Dave is out of the office, he will answer your public question from his phone.
We are based in Greece, so our timezone is GMT + 2. That means that 12 noon in the UK is 2pm over here and it means 4pm in New York is 11pm over here.
Other than Dave answering questions at all times, our minimum office working hours are (in Greek times):
Monday – 7pm until midnight
Tuesday – 12 noon until 5.30pm
Wednesday & Thursday – 12 noon until 5.30pm then 7.30pm until midnight
Friday – 12 noon until 5.30pm
Saturday & Sunday – no guarantees other than public Q&A/public Discord.
We’ll also do our best to advise everyone through our Discord server and possibly our blog if we have holidays planned, but even on holiday Dave will answer the public Q&A and public Discord.
Top Priority
CRitical Bugs
We prioritise fixing critical bugs in any of our plugins over all other work. Critical bugs include bugs which break websites or break existing core functionality.
Fixing these will take priority over paid-for work.
Second Priority
Paid Work
We practice customer-driven development and we help clients with bespoke performance problems.
Third Priority
MINOR BUGS
Any bugs that don’t cause critical or major issues on the website.
Fourth Priority
Unpaid Work
All work that isn’t specifically being paid for by clients and will always be working on in the background.