Progress Planner

About Progress Planner

Your website is like a garden

Like most people I know, I love a beautiful garden. I enjoy strolling past beds of colorful flowers and hand-picking fresh fruits. I also enjoy a beautiful patch of freshly cut grass, giving it that lovely spring smell. I enjoy lying down in a hammock, enjoying the soothing sounds of birds chirping and bees buzzing. A beautiful garden is a pleasant place. It’s an experience.

But, keeping a garden in this beautiful, tranquil state requires work. You need to water the plants, and prune them. You need to mow the lawn, rake leaves, and worst of all… weed. And let’s be honest, nobody in their right mind likes maintaining a garden, unless they’re getting paid to do the work.

So you have a choice: do you hire a gardener to maintain your garden weekly, or do you invest time doing the simple tasks yourself?

The regular tasks are not the hard ones. Mowing a lawn is easily learned, and pulling out weeds isn’t exactly rocket science either. Well… as long as you know which plants are your beautifully cultivated flowers, and which are weeds that need to be pulled. If you’re new to your garden, that’s something you’ll have to learn.

Websites need weeding too

“Nice story, bro, but how is this like my website?!”, you ask? Well, let’s take a close look.

Typically, people invest a lot of time and/or money into building a website. They write every word, hand-pick every image, and craft whatever site structure they think is best. Often, they’ll hire an agency or web developer to build them the site of their dreams. And when it’s finished, they sit back, relax, and enjoy the beautiful site they’ve built.

But after a few weeks, a plugin needs an update. Someone pointed out that something could be improved. The world changed, and some of your new site’s content needs to be updated. Like your garden, a website is a living thing that requires maintenance. Obviously, you can hire someone to do this for you. Or, you can do it yourself.

Now, just like the weeding in your garden, you need guidance to learn which are ‘flowers‘ and ‘fruits’, and what are ‘weeds’. You need to learn where your efforts are best spent to keep your site in excellent condition.

Meet Progress Planner, the WordPress plugin that helps you find, understand, and prioritize those maintenance tasks on your WordPress website!