Highlights
- Founder and CEO of WPBeginner and Awesome Motive Inc, one of the most prominent WordPress software companies in the industry.
- Over 25 million websites use WordPress plugins and software apps developed by Syed Balkhi and his team.
- Started using WordPress in 2006 and has over 16 years of experience building websites with WordPress.
- WordPress Core Contributor along with many other Open Source software contributions
Experience
Syed Balkhi is one of the most well-known WordPress experts in the world with over 16 years of experience. He graduated from University of Florida and have been building WordPress websites since 2006.
In 2009, Syed created WPBeginner as a free online resource to help beginners and non-techy small business owners learn WordPress. At the time, no other WordPress training resource existed for beginners, and this led to WPBeginner growing in popularity and becoming the Wikipedia for WordPress.
Syed was recognized as the top 100 entrepreneur under the age of 30 by the United Nations, and his work is featured in top publications like Entrepreneur, Forbes, Inc, Business Insider, The Guardian, Wired Magazine, and more.
Over the years, Syed has been a featured speaker at highly reputed conferences all around the world including Traffic & Conversion Summit, Affiliate Summit, Marketing School Live, Blog World Expo, dozens of WordCamps, and more.
About WPBeginner
WPBeginner is the largest free WordPress resource for beginners to learn WordPress. We are part of the Awesome Motive family and reach over 100 million visitors every year. Our content is fact checked and reviewed by our Editorial team for accuracy and integrity. You can learn more about us and our editorial process.

Today, I’m extremely excited to announce that SeedProd has joined Awesome Motive, and it is now part of the WPBeginner’s family of products. SeedProd is the most popular coming soon and maintenance mode plugin for WordPress. Currently it is being used by over 800,000 WordPress… Read More »

At WPBeginner, we are on a mission to help small businesses grow and compete with the big guys. Today, I want to take the exciting step and bring these values to the WordPress business community with our new growth accelerator fund. Note: Applications will be… Read More »

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I started my first email list on WPBeginner using Mailchimp as our email marketing service. At the time, it was the perfect fit. But as WPBeginner grew and our email strategy became more advanced, our needs changed. After more than 13 years with Mailchimp, we… Read More »

When I started WPBeginner, I had already been using WordPress for years. To this day, I truly believe it’s the best blogging platform out there. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have dedicated over a decade to writing this blog! But I know not everyone shares this view.… Read More »

When I first started building WordPress websites in 2006, there were just a handful of different WordPress plugins to choose from. Today, things are very different. There are more than 59,000 in the free WordPress plugin repository alone. This choice paralysis can make it very… Read More »

When we started offering professional services at WPBeginner, including emergency support for hacked sites, I quickly realized a contact form wasn’t powerful enough. Customers need instant answers, not delayed email replies. That’s where live chat became essential for us. The right live chat software allows… Read More »