In August, we decided to do something that had never been done before in the WordPress community. We created the WPBeginner Growth Accelerator, first-ever growth fund for WordPress-focused businesses. Today, I’m extremely excited to announce the first round of WPBeginner accelerator companies.
8月，我们决定做WordPress社区以前从未做过的事情。 我们创建了WPBeginner Growth Accelerator ，这是针对以WordPress为中心的企业的首个增长基金。 今天，我很高兴宣布WPBeginner加速器公司的第一轮融资。
Aside from announcement, I will also be sharing behind the scenes details and process at the end of this article (so keep on reading).
除了公告之外，我还将在本文结尾处在后台共享详细信息和过程(因此请继续阅读)。
1. CaseProof aka MemberPress和漂亮链接 (1. CaseProof aka MemberPress and Pretty Links)
CaseProof is the parent company behind MemberPress, Pretty Links, and Affiliate Royale.
CaseProof是MemberPress ， Pretty Links和Affiliate Royale背后的母公司。
If you have been reading WPBeginner for a while, then you probably know that we’ve been longtime fans of MemberPress. We believe it is the best WordPress membership plugin, and it is my preferred solution for creating a membership site in WordPress.
如果您阅读WPBeginner已有一段时间，那么您可能知道我们一直是MemberPress的忠实粉丝。 我们认为它是最好的WordPress会员插件 ，它是我在WordPress中创建会员网站的首选解决方案。
Caseproof also have two other affiliate marketing related products that I am really excited about because we can add a lot of value to it from our years of experience.
Caseproof还有另外两个与会员营销相关的产品，令我感到非常兴奋，因为我们可以通过多年的经验为其增加很多价值。
The first one is Pretty Links which is the most popular link tracking plugin in WordPress (used by over 200,000+ websites). You can use it for affiliate link management and turning your long affiliate links into easily trackable shortlinks.
第一个是Pretty Links ，它是WordPress中最受欢迎的链接跟踪插件(超过200,000多个网站使用)。 您可以将其用于会员链接管理，并将较长的会员链接变成易于跟踪的短链接。
The second is Affiliate Royale which helps you create a full-featured affiliate program using WordPress. This allows you to add a referral program to your membership sites created with MemberPress, and it also works with other popular eCommerce providers like WooCommerce, WishList Member, etc.
第二个是Affiliate Royale ，可以帮助您使用WordPress创建功能齐全的会员计划。 这使您可以向使用MemberPress创建的会员网站添加引荐计划，并且还可以与其他流行的电子商务提供商(例如WooCommerce， WishList Member等)一起使用。
2.强大的形式 (2. Formidable Forms)
Formidable Forms is the most advanced WordPress form builder in the market. It helps you go beyond the basic contact form and build complex form-based solutions like directories, data management systems, calculators, quizzes, WooCommerce product forms, and more.
强大的表单是市场上最先进的WordPress表单生成器。 它可以帮助您超越基本的联系表单，并构建基于复杂表单的解决方案，例如目录，数据管理系统，计算器，测验，WooCommerce产品表单等。
Now you might be thinking, wait doesn’t WPBeginner already have it’s own WordPress contact form plugin? Yes I still believe that WPForms is the most beginner-friendly WordPress contact form plugin in the market.
现在您可能在想，等等WPBeginner是否已经拥有自己的WordPress联系人表单插件 ？ 是的，我仍然相信WPForms是市场上最适合初学者的WordPress联系人表单插件。
But you see, calling Formidable a contact form plugin doesn’t do it justice. It’s really way more advanced than that. It’s a true “solutions-focused” WordPress form builder. Let me give you a few examples to illustrate the point:
但是您会看到，调用Formidable联系人表单插件并不能做到这一点。 确实比这更先进。 这是一个真正的“以解决方案为中心”的WordPress表单生成器。 让我举几个例子来说明这一点：
You can use Formidable Views feature to display any submitted form data on the front-end of your website to build data-driven web applications like real estate listings, employment listings, event calendars, business directories, job boards, and other searchable databases.
您可以使用强大的视图功能在您的网站的前端显示任何已提交的表单数据，以构建数据驱动的Web应用程序，例如房地产列表，就业列表，事件日历，业务目录，工作委员会和其他可搜索的数据库。
You can use Formidable calculated fields to quickly build calculator forms like mortgage calculator, car payment calculator, BMI calculator, etc.
您可以使用强大计算字段来快速构建计算器表格，例如抵押计算器，汽车付款计算器，BMI计算器等。
You can use Formidable WooCommerce integration to create a product configurator form with cascading fields and then automatically send the data to WooCommerce art with variable pricing option.
您可以使用强大的WooCommerce集成来创建具有级联字段的产品配置器表单，然后使用可变定价选项将数据自动发送到WooCommerce插图。
Basically Formidable Forms is freelancers and developers dream come true for building complex WordPress sites with low overhead.
基本上，强大的表单是自由职业者，开发人员梦想以低开销构建复杂的WordPress网站成为现实。
3. SeedProd (3. SeedProd)
SeedProd is the most popular coming soon and maintenance mode plugin for WordPress. Currently it is being used by over 800,000 WordPress sites.
SeedProd是即将推出的最受欢迎的WordPress维护模式插件。 目前，超过80万个WordPress网站正在使用它。
It comes with 50+ pre-made templates and 500,000+ free stock photos to help you quickly create a beautiful coming soon page or maintenance page for your website.
它带有50多个预制模板和500,000多个免费库存照片，可帮助您快速为您的网站创建漂亮的即将发布页面或维护页面。
The pro version also comes with email marketing integrations as well as addons for creating a notification bar, countdown timers, custom login page, custom 404 page, and custom landing pages.
专业版还附带电子邮件营销集成以及用于创建通知栏，倒数计时器，自定义登录页面，自定义404页面和自定义登录页面的附件。
SeedProd is another product that we have recommended on WPBeginner since the early days.
自早期以来，SeedProd是我们在WPBeginner上推荐的另一种产品。
Unlike the Caseproof and Formidable, we actually ended up doing a full acquisition of SeedProd given the high synergies between our brands and existing products. SeedProd is officially an Awesome Motive product, but they will also be part of the first WPBeginner accelerator class as well.
不同于Caseproof和Formidable，由于品牌和现有产品之间的高度协同作用，我们实际上最终完全收购了SeedProd 。 SeedProd正式是Awesome Motive产品，但它们也将成为第一个WPBeginner加速器类的一部分。
Please help me welcome the first 3 WPBeginner Accelerator companies by giving them social media love and trying out their products.
请帮助我，欢迎前3家WPBeginner Accelerator公司，给予它们社交媒体热爱并试用他们的产品。
接下来发生什么？ (What Happens Next?)
I have already met up with the founders of all 3 companies last month when they flew to West Palm Beach, FL.
上个月，当这三家公司的创始人飞往佛罗里达州西棕榈滩时，我已经见过他们的创始人。
We had detailed conversations and started working on implementing our checklist. Each of them have an amazing roadmap of new things that are in the works (which of course I can’t share just yet).
我们进行了详细的对话，并开始着手实施清单。 他们每个人都有一个惊人的新产品开发路线图(当然我暂时还不能分享)。
I’m really looking forward to sharing my experiences and helping these WordPress companies succeed by building more user-focused products.
我真的很期待分享我的经验，并通过构建更多以用户为中心的产品来帮助这些WordPress公司获得成功。
WPBeginner加速器–幕后流程 (WPBeginner Accelerator – Behind the Scenes Process)
I honestly had no idea what to expect when I created the blog post to announce our accelerator fund. Nothing like this have been done before in our industry.
老实说，当我创建博客文章宣布我们的加速基金时，我不知道会发生什么。 在我们的行业中，以前没有做过这样的事情。
I looked at other accelerators for guidance and made our application process as simple as possible.
我查看了其他加速器以寻求指导，并使我们的申请过程尽可能简单。
In total, we had over 90+ companies apply to be part of the WPBeginner accelerator. This was pretty awesome, but it also made the decision process really hard.
总共，我们有90多家公司申请加入WPBeginner加速器。 这非常棒，但是这也使决策过程变得非常困难。
I got a chance to talk with amazing entrepreneurs who’re doing great things in the WordPress ecosystem, but ultimately we had to pick the top companies from the group.
我有机会与在WordPress生态系统中做得很好的出色企业家交谈，但最终我们不得不从小组中挑选顶级公司。
Initially I wanted to select 5 companies to be part of our first round, but after having numerous conversations with entrepreneurs who applied, I decided to reduce the number down to 3 because I wanted to make sure that I can properly fulfill my commitments.
最初，我想选择5家公司作为我们第一轮的一部分，但是在与申请的企业家进行了无数次交谈之后，我决定将数量减少到3家，因为我想确保自己能够正确履行自己的承诺。
Considering some of the companies that we invested in have multiple products, it made sense to limit the first class of WPBeginner accelerator to 3 companies.
考虑到我们投资的一些公司具有多种产品，因此将WPBeginner加速器的第一类限于3家公司是有意义的。
最后的想法 (Final Thoughts)
We will likely re-open the accelerator in 6 – 12 months depending on how smoothly the implementation goes with our first round of companies.
我们可能会在6到12个月内重新开放加速器，具体取决于第一轮公司实施的顺利程度。
The number of applications in the first-round shows a lot of promise and definitely validates my idea that a WordPress-focused investment fund is needed.
第一轮的应用程序数量显示出很大的希望，并且肯定证实了我的观点，即需要以WordPress为中心的投资基金。
Aside from an accelerator, there might be some opportunity for an incubator fund to provide seed investments for early stage product ideas / development.
除加速器外，孵化器基金可能还有一些机会为早期产品构想/开发提供种子投资。
That’s all for today. Thank you so much for your continued support of WPBeginner.
今天就这些。 非常感谢您一直以来对WPBeginner的支持。
Yours Truly,
Syed Balkhi
Founder of WPBeginner
敬上，
赛义德·巴尔基(Syed Balkhi)
WPBeginner的创始人
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