WordPress veteran & Performance Specialist
Hi, I’m Remkus de Vries. I educate serious WordPress builders and advise WordPress companies.
Through Within WordPress, home to The Guild, a podcast and newsletter, and through strategic guidance at Truer than North, I bring education, performance, tooling, and ecosystem strategy into alignment.
I’m passionate about making fast sites, and I enjoy sharing what I’ve learned via my blog, courses, and YouTube channel.
How I Can Help You
I’m always in the pursuit of finding improvements, and leaving something better than when I found it. Whether that’s strategy, working smarter, or on the performance side of things, or just sharing knowledge. This is how I can help you:
Within WordPress
Within WordPress is a newsletter, podcast, and WordPress course platform. It focuses its people and the WordPress tools they use.
Special focus on those working with performance.
Truer than North
Truer than North is my long-term advisory work with companies building products in the WordPress ecosystem, focused on direction, positioning, partnerships, and ecosystem-level decisions.
Scanfully
Scanfully, is the solution to monitor your WordPress site’s health, performance monitoring, WordPress Activity Log, and Content Health tool you need. With notifications when you need to know!
Wait, there’s more!
WP Community
I often say “I came for the software, found a family” when referring to the WordPress Community. Co-founded WCNL and WCEU.
// More here
WordPerf
Your WordPress-powered website, fast and scalable. High traffic and traffic bursts, they should never make your site stop working.
// More here
Speaking
Since 2008, I’ve spoken at dozens of WordPress Meetups and WordCamps. Love sharing information and learning in the same process.
// More here
Strongman
Stumbled into the strongman scene back in 2019 and was hooked from the get-go. Atlas stones, frame carry, yoke, deadlifting, I love it.
// More here
Over at Within WordPress, I run a weekly newsletter and podcast that is not your typical WordPress outlet. I focus on WordPress & WordPress Tools–with a strong emphasis on performance, security, and anything WordPress Core.