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239 – Use Patchstack to keep your WordPress website safe
22 juli 2021 · 54 min
So you might not have heard about the WordPress security company Patchstack before, but you will likely know about them! You see, until recently, they were called WebARX, but they decided that this was a somewhat confusing, and hard to pronounce name, and so changed it to Patchstack. We talk today to founder Oliver Sild, and get to the bottom of why and how the re-branding went as well as what new features have been added to the platform at the time of the changeover. You might be able to assist their security efforts and get paid into the bargain with their Red Team initiative. Go check out the podcast... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #172
20 juli 2021 · 1 uur 31 min
This week's WordPress news for the week commencing 12th July 2021
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238 – ‘0’ is for Open Source
15 juli 2021 · 1 uur 3 min
If something is free then it's likely not very good. That's the generally accepted wisdom is most aspects of life, but not with WordPress! WordPress like many other software platforms is free to use and free to modify. It's yours to use as you see fit, and you don't have to pay a penny for it. This is great, and it's all underpinned by a the 'philosophy' of the Open Source. Today in the podcast we talk about what this means and how it plays out for WordPress in particular. It's got huge benefits, but also some significant downsides. Maybe you contribute back to the WordPress project, or earn a living off the back of the development and popularity of it, there's sure to be something in this episode, so go and take a listen... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #171
13 juli 2021 · 1 uur 28 min
This week's WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 5th July 2021
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237 – Why WS Form might be the form plugin you’ll try next
8 juli 2021 · 51 min
So your first thought might well be this "Why do I need to look at yet another form plugin? What I've already got works fine." Well... just put that sentiment on the shelf somewhere and have a look at WS Form. When you've done that, and done it properly, tell me that you're not impressed with what it offers! Today I'm chatting to the WS Form founder and developer Mark Westguard, and he's going to tell you in his own words why you might want to take a look. It's a truly remarkable for solution and will enable you to create very complex forms with a simple to use interface. Not to mention that it connects with all-the-things that you could wish for. Check out the podcast... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #170
6 juli 2021 · 58 min
This week's WordPress news for the week commencing 28th June 2021
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236 – ‘N’ is for Numbers
1 juli 2021 · 1 uur 1 min
WordPress is a huge and growing platform. But, just how huge is it? Well, today we answer this and many other utterly unrelated questions as we lift the lid on the numbers in WordPress. How many plugins, how many WordCamps, number of plugins, which languages. It's all in this episode. When we were researching this, it was honestly amazing just how big some of the numbers get. So join us today as we talk through WordPress by the numbers! Check out the podcast now... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #169
29 juni 2021 · 1 uur 36 min
This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing 21st June 2021 Another week, and we’re bringing you the latest WordPress news from the last seven days, including… New data about how dominant WordPress is in the CMS marketplace Elementor by-the-numbers – just how big is it as a platform in a platform Are Blocks going […] Lees meer
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235 – Use Newsletter Glue to create great emails… with Blocks!
24 juni 2021 · 58 min
If you're creating newsletters for your content and you use WordPress, put that quill down and check out the podcast today. Newsletter Glue is a really great blocks product that I'm sure many of you are going to love. TL;DR you can create all your blog posts and emails at-the-same-time in the WordPress Block Editor. It's a huge time saver. Write once, publish on the web and to your list at the same time. It works with all the major email providers and I'm honestly loving using it. Not only that, but the WP Builds folk are going to get 15% off the plugin - check out the post for details. This is one not to miss and your email sending clients will love it too. Check out the podcast... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #168
22 juni 2021 · 1 uur 42 min
This week's WordPress news for the week commencing 14th June 2021
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234 – ‘M’ is for Menus
17 juni 2021 · 1 uur 1 min
Menus are really rather important, although really underrated. They are, after all, the way that we make our way around the websites that we visit. So how should we think about them? At what point to they get discussed (if at all) in the website building process? There's more than you might think to this conversation... what type of menu works best, how do we add accessibility options into our menus, how do we create our menus and are we going to be using the new capabilities when WordPress' Full Site Editing enables us to handle the styling of our menus in WordPress core? Have a listen to the podcast and don't forget to drop a comment if you think that we got anything wrong! Go listen... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #167
15 juni 2021 · 1 uur 29 min
This week's WordPress news for the week commencing 7th June 2021
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233 – Store your Media Library in the cloud with the Infinite Uploads plugin
10 juni 2021 · 55 min
Check out the new Infinite Uploads plugin on the WP Builds podcast today. I'm joined by co-founder, Josh Dailey, who explains what it's all about, which is making your site faster. It sucks up your WordPress Media Library files and puts them in their cloud and serves them from +50 global points of presence... it all looks and behaves the same, it all happens in the background. We get into their tech stack and how they make sure that your media is safe and served up quickly. We also talk about their scalable pricing model and how they avoid vendor lock in by making it easy to download your files at any time. So if you're interested in making your website media load quickly, this is a must listen... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #166
8 juni 2021 · 1 uur 35 min
This week's WordPress news for the week commencing 31st May 2021
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232 – ‘L’ is for Loading
3 juni 2021 · 59 min
Today we talk about WordPress website page speed and why this is important, how you can measure it and some ideas about what you can do to improve it. There's quite a lot to say about this, and it's really timely with Google's Core Web Vitals (CWV) coming on-stream in the near future. We talk about what CWV is and what it's measuring, what WordPress loads out of the box, what tools you can use to measure your website page speed as well as what plugins you might consider to address any bottlenecks that you discover. How does hosting play into all this as well. As I say, there's a lot of ground to cover, so go check out the podcast to see what we think... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #165
1 juni 2021 · 1 uur 31 min
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 24th May 2021
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231 – One-click checkout in WooCommerce with PeachPay
27 mei 2021 · 42 min
PeachPay is a new 1-click-checkout option for your WooCommerce store. It aims to remove some of the friction of getting people to click the 'buy now' button by removing multiple steps for people who've used PeachPay before. We talk about how it works, debunk some myths, and discuss why you might want to think about add this to your WooCommerce website. If you build eCommerce websites for clients, you need to know about this solution and how it could improve their sales. Go listen... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #164
25 mei 2021 · 1 uur 26 min
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 17th May 2021
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230 – ‘K’ is for Killer Tips
20 mei 2021 · 1 uur 4 min
In this episode of the podcast we asked you submit what you thought were some Killer Tips for creating your WordPress websites, and you did not disappoint! So there's loads of useful little nuggets of information in here, many of them might be new to you. It never ceases to amaze me just how my processes differ from other people doing the exact same job, and how much I could learn from other WordPress professionals. Well in this episode of the podcast, we kinda make that possible! Go check it out! Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #163
18 mei 2021 · 1 uur 32 min
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 10th May 2021
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229 – Creating Custom Sales Funnels For WooCommerce with LaunchFlows
13 mei 2021 · 53 min
In today’s world there is no difference between “digital” and “physical” products insofar as the transactional engine of your website is concerned. While it may have been true in the past that certain products like EDD were focused on capabilities for those who sell digitally licensed subscription software, that is no longer a factor, as the capability exists for WooCommerce to do everything. Since WooCommerce is one of the most popular plugins in the entire WordPress ecosystem, why “wouldn’t” anyone use it for all purposes? And that's what the podcast is about today, a plugin called LaunchFlows which will help you supercharge your WooCommerce store. Go listen... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #162
11 mei 2021 · 1 uur 26 min
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 3rd May 2021
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228 – ‘J’ is for Jobs
6 mei 2021 · 1 uur 1 min
This episode is about all the many, many, many jobs that you do each and every time you build a WordPress website for yourself or for a client. There really are so many! I'm not too sure that I do quite as much as David does, because, as you'll hear, he's does rather a lot. From setting hosting and email, from forms to security, this episode could have gone on for a long time. Maybe you treat each project individually, or have a template that you keep coming back to. Go listen to the podcast today and tell us what you think... Lees meer
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227 – Building websites in a day with your team
29 april 2021 · 1 uur 1 min
I've often thought about building my WordPress websites on the one day model, it's got so much going for it. I've heard stories of quite a few people who are managing this very effectively. However, it's always been something that I've associated with a single freelancer. I'd always assumed that the margins were pretty tight, and therefore most likely to work with one person. Well, Candy Phelps is on the podcast today to tell me (and you) otherwise! She's built a business creating websites in a day with a team, and, as you might have guessed, it's all about the process. If you get the process right from the start, you can make this work, as you'll have all your ducks in a row, so that there's no time wasted and every member of your team know what to do and when to do it. It's pretty interesting to see how this all hangs together. Go listen... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #160
27 april 2021 · 1 uur 14 min
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 19th April 2021
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226 – ‘I’ is for Images
22 april 2021 · 1 uur 1 min
The web is made up of Pictures and Words. Some of those pictures are moving (video), but it's basically just those two things. We have easy ways to deal with putting photos and other kinds of images onto our WordPress websites with the features that are baked in, but there's so much more to this topic. What kind of images are the best to use? How many thumbnail sizes should we be storing? Should we be serving our images over a CDN? Is it a good idea to compress our images so that they make a more lean loading experience? Where can we source our images? What software is good for quick alterations to the images that we've got. Honestly, there are a dozen more questions, but you get the idea that there's a lot more to images than meets the eye. Go listen to the podcast to find out more... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #159
20 april 2021 · 1 uur 34 min
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 12th April 2021
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225 – Send amazing curated newsletters with Curated
15 april 2021 · 59 min
Having a newsletter is one of the best ways that you can communicate with an audience. In fact, I'd go as far as to say, that it's the best. There's no third-party platform involved. You are communicating with people who have signed up, and therefore really want to get your content. But, it can be a dull job keeping the content flowing. Today we learn about a SaaS platform which might just make that job a lot less painful. I've started to use it and it's shaved hours out of my week. Go listen to the podcast today to find out more... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #158
13 april 2021 · 1 uur 25 min
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 5th April 2021
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224 – ‘H’ is for Health
8 april 2021 · 1 uur 1 min
Today on the WP Builds podcast we're talking about health. Not your health, but the health of the WordPress sites you build or manage. Turns out that there's a boatload of things that need to be done regularly to keep your sites fighting fit. From backing them up to monitoring their uptime. Checking that they're okay after updates to keeping up with the latest SEO trends. I could go on for a lot longer, in fact David and I do in the podcast. From an agency perspective, this episode is particularly interesting because many of the things that we discuss today are areas which you can productise and sell to your clients; because honestly, they're unlikely to be something that your clients are interested in, they'll just want to know that it's done. Go check out the podcast today. Lees meer
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223 – How we built the WP Buffs business
1 april 2021 · 1 uur 2 min
WP Buffs has been a company on the rise for several years now. I'm sure that you've seen some of their content and perhaps listened to their podcast or attended their WPMMR summit? The podcast today is all about how you can grow a 'side gig' business into a thriving business by creating engaging content around the subjects that your target audience really want to know about. So WP Buffs is really in the business of maintaining WordPress website, but how do you get noticed in this competitive field? How do you gain new customers when your rivals already have heritage? Content, that's how. Joe Howard explains how they created content which they knew people wanted to consume from keyword research. Blog posts, then a podcast, then a virtual summit. Join us on the podcast today to see how they did it... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #156
30 maart 2021 · 1 uur 28 min
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 22nd March 2021
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222 – ‘G’ is for Gutenberg
25 maart 2021 · 1 uur 5 min
Gutenberg is here to stay, and love it or hate it, it's going to be a feature of WordPress for years to come. On the podcast today David and Nathan discuss Gutenberg and what they think of it. It's certainly getting better over time, and as a pure text editing tool, it's now pretty great. However, it's got ambitions to become a Full Site Editing (FSE) tool in the near future and that path collides with current Page Builders. So is it a useful alternative to them, or are you not convinced? Perhaps you can see that the roadmap makes it worth keeping an eye on, perhaps you're already using it to build your WordPress websites? Listen to the podcast today and let us know what you think of Gutenberg... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #155
23 maart 2021 · 1 uur 17 min
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 15th March 2021
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221 – Stream Live with WordPress and WP Livestream
18 maart 2021 · 47 min
So it might have passed you by, but now we can (and apparently do) all create our own T.V. channels! Services like YouTube, Facebook, Twitch and Vimeo make this process pretty much painless, but pretty much painless is not completely painless; and that's the subject of the podcast today. A WordPress plugin called WP Livestream which makes this as simple as possible to get your livestream on your WordPress website. Set it up once and forget about it. Find out more from the developer of the plugin, Nathan Parikh, on the WP Builds podcast today... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #154
16 maart 2021 · 1 uur 22 min
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing Monday 8th March 2021
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220 – ‘F’ is for forms
11 maart 2021 · 56 min
It’s another of chats in the series called the A-Z of WordPress where we attempt to cover all the major aspects to building and maintaining sites with WP. Today is F for... Forms. We expect most sites to have a contact form. Something that does not require the visitor to launch an email client, but there's so many other things that forms plugins have brought under their control. Payments, user registration, post creation and much more. We're also very lucky that the WordPress forms space is so competitive; so many great options to choose from. So today on the podcast we talk about forms, what we've used, what we like and what they can be used for. Go check out the podcast... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #153
9 maart 2021 · 1 uur 31 min
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing Monday 1st March 2021
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219 – Create Alexa Skills right inside of WordPress with Shoutworks
4 maart 2021 · 59 min
So the podcast today might catch you a little off guard! It's not something that I've ever played with before. Today we're talking about Shoutworks, which is a WordPress plugin that lets you boost your voice SEO by creating an Amazon Alexa skill in one click right from inside WordPress. Wait... What! Is this even a thing? Why would I ever want to do that? Well, the short version is that you can use devices like Alexa to alert your audience / customers when you've got updates that they might be interested in. Marketers are always looking for new ways to engage and inform audiences, and this is certainly new. Find out more on the podcast today and leave a comment so that we know what you think... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #152
2 maart 2021 · 1 uur 21 min
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 22nd February 2020
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218 – ‘E’ is for eCommerce
25 februari 2021 · 52 min
It’s another of our chats in the series called the 'A-Z of WordPress', where we attempt to cover all the major aspects to building and maintaining sites with WP. Today is 'E' for... Ecommerce. There's just so much to say here because WordPress and Ecommerce are growing at a phenomenal rate. With so much activity, you'd think that there might be a 'best' way to build an online shop. But as is so often the case with WordPress, there's multiple ways to achieve the same goal. So today on the podcast we talk about our experiences with WordPress as well as surface some of the plugins and themes that we've come across over the years to make your WordPress / WooCommerce shop a reality. Go check it out... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #151
23 februari 2021 · 1 uur 27 min
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 15th February 2020
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217 – Get your WordPress tasks in order with DocketWP
18 februari 2021 · 41 min
Today we're talking about the DocketWP WordPress plugin with Andre Gagnon and Kyle Van Deusen, the project founders. So, what does it do and why might you want it? It's a plugin that provides you with an easy to access to-do list right inside of your WordPress dashboard. You can sync this list in the cloud so that you, or your team are always doing the tasks that are needed. You also get pre-written tasks lists from industry leaders ready to download so that you're up to speed about SEO, care plans etc. in as little time as possible. It's a small plugin, but one which could possibly have large implications upon your productivity. Check out the podcast today to find out more... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #150
16 februari 2021 · 1 uur 26 min
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 8th February 2021
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216 – ‘D’ is for Database
11 februari 2021 · 52 min
It’s the 4th in our series of chats called 'the A-Z of WordPress' where we attempt to cover all the major aspects of building and maintaining sites with WordPress. Today, we are really going set pulses racing with the letter 'D' for Database! The word alone sounds incredibly dull, and for years I pretended it did not exist. Even now I do anything to avoid directly interacting with it. But I do now appreciate how essential it is to the health and speed of a WordPress website. I’m now quite interested in how plugins and themes interact with the database. All that being said, this episode is one of those where we talk about things that we don't really understand. Being website builders, both David and I tend to just allow the database to exist and we try to ignore it. There's loads in here though, so have a listen to the podcast and let us know what you think... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #149
9 februari 2021 · 1 uur 26 min
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 1st February 2021
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215 – Checkout CheckoutWC for a customised WooCommerce experience
4 februari 2021 · 50 min
So if you're a user of WooCommerce, then the podcast today will be of interest to you. It's all about creating the best checkout experience to increase conversions with the CheckoutWC plugin. The checkout process of WooCommerce 'out-of-the-box' is okay, but it's not all that great. Yes, it works, but you know that you've seen better workflows; better ways of guiding you through the final stages of your purchase. The guest on the show today, Clifton Griffin, has been working for the last two years at getting the WooCommerce cart experience as painless as possible with his CheckoutWC plugin. Check it out on the podcast today... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #148
2 februari 2021 · 1 uur 26 min
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 22nd February 2021
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214 – ‘C’ is for Caching
28 januari 2021 · 53 min
It’s the third in our series of chats called the A-Z of WordPress, where we attempt to cover all the major aspects to building and maintaining sites with WordPress. Today, it’s the letter 'C' for Caching (including server side caching, front end caching (plugins) and CDNs. However, we avoid getting too deeply into page load times and scores, which we cover separately on another podcast. So what is the point of caching? What does it do and how might we do it with our WordPress websites. It's certainly a complex subject, and we don't have all the answers, but we do surface some good plugins that you might not have heard of. Check out the podcast... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #147
26 januari 2021 · 1 uur 21 min
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 18th January 2020