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213 – What goes into organising and cancelling a live WordCamp?
21 januari 2021 · 56 min
We all know that the WordCamps in 2020 got cancelled. This was a good idea because saving lives comes before attending online events, but I thought that it might be a good idea to get someone on the WP Builds podcast to have a chat with us about WordCamps nonetheless. Why, you might ask? Well, can you imagine what it would be like to be a part of a team who had worked extremely hard to get an event like WordCamp Asia, or WordCamp Europe up and running, only to have to cancel it with just a few days and weeks to go? I could not imagine that, and so I talked to someone who could. Someone who has firsthand experience working on a WordCamp and then having to pivot it into an online event. So find out what's involved in setting up a WordCamp on the podcast today... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #146
19 januari 2021 · 1 uur 30 min
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 11th January 2021
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212 – ‘B’ is for Backups
14 januari 2021 · 50 min
I'm sure that we've all had experiences with our WordPress websites where things went wrong; the site was hacked, something got deleted. In most cases we can recover, but if the worst comes to the worst we need a backup to save us. As with all things in the WordPress space, we're spoiled in the number of backup options available to us. There's plugins backups, our hosting backups, 3rd party SaaS backups and more. So which should we use? In this episode of the WP Builds Podcast we explore the pros and cons of the different backup types and why you might want to pick one over another. Have a listen to our thoughts on the podcast... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #145
12 januari 2021 · 1 uur 16 min
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing Monday 4th January 2021
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211 – Its importent to get you’re grammer write; and ProWritingAid Will help with that,
7 januari 2021 · 55 min
Writing is important. It's one of the greatest inventions in the history of humanity. In fact, it may very well be the most important. But we can all agree that not all writing is equal. Most of the writing that we create and read has nothing to do with prose. It's the news that we consume, the recipes we crib from, the information that we study and the emails / letters that we use to communicate. In these situations, it's important to write in a clear and understandable way. Errors in grammar, spelling and structure stand out and spoil the flow of what you're trying to get across. So step up ProWritingAid to the rescue! It's a tool built by Chris Banks, the guest on the podcast today. Listen now to see why he built it and how it might help your own writing. Lees meer
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210 – ‘A’ is for Appointments
17 december 2020 · 1 uur 2 min
So this is a new series called the 'A-Z of WordPress' in which David and Nathan discuss a topic starting with the next letter of the alphabet. To kick us off, it's A is for Appointments. WordPress works as a great platform for allowing bookings and appointments. There's heaps of plugins which will allow you or your clients to sync their calendar, take payments etc. What are those plugins and are they superior to SaaS alternatives? Perhaps you want to integrate an appointment system into your WordPress website, or maybe you want to pay a company to take this process over for you. There's lots to talk about so join David and Nathan on this new series. Go check out the podcast... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #142
15 december 2020 · 1 uur 19 min
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing Monday 7th December 2020
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209 – Get meaningful feedback about your product or service
10 december 2020 · 48 min
If you have a product or service, it's critical that you have a mechanism for users to be able to offer their feedback. That could be comments, but perhaps more importantly you'd like to offer your users a way to help you make the product better. Give them a way that they can suggest features and vote for the features that others have already suggested. Better yet, it'd be nice to be able to display all of that on an easy to understand Kanban style roadmap. Today we've got a WordPress plugin which can do just that. Listen to the podcast today to find out more... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #141
8 december 2020 · 1 uur 10 min
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 30th November 2020
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208 – ClassicPress V WordPress
3 december 2020 · 58 min
So for those who don’t know what ClassicPress is we had better say... It's fork of WordPress 4.9 before the Gutenberg block editor was introduced and a reaction to the decision, it was started by a Laravel developer called Scott Bowler, a long term WordPress user who first campaigned for Gutenberg not to go into core (at least without being a majority support for it), and it started in August 2018 and continues to be developed with folk writing plugins solely for it, as well as some forking of other needed plugins like eCommerce and SEO options. All that said, why would anyone want to use it over good 'ol WordPress? Find out what we think in our final debate of the season... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #140
1 december 2020 · 1 uur 10 min
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 23rd November 2020
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207 – Running a growing WordPress plugin company
26 november 2020 · 52 min
There are some companies in the WordPress space that are very much on the rise and today we're speaking to Shahjahan Jewel about his company WP Manage Ninja, and they certainly are rising! I heard about WP Manage Ninja about a year ago, when they did a lifetime deal sale on their WP Fluent Forms plugin. After some research, I hopped on the deal and I"ve never looked back. It's become my go-to plugin for forms because of it's reliability and fast pace of development. The features that they've added have been useful and well executed. There's loads more to this company, not least the new Fluent CRM plugin. Listen to the podcast to find out more... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #139
24 november 2020 · 1 uur 20 min
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 16th November 2020
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206 – FOMO V No FOMO
19 november 2020 · 47 min
FOMO (fear of missing out) has become a really common tool in online sales and marketing of late. Wherever things are sold, this tool is used. Whether it's a clock ticking down, a stock counter or a lifetime deal that's never to be repeated, I'm sure that we've all seen this tactic and most likely fallen for it. So what's the point of using FOMO? Does it work and is it ethical? It feels like we're just starting on this FOMO journey and marketers will get better at using it to drive sales with ever more ingenious implementations. On the podcast today we talk about where we're seen this in use in the WordPress space and whether or not we think it's effective. Go check out the podcast to find out more... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #138
18 november 2020 · 1 uur 15 min
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 9th November 2020
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205 – Flipping websites with Blake Hutchison
12 november 2020 · 48 min
Flipping domains can be a profitable business and today on the WP Builds WordPress podcast we're going to be hearing about how and why you might want to look into doing it. There's more than you might think! In it's simplest form, flipping is the process of buying (or selling) a domain. In the real world businesses are bought and sold all the time, there's nothing unusual about it at all, but buying a current domain can be a little harder, and Flippa is a platform that's designed to take all of that difficulty away! Whether that's the job of locating a website / domain / app (and more) that you might want to buy, to actually taking care of all the minutiae of getting the deal done. Blake Hutchison is here to explain how it all works. Go check it out... Lees meer
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This Week in WordPress #137
10 november 2020 · 1 uur 12 min
This Week in WordPress #137 - Changes are coming and sucking in Black Friday - A WP Builds Podcast
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204 – Author Support V Community Support
5 november 2020 · 49 min
Where should you go for support for WordPress plugins, themes and blocks? This debate was partly prompted by a WP Tavern article regarding what can be done about the WordPress.org forum being used to support premium versions of plugins which are not in the repository. There seems to be a lot of complexity to this due to the varying expectations of support and the vast difference in what plugin and themes do. We are probably better for having both types of support, but perhaps polarizing these can help explore the topic. Find out which is the best way to receive support on the WP Builds Podcast today. Go listen... Lees meer
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203 – The WordPress journey of Wendie Huis in t Veld
29 oktober 2020 · 51 min
This is one of those warm and fuzzy episodes! It's all about Wendie and her journey with WordPress. There's no product here, no tutorial, just a good, old fashioned chat about WordPress with a thoroughly lovely person! Wendie and I have been chatting on and off for years. It all started back in the day that both of us were going through the WP Elevation program and we decided to be accountability partners. We chatted from time to time during that and drifted in and our of conversations online for many years. We met in person at WordCamp London in 2018 as well as WordCamp Europe in 2019. She's been working in the WordPress space for years and has a really interesting story to tell. So have a listen to the podcast to find out more... Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #135 – WordPress 5.6 beta 1, full site editing theme and moon telephones
26 oktober 2020 · 32 min
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 19th October 2020:
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202 – Matte v glossy screens
22 oktober 2020 · 49 min
Nathan says 'Matte and Glossy' sound like a Las Vegas cabaret act so David's down for a quick win on this one! This is a little bit of a sham debate as it is as silly as matte or gloss paper. But some designers have a preference for one over the other and all of us who make websites probably need to consider that visitors may have vastly different experiences depending on what they use. It's quite surprising when you look into this how much the screen that your beautifully designed WordPress website is viewed upon can impact how it looks. I mostly assume that what I design is what everyone sees, but it's just not the case. The screen really, really matter. So whish is best... Find out what we think on the podcast this week... Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #134 – Full site editing closer, plugin news and Google going all-in on mobile search
19 oktober 2020 · 31 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 12th October 2020.
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201 – How to make your WordPress website run smoothly (even after a year) with Alexandru Covtun
15 oktober 2020 · 1 uur 7 min
Today we talk about how to keep your WordPress website running smoothly, whether that's one month or one year after you launched it. So we all know that having a website is more work than most people think. There's a ton of things that need to go on in the background to ensure that it's up and running, performing well and getting you leads. As WordPress web professionals, we take much of this for granted. In fact I was thinking as I wrote this post of all the little tasks that it takes to create a website and then keep it running in a performant way, and I was honestly surprised at all the things that I could think of. There were dozens...! Today we have Alexandru Covtun on the podcast to tackle this subject. He's with WP Dandy which is a WordPress maintenance and support company, so he knows what he's on about. Go listen... Lees meer
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200 – To niche or not to niche
8 oktober 2020 · 42 min
So, you're a WordPress website creator. You sell your websites to clients far and wide, or at least that's the hope. We all know though that the reality is that finding new clients can be hard and keeping them can be harder. The question in this episode of the podcast is, what's the best approach for attracting new clients. Should you go for anyone and everyone, or are you best targeting your efforts at a particular niche? Well, it's not that easy and there are pros and cons to both options. Today on the podcast, which by the way is episode 200 (yay!), we discuss which is best. Honestly, it throws up some unexpected results. In the end you'll have to decide for yourself, but perhaps listening to others debate this point might get you on the right track! Go listen... Lees meer
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199 – Benjamin Ritner speaks with Kadence
1 oktober 2020 · 57 min
Today we hear all about Kadence Blocks, the Kadence Theme and Kadence Membership from the creator, Benjamin Ritner. This suite of WordPress tools has been growing in popularity at an amazing rate. Wherever I seem to go, it's being mentioned, and in a very positive light. He's built out a broad set of tools which will enable you to build just about any WordPress website that you could imagine. He prides himself on keeping things lightweight and offering good support. Have a listen to the podcast today to see if Kadence is something to consider in your WordPress toolbelt in the days to come. Go listen... Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #133 – New Twenty Twenty One Theme, WordPress dual license and Facebook quitting Europe
28 september 2020 · 28 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 21st September 2020
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198 – Value pricing v fixed rate
24 september 2020 · 48 min
This debate will never die, but we keep hearing more about it each year. The traditional model is to charge your client a fee that is made clear on your website. You charge a fixed fee for the services that your provide. But now we've got value pricing which says charge the client based upon the value that you bring to their business. More profit for you. But is this easy to pull off, or does it feel like deception from the client's point of view. One model is simple, the other takes more thought, but offers higher rewards (if you can find the clients). Find out what we think about this debate in the WP Builds Podcast today... Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #132 – Gutenberg 9.0, SkyVerge joins GoDaddy and The Ig-Nobel prize
21 september 2020 · 26 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 14th September 2020
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197 – Multiple domains, one WordPress install, you need Landing Kit
17 september 2020 · 46 min
Marketers rejoice! WP Landing Kit is a plugin that you've wanted for ages and ages and now you have it! It allows you to point all of your domains at one WordPress install! You can then control all of your landing pages from one WordPress install, meaning that you save time on updating it and you can use successful page templates with ease. You might not immediatley see the utility of a plugin like this, but after listening to the podcast, you'll realsise that it's a genius idea. Jason Schuller is on the podcast today to talk about how it all works and how you can use it. Go listen... Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #131 – Gutenberg 8.9 block-based widgets, plugin updates and fundo!
14 september 2020 · 28 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 7th September 2020
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196 – Coding v non-coding
10 september 2020 · 46 min
Should you code or just buy plugins, themes and blocks when building your WordPress website? Many people like to know all the code so that they can create sites that so exactly what they want with zero bloat. That's fine if you've got the time and clients who are willing to pay for all that, but these days there's so many great tools that will enable non-coders to build fantastic WordPress websites. So... to code or not to code, that is the question. Find out what we think on the podcast today... Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #130 – WordPress 5.5.1, The Page Builder Summit and Linux is 29
7 september 2020 · 27 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 31st August 2020
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195 – Translate your WordPress websites with Weglot
3 september 2020 · 53 min
So this podcast episode is all about translations and how you can do that on your WordPress website. Perhaps you have a legal requirement to have multiple languages on your site, or perhaps you just want to further your reach into different parts of the world. Whatever the reason, doing this stuff manually would be really time consuming. Far better to have a nice, helpful WordPress plugin at hand that will do all the heavy lifting for you. Find out how to that we Weglot on the WP Builds Podcast today... Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #129 – PHP updates, plugin news and Apple want 30% of nothing
31 augustus 2020 · 29 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 24th August 2020
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194 – Static design v in-browser design
27 augustus 2020 · 51 min
This week was debate whether it's better to design your WordPress websites with browser based tools like a Page Builder, or use dedicated apps like Figma, Adobe XD or Sketch. Years ago this question was completely absurd. Not only did the tools not exist, but there was almost no conception that the browser might even be capable of image manipulation on the scale that would be needed. Fast forward to today and the tools exist and are excellent. So should you just stay in the browser, educating your clients about WordPress along the way or stay with solutions which have stood the test of time? Find out what we think on the podcast today... Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #128 – WordPress 5.6 started, end of themes and something .new
24 augustus 2020 · 30 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 17th August 2020
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193 – Helping people to learn WordPress on YouTube
20 augustus 2020 · 1 uur 3 min
Have you ever wanted to start a YouTube Channel related to WordPress content? You've seen other people out there making a great success of it and you think that it's really easy. Paul Charlton is on the WP Builds Podcast today to chat about what it's really like. It's a slog at times and you need to keep the content fresh and of a high quality. Paul focusses on Elementor, Brizy, ACF and JetEngine but straying into all sorts of other areas too. His content is of exceptional quality and I highly recommend a listen to the podcast to find out more about how he grew his channel and created a niche for himself educating people about how to use WordPress... Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #127 – WordPress 5.5 released, Astra upset and Fortnite blocked
17 augustus 2020 · 38 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 10th August 2020
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192 – WordPress V other blogging platforms
13 augustus 2020 · 46 min
Is WordPress the best option for bloggers or do some of the rival services offer a better set of features and ease of use? This argument is not as simple as you might think. I know that we're all into WordPress, but perhaps we need to get some distance and see what the competition is actually doing. Perhaps they have some unique options that WordPress does not have? Perhaps the simplicity is what draws people in, a stripped back set of features that allows you to do what you want and then get out of there - no plugin and theme updates, no security problems, no things breaking that you don't know how to fix. There's quite a bit in the WordPress rival's favour it turns out! Find out our thoughts on the WP Builds podcast... Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #126 – WordPress 5.5 RC2, WordCamps cancelled and TikTok buyers wanted
10 augustus 2020 · 28 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 3rd August 2020
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191 – If you need maps on your WordPress website, MapsMarker has you covered
6 augustus 2020 · 52 min
You need maps on a website like you need butter on toast. I really struggle to think of too many projects that I've built where the client did not want a maps show there business location. It might be that you can get away with a simple Google maps embed, but what if you want something more complex? Well, there's a plugin for that called MapsMarker and it's the topic of the podcast today. Robert Harm, the plugin developer is here to tell us all about it, and when I say 'all', there's honestly a lot to say. This plugin can do lots! Listen to the podcast to find out what... Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #125 – WordPress 5.5 RC, WordCamp US cancelled and heaps of plugin news
3 augustus 2020 · 29 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 27th July 2020
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190 – Content first v content later
30 juli 2020 · 41 min
If you've been building WordPress websites for any length of time, then you know this debate inside out. Should you get all the content from the client before you start the project? The answer is not as simple as you think. There are so many factors at play. Clients who just don't know what they want until they see it. Clients who don't understand your processes. Perhaps you even prefer to iterate your designs as the prject wears on and like the possibility to adapt what the client needs as you go. You might even take of the whole thing and say that you'll supply content and they can overwrite it at a later date when they're ready. Whatever the case may be, you don't want to be help up getting the website built, shipped and paid for because of content! So what's the best appraoch? Find out what we thing on the WP Builds podcast today... Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #124 – WordPress 5.5 news, JetPack CRM and machines learning faster
27 juli 2020 · 28 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 20th July 2020
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189 – Let us take care of your WordPress websites so that you can keep building them
23 juli 2020 · 1 uur 1 min
I got into building WordPress websites because I like building websites. Now that is a breathtaking insight I know! But it's important to think about this for a minute. I have no metrics on this, but I know for certain that I spend quite a but of my week just patching up and maintaining websites that I've already built. This is covered by my care plans but I'm not all that sure how profitable my WordPress website care plans are, one month I might do very little, another, I'm inundated! Today on the WP Builds Podcast we have Brad Morrison from GoWP who is here to tell us how they can take this support burden away from you. They'll do all the maintainance, support, updating and content edits for you. Their new service will even build your webpages for you! Have a listen and see if it's for you... Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #123 – WordPress 5.5 goodness, major security breach and redesigned Gmail
20 juli 2020 · 31 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 13th July 2020
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188 – Headless v’s not headless
16 juli 2020 · 39 min
This week on the WP Builds Weekly WordPress Podcast we talk about the subject of static hosting. You've used hosting for years, you know how it works and how to make it work. You're happy. And then people start talking about a clever new way of hosting - static hosting and you've got to throw most of that knowledge out of the window! So... why...? Because it's fast, secure and new, that's why! There really are some major advantages, but there's also some real disadvantages that you need to mindful of; things that might make it a non starter for you and your WordPress website building business. Join us on the podcast today as we talk this whole process through from both sides and see if static hosting is a things that either of us will take on or just some passing technology that's great, but not for us... Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #122 – Image manipulation, community news and hosting on a Raspberry Pi
13 juli 2020 · 26 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 6th July 2020
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187 – Let’s Fix the Broken Web with WordPress, WordProof and Blockchain
9 juli 2020 · 1 uur 1 min
How can you prove that you own your website content. That you wrote it on this date? You can use the WordProof plugin which leverages blockchain technology, that's how. It's not just for your blog content though, it could be used for almost anything and that's what makes it so exciting. That song that you recorded, those legal documents that you need to guarantee were updated last week. If you want to prove that something happened to your content on a certain date and time, WordProof is a WordPress plugin which will enable you to do this. It's such a new technology and it's perhaps a little new to most of us so Sebastiaan van der Lans is here to explain how it all works and why you might need it on the WP Builds podcast today! Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #121 – jQuery updating, community news and nice Chrome CSS feature
6 juli 2020 · 27 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 29th June 2020