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186 – Business liability insurance v’s none
2 juli 2020 · 39 min
If you run a WordPress website business then you'll likely have had a run in with a client. You need insurance to protect you... don't you? In this podcast we discuss if it's really needed or whether it's something that you can resonably do without. Do people actually take legal action against the people who build their websites, and if so is there anything substantive that they can get from you, or are we just falling for the insurance salesman and his trap of offering cover for things that we don't really need. Fairly nerdy topic and lots to discuss. Listen to the podcast to find out more... Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #120 – Gutenberg 8.4, free WordPress training and YouTube takes on TikTok
29 juni 2020 · 29 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 22nd June 2020
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185 – Why you should automate all-the-things with James Rose
25 juni 2020 · 1 uur 3 min
Do you want to remove boring tasks from your life? Those tasks that you know that you have to do, but just wish someone else would do. Well it's likely that you can automate many of them and James Rose is here to help you do that. He's not suggesting that you automate everything, but tasks that offer you zero return might as well be done by a robot as by you. His favourite tool is Zapier and he really has delved deep into the platform and its inner workings. So much so that he's created a course to save you time as you learn how to save time! Check him out on the WP Builds Weekly WordPress Podcast this week. Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #119 – WordPress requiring PHP 7.2, Yoast acquires Duplicate Posts and Instagram is massive
22 juni 2020 · 26 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 15th June 2020
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184 – Limited client access v’s full access
18 juni 2020 · 42 min
Some WordPress freelancers and agencies give clients full admin access to WordPress. Some give another role, such as the Editor role. What works best for you and your clients? Some completely reconfigure and white label the WordPress dashboard. Some give an Editor role for everyday use and an Admin role so they have ownership. I’m sure there are more variations. Perhaps you've changed your position on this over the years, or still have a level of uncertainty. Do you or don't you want clients to see what's going on under the hood with their WordPress website? Check out the WP Builds podcast to find out what we think! Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #118 – WordPress 5.4.2, PHP is 25 and so much spam
15 juni 2020 · 29 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 8th June 2020
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183 – How I have evolved my Wallace Inline WordPress plugin
11 juni 2020 · 43 min
If you're the kind of person who likes to make sure that the website that you hand over to your clients is safe from their clumsy hands, then your might be interested in the podcast today. Wallace Inline is a great tool for making it really easy for people to update their website content. The idea is that you find a place on the page that you want to edit, and you click on it and alter it right there without the need to go into the settings for the module / element. Bradley Kirby comes on the WP Builds Podcast today to talk about what's new with the plugin and how it might save you time when dealing with clients. Check it out. Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #117 – All women release squad, Assistant plugin and lots of physics
8 juni 2020 · 31 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 1st June 2020
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182 – Office v home working
4 juni 2020 · 49 min
Are you a WordPress website builder or developer? If so you're likely working from one of two locations, home or an office. You might have tried out both in the past, or long for the one that you don't currently have. In this episode of the WP Builds Weekly WordPress Podcast we debate the merits of one over the other and there's a surprising amount to say! Whether you're happy with your setup but have thought about changing, or if you just want to confirm your decision that your current location is the best... have a listen to the podcast and leave some comments... Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #116 – WordPress is 17, Block Experiments and nearby Earth
1 juni 2020 · 28 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 25th May 2020:
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181 – How to visually build your WordPress translations with TranslatePress
28 mei 2020 · 47 min
Using WordPress and want to offer multiple languages? TranspatePress is a super simple, visual way to do that. Point, click, type, save, done! Easy as that. It's like a Page Builder for translations. You can translate anything on the page, post or ever WooCommerce products. There's a ton in the free version, but we also talk about the premium options which you can purchase too. It's a very mature offering and seems like a great WordPress translation solution. Check out the WP Builds Weekly WordPress Podcast to find out more about it and how it works... Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #115 – Gutenberg 8.1, plugin news and an old cave
25 mei 2020 · 36 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 18th May 2020
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180 – WooCommerce v other options
21 mei 2020 · 53 min
I don't do eCommerce! So when David suggested that we carry about a debate about WooCommerce v's other options, it was pretty clear which side of the fence I was going to defending! The opening of the podcast is about whether or not you should be involved with eCommerce at all. Yes, I know that lots of your clients want it, and there's decent money to be had from building such sites, but there's also the strain and stress that eCommerce websites bring that no others do. Upgrades can be problematic, restoring from a backup after something goes wrong, with orders still coming in is a nightmare, and it's likely the only kind of website that you're going to build which your clients are going to poking about in every single day - they break things and then, well, you know who they turn to for help! So just don't do eCommerce... period! David diagrees, so I ought to let him have his say too, so listen to the podcast to find out wht he thinks... Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #114 – WordPress on the rise, accessibility event and a very large attack
18 mei 2020 · 31 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 11th May 2020
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179 – A little look at 10Web hosting
14 mei 2020 · 44 min
So today on the podcast we've got a new hosting provider for you, and that provider is 10Web. They are a platform that is hoping to take care of all of your WordPress needs. The idea is that you set up an account on their platform and then bring in sites that you've already created, or use their suite of tools to get you started. I'm seeing more services like this poppnig up all over the place... buy their service, log in, create a website with a Page Builder and have almost no idea that you're using WordPress at all. Go check out 10Web in the podcast this week. Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #113 – Gutenberg here to stay, Genesis Pro and lots of security news
11 mei 2020 · 28 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 4th May 2020
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178 – Hosting clients v’s not hosting clients
7 mei 2020 · 48 min
We are talking about website hosting. Email hosting seems like a whole other debate, so we're going to avoid that altogther. This is just about hosting, and whether it is worth the hassle of getting your clients to have their hosting through you, or if it's better to just let them sort that out for yourself, leaving you to worry about building websites instead. There is money in them thar' hills though, so perhaps it's worth considering. Then again, it's a real pain the neck when things go wrong, and they will go wrong. So, what should you do, well, listen to the podcast of course! Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #112 – WordPress 5.4.1, WordCamp Europe online open and more deals
4 mei 2020
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 27th April 2020
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177 – Pro WaaS a.k.a. websites as a service with Michael Short
30 april 2020 · 51 min
So a couple of years ago the concept of WaaS (website as a service) started up, and we covered it quite a bit, we talked about WP Ultimo and did some live demos as well. The concept is simple, you create some templates for websites, most likely in a niche that you've identified, and you put them up for sale. People can come to your WaaS and they can get a site spun up that they can start using right away. Micheal Short saw this and decided that he could extend this, and so WaaS Pro was born. Micheal talks on the podcast about how his solution can greatly inprove your WaaS offering... Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #111 – Dashicons going, Gutenberg block builder and so many deals
27 april 2020 · 29 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 20th April 2020
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176 – Lifetime Deals v Subscriptions
23 april 2020 · 48 min
Today, the podcast about whether we should make use of lifetime deals or be happy to pay a recurring subscription for our WordPress plugins. We shall be mostly looking from the perspective of WordPress implementers. Folks like us who have clients who rely on us, who rely on developers to keep our site running smoothly… and to an extent move with the times. There's quite a few arguments in favour of both, which is quite surprising! It's not all about saving money and although it's great to get a good deal upfront, does this offer the developer of the plugin the financial security and motivation to keep development up to date and bug free? Anyway, lots to talk about so go have a listen. Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #110 – Gutenberg 7.9, lockdown and some new deals
20 april 2020 · 26 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 13th April 2020
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175 – Having a system for ‘Word of Mouth’ marketing with Jason Resnick
16 april 2020 · 52 min
Today we chat with Jason Resnick, a seasoned WordPress pro, who has been working with WordPress and eCommerce pretty much when it all started out! We're talking today about 'word of mouth' marketing. Now, most people when asked about word of mouth will probably see this as something that happens organically, something that you don't really have all that much control over. After all it's happening in situations largely outside of your control. You can offer a great service and hope that people are going to mention your name when they get asked the question... 'Who would you recommend to build my WordPress website?', but it's little more than hope, right? Jason explains why it's a little bit more than this in this weeks podcast... Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #109 – WordPress 5.5 tickets, deals and GoDaddy buys domain registries
13 april 2020 · 25 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 6th April 2020
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174 – WordPress Page Builders V SaaS Page Builders
9 april 2020 · 49 min
This is the WordPress.org page builders i.e. Beaver Builder, Elementor, Divi, Oxygen, Brizy etc, against Wix, Weebly, Squarespace etc. In this debate we're talking about building a standard brochure sites that may need a blog or a shopping cart. So it's not about building out a complex, bespoke site that has masses of unique features. It's about something that's simple and can be done with the native features in the Page Builders. We debate the pros of using both types of page builders and learn some truths along the way... Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #108 – WordPress 5.4 released, remote working and community news
6 april 2020 · 29 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 30th March 2020
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173 – My WordPress journey with David Decker
2 april 2020 · 1 uur 3 min
Today is a little different from the episodes that we've been putting out of late. It's a story of one man and his journey with using WordPress. We talk today with David Decker. You might have seen him around the WP Builds Facebook Group from time to time, and if you haven't been in there you really should as he's one of the many friendly faces who are there offering helpful advice and expertise. I met David in on Facebook and was lucky enough to meet him in person at WordCamp Europe 2019 in Berlin. Was had a few chats and it became clear that an appearance on the podcast was going to happen... Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #107 – WordPress 5.4 RC5, remote working and a cool toy
30 maart 2020 · 34 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 23rd March 2020
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172 – Growth v staying small
26 maart 2020 · 45 min
There’s many types of businesses providing websites and marketing to many different client types. We have self-employed freelancers seeing it more as their vocation or as a side gig. Then we have large Agencies with teams of specialists, designers, UX experts, frontend and backend developers, project manager and a whole load more. Anyone who knows us we know we are really the former. Why the debate? Probably because there is a general wisdom that self employed people need to think of themselves as a business and that business are expected to grow. We are exploring whether this applies to those offering website services with WordPress. So, somewhat arbitrarily, David is going to argue from the point of view of growth, and I’m (Nathan) will argue that we can stay small. Check it out... Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #106 – WordPress 5.4. RC3, COVID-19 impact and infinite light
23 maart 2020 · 29 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 16th March 2020
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171 – How EmergencyWP can protect your online legacy
19 maart 2020 · 53 min
Trigger warning - this episode touches up on the subject of bereavement and so, you may want to bear that in mind before you listen. So today I'm talking with Albert Brückmann, the founder of EmergencyWP which is a WordPress plugin that you can use to protect your legacy, both online and offline. Think of EmergencyWP as a way of a silo of information that you would like to pass on to anyone in the event that you pass away. Albert created the EmergencyWP plugin, and the various iterations that went before it, as a result of an accident that occurred to a friend who had made insufficient preparations. It made Albert realise that the unexpected can happen and that having options to organise what and how your relations and friends receive might be something that you wish to be in control of. Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #105 – WordPress events cancelled and massive security week
16 maart 2020 · 28 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 9th March 2020
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170 – Page Builders v The Block Editor a.k.a. Gutenberg
12 maart 2020 · 55 min
To avoid things getting stale we decided to mix it up for a while and challenge ourselves by arbitrarily taking one side each in some of the great debates in WordPress. The idea is that it might make us dig harder in to topics, give us a focus and force us to look at other perspectives. So today we're tackling the WordPress debate of the moment 'Page Builders v The Block Editor (Gutenberg)'. With so much innovation in the Page Builder space is there any room for something similar in WordPress core? Do we like it? Do we use it? Do we see a future for it? Whatever your point of view, there's certainly a whole heap of arguments on either side of the debate, and honestly most of them are completely legitimate too! I'm sure that we're not going to change your mind about this, but we might come up with a few things that you'd not thought of before. I hope that you enjoy listening to it... Lees meer
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #104 – WordPress 5.4 RC, COVID-19 events and mobile SERPs
9 maart 2020 · 23 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 2nd March 2020
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169 – Advanced Custom Fields, the past, present and future
5 maart 2020 · 1 uur 8 min
Want to learn about Advanced Custom Fields for WordPress? Join founder Elliot Condon as we talk about the plugin... past, present and future. We talk about what the plugin does and how it can transform the kind of sites that you're able to build. We then go on to chat about the last couple of years and how Elliot had had to put in a lot of work to make sure that ACF was ready for the 5.0 release of WordPress which brought in the Gutenberg editor. It was a period of huge learning and enormous uncertainty, but Elliot came through with flying colours. He managed to create ACF Blocks which is a non-coding way of creating your own bespoke Blocks that you can reuse within the editor. We also talk about the recent pricing changes - why an increase in price was long overdue and how it's going to support the plugin's development long into the future. Seriously nice guy... great episode... Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #103 – Full site editing blocks, high funding rounds and a few deals
2 maart 2020 · 26 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 24th February 2020
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168 – Making an impact
27 februari 2020 · 54 min
This episode is all about trying to make some kind of impact... how you can actually get people to notice what it is that you're doing and make them want to care about it, enough perhaps to become your client. So for this people really need to know what it is that you do. Not for a myriad of things that you might be interested in doing, but the core things that you do well and that are profitable for your business. Alongside all of this is the need to have some kind of emotional impact as well, something that really resonates with your clients. We go into all of this in the podcast, so why don't you have a listen... Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #102 – WordPress 5.4 beta 2, multiple security threats and Mac less safe than Windows
24 februari 2020 · 28 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 17th February 2020
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167 – How I use Agile and WordPress to launch a minimal viable product with Marius Vetrici
20 februari 2020 · 1 uur
Today we stray into waters that we don't often swim in. We're talking about Agile development and launching a Minimal Viable Product, and the person I'm talking to is Marius Vetrici. Marius is a WordPress developer and runs an agency of twelve people... so he's got to have all his processes in place to ensure that his business is profitable and that his clients are happy. This discussion centres around a long post that Marius wrote entitles "Agile WordPress Development: How To Maximize The ROI Of Your MVP Website". In that post we learn that Marius had to learn to have processes in place because of a $200,000 project that just got out of hand. The product that he launched did not have the research done properly before the work started, and as such there was no real understanding of exactly what it was that they were trying to build. We talk about structuring work into sprints, how these sprints map to goals and how WordPress is the perfect tool to do all of this with minimal time and cost. Honestly... really interesting. Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #101 – WordPress 5.4 beta 1, WordCamp Asia cancelled and many phones kills Google maps
17 februari 2020 · 26 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 10th February 2020
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166 – The when and who of marketing
13 februari 2020 · 55 min
This episode is looking at who we think our idea WordPress clients might be and where we might find them. There's more to this subject than meets the eye! for a start, when are the people who we're trying to engage as clients actually receptive to our messages? It might not be at the times that you think are suitable. Perhaps they work late into the evening, or the team is dotted all over the globe? In terms of the who, this can be really hard - trying to work out exactly who we are going to target and therefore the kind of messages that they're likely to resonate with. Should we push towards word of mouth, or perhaps use social media channels to get some traction? What should those messages sound like, controversial, a debate, riding a common theme? It's all in the WP Builds podcast this week... Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #100 – Yes 100! I know! Gutenberg 7.4, CSS standards and deals
10 februari 2020 · 28 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 3rd February 2020
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165 – Creating your own managed WordPress service, and keeping all the margin with Patrick Gallagher
6 februari 2020 · 58 min
On the WP Builds WordPress Podcast today with have Patrick Gallagher from Gridpane. We talk about their mission to save you time and hassle when you build and host WordPress websites. They have a unique product which is being discussed a lot right now. We talk about how the company got started and how it is that they go the extra mile so that you don't have to. It's little things like not making you repeat work that you perhaps don't need to every time your set up a new site. Build a site, save it as a bundle then reuse it over and over again. Pretty much all you need to do it is to name the site, tell Gridpane where you want it to be hosted and click a button, that's literally it. Of course you can bring your own hardware like Digital Ocean, Linode, Google, Amazon etc, or point to an IP address of a box in your house! WordPress installs created, managed, backed up in the least time possible! Go check it out... Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #99 – Lazy Load images in Core, plugin news and deals too
3 februari 2020 · 26 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 27th January 2020
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164 – The how and where of marketing
30 januari 2020 · 57 min
So many places to post your marketing messages and so many forms that they can take. What options are there and are any more useful than the others? We're taking another dive into the 'Watertight Marketing' book by Bryony Thomas, and exploring an area that neither David or I (Nathan) are particularly experienced at. We go over as many ways as we can think of for getting your (or your client) messages out there and think about what they might look or sound like. It's a surprisingly long list and it's changing all the time. What looked cool 3 years ago, might look foolish today and the platform of choice seems to change with alarming regularity! Have a listen to us chat this all through on the WP Builds Weekly WordPress Podcast. Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #98 – Gutenberg updates / compatible themes and new page builder
27 januari 2020 · 30 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 20th January 2020
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163 – How to create content with WordPress that people really want to engage with
23 januari 2020 · 1 uur 6 min
Creating content on your WordPress website that attracts people can be hard if you don't have a plan. Miles Beckler has a system to create content that people want to read. It's a simple system too. It might be something that you've implemented in the past, but it might be completely new to you. The approach is about creating content that you know that people are searching for, and for that you need a keyword tool (see the show notes).From there you write content that you are certain that people are actually going to want to read. You make it the best that you can, and you get better and faster at doing it. The beauty of this being held within WordPress is that it's going to be around for years to come and you can alter it should your data show that's it's in need of a tweak. You're not going to get rich over night, and that's not the point, but if you're willing to engage with Miles' process, you might find a new and interesting way to get paid. Fun listen... Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #97 – Hosting pricing changes, security updates and free Windows 10 upgrade
20 januari 2020 · 30 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 13th January 2020
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162 – Information Overload
16 januari 2020 · 55 min
You know how this goes... You have an inbox and it's overflowing. You have almost no time in the day to deal with nonsense, but you do read your emails... some of your emails. But which ones? Which emails make the cut and get opened and which ones fall by the wayside, their only purpose in life was just to add a tiny amount to the carbon footprint? Building WordPress websites, you need to advise your clients about ways that they can interact with their customers or audience. They need to have a little understanding in terms of how they can market to the world. Perhaps you're not the person to teach them all of this, and yes, there might be people out there who are heaps better at marketing than you are (this is certainly true for myself and David), but that should not stop you thinking about this subject and offer your clients some thoughts as to what might work, and certainly what does not work anymore. Check out the podcast to hear our thoughts on this... Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #96 – Gutenberg multi buttons, WordPress community news and internet literacy initiative
13 januari 2020 · 30 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 6th January 2020