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161 – Why don’t you believe in us?
9 januari 2020 · 54 min
Why should your WordPress website clients have any confidence in your ability to actually build and deploy their website? After all there are so many competitors to choose from. Is there any way that you can turn disbelief into belief? In another exploration of the 'Watertight Marketing' book we discuss this subject. Perhaps you've been using testimonials and turning them into case studies. These are easy to do, and no doubt quite effective, but how on earth do you actually get your clients to give up their precious time to provide then to you? Are you best just asking them directly or should you have them on some kind of 'website launch' sequence which guides them towards this? Are you going to tell them what to say or just leave it up to them, knowing that they'll miss out most of the things that you really need. It's a really difficult subject and one that both David and I feel that we need some help with! Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #95 – 2019 reviews, Pods funding in doubt and Google in 3rd place
6 januari 2020 · 28 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 30th December 2019
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160 – Running contests in WordPress with RafflePress
2 januari 2020 · 49 min
Have you ever wanted to increase your email list? My guess is that in most cases, the answer is yes! It can be a hard thing to do though right? One way that's becoming popular is to offer some kind of prize(s) and raffle them off. The intention is to incentivise your audience to share the contest far and wide and create some kind of viral loop in which people keep coming back and adding new entrants to the contest through their (not your) endeavours. It's a simple but highly effective idea if the conditions are right... the prize, the audience, the perceived value etc. Many SaaS platforms exist to do these kind of contests, but RafflePress is different in that it's all happening in your WordPress website, and it's got a mighty set of features too! Join the founder of the plugin, John Turner, as we talk about how to use RafflePress and what makes it the unique. Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #94 – WordPress 5.3.2, 2019 reviews and NGINX raided
23 december 2019 · 24 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 16th December 2019
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159 – My nephew makes websites too
19 december 2019 · 46 min
What do you do when your WordPress website client says that they are talking to other people about the site that you're building... my girlfriend's nephew! How do we manage this?
Do you just roll with the punches and assume that all will be well. Perhaps you need to ask who these people and what makes them qualified to offer their opinions. You could also put processes in place to make sure that the client has clear boundaries about who can suggest what.
In this episode of the WP Builds WordPress podcast we talk this through. Guided by the Watertight Marketing book by Bryony Thomas. I'm sure that you've been through situations like this yourself, perhaps our ideas align with yours? Anyway, it's a fascinating subject which is the cause of so much wasted time and energy! Lees meer -
WP Builds Newsletter #93 – WordPress 5.3.1, plugin vulnerability and Compress or Die
16 december 2019 · 28 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 9th December 2019
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158 – Keeping WordPress secure with Ryan Dewhurst from WPScan
12 december 2019 · 55 min
Who wants a hacked website. Anyone... anyone... Bueller! No? It's something that nobody wants, to wake up to discover that your WordPress website(s) have been breached and that unexpected things are now happening. Perhaps it's benign, but it might be serious. Data has been downloaded and you've got to spend time ameliorating the situation. Ryan Dewhurst is on the podcast today to chat through the WordPress security landscape. What people hack, what they gain and how the good guys are fighting back and trying to provide useful information to help us all stay safe. Ryan is behind WPScan, the WPScan Vulnerability Database and WPScan.io, all tools which enable you to stay up-to-date with the latest information about WordPress security. It's been a labour of love for a long time, and he's dedicated many, many hours so that you and I can sleep well at night. Great guy and a great episode... Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #92 – Gutenberg 7.0, Yoast ads and still the deals come!
9 december 2019 · 31 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 2nd December 2019
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157 – Honey traps for website clients
5 december 2019 · 59 min
How do your WordPress website clients 'try before they buy'? What can we do to trust our services and try them out before they part with their money. We share some ideas about that. Because, in the real world, we want to try out all-the-things before we buy them. Shoes, clothes, phones... most things. But was can't allow customers to try out the finished website before they are to sign the contract... we'd be broke. But perhaps there are some other ways that we can build up the trust that they need to have in us, ways that won't break the bank for us, but offer meaningful value to the clients and slowly, but surely edge them closer to the ultimate goal... the building of their new WordPress website. Join David and Nathan as they discuss what might be possible... Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #91 – WP Tavern makeover, Core releases and website carbon footprint
2 december 2019 · 30 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 25th November 2019
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156 – WordPress forms is a crowded space, so we launched WPForms
28 november 2019 · 55 min
Some things are universal. Something about death and taxes. Another universal is that you will put some kind of contact form on every site that you build. You will though, won't you?
WP Forms entered a crowded marketplace a few years ago with a simple idea... can we make it faster for users to create their forms, and I think that the answer is a yes!
Join Jared Atchison, the founder of WP Forms, as we discuss what makes WP Forms different, how they got started, and where they are headed.
Even if you're entirely happy with your current WordPress forms solution, this is still worth a listen to see how you can enter a saturated market, and still make an impact. Lees meer -
WP Builds Newsletter #90 – Gutenberg 6.9, are themes needed and who owns .org
25 november 2019 · 27 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 18th November 2019
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155 – Are we boring?
21 november 2019 · 51 min
This discussion is another based on the book Watertight Marketing by Bryony Thomas which gives us 13 areas where we (or our clients) could be leaking potential business. With this series, we are working our way up an imaginary funnel starting first with our existing customers (Leak #1), then our on-boarding for leads (Leak #2) Now we are looking at Leak #3 – No emotional connection - Your brand or reputation – what kind of people are you? All of the elements above come together to really sum up what your company is about. It’s what will determine how it feels to be a customer of yours. It is what builds your company's reputation. This happens over time, but there are some foundations you need to lay. And those are what your company looks and sounds like. Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #89 – WordPress 5.3 released, Black Friday coming and no rights to YouTube
18 november 2019 · 33 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 11th November 2019
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154 – Because online privacy matters, we need people like Heather Burns
14 november 2019 · 1 uur 10 min
Once in a while you attend an event and the speaker is so eloquent, so immersed in their talk, that you listen with an intensity that it out of the ordinary. Such was a talk given by the guest of the podcast today, Heather Burns. It was at WordCamp London in 2017, and I was in the audience. It was about online privacy, an area that she's an expert in. Today we discuss what online privacy actually is and how you need to be mindful about it as you build your WordPress websites. It's becoming more important year by year as we're now realising that we're often sacrificing our data and it might be used in ways that we're really not comfortable with. Join me as I discuss where you can make a difference and how WordPress is positioning itself with regards to privacy. Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #88 – State of the Word, annual survey and a few deals
11 november 2019 · 34 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 4th November 2019
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153 – Losing clients before you even get them
7 november 2019 · 48 min
This is a little mini-series based upon the book 'Watertight Marketing' by Bryony Thomas. This is about that time in the client / project lifecycle when they (the client) have made some kind of commitment to use your products or services, they might even have signed a contract, but you've not delivered anything yet. It's a time when they can still 'get away' from you. Yes, you might have a contract in place whereby you can insist that they are obliged to give you this or that, but honestly, have you ever enforced this, or is it better to just let them walk away and save yourself the legal fees and headache of trying to get them to pay up what they owe you? David calls this 'The Welcome Window'. You think that you have them as a client, but it's still possible for things to go wrong... Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #87 – WordPress 5.3 RC 3, plugin news and deals
4 november 2019 · 31 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 28th October 2019
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152 – Riding a jolly long way for the WordPress community with Dan Maby and Carole Olinger
31 oktober 2019 · 1 uur 3 min
WordPress is a huge community, and in that community there are people who need help and support. WP and UP is a charity that I'm involved with which offers that help. It's a truly great vision, but, as with all things it takes time and money to make it happen. Some of us at WP and UP decided to ride from Berlin to Portugal in 2020 to raise money for the charity. That's nice you say, what a jolly thing to to... erm... no. It's 3,000 km (nearly 2,000 miles) and it goes over a mountain range! In this episode I speak to my fellow riders, Dan Maby and Carole Olinger about why we're doing it, how we're doing it and why they don't appear to be scared as I am. Have a listen and perhaps even support the project? Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #86 – WordPress 5.3 RC2, AHrefs SEO and satellite WiFi coming soon
28 oktober 2019 · 30 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 21st October 2019
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151 – Are we leaking clients?
24 oktober 2019 · 57 min
This episode is really about keeping the WordPress clients that you already have. What's the old phrase? Don't leave money on the table? Well, that's certainly the case for many of us. This is another episode in our mini series and it's all about trying to get as much value from and to the clients that you already have. Perhaps you build sites and then just move on not making use of the rapport and connections that you've made. Surely though, our existing clients are the ones that know us and what we do best. They have trust in you and what you're able to offer. So today we explore what we've done to foster these client relationships and David has some great ideas about what he's doing with his own agency. Well worth a listen... Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #85 – WordPress 5.3 RC, Automattic wealth and new Google products
21 oktober 2019 · 33 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 14th October 2019
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150 – Kinsta hosting on Google’s Cloud with Brian Jackson
17 oktober 2019 · 55 min
Today we have a chat with Brian Jackson from Kinsta. Kinsta are a managed WordPress hosting company who have grow rapidly since their inception in 2013. When they started managed WordPress hosting was not the giant business that it was today. In those days we were still opting for shared hosting and VPS hosting. But with the advent of cloud platforms such as Amazon's AWS and Google Cloud, there came an opportunity for people with the skills to leverage those platforms and repurpose them as WordPress specific hosting solutions. Find out how Kinsta works and see if they are a good fit for your next WordPress project. Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #84 – WordPress 5.3 beta 3, accessibility and oasis on Mars
14 oktober 2019 · 22 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 7th October 2019
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149 – Marketing funnels don’t exist!
10 oktober 2019 · 46 min
This discussion is about marketing, and it has a very click-bait title! It’s probably safe to say that we are not experts in marketing and certainly not marketing funnels. Nevertheless we thought we would chat about this and why we might need to get better a digital marketing for ourselves and clients and where WordPress could help with that. What's different about this discussion is that really is an introduction to a series of discussions we will have based on a book called Watertight Marketing by Bryony Thomas. Listen to this episode to find out more... Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #83 – WordPress 5.3 Beta 2, WordCamp U.S. tickets and Facebook decryption
7 oktober 2019 · 27 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 30th September 2019
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148 – Spinning up a WordPress optimised server in minutes with Spinup WP
3 oktober 2019 · 56 min
This is a little bit different. Today we talk to Brad Touesnard from Delicious Brains about Spinup WP their new service which aims to make it trivially simple to get your WordPress website up and running on a cloud hosting provider - in fact just about anywhere. You login to their platform, fill out a few form fields and then go and grab a coffee. By the time that you're done your WordPress optimised server will be ready and just waiting to get WordPress installed on it. This all sounds so simple, but there is a very large amount of heavy lifting going on in the background, heavy lifting that you'd have to learn and do your self. If you've ever wanted to install WordPress on a cloud provider, then check this podcast out... Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #82 – WordPress 5.3, plugin news and a dancing robot
30 september 2019 · 38 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 23rd September 2019
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147 – What does it mean to fail?
26 september 2019 · 49 min
Do you think that you're a success as a WordPress professional? Have you got everything sorted out and working just how you like it? Perhaps yes, but possibly no! What exactly do we mean by failure? Is it a measure of how much we earn, the kind of work that we are able to do? Perhaps it's the amount of free time that our work allows us to have at our disposal. Failure is not so easy to pin down. Can we prevent it and plan ahead, put cash aside for a rainy day. Maybe failure is out of our control - the bad boss or the slowing economy. We chat through this whole topic and see what it is that we strive for and how we've approached these problems in the past. Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #81 – Gutenberg 6.5, Automattic worth $3 billion and Google spying
23 september 2019 · 29 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 16th September 2019
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146 – Refining our website building process with James and Martin Coates
19 september 2019 · 1 uur
What to know how a growing WordPress website agency manages their projects? Well this is the podcast for you. Today we hear from James and Martin Coates from Impact Media. They tell us about the tools that they use to make their agency as efficient as possible. Wireframes to video creation, image manipulation to automated testing we learn it all. We also chat about their preferred plugins for particular tasks. It's a great chat and will give you some insights into processes that, no doubt are part of your business, but perhaps you'll see a new way or a new tool that you might be able to use. Go have a listen on the WP Builds WordPress podcast... Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #80 – Chrome kills Gutenberg, plugin updates, deals and no likes
16 september 2019 · 32 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 9th September 2019
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145 – Should we use templates more?
12 september 2019 · 55 min
Times have changed... It used to be that creating websites was really tedious. It took hours to get anything to go where you wanted it. Along came WordPress themes and life got a little easier, well sometimes, and then we got Page Builders with their rows and modules. Now you can get templates for just about anything and can have sites built in a matter of hours, but should we do it this way? Should we be using other people's templates or should we be doing all this from the group up? Perhaps there is a middle way? Tweaking what you find so that the internet does not all look the same! Join us to find out what we think... Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #79 – WordPress 5.3, project governance and RSS readers
9 september 2019 · 26 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 2nd September 2019
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144 – Get paid with likes… the Like Coin with Kin Ko
5 september 2019 · 50 min
If you create content you know that it's nice to be rewarded for that. The Like Coin is a Block Chain idea which might make this possible. People click a button, you get paid! The internet came along and suddenly everything was free, free news, free magazines, free books. But authors of content need to get paid and paywalls, donations are not working. What if you could click a button and pay someone, literally do nothing else... click a button. Like Coin is trying to build this... Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #78 – Gutenberg 6.4, UX / UI Live audit live and PHP conference cancelled
2 september 2019 · 29 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 26th August 2019
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143 – Only doing what you’re good at
29 augustus 2019 · 50 min
So we all build websites. Perhaps we don't. Perhaps we're just involved with WordPress as a marketing expert, or a graphic designer. WordPress is useful to a whole slew of different job types which is great, but can also be a burden. What I mean by that is that there are so many hats that you can wear in the WordPress space, so many jobs that are needed to get a website up, running and maintained, that it can be hard to keep up. How do we do that... Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #77 – WordPress 5.3, auto updating old sites and prevent tracking
26 augustus 2019 · 27 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 19th August 2019
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142 – Easy life… store your layouts in the cloud with Andrew Palmer
22 augustus 2019 · 1 uur
You've been using a Page Builder to design your WordPress websites and life is great. But it could be better. The Page Builder Cloud plugin allows you to save your layouts to the cloud and reuse them on whatever website you want. So you can start to build your own library of layouts and they're right there, waiting to be deployed and save you a heap of time. The plugin is also going to be able to convert layouts from one Page Builder to another, but this is not ready just yet. Check it out... Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #76 – Gutenberg improvements, riding a bike and plugin updates
19 augustus 2019 · 31 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 12th August 2019
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141 – Feeling insecure about security (Part 2)
15 augustus 2019 · 52 min
This is the second episode about WordPress security. In this podcast we talk about the range of security plugins that we've heard of. It's by no means an exhaustive list, bit we cover some of the main options that you've heard of. We discuss these WordPress security plugins; what options do they offer, do we understand what they're doing and how do we pass on the responsibility for security to our WordPress website clients? Have a listen and post your comments... Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #75 – Core update debates, plugin updates and podcasts playable in SERPs
12 augustus 2019 · 26 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 5th August 2019
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140 – Feeling insecure about security (Part 1)
8 augustus 2019 · 51 min
This is the first in a two part podcast about WordPress and security. In this episode we go over all of the potential problems that you might encounter with your WordPress website. There's the usual things such as uptime monitoring, backups and implementing a firewall, but there's also some other, more unusual topics. Do you make sure that you're keeping your client data safe? Are you expunging backups and SSH keys that you no longer require in case your system is compromised... Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #74 – Gutenberg nesting, community news and the death of flash
5 augustus 2019 · 30 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 29th July 2019.
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139 – A better way to manage your media library with Stuart Brameld
1 augustus 2019 · 47 min
If you've been using WordPress any length of time, you'll have run into the frustrations that the Media Library can present. It's a pretty decent UI, but it's not as good as services that we're using such as Google Drive or Dropbox. WP Media Manager aims to fix that. Not only does it look great but it stores all of your assets in Amazon S3 or Microsoft Azure with all of the benefits that this brings... highly scalable, secure, permissions based. I think that this plugin is certainly worth a look... PS... Sorry about the poor audio this week! Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #73 – Gutenberg test, WordCamps and Google Cloud
29 juli 2019 · 31 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 22nd July 2019
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138 – Are we happy with how we manage tasks?
25 juli 2019 · 53 min
Today, the podcast talks about tasks. Not so much the tasks themselves, but more the way that we approach them. We discuss the way that different people have the ability to move happily from task to task, whilst other people need to complete one task before they can move onto another one. I guess that there's no 'right' way to accomplish tasks, but it's interesting to see whether or not we think that other people's approaches are batter than our own. It's a fun episode for sure! Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #72 – PHP coding standards, kids in WordPress and Javascript SEO
22 juli 2019 · 22 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 15th July 2019
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137 – Make your WordPress website load faster with Jan Koch
18 juli 2019 · 56 min
Today we learn about how how to make your WordPress website load as fast as possible. On the face of it, this is easy to do, but there's quite a lot going on when a website loads, and so there are many steps that you need to take a look at if you want to squeeze every ounce of speed out of it. Jan Koch talks us through the work that he's done trying to do all of that. There's likely some new content in here even if you're a seasoned optimiser, so stay tuned and I hope that you enjoy this episode. Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #71 – Gutenberg animations, Elementor icons and Google playing games
15 juli 2019 · 22 min
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 8th July 2019