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WP Builds Newsletter #45 – WordPress 5.0.3, we’re no longer bloggers and free GitHub
14 januari 2019 · 15 min
WP Builds Newsletter #45 - WordPress 5.0.3, we're no longer bloggers and free GitHub
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110 – A WordPress intranet solution from WOffice
10 januari 2019 · 54 min
Today we have not one but two people on the podcast. Baptiste Debever and Francois Forest are WordPress plugin and theme developers based in France. During this podcast we discuss two of their products, a WordPress theme called WOffice and a SaaS app called Feedier. They both do completely different things, one is a WordPress intranet and the other is a feedback SaaS app... so let's get started... Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #44 – WordPress marketing, image optimisation and a super detailed image
7 januari 2019 · 13 min
WP Builds Newsletter #44 - WordPress marketing, image optimisation and a super detailed image
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109 – What changed in 2018 and what is coming in 2019
3 januari 2019 · 53 min
Happy New Year 2019! In this episode of the WP Builds WordPress podcast we take a bit of a look back at some of the things that we thought we important in 2018. Now I don't mean to imply that David and myself have any special insight here, it's just what occurred to us as important for 2018 and the way that we use WordPress. Some of this might not seem all that important to you, and undoubtedly we've missed a whole bunch of stuff out, but hey, you never came here for expertise did you! Lees meer
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108 – Make your blog posts work harder for you with Ben Dell from Missinglettr
27 december 2018 · 46 min
Today we have an episode that deals with something very dear to my heart, writing blog posts - like this one! One of the problems that I have is that I write a post like this in WordPress and then publish it. It goes onto the website and I hope that people like you will read it and listen to the podcast episode. However, we're all busy people these days and it might be that you miss this post. I could roll over and accept that you've missed my wonderful content, or I could try to make sure that you see it at some point in the future. That's what Ben Dell's SaaS app, Missinglettr, does... Lees meer
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107 – The top 5 reasons why we are web designers
20 december 2018 · 43 min
This episode is a little bit of a departure for us as it was inspired by the people in the WP Builds Facebook group (which you should join BTW). It is all based upon a in which David asked the simple question, "What's the one thing you love about building client websites?" Well, I think that both of us thought that this might get one or two comments, but in fact they poured in - 119 of them at the last count. It was really wonderful to read all of the varied things that you love about the work that we all do. We've got a lot to be grateful for, woking as we do building websites with WordPress. Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #43 – Updates to WordPress 5 already, PHP updates and social media is news
17 december 2018 · 20 min
WP Builds Newsletter #43 - Updates WordPress 5 already, PHP updates and social media is news
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106 – With the right tools and guidance, anyone can design a great site with Mor Cohen
13 december 2018 · 55 min
This week we have Mor Cohen on from Washington State in America and she's with us because she has a new course that she's launching called "The GeneratePress and Elementor Design Course". This course is designed for people like me, and when I say that it's unlikely that you need this course as much as I do because I have the design skills of a peanut! I can see what makes a design good, and I can appreciate a good design, but I cannot seem to be able to make a good design. That stuff is hard, or so I thought. Mor thinks otherwise! Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #42 – WordPress 5.0 is out, nobody dies and Google stepping into WordPress
10 december 2018 · 20 min
WP Builds Newsletter #42 - WordPress 5.0 is out, nobody dies and Google stepping into WordPress
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105 – Rebecca Gill and her amazing life; flourishing from adversity
6 december 2018 · 48 min
This is a little bit of a departure for us today because we take a deep dive into the life of our guest - Rebecca Gill. Typically on the podcast we chat about plugins and themes and talk to developers about their ideas and their code. Not today, well not just that today! Today we listen to the story of how life has shaped Rebecca, and I can tell you that so much has happened to her that it's amazing that she's still able to get up in the morning. Many people faced with a poor start never recover from it, but others seem to be able to rise above it, they have a tenacity that enables them to keep going, to take charge of their own destiny and to flourish. Rebecca chose to flourish. Find out how... Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #41 – WordPress 5.0 RC2, Plugin vulnerabilities and FBI takes down ad fraud network
3 december 2018 · 16 min
WP Builds Newsletter #41 - WordPress 5.0 RC2, Plugin vulnerabilities and FBI takes down ad fraud network
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104 – UX… What on earth is it?
29 november 2018 · 55 min
We talk to Paul Lacey and discuss with him what UI is. Both David and I work as independent freelancers and this means that we have a process that has worked for us over time. Paul however is part of a growing agency called DickieBirds and this means that he has to think about all this more than we do. It's a wide ranging discussion which might resonate with you if you are working with WordPress to create client sites. We know that other people who are really successful follow a whole bunch of processes which makes their life easier. I don't, but Paul does, so listen in... Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #40 – WordPress Release Candidate 5.0, new blocks creator and VSCode course
26 november 2018 · 12 min
WP Builds Newsletter #40 - WordPress Release Candidate 5.0, new blocks creator and VSCode course
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103 – Adam Preiser talks about making eCommerce easy with CartFlows
22 november 2018 · 1 uur 1 min
This week on the podcast we have a man that I have no doubt that you've seen before? He's got a very popular YouTube channel called WP Crafter. It's a channel in which Adam creates videos explaining how WordPress plugins and themes work. It's really popular, like really popular. Okay so that's why you've heard of him, but it's not why he's on the podcast today. The reason that he's on is because of a new and interesting plugin that he's selling called CartFlows which is going to change the way that you do eCommerce. Find out more... Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #39 – WordPress 5.0 beta 5, GDPR plugin hack and comments in Google SERPs
19 november 2018 · 18 min
WP Builds Newsletter #39 - WordPress 5.0 beta 5, GDPR plugin hack and comments in Google SERPs
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102 – It’s time for us to quit
15 november 2018 · 44 min
We all have things in our lives that we want to quit, but we're limiting this conversation to your work as a WordPress professional and the moments in the day when you start to do things that you know that you shouldn't! Perhaps it's too much Facebook. You've set up email notifications to appear, and appear they do, with alarming regularity. Several time an hour you get pinged and go to read what you hope will be something of weight and importance. We're all guilty of it, as Mark Zuckerberg's accountant can testify. Or perhaps it's trying to keep up with the latest trends, or time wasting, or office hour or podcasting! Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #38 – WordPress 5.0 update delayed, multiple security concerns and do you earn enough?
12 november 2018 · 16 min
WP Builds Newsletter #38 - WordPress 5.0 update delayed, multiple security concerns and do you earn enough?
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101 – Matt Mullenweg… Why Gutenberg? And why now?
8 november 2018 · 1 uur 2 min
Today we welcome Matt Mullenweg on to the WP Builds podcast. Matt has been using WordPress as long as anyone else, with one exception! He is the co-founder of WordPress along with Mike Little, so he knows a thing or two. We talk about Gutenberg, why Matt thinks that we need it, and why we need it now. We go on to chat about how it's divided the WordPress community, especially from the perspective of users with accessibility needs. We finish with a discussion about how the community can reunite after this 'schism' and what Matt thinks of the recent ClassicPress fork of WordPress. Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #37 – Gutenberg accessibility updates, PHP 5 dead and Red Hat bought
5 november 2018 · 15 min
WP Builds Newsletter #37 - Gutenberg accessibility updates, PHP 5 dead and Red Hat bought
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100 – The LIVE (disaster) podcast!
1 november 2018 · 51 min
In this LIVE Webinar we celebrate the 100th episode of the WP Builds podcast! It was a bit of a technological disaster! David Waumsley and I both got kicked out of the webinar before it had started and then we in a webinar all alone for 28 minutes as the webinar tech support worked out what went wrong. Jim and David McCan held the fort until we returned - very cool! We discussed what we think are the things that will happen in WordPress over the next two years or so. It's a bit of a ramble, but I can promise you that next week we'll be back to normal!!! Who'd have thought that we'd get this far? Who cares that we did anyway! Thanks for sticking with us! Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #36 – WordPress 5.0 Beta, getting bored with WordPress and video news
29 oktober 2018 · 15 min
WP Builds Newsletter #36 - WordPress 5.0 Beta, getting bored with WordPress and video news
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99 – Help your clients to help you with a Client Portal – Laura Elizabeth explains
25 oktober 2018 · 42 min
Today, we get to meet Laura Elizabeth. She’s a designer turned plugin creator that has some good ideas for you! Like I say, she’s a designer and her latest product, Client Portal, is a great way to help you and your clients to stay on the same page. If you build WordPress websites for clients, then I think that you’ll know this problem… you get out of sync with your clients and all the communication seems to go all over the place. Some people want you to send them email, others would rather that you use Slack or Dropbox or Google Drive or some other system that you’ve never heard of! The long and the short of it is that you’ve got many clients all needing you to communicate with them in a variety of ways and Client Portal makes that process much easier! Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #35 – Twenty Nineteen close, accessibility concerns and a super fast camera
22 oktober 2018 · 16 min
WP Builds Newsletter #35 - Twenty Nineteen close, accessibility concerns and a super fast camera
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98 – Carrie Dils talks about why she loves WordPress and how you can use it
18 oktober 2018 · 48 min
There are some people that you're drawn towards aren't there? People that you like to listen to, people that you like to read about. When I started to use WordPress a few years ago, I was constantly on the lookout for people who were producing great content that I could consume to further my understanding of how WordPress worked and of how I could make it do what I wanted it to do.I'm sure that you have your list of people who fill this criteria, the people that you want to listen to and read about? Carrie Dils is one of those people for me. She's be creating content in the WordPress space for ages and not just that, she's been producing a whole load of different forms of content. Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #34 – Help needed with Gutenberg, Elementor adds Custom Fields integrations and DuckDuckGo on the rise
15 oktober 2018 · 18 min
WP Builds Newsletter #34 - Help needed with Gutenberg, Elementor adds Cusomt Fields integrations and DuckDuckGo on the rise
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97 – What is cold calling and should I be doing it with Jim Galiano?
11 oktober 2018 · 55 min
I don't know you, but I know for an absolute fact that I'm hopeless at marketing. I'm not very good at it and it find it really hard to do, or to get excited about. It's a something that I've struggled with for a long time. I'm lucky in that I have enough work (right now) to keep me going and it comes my way largely through word of mouth. Because I'm a study in mediocrity, this is fine by me; I have not needed to market too much to keep my head above the water. But I'm hoping that you're not as satisfied with mediocre, as I am - you're a get-up-and-got type aren't you? You want more out of life than I do? Well guess what, you're going to have to market yourself in order to get, because you can be sure that competitors will. Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #33 – Gutenberg release date, WordCamp Europe and Google pay Apple a lot of dollars
8 oktober 2018 · 15 min
WP Builds Newsletter #33 - Gutenberg release date, WordCamp Europe and Google pay Apple a lot of dollars
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96 – Show me my data! Query Wrangler with Jonathan Daggerhart
4 oktober 2018 · 52 min
If you’re a regular listener to the podcast then you’ll know that I was once a heavy user of Drupal. The reason for this is simple, Drupal is really rather awesome. I know that this is a WordPress podcast, but there’s just no denying it; Drupal does heaps and heaps of stuff really well, and dare I say it… sometimes better than WordPress does! Okay, now you can put those pitchforks away, ‘cos I’m not trying to convert you over to Drupal, because, after all, I left and don’t use it anymore. Drupal has a module (aka plugin) called Views, and I’m not exaggerating to say that it’s very very very cool indeed. When I came to WordPress, I could not understand why there was nothing like Views. Something that you could point, and click at and get data out. Until I discovered Query Wrangler by Jonathan Daggerhart... Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #32 – Gutenberg 4.0, PHP 7.3 and 50m Facebook accounts hacked
1 oktober 2018 · 13 min
WP Builds Newsletter #32 - Gutenberg 4.0, PHP 7.3 and 50m Facebook accounts hacked
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95 – What we do when a client asks for something we’ve never done before
27 september 2018 · 40 min
In this episode, we return to the ‘good old days’ in which David and myself just used to drone on and on! We decided that we had not done nearly enough droning recently, and so… I give you episode 95! We go over our thoughts about how we cope when a client asks us to do something that is completely new to us. I’m guessing that we’ve all been in that meeting, or been on that call when you realise that the client is asking for something that you don’t know that you can pull out of that WordPress hat that you’ve been wearing. Perhaps it’s something that you know can be done, but you know that you’re not able to do it. Or maybe it’s something that you simply cannot understand and don’t even know where to start. Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #31 – Gutenberg Cloud, WPForms buys forms plugin and robots on asteriods
24 september 2018 · 15 min
WP Builds Newsletter #31 - Gutenberg Cloud, WPForms buys forms plugin and robots on asteriods
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94 – How to use WP Ultimo to create your own Multisite network with Arindo Duque
20 september 2018 · 55 min
I've often pondered the idea of setting up some kind of SaaS product, something that I could build and then turn it over to the public and they would be able to purchase it from me on a monthly basis. I think that when people do this with WordPress it's called WaaS. Is that right? Well, one of the things that I've always wanted to do was to set up a system where clients could sign up to a monthly / annual website plan, pick a theme that they liked, pay and it would all be automated - done for them (and me) as if by magic. Arindo Duque has built such a thing and, honestly, it's a little gem that you ought to explore if this idea has ever tempted you too. Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #30 – WordPress 4.9.9, Gutenberg updates and the world’s oldest cheese
17 september 2018 · 17 min
WP Builds Newsletter #30 - WordPress 4.9.9, Gutenberg updates and the world's oldest cheese
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93 – What makes a successful proposal with Adam Hempenstall
13 september 2018 · 59 min
I’m not that keen on writing. It’s one of the things that we all have to do, but it’s not my greatest strength as you can tell if you are reading this. What I dislike more than just writing though is writing proposals for prospective clients. I don’t like it because I’m not very good at getting my points across all that succinctly and I find it hard to get into the ‘style’ that I need to adopt to make it have a fighting chance of being read and accepted. Well, don’t you love living in the age of the internet where there is an online service for just about everything that you could possibly need in life? Adam Hempenstall discovered that there were people like me all over the planet; people who needed to hand writing their proposals. Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #29 – New vunerabilites, Drupal Elementor and significant Chrome updates
10 september 2018 · 14 min
WP Builds Newsletter #29 - New vunerabilites, Drupal Elementor and significant Chrome updates
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92 – Do higher prices mean better clients?
6 september 2018 · 36 min
We have a 'special guest' called Paul Lacey from Dickie Birds to discuss the always relevant subject of pricing, and more specifically do better paying clients mean 'better' clients? We all know that the answer is, annoyingly, sometimes, it all depends and maybe! Ha! There's no guarantee that, just because someone has deep pockets, they are going to fun to work with. Sometimes the fact that a client is paying more for your WordPress products and services means that you have more 'bandwidth' to absorb the many problems that arise during your website build, but equally, clients that have very tight budgets can be very demanding of your time and have expectations far above what their wallet will realistically allow! Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #28 – Long live the Classic Editor, Gutenberg updates and AI taking our jobs
3 september 2018 · 13 min
WP Builds Newsletter #28 - Long live the Classic Editor, Gutenberg updates and AI taking our jobs
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91 – FacetWP filtering for your site with Matt Gibbs
30 augustus 2018 · 58 min
Right, so we know that WordPress is pretty cool don't we? Glad that we got that straight. It does heaps of things really, really well, but honestly, it's got limitations! That's why we have plugins! A few years ago I needed to build a site for an estate agent (realtor for you folk over in North America I think). This site needed the ability to show a list of properties on the market, but the client wanted the users of the site to be able to filter the list of properties so that only the ones that matched their criteria were shown to them. So... houses under £300k, with a garage.... Well, trying to pull that off in WordPress is jolly hard, but thankfully Matt Gibbs got there before you! He's created a plugin called Facet WP which is the answer to all your filtering prayers (you do have filtering prayers don't you)! Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #27 – ClassicPress fork, multisite media library and cPanel acquired
27 augustus 2018 · 15 min
WP Builds Newsletter #27 - ClassicPress fork, multisite media library and cPanel acquired
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90 – Gutenberg – Let’s have a Block Party with Eric Debelak
23 augustus 2018 · 1 uur 4 min
This week we have Eric Debelak on the podcast talking about... what else... Gutenberg! Eric is a bit of a fan of Gutenberg. So much so in fact that he's spent quite a bit of time working on a project specifically for Gutenberg. It's called WPBlocks.Party! Seeing as how the WordPress community is full of clever people, those same clever people (like Eric) decided that it would be very nice to have more than just the standard set of blocks that Gutenberg comes with. We need more than just text and images and videos in a modern platform don't we? Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #26 – Yoast and Gutenberg updates, WP growth fund and space news
20 augustus 2018 · 14 min
WP Builds Newsletter #26 - Yoast and Gutenberg updates, WP growth fund and space news
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89 – How to really connect with your clients with Erin Flynn
16 augustus 2018 · 1 uur 6 min
I'm not very good in the real world! Get me away from my little office and my screens and I'm all 'out-at-sea'! I have to suddenly communicate with people and interact; I cannot click a button and get an expected response from other people. People, unlike code, are just so darn unpredictable. They do what they want and have hidden thoughts and expectations. If you've been building websites for clients for any length of time, you'll know that your clients can be your best friend and your worse nightmare. They want things they didn't communicate to you. So it goes! Erin Flynn is here to help you sort this mess out. Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #25 – Gutenberg updates, ACF blocks and Drupal gets Gutenberg
13 augustus 2018 · 15 min
WP Builds Newsletter #25 - Gutenberg updates, ACF blocks update and Drupal gets Gutenberg
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88 – Lightening fast static WordPress hosting with Daniel Olson
9 augustus 2018 · 1 uur 15 min
I really like it when you talk to someone that has done a variety of things in the internet / WordPress space. Daniel Olson is a man that fits that description, as you're about to find out! He's got a whole heap of fin stuff going on which we talk about in depth, but the 'long story short' is that he's an AWS (Amazon Web Services) expert. If you did not know, AWS is the ridiculously large suite of tools that Amazon has built to make anything possible on the internet. Daniel leverages all that AWS goodness to build products that you might want to use for your WordPress business. For a start he has not one, but two hosting products that you might want to check out, Aminoto and Shifter... Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #24 – Gutenberg news bonanza, good things from Envato and a free image repo!
6 augustus 2018 · 13 min
WP Builds Newsletter #24 - Gutenberg news bonanza, good things from Envato and a free image repo!
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87 – Could Plutio be your all in one business software?
2 augustus 2018 · 48 min
If you listen to this podcast with any regularity then you'll know that I'm (Nathan) a sucker for a new app. Mostly I hear about a new app, signup for a trial and play with it for a few days. Sometimes, although rarely, I continue to use the app and pay for it. Such is the case with Plutio. It's a SaaS app that I've been using for a few months now because I just like it so much. I also like the founder, Leo Bassam, the guest on this week's podcast. I like the app because it replaces quite a few apps that I was using in the past, and I like Leo because he's just so positive about Plutio. The app does tasks, invoices, proposals, timesheets, client management and more. Go check it out... Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #23 – Try Gutenberg, The Fields API needs help, and water on Mars
30 juli 2018 · 10 min
WP Builds Newsletter #23 - Try Gutenberg, The Fields API needs help, and water on Mars
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86 – Keeping your work organised inside WordPress with Corey Maass
26 juli 2018 · 1 uur 14 min
Modern life is busy! You don't need me to tell you that though do you? If you're anything like me then you have a hard time keeping up with all the myriad things that you need to do. It's not just work, it's everything! Well it turns out that people have been busy and struggling to keep up with their tasks for a long time, and it was the Japanese who decided that the world needed a solution - Kanban. Corey is a big fan of Kanban and, being a WordPress developer, he wanted a Kanban solution that he could use for his day to day work. So he built Kanban for WordPress. Listen to find out more... Lees meer
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WP Builds Newsletter #22 – WordPress 4.9.8 improvements, UI fun and weird divs
23 juli 2018 · 11 min
WP Builds Newsletter #22 - WordPress 4.9.8 improvements, UI fun and weird divs
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85 – Create a turnkey website business with WordPress… Matthew Rodela did
19 juli 2018 · 1 uur 4 min
We've all had that dream... Create a platform that you can set free unto the world. A platform that will allow you to gather new customers who would like to use your product, even though they've never talked to you before. A platform that will automate all the things so that you can sit on a beach drinking expensive cocktails and... erm... you get the (somewhat exaggerated) idea! Seriously though. How many times have you thought about leveraging WordPress so that it could be used a platform that could automate your website building business? I know that I have. Unlike you and I, Matthew Rodela stuck at it and has managed to create a business which pretty much automates the creation of websites and his customer base. He's leveraging that well known but under explored feature of WordPress - Multisite. Lees meer