107 – Five Reasons Your Site Loads Slowly
In today’s episode, I share a resource for checking how quickly your website loads and point out five different things that cause some websites to load slower than they should.
Andrea Rennick customer advocate at Copyblogger on building a community in WordPress
What makes a support team, business, or community successful? Someone with awesome drive, who communicates well, and genuinely cares about the customer. That’s just a small part of what makes Andrea Rennick rock at her job at Copyblogger Media. I want you to watch or listen to this interview (because we had some technical difficulties half way…
EP13 – “WordPress Ecommerce Plugins” – WPwatercooler – December 17 2012
WordPress Ecommerce Plugins – Today we are joined with Sé Reed, Chris Lema, Wes Chyrchel, Scott Bolinger, Dave Jesch and our host Jason Tucker Holy War of E-Commerce Plugins WooCommerce and Shopp Sé did a 4 hour conference on Shopp, she had previous issues with it and learned quite a bit from this talk. Her fave…
106 – How to Teach Someone WordPress
Learn about the brand new version of WordPress along with new plugin favorites area, plus I share how I teach my clients to use WordPress.
Tom McFarlin: How to make a living and find success using WordPress
Some of us love what we do and some of us do not. Tom McFarlin joined me to talk about building his WordPress freelance career. He’s a partner at 8bit and co-creator of The Standard Theme. He works with a wide range of clients and considers himself successful in doing so. It’s not because of…
EP12 – “Mobile Responsive WordPress” – WPwatercooler – December 10 2012
Mobile Responsive WordPress – Today we are joined with Suzette Franck, Elizabeth Shilling, Patrick Raul, Jon Brown, Dave Jesch, Steve Zehngut, Cody Landefeld, Wes Chyrchel, Chris Lema and Jason Tucker. Jon goes in to explain how responsive and mobile are different. Elizabeth mentions that a lot people use their sites as mobile. Jon wants the difference between…
105 – How to Charge for Maintenance of a WordPress Website
In today’s episode, learn how to charge your customers for the maintenance of their WordPress websites. I also spend time talking about my week of being disconnected from the grid.
EP11 – “WordPress 3.5” – WPwatercooler – December 3 2012
This week we are discussing WordPress 3.5 with Sé Reed, Suzette Franck, Gregg Franklin, Austin Gunter, Patrick Rauland, Steve Zehngut and our host Jason Tucker See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Launching a SaaS product using WordPress with Brian Casel
Making money while you sleep is awesome. Making money while you sleep using WordPress is even better. Meet Brian Casel of CasJam Media. In episode #3 of The Matt Report, Brian and I discuss the life of a freelancer transitioning into a solo entrepreneur with a software as a service product. Brian built his product…
104 – Become a Full-Time Freelance Developer
This week, I have an inspiring story to share. Join us to hear Chad Warner is slowly phasing out of his “real job” into a full-time freelancer.
EP10 – “Theme Frameworks” – WPwatercooler – November 26 2012
This week’s we will be discussing WordPress Theme Frameworks. Dave Jesch – http://www.davejesch.com Patrick Rauland – http://www.speakinginbytes.com Sé Reed – http://www.sereedmedia.com Steve Zehngut – http://www.zeek.com Gregg Franklin – http://www.greggfranklin.com/ Jason Tucker – http://www.tucker.pro Chris brings up WPMU reviews, Chris Lema’s site, chrislema.com, and Clifford Paulick has two in depth articles regarding frameworks. Jason asks for Chris’s favorite frameworks. Chris mentions which frameworks he likes: Catalyst, WooFramework…
103 – A Website Developer’s Nightmare: Passwords
In today’s episode, I share two new tools and my strategy for setting up new accounts for your friends or website clients.
EP9 – “Show and Tell” – WPwatercooler – November 19 2012
Today’s discussion is a loose format Show and Tell. Dave Jesch – http://www.davejesch.com Patrick Rauland – http://www.speakinginbytes.com Sé Reed – http://www.sereedmedia.com Steve Zehngut – http://www.zeek.com Jason Tucker – http://www.tucker.pro Jason talks about a plugin called “SimpleMap Store Locator” that does multi store locator using Google Maps. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-map/ Patrick Rauland talks about “Limit Widgets” that limits…
How to become a better freelancer and find the right clients with WordPress developer Curtis McHale.
I had the chance to interview one of my favorite WordPress personas on Twitter Curtis McHale. I’ve been following Curtis for a while and just love the type of content he puts out. If you make a career out of using WordPress or a Freelancer in general you should read his blog and follow him…
102 – WordPress Custom Post Types
Hear my reviews on the WordPress iPad app, understand the benefit of using Google Libraries and see the benefits of using custom post types.