The Future of Payment for WooCommerce Sites
David and Robert have a lively discussion around payments, hosting and WooCommerce.
Episode 247: Reviews and More Reviews
In this episode, Rob Cairns talks to Ryan Waterbury about reviews for small businesses. Show Highlights: Why reviews matter? How to read reviews. What to do about bad reviews. What do do about negative reviews
Patchstack Weekly – What is CSV Injection?
CSV injection occurs when websites generate CSV files and include untrusted user input within them. I’ll explain why this is dangerous, and how you can protect your site against it. This week’s vulnerability news will be brief – I will highlight 3 plugins with WordPress Options Update vulnerabilities (2 of which require no authentication). Each…
Demystifying WordPress Tech: Where can curiosity take you?
In this episode, the team talks about how they got into WordPress, coding, and technology, and they ask some deeper questions about the difference between technical and non-technical people. Is WordPress too technical for some people? Can agency and freelancers can help their clients succeed by encouraging them to try to break their sites? How…
WooCommerce Tutorials and an End of an Era
Awhile back I made the decision to not write anymore tutorials. Now I have taken that a step further and deleted all past tutorials.
Hosting Realities and WooCommerce Best Practices for Agencies
Daugirdas Jankus from Hostinger shares a bit of hosting history, thoughts on WooCommerce and the challenges that come with it.
How Did the Pandemic Affect WordPress Contributors?
Contributors are the life blood of open source projects, and WordPress is no different. When the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic made it difficult for people to contribute, how was the project affected? How and where did our structures and processes change and evolve to match this challenge? Press the Issue was sponsored by LearnDash. Your expertise…
WordCamps Moving Forward
Robert and Milan sit down for a friendly chat about WordCamp Europe and the future of WordCamps.
Episode 246: Care About Others
In this podcast, Rob Cairns talks about the state of the world. Show Highlights: The state of the world. What is wrong with today. Why you need to care about others.
Smooth Deployment and CI Pipelines for WordPress Teams
Integration, testing and deployment. An in-depth developer chat on WordPress and WooCommerce.
Patchstack Weekly – Interview with Rotem Bar
Rotem Bar works at Cider Security as Head of Marketplace Integrations and has been working in the security field for 20 years. Back in February he found an Unauthenticated DOM-based Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in Elementor and reported it through the Patchstack Alliance. If the bug’s name sounds confusing, convoluted, and complicated, don’t worry –…
A WordPress SEO Discussion on Strategy and Tactics
Ronald was able to have a short chat with Marieke about some Woo SEO and a bit of an inside look at how Yoast keeps things running internally.
Episode 245: Talking Privacy Policies and Terrmageddon
Rob Cairns talks to Hans and Donata Skillrud about privacy policies and Termageddon. Show Highlights: Why privacy policies matter. GDPR, California and Canada. Why you must have a privacy policy. What is Terrmageddon?
Pondering a WooCommerce Conference IRL
It’s been several years since WooCommerce had their last WooConf, aside from the fact of Covid. Is it time again? What would that look like?
Episode 244: Not Auto WordPress Updates Please
In this podcast, Rob Cairns talks about why we should no do auto updates in WordPress. Show Highlights: Automattic forced a Ninja Forms Update. Why auto updates are a bad idea. Always backup before doing updates.