This Week in WordPress #260
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 3rd July 2023.
333 – No one cares what your website looks like!
It is the 11th episode of our “Thinking the Unthinkable” series, and today’s thought provoking title is “No one cares what your website looks like!”. There’s a number of articles with this title and similar sentiment expressed by many UX designers and SEO’s. With limited ways to judge the abilities of a web agency, many clients…
This Week in WordPress #259
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 3rd July 2023.
332 – Transitioning from clients to products in WordPress
On the podcast today we have a lovely conversation with Derek Ashauer. He’s been working with WordPress for many years, and has gone through a few changes during that time. I suspect that many of you will really identify with this podcast. The idea that you’re a web developer, plugin / theme / block author,…
This Week in WordPress #258
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 19th June 2023.
331 – Why pay full price when we have GPL clubs?
This is the 10th episode of our “Thinking the Unthinkable” series and today’s thoroughly unsavoury thought is “Why pay full price when we have GPL clubs?”. I think to put things in perspective we need a bit of history. We tend to think of GPL clubs as a bit shady, but you could also argue…
This Week in WordPress #257
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 12th June 2023.
330 – Get lots for free with Maxi Blocks
On the podcast we have Christiaan Pieterse from Maxi Blocks. If you’ve ever dug into WordPress block packs / suites then it’s quite likely that what you’re going to hear about Maxi Blocks today will be quite familiar, except one important thing – the pricing model. More on that in a minute. Maxi Blocks has…
329 – Thinking the unthinkable (TTUT). Episode 9: WordPress is too expensive
This is the 9th episode of our “Thinking the Unthinkable” series and today’s unpalatable thought is… WordPress is too expensive? We can dismiss this as insane ramblings straightway? It’s free! But, it can be expensive to do anything out of the ordinary, although Site Editing is changing that! Is WordPress a trap for the naive…
328 – What to do when you begin to think that you’re splitting up with WordPress
Today on the podcast we have Arnas Donauskas, who is a Product Owner at Hostinger. He’s on the show to talk about something that I’m sure that we’ve all felt before… that feeling of not being sure that WordPress is the project that it once was, that the future is not what you’d like, and…
This Week in WordPress #253
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 15th May 2023
327 – Thinking the unthinkable (TTUT). Episode 8: Is open source a liability?
On this 8th episode of “Thinking the Unthinkable” we are asking “is ‘open source’ a liability? This was prompted by a 2021 incident. A zero-day attack called Log4Shell that affected major players like Microsoft and Cloudflare. It’s a chat about risk assessment really. Lots of levels with WordPress’ LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, PHP and MySQL)….
This Week in WordPress #252
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 8th May 2023.
326 – James Giroux on workplace culture, team dynamics and leadership in WordPress companies
On the podcast today we have James Giroux and he’s here to talk about a new project that he’s set up called TeamWP. It’s all about workplace culture, team dynamics and leadership in WordPress companies. We open up the conversation with a lengthy chat about the rich history that James has in the WordPress space….
This Week in WordPress #251
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 1st May 2023.