Web site building with WordPress. In this podcast we follow the hopeless exploits of David Waumsley and Nathan Wrigley as they try, and fail, to understand WordPress.
They know that they love building websites with WordPress, but the complexities of this awesome web building solution are always out of reach.
Not only are they not clever enough, but they just don't try all that hard
On the podcast today we have Vova Feldman, the founder of Freemius. Vova is an entrepreneur with a passion for software development. He was introduced to WordPress by accident. While working as a software developer in the Israeli intelligence and doing startups on the side, Vova created a SaaS product as a hobby. People started…
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 3rd July 2023.
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…
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 3rd July 2023.
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,…
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 19th June 2023.
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…
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 12th June 2023.
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…
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…
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…
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 15th May 2023
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)….
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 8th May 2023.
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….
