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
Welcome to the penultimate episode in our Business Bootcamp series. Usually, this is where I write… “where we relearn everything we know about building WordPress sites and running a web design business from start to finish”. But if you are joining us now, you probably need to go back a year to season one! We…
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 12th December 2022.
So we have Katie Keith on the podcast today to talk about what they’re doing over at Barn2 plugins. First off, we tackle the history of the company, and importantly, why they have such a peculiar name! We then get into their journey into the WooCommerce space and how that’s enabled them to grow into…
So you’re in the business of selling WordPress websites? If you are in that business, then I can guarantee you that there’s more money to be made than just getting the site done and then moving on. Today it’s all about the upsells that we might offer. We go through a list of things that…
So in the last episode of the WP Builds podcast we were talking about how WordPress hosting has changed. Today it feels like more of the same. Kinsta has been offering managed WordPress hosting for years, and has built up a good business on top of the world’s most popular CMS. Well, time and tide…
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 21st November 2022.
Welcome to another in the Business Bootcamp series where we relearn everything we know about building WP sites and running a web design business from start to finish. Today we’re talking about the way that hosting has changed over the years. In much the same way that you look at a website from 1999 and…
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 14th November 2022.
I love a good story, and that’s what we’ve got for you today. It’s Steve Burge from PublishPress. Steve’s had a long history working with open source software, and, as you’ll hear, he’s not going anywhere. The conversation kicks off with a bit of background about Steve. We talk about his journey with a whole…
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 7th November 2022.
Welcome to another in the Business Bootcamp series where we relearn everything we know about building WP sites and running a web design business from start to finish. Today we are talking about ‘Monitoring websites for clients’. Relationships with clients after a traditional project rarely end with the site going live. Those who take an…
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 31st October 2022.
On the podcast today we have Eric Karkovack. He’s been in the WordPress space for ages and contributes in a whole variety of ways. I’ve been wanting to get him on the show for ages, but our calendars kept colliding, until today! We talk about two, not related, subjects. The first is WebP images, and…
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 24th October 2022.
We all do maintenance for our WordPress website clients, right? But what do you cover and what does a client expect? That’s the basis of the podcast today… There are many things that you ‘could’ cover, but many things that perhaps don’t want to. Perhaps you know that you’re not a security expert, or that…
