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
So, there’s no denying that WordPress Page Builders have taken the community by storm over the last decade. Whether you use them or not, they’re popular, and dare I say it, used on more WordPress sites than site not using a Page Builder? But, as the title of this episode says, are they the scourge…
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 27th February 2023.
Some of us love working with CSS. It’s fun, pretty easy to learn, and gets the job done. Others… not so much. It’s boring, hard to master, and you end up doing things incorrectly all the time! Over the years, there’s been many attempts to make CSS easier to write and work with… literally dozens….
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 20th February 2023.
We asked ChatGPT the question “could artificial intelligence (A.I.) kill the web design industry?”. This is what we got back… “It is unlikely that artificial intelligence (A.I.) will completely kill the web design industry. While A.I. and automation tools may be able to handle certain aspects of web design, it is unlikely that they will…
The WordPress news from the last week which began Monday 6th February 2023.
So this is all about AI, so buckle up as it’s all the hotness! It’s not the usual AI hotness though, because this podcast is not about ChatGPT and how it’ll likely break the world. No, this is about how you can use AI to create works of art for your WordPress website, or for…
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 30th January 2023.
Welcome to the very first episode in our sparkling new series that we are calling “Thinking the Unthinkable”, or TUTT for short, which I quite like! Here we challenge ourselves to answer (or at least rationalise) provocative statements or critical opinions of WordPress and our glorious website building profession. We are gently easing ourselves in…
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 23rd January 2022.
On the podcast today we have Zach Swinehart in the second of an, unexpectedly, two-part episode. We talked for so long that I decided it was best as two episodes instead of a really long single episode. You really need to listen to episode 310 of the podcast before this one, so go do that…
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 16th January 2023.
Welcome to the last episode (sigh) in our Business Bootcamp series. Over the last year, we have been attempting to question everything we know about building WordPress sites and running a web design businesses. We looked at the entire process, from meeting our first client to helping them to support their site. We’ve tried to contrast approaches…
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 9th January 2022.
On the podcast today we have Zach Swinehart in the first of an (unexpectedly) two-part episode. We talked for so long that I decided it was best as two episodes instead of a really long single episode. “Productivity hacks” feel a bit like snake oil to me at this point. We’ve all heard a million…
