This Week in WordPress #227
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 17th October 2022.
300 – Rethink what WooCommerce Subscriptions can do with the Subscription Force plugin
It’s no secret that the world is adopting the model of subscription pricing. If you’re my age, then you remember a time when almost nothing was based upon subscriptions. The technology simply made it impractical; there were no credit cards, the internet did not exist, and you just didn’t see examples around you. Fast forward…
This Week in WordPress #226
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 10th October 2022.
299 – When the client turns web designer (although we hardly talk about that)
With all these no code options, do you find your clients are becoming experts and no longer needing you? We try (and fail) to talk about this today and end up going on about JAMStack instead! It’s a serious point though. Page Builders and Gutenberg have opened up the website creation process to a whole…
This Week in WordPress #225
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 3rd October 2022.
298 – Make your website voice enabled, with Convoworks
So voice enabled home are now a thing. It’s pretty likely that if you don’t have a voice enabled device now, you will at some point in the near future. You speak, and they respond. It’s pretty cool. But you might have noticed that there are limits to what they can do, and there are…
This Week in WordPress #224
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 26th September 2022.
297 – Dealing with changing staff and new management
What happens when your client suddenly has new staff members that you need to interact with? It might be a really smooth transition with nothing to worry about, but it might not. Old relationships may need to be rebuilt, and common understandings and goals about the website might need to be reworked. It’s even possible…
This Week in WordPress #223
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 19th September 2022.
296 – Gutenberg, FSE, Block Themes (Variants), Blocks, Rich Tabor on the whole lot
So if you’ve kept up with the latest developments in WordPress then you’ll have heard the words / phrases ‘Gutenberg’, ‘FSE’, ‘Block Themes’, ‘Blocks’ and a lot more. You’ll also likely have heard of our guest on the podcast today, Rich Tabor. He’s been in the WordPress space for many years working in the theme…
This Week in WordPress #222
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 12th September 2022.
295 – Website documentation and support
Welcome to another in the Business Bootcamp series where we relearn everything we know about building WordPress sites, and running a web design business from start to finish. We are on Season 4 which is a short season looking at training clients. Today we are talking about website documentation and support. When we hand over…
294 – How might we fix the WordPress notifications problem?
If you’ve used WordPress for any length of time and use plugins, it’s highly likely that you’ve seen notifications in the backend which you did not expect. Perhaps they were ads, or upsells for things which are already installed. WordPress notifications serve a purpose. They are there for a very good reason, to notify you…
293 – Understanding the client’s training needs
Welcome to another in the Business Bootcamp series where we relearn everything we know about building WordPress sites, and running a web design business from start to finish. We are taking contrasting approaches to getting our new businesses running and our first client’s site built. Today we’re talking about what you, or don’t do when…
This Week in WordPress #221
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 15th August 2022.