This Week in WordPress #231
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 14th November 2022.
304 – Steve Burge on running PublishPress and buying other plugins
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…
This Week in WordPress #230
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 7th November 2022.
303 – Monitoring websites for clients
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…
This Week in WordPress #229
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 31st October 2022.
302 – Eric Karkovack on the merits of canonical plugins in WordPress
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…
This Week in WordPress #228
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 24th October 2022.
301 – Maintenance
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…
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.