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
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…
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 3rd October 2022.
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…
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 26th September 2022.
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…
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 19th September 2022.
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…
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 12th September 2022.
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…
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…
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…
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 15th August 2022.
On the podcast today we have WPCodeBox plugin developer Ovidiu Maghetiu, and he’s here to explain how it works and what it can do, and it can do… a lot! WPCodeBox is turning out to be one of those plugins that you know that you’re going to use for years to come. What I really…
The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 8th August 2022.
So the moment has arrived. You’ve busted a jut and got the website finished. It’s 100% ready to roll. Now what? Well, you’ve got to launch it and let the world see the great work that you’ve done! So what’s involved in that? What do you typically need to do to make that happen? This…
