This Week in WordPress #199
This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 28th February 2022
268 – What is the HeroPress Network with Cate and Topher DeRosia
WP Builds is all about the WordPress community, but we’re not alone in that. There are many places that you can hang out to find out what’s going on, news updates, product launches and stories about members of the community. HeroPress is one such place, and it’s been putting out great content about members of…
267 – Where’s the next client coming from? – Series 1 / Episode 6
To stay in business, you need to keep working. That usually means more clients. But where does this never ending conveyor belt of clients come from? What can you do to avoid gaps in your work roster? There’s no magic bullet, and likely there’s disappointment along the way. But you’ll get into a pattern of…
This Week in WordPress #197
This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 14th 2022
266 – Why do people hack websites? With Robert Abela
So today we’re talking about security, but not what you might expect. This episode is not about the features which are in a WordPress security plugin. This is about the very nature of hacking and the issues that face us all online. What do people do hacking at all? It’s a pretty reasonable question! It’s…
This Week in WordPress #196
This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 7th February 2022
265 – Have we set the right expectation? – Series 1 / Episode 5
Welcome to another in our Business Bootcamp series. It’s the series where we relearn everything we know about building WordPress sites, and running a web design business from start to finish. Presently, we are on Season 1 (where we look at what needs to happen) before the build. Have we set the right expectation? Nathan…
This Week in WordPress #195
This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 31st January 2022
264 – Automate all your workflows with Buddy Works
So this is one of those episodes where you might learn something completely new. Buddy Works (often just called Buddy) is a great tool for saving you some real time, and who does not want more time? Think Zapier, but for all-the-things related to web development. So there’s a ton of different things that you…
This Week in WordPress #194
This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing 24th January 2021
263 – Agreements / contracts and payments – Series 1 / Episode 4
Welcome to another in our Business Bootcamp series. It’s the series where we relearn everything we know about building WordPress sites, and running a web design business from start to finish. Today we’re thinking about the legal side of things… agreements / contracts and payments. How would you handle this as someone new to the…
This Week in WordPress #193
This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 10th January 2022
262 – Online summits, attendee and speaker expectations
The back story goes like this. I (Nathan) co-host the Page Builder Summit with my friend Anchen le Roux. We invite a range of speakers to come onto that podcast and create presentations which, it is hoped, the attendees will enjoy. We do not pay the speakers for their contributions. We make this very clear…
This Week in WordPress #192
This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 10th January 2022
261 – Getting a brief and scoping the project. WordPress Business Bootcamp – Series 1 / Episode 3
Welcome to another in the WordPress Business Bootcamp series. It’s the series where we relearn everything we know about building WordPress sites and running a web design business from start to finish. Presently, we are on Season 01 (of the series which is looking at the things that need to happen) ‘Before the Build’. This…