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
One the more challenging things to do when creating a website is to write effective copy. In the era of Page Builders, getting the site to look good and work well is easier than ever… but getting effective and compelling copy on your site is as hard as it’s ever been. In fact, with the…
This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 15th November 2021
We could have tried to eke this one out. According to one online crossword solver there are 378 Words Starting With X, but I imagine X for xeroxed – how to copy your WP website, might be going too far! So we just decided to end with a pathetic whimper! (We should have had a…
This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 8th November 2021 Another week, and we’re bringing you the latest WordPress news from the last seven days, including… Pagely has been bought by GoDaddy – what does this mean? WP Builds has released a silly version of the WordPress Awards for 2021, please donate to…
So perhaps you’re really into writing. You live and breathe it. You wake up in the morning and can’t wait to get out the laptop and start bashing away. The ideas flow out of you all the time; never ending. You’re like a tap fully turned on. Mmm. This is not you though is it….
This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 1st November 2021
Writing is such a complex process. When we started to think about this topic, we thought that it would be really straightforward, but after some reflection, it turns out that there’s a lot to say. Are you writing for yourself, for prose, for business, for a third party? Your relationship with that writing will be…
This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 25th October 2021
So… you build WordPress websites and you love it. You know what you don’t love? Policies. Admit it, you don’t do you? The last thing that you want to be spending your time on is ensuring that you’ve got all your websites, and those of your clients, up-to-date with the latest policies. The reason for…
It was going to be V for Virus, but we have probably had enough of the word right now, and vulnerabilities perhaps better describes what we are really talking about here – WordPress security. This is where we are different and roles are reversed. Nathan listens to podcasts on IT security and sees the worst…
This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 4th October 2021
So you have a WordPress website and it’s all built and handed over to the client. You’re done! Hurrah! Wait a minute, you’re not done are you? Chances are that you’ve used some simple tools for uptime monitoring. You know what I mean. The kind of tools that periodically ping your website and report back…
This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing 27th September 2021
This is about common WordPress mistakes and how to get out of a pickle if things go wrong. With all the plugins, themes and community work in WordPress, it’s often surprising that any of it hangs together, and that WordPress websites even work at all… (even more so since the Gutenberg Project says David!). Yet,…
This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 20th September 2021
