This Week in WordPress #184
This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 1st November 2021
253 – ‘W’ is for Writing
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 in WordPress #183
This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 25th October 2021
252 – Let someone else take care of your website policies
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…
251 – ‘V’ is for Vulnerabilities
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 in WordPress #182
This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 4th October 2021
250 – Automated website testing with Ghost Inspector
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 in WordPress #181
This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing 27th September 2021
249 – ‘U’ is for Undo
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 in WordPress #180
This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 20th September 2021
248 – How Gravity Hopper will take care of all your Gravity Forms
So on the podcast today we have Joshua Vandercar from Gravity Hopper which is a plug that allows you to have a central dashboard for all your Gravity Forms. Joshua is employed by Rocket Genius, the developers of Gravity Forms, so he knows a thing or two about how it all works! The idea is…
247 – ‘T’ is for Themes
WordPress themes are crucial, you have to have one, but will they continue to be so in an era of Full Site Editing? We talk on the podcast today about the WordPress themes that we’ve used over the years. Starting out by being beguiled by themes which could do all-the-things, then moving towards theme frameworks…
This Week in WordPress #178
This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing 6th September 2021
246 – Building your own social network with the Friends plugin
So you love Facebook and you hate Facebook, you love Twitter and you hate Twitter. You love… You get the idea! If you’re anything like me you have at times questioned how much time you’ve spent trawling through social media. You may even be worried about how much data they’ve been gathering about you, or…
This Week in WordPress #177
This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing 30th August 2021