This Week in WordPress #160
This week’s WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 19th April 2021
226 – ‘I’ is for Images
The web is made up of Pictures and Words. Some of those pictures are moving (video), but it’s basically just those two things. We have easy ways to deal with putting photos and other kinds of images onto our WordPress websites with the features that are baked in, but there’s so much more to this…
This Week in WordPress #159
This week’s WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 12th April 2021
225 – Send amazing curated newsletters with Curated
Having a newsletter is one of the best ways that you can communicate with an audience. In fact, I’d go as far as to say, that it’s the best. There’s no third-party platform involved. You are communicating with people who have signed up, and therefore really want to get your content. But, it can be…
This Week in WordPress #158
This week’s WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 5th April 2021
224 – ‘H’ is for Health
Today on the WP Builds podcast we’re talking about health. Not your health, but the health of the WordPress sites you build or manage. Turns out that there’s a boatload of things that need to be done regularly to keep your sites fighting fit. From backing them up to monitoring their uptime. Checking that they’re…
223 – How we built the WP Buffs business
WP Buffs has been a company on the rise for several years now. I’m sure that you’ve seen some of their content and perhaps listened to their podcast or attended their WPMMR summit? The podcast today is all about how you can grow a ‘side gig’ business into a thriving business by creating engaging content…
This Week in WordPress #156
This week’s WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 22nd March 2021
222 – ‘G’ is for Gutenberg
Gutenberg is here to stay, and love it or hate it, it’s going to be a feature of WordPress for years to come. On the podcast today David and Nathan discuss Gutenberg and what they think of it. It’s certainly getting better over time, and as a pure text editing tool, it’s now pretty great….
This Week in WordPress #155
This week’s WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 15th March 2021
221 – Stream Live with WordPress and WP Livestream
So it might have passed you by, but now we can (and apparently do) all create our own T.V. channels! Services like YouTube, Facebook, Twitch and Vimeo make this process pretty much painless, but pretty much painless is not completely painless; and that’s the subject of the podcast today. A WordPress plugin called WP Livestream…
This Week in WordPress #154
This week’s WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing Monday 8th March 2021
220 – ‘F’ is for forms
It’s another of chats in the series called the A-Z of WordPress where we attempt to cover all the major aspects to building and maintaining sites with WP. Today is F for… Forms. We expect most sites to have a contact form. Something that does not require the visitor to launch an email client, but…
This Week in WordPress #153
This week’s WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing Monday 1st March 2021
219 – Create Alexa Skills right inside of WordPress with Shoutworks
So the podcast today might catch you a little off guard! It’s not something that I’ve ever played with before. Today we’re talking about Shoutworks, which is a WordPress plugin that lets you boost your voice SEO by creating an Amazon Alexa skill in one click right from inside WordPress. Wait… What! Is this even…