WP Builds Newsletter #89 – WordPress 5.3 released, Black Friday coming and no rights to YouTube
This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 11th November 2019
154 – Because online privacy matters, we need people like Heather Burns
Once in a while you attend an event and the speaker is so eloquent, so immersed in their talk, that you listen with an intensity that it out of the ordinary. Such was a talk given by the guest of the podcast today, Heather Burns. It was at WordCamp London in 2017, and I was…
WP Builds Newsletter #88 – State of the Word, annual survey and a few deals
This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 4th November 2019
153 – Losing clients before you even get them
This is a little mini-series based upon the book ‘Watertight Marketing’ by Bryony Thomas. This is about that time in the client / project lifecycle when they (the client) have made some kind of commitment to use your products or services, they might even have signed a contract, but you’ve not delivered anything yet. It’s…
WP Builds Newsletter #87 – WordPress 5.3 RC 3, plugin news and deals
This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 28th October 2019
152 – Riding a jolly long way for the WordPress community with Dan Maby and Carole Olinger
WordPress is a huge community, and in that community there are people who need help and support. WP and UP is a charity that I’m involved with which offers that help. It’s a truly great vision, but, as with all things it takes time and money to make it happen. Some of us at WP…
WP Builds Newsletter #86 – WordPress 5.3 RC2, AHrefs SEO and satellite WiFi coming soon
This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 21st October 2019
151 – Are we leaking clients?
This episode is really about keeping the WordPress clients that you already have. What’s the old phrase? Don’t leave money on the table? Well, that’s certainly the case for many of us. This is another episode in our mini series and it’s all about trying to get as much value from and to the clients…
WP Builds Newsletter #85 – WordPress 5.3 RC, Automattic wealth and new Google products
This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 14th October 2019
150 – Kinsta hosting on Google’s Cloud with Brian Jackson
Today we have a chat with Brian Jackson from Kinsta. Kinsta are a managed WordPress hosting company who have grow rapidly since their inception in 2013. When they started managed WordPress hosting was not the giant business that it was today. In those days we were still opting for shared hosting and VPS hosting. But…
WP Builds Newsletter #84 – WordPress 5.3 beta 3, accessibility and oasis on Mars
This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 7th October 2019
149 – Marketing funnels don’t exist!
This discussion is about marketing, and it has a very click-bait title! It’s probably safe to say that we are not experts in marketing and certainly not marketing funnels. Nevertheless we thought we would chat about this and why we might need to get better a digital marketing for ourselves and clients and where WordPress…
WP Builds Newsletter #83 – WordPress 5.3 Beta 2, WordCamp U.S. tickets and Facebook decryption
This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 30th September 2019
148 – Spinning up a WordPress optimised server in minutes with Spinup WP
This is a little bit different. Today we talk to Brad Touesnard from Delicious Brains about Spinup WP their new service which aims to make it trivially simple to get your WordPress website up and running on a cloud hosting provider – in fact just about anywhere. You login to their platform, fill out a…
WP Builds Newsletter #82 – WordPress 5.3, plugin news and a dancing robot
This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 23rd September 2019