WP Builds Newsletter #93 – WordPress 5.3.1, plugin vulnerability and Compress or Die
This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 9th December 2019
158 – Keeping WordPress secure with Ryan Dewhurst from WPScan
Who wants a hacked website. Anyone… anyone… Bueller! No? It’s something that nobody wants, to wake up to discover that your WordPress website(s) have been breached and that unexpected things are now happening. Perhaps it’s benign, but it might be serious. Data has been downloaded and you’ve got to spend time ameliorating the situation. Ryan…
WP Builds Newsletter #92 – Gutenberg 7.0, Yoast ads and still the deals come!
This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 2nd December 2019
157 – Honey traps for website clients
How do your WordPress website clients ‘try before they buy’? What can we do to trust our services and try them out before they part with their money. We share some ideas about that. Because, in the real world, we want to try out all-the-things before we buy them. Shoes, clothes, phones… most things. But…
WP Builds Newsletter #91 – WP Tavern makeover, Core releases and website carbon footprint
This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 25th November 2019
156 – WordPress forms is a crowded space, so we launched WPForms
Some things are universal. Something about death and taxes. Another universal is that you will put some kind of contact form on every site that you build. You will though, won’t you? WP Forms entered a crowded marketplace a few years ago with a simple idea… can we make it faster for users to create…
WP Builds Newsletter #90 – Gutenberg 6.9, are themes needed and who owns .org
This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 18th November 2019
155 – Are we boring?
This discussion is another based on the book Watertight Marketing by Bryony Thomas which gives us 13 areas where we (or our clients) could be leaking potential business. With this series, we are working our way up an imaginary funnel starting first with our existing customers (Leak #1), then our on-boarding for leads (Leak #2)…
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