WP Builds Newsletter #62 – WordPress 5.2, plugin news and dynamic emails
This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 6th May 2019
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
This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 6th May 2019
Have you ever had a problem with your WordPress website that you could not figure out. Something appears to have been deleted, something suspicious appears to be happening but your cannot really be sure. WP Security Audit Log is a WordPress plugin that creates logs for just about everything on your site. It will enable…
This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 29th April 2019: WordPress Core WordPress 5.2 RC2 The Month in WordPress: April 2019 WPCampus’ Gutenberg Accessibility Audit Finds “Significant and Pervasive Accessibility Problems” Community WordCamp US 2019 Tickets Now on Sale Security Unauthenticated Media Deletion Vulnerability Patched In WooCommerce Checkout Manager Plugin Users Urged to…
Web design is dead. There’s no doubt about it. The tools that we have now are so easy to use, there’s literally zero barrier to entry. Within a week, you can a great website up and running even if you’ve never used the internet before. Mmm… You’re the expert, these tools are only easy to…
This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 22nd April 2019
In this day and age where websites are collections of content in a database, there is no reason at all that this content cannot be translated into other languages and presented to people who speak those languages. In fact, I’d be able to make a fair compelling argument that it’s a really good idea to…
This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 15th April 2019: WordPress Core WordPress 5.2 Beta 3 Gutenberg 5.5 Adds New Group Block for Nesting Child Blocks Community WordCamp Europe Publishes 2019 Speaker Lineup, Contributor Day Registration is Now Open WordCamp for Publishers is Coming to Columbus, OH, August 7-9, Call for Speakers Now…
In this episode David and I talk about the subject of pricing and in particular the thorny subject of putting prices up. We get started with a chat about what systems we use to actually receive payments from clients, PayPal, Stripe and good old fashioned bank transfers. We then move on to discuss what we’ve…
This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 8th April 2019: WordPress Core WordPress 5.2 Beta 2 Gutenberg Team Publishes RFC Document on Widget-Block Interfaces Community WordSesh Returns May 22, 2019, Speaker Application Deadline is April 19 GoDaddy Acquires ThemeBeans, CoBlocks, Block Gallery, and Block Unit Tests Security SQL Injection in Advance Contact Form…
Joe has been in the WordPress space for years and years. Working as a freelancer at the start, then as a member of a large agency. All of that is now behind him and he’s got a whole heap of different things that he’s doing. He’s a podcaster, a creator of videos for himself and…
This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 1st April 2019: WordPress Core WordPress 5.2 to Make Gutenberg Block Editor Use Mandatory for All WordPress Sites“Since its initial release in WordPress 5.0, WordPress fans have used the new Gutenberg block editor to publish billions of posts on millions of websites. Third-party developers have also…
When you sell your WordPress websites to your clients, do you push the logical or the emotional? Do you talk about technical details or how easy and beautiful it will be? It’s so easy to go down the route of the technical details, the SEO and caching that you’ll put in place – this will…
This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 25th March 2019
Do you post your content to multiple social platforms? If you do, I’m almost certain that this task is a little bit on the dull side. Is it isn’t it? It takes time and is repetitive. Social Web Suite is a WordPress plugin that hooks into your social media accounts just waiting for your to…
This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 18th March 2019: WordPress Core WordPress Ends Support for PHP 5.2 – 5.5, Bumps Minimum Required PHP Version to 5.6“WordPress has officially ended support for PHP 5.2 – 5.5 and bumped its minimum required PHP version to 5.6. The plan announced last December was to bump…