WP Builds Newsletter #51 – WordPress 5.1 released, plugin updates and AI gets really scary
WP Builds Newsletter #51 – WordPress 5.1 released, plugin updates and AI gets really scary
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
WP Builds Newsletter #51 – WordPress 5.1 released, plugin updates and AI gets really scary
Do you glaze over when someone talks about internet security? Well, you’re not alone – it’s quite a difficult subject to understand. Thank heavens then that there’s people like Oliver Sild who will understand it all for you. His company, WebARX has built a product which get all of your WordPress websites secured. They have…
WP Builds Newsletter #50 – WordPress 5.1 RC, multiple vulnerabilities and AI gets scary
Are you the type of person who always does what your clients ask of you, or do you get angry with them? It’s hardly a binary answer is it, but it certainly feels like it is sometimes! We’ve all been there… you’ve worked really hard on their WordPress website and you think that you’ve done everything right, but then the…
WP Builds Newsletter #49 – New Gutenberg blocks, Wordfence Central and DuckDuckGo rising
Adam has been on the podcast before, but on that occasion he was talking about his life as a freelancer, not as the owner of a SaaS app! He’s founded a company called ‘Split Hero’ which is laser focussed upon one thing – split testing your WordPress website pages and gain meaningful data back about…
WP Builds Newsletter #48 – WordPress 5.1 Beta 3, Plugin updates and Google dominates
Should we be available on the phone to deal with client issues for our WordPress website business? I have had this conversation so many times in the past with so many people! We all know that, in the right hands, a phone can be one of the best ways to engage with your clients. But, in…
WP Builds Newsletter #47 – WordPress 5.1, Gutenberg and Page Builder updates and new Google Search Console features
Phil Singleton is one of those guys who seems to do 15 things all at once, and doing them really well. His background, like many of us is not web design and development. He started in finance and insurance and hated it. Now he’s an SEO specialist with a projects under his belt. We chat…
WP Builds Newsletter #46 – Automattic announces Newspack, WordPress 5.1 feature and Gutenberg layouts
In this discussion episode with David and I, we discuss an idea called “The Magic Email”. It’s a really simple email that you can send to get something… anything back from a client who has gone AWOL. Simply, the email is designed to be deployed with the minimum of effort from you, but in return…
WP Builds Newsletter #45 – WordPress 5.0.3, we’re no longer bloggers and free GitHub
Today we have not one but two people on the podcast. Baptiste Debever and Francois Forest are WordPress plugin and theme developers based in France. During this podcast we discuss two of their products, a WordPress theme called WOffice and a SaaS app called Feedier. They both do completely different things, one is a WordPress intranet…
WP Builds Newsletter #44 – WordPress marketing, image optimisation and a super detailed image