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
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
Happy New Year 2019! In this episode of the WP Builds WordPress podcast we take a bit of a look back at some of the things that we thought we important in 2018. Now I don’t mean to imply that David and myself have any special insight here, it’s just what occurred to us as…
Today we have an episode that deals with something very dear to my heart, writing blog posts – like this one! One of the problems that I have is that I write a post like this in WordPress and then publish it. It goes onto the website and I hope that people like you will…
This episode is a little bit of a departure for us as it was inspired by the people in the WP Builds Facebook group (which you should join BTW). It is all based upon a in which David asked the simple question, “What’s the one thing you love about building client websites?” Well, I think…
WP Builds Newsletter #43 – Updates WordPress 5 already, PHP updates and social media is news
This week we have Mor Cohen on from Washington State in America and she’s with us because she has a new course that she’s launching called “The GeneratePress and Elementor Design Course”. This course is designed for people like me, and when I say that it’s unlikely that you need this course as much as I…
WP Builds Newsletter #42 – WordPress 5.0 is out, nobody dies and Google stepping into WordPress
This is a little bit of a departure for us today because we take a deep dive into the life of our guest – Rebecca Gill. Typically on the podcast we chat about plugins and themes and talk to developers about their ideas and their code. Not today, well not just that today! Today we…
