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
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…
WP Builds Newsletter #41 – WordPress 5.0 RC2, Plugin vulnerabilities and FBI takes down ad fraud network
We talk to Paul Lacey and discuss with him what UI is. Both David and I work as independent freelancers and this means that we have a process that has worked for us over time. Paul however is part of a growing agency called DickieBirds and this means that he has to think about all this…
WP Builds Newsletter #40 – WordPress Release Candidate 5.0, new blocks creator and VSCode course
This week on the podcast we have a man that I have no doubt that you’ve seen before? He’s got a very popular YouTube channel called WP Crafter. It’s a channel in which Adam creates videos explaining how WordPress plugins and themes work. It’s really popular, like really popular. Okay so that’s why you’ve heard…
