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WP Builds Newsletter #39 – WordPress 5.0 beta 5, GDPR plugin hack and comments in Google SERPs

We all have things in our lives that we want to quit, but we’re limiting this conversation to your work as a WordPress professional and the moments in the day when you start to do things that you know that you shouldn’t! Perhaps it’s too much Facebook. You’ve set up email notifications to appear, and…

WP Builds Newsletter #38 – WordPress 5.0 update delayed, multiple security concerns and do you earn enough?

Today we welcome Matt Mullenweg on to the WP Builds podcast. Matt has been using WordPress as long as anyone else, with one exception! He is the co-founder of WordPress along with Mike Little, so he knows a thing or two. We talk about Gutenberg, why Matt thinks that we need it, and why we…

WP Builds Newsletter #37 – Gutenberg accessibility updates, PHP 5 dead and Red Hat bought

In this LIVE Webinar we celebrate the 100th episode of the WP Builds podcast! It was a bit of a technological disaster! David Waumsley and I both got kicked out of the webinar before it had started and then we in a webinar all alone for 28 minutes as the webinar tech support worked out…

WP Builds Newsletter #36 – WordPress 5.0 Beta, getting bored with WordPress and video news

Today, we get to meet Laura Elizabeth. She’s a designer turned plugin creator that has some good ideas for you! Like I say, she’s a designer and her latest product, Client Portal, is a great way to help you and your clients to stay on the same page. If you build WordPress websites for clients,…

WP Builds Newsletter #35 – Twenty Nineteen close, accessibility concerns and a super fast camera

There are some people that you’re drawn towards aren’t there? People that you like to listen to, people that you like to read about. When I started to use WordPress a few years ago, I was constantly on the lookout for people who were producing great content that I could consume to further my understanding…

WP Builds Newsletter #34 – Help needed with Gutenberg, Elementor adds Cusomt Fields integrations and DuckDuckGo on the rise

I don’t know you, but I know for an absolute fact that I’m hopeless at marketing. I’m not very good at it and it find it really hard to do, or to get excited about. It’s a something that I’ve struggled with for a long time. I’m lucky in that I have enough work (right…

WP Builds Newsletter #33 – Gutenberg release date, WordCamp Europe and Google pay Apple a lot of dollars

If you’re a regular listener to the podcast then you’ll know that I was once a heavy user of Drupal. The reason for this is simple, Drupal is really rather awesome. I know that this is a WordPress podcast, but there’s just no denying it; Drupal does heaps and heaps of stuff really well, and…

WP Builds Newsletter #32 – Gutenberg 4.0, PHP 7.3 and 50m Facebook accounts hacked