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The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 3rd April 2023.

Accessibility is a topic which is getting much more attention these days, and rightly so. It\'s important for websites because it ensures that everyone, including people with disabilities and impairments in areas such as sight, hearing, motor difficulties, or cognitive limitations, can effectively use and engage with the website content. By making your WordPress websites more accessible, you\'re c...

Welcome to the 5th episode of our \"Thinking the Unthinkable\" series, where we attempt to rationalise controversial views on WordPress and web design. Today’s topic is… Website Clients are Impossible! This could have been called \"Web Designers are Impossible\", as it’s about the sometimes tense relationship between those who commission websites and those who build them. Do we correctly set the e...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 27th March 2023.

Today, it\'s all about WordPress security and what you can do with the WP Vulnerability API / project. In the podcast you\'re going to meet the wonderful Javier, and I thought that I\'d let him take over the show notes, as he wrote such wonderful notes prior to our chat. So… over to Javier… Hello, I\'m Javier, and I\'m around the Internet since 1994. In 1997, I created my first website, and in 200...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 20th March 2023.

This seems a little odd, \'Do we even need WordPress\', given that we\'re a WordPress podcast. But, there\'s actually quite a lot to be said here. Both David and I have been using WordPress for years (David, quite a bit longer), and perhaps it\'s time to think about whether WordPress is always the right choice for our website building projects. If the site is a simple brochure site that\'s really...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 13th March 2023.

Deal Alert: Get 10% off MasterWP Workshops using the coupon code \'wpbuilds10\' - it\'s valid until 15th April 2023. On the podcast today, we have Rob Howard. No, not the film director, but the one from MasterWP. If you\'ve not heard of MasterWP before, then you\'re missing out as they\'re on a mission to create a heap of WordPress related content. They\'ve got workshops, tutorials, a fast-growing...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 6th March 2023.

So, there\'s no denying that WordPress Page Builders have taken the community by storm over the last decade. Whether you use them or not, they\'re popular, and dare I say it, used on more WordPress sites than site not using a Page Builder? But, as the title of this episode says, are they the scourge of the internet? We chat about this topic from a whole variety of different angles. Do they typical...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 27th February 2023.

Some of us love working with CSS. It\'s fun, pretty easy to learn, and gets the job done. Others… not so much. It\'s boring, hard to master, and you end up doing things incorrectly all the time! Over the years, there\'s been many attempts to make CSS easier to write and work with… literally dozens. Today on the show we have Kevin Geary, the founder of Automatic CSS (ACSS), which is a utility frame...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 20th February 2023.

We asked ChatGPT the question \"could artificial intelligence (A.I.) kill the web design industry?\". This is what we got back... \"It is unlikely that artificial intelligence (A.I.) will completely kill the web design industry. While A.I. and automation tools may be able to handle certain aspects of web design, it is unlikely that they will be able to fully replace the creativity and problem-solv...

The WordPress news from the last week which began Monday 6th February 2023.

So this is all about AI, so buckle up as it\'s all the hotness! It\'s not the usual AI hotness though, because this podcast is not about ChatGPT and how it\'ll likely break the world. No, this is about how you can use AI to create works of art for your WordPress website, or for any reason, in fact. I interviewed Josh Dailey and Aaron Edwards, who have a service called Imajinn. It\'s an AI for crea...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 30th January 2023.

Welcome to the very first episode in our sparkling new series that we are calling \"Thinking the Unthinkable\", or TUTT for short, which I quite like! Here we challenge ourselves to answer (or at least rationalise) provocative statements or critical opinions of WordPress and our glorious website building profession. We are gently easing ourselves in with today’s topic, which is… \"Website builders...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 23rd January 2022.

On the podcast today we have Zach Swinehart in the second of an, unexpectedly, two-part episode. We talked for so long that I decided it was best as two episodes instead of a really long single episode. You really need to listen to episode 310 of the podcast before this one, so go do that now if you have not already! We start off today where we left off last time, with my addiction to email and wh...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 16th January 2023.

Welcome to the last episode (sigh) in our Business Bootcamp series. Over the last year, we have been attempting to question everything we know about building WordPress sites and running a web design businesses. We looked at the entire process, from meeting our first client to helping them to support their site. We’ve tried to contrast approaches by looking at the traditional project (waterfall) wh...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 9th January 2022.

On the podcast today we have Zach Swinehart in the first of an (unexpectedly) two-part episode. We talked for so long that I decided it was best as two episodes instead of a really long single episode. \"Productivity hacks\" feel a bit like snake oil to me at this point. We\'ve all heard a million of them and they never seem to work. Today\'s episode should affect your productivity. It\'s not a \"...