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The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 2nd January 2023.

Welcome to the penultimate episode in our Business Bootcamp series. Usually, this is where I write... \"where we relearn everything we know about building WordPress sites and running a web design business from start to finish\". But if you are joining us now, you probably need to go back a year to season one! We are on Season 5, which is the last in this Bootcamp series and is about what happens a...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 12th December 2022.

So we have Katie Keith on the podcast today to talk about what they\'re doing over at Barn2 plugins. First off, we tackle the history of the company, and importantly, why they have such a peculiar name! We then get into their journey into the WooCommerce space and how that\'s enabled them to grow into the small, but mighty team that they are today. We then list out some of their more popular plugi...

So you\'re in the business of selling WordPress websites? If you are in that business, then I can guarantee you that there\'s more money to be made than just getting the site done and then moving on. Today it\'s all about the upsells that we might offer. We go through a list of things that we\'ve tried in the past, some of which were profitable and easy to do, others of which were hard and lost us...

So in the last episode of the WP Builds podcast we were talking about how WordPress hosting has changed. Today it feels like more of the same. Kinsta has been offering managed WordPress hosting for years, and has built up a good business on top of the world\'s most popular CMS. Well, time and tide wait for no one, and Marcel Bootsman plus Maciek Palmowski are on the podcast today to explain about...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 21st November 2022.

Welcome to another in the Business Bootcamp series where we relearn everything we know about building WP sites and running a web design business from start to finish. Today we\'re talking about the way that hosting has changed over the years. In much the same way that you look at a website from 1999 and wonder how that was ever allowed to exist, the same is true for the technology stack that is ho...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 14th November 2022.

I love a good story, and that\'s what we\'ve got for you today. It\'s Steve Burge from PublishPress. Steve\'s had a long history working with open source software, and, as you\'ll hear, he\'s not going anywhere. The conversation kicks off with a bit of background about Steve. We talk about his journey with a whole variety of FOSS tools such as Joomla, Drupal, Magento and WordPress. I know this jou...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 7th November 2022.

Welcome to another in the Business Bootcamp series where we relearn everything we know about building WP sites and running a web design business from start to finish. Today we are talking about \'Monitoring websites for clients\'. Relationships with clients after a traditional project rarely end with the site going live. Those who take an agile approach will not have clients continuously respondin...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 31st October 2022.

On the podcast today we have Eric Karkovack. He\'s been in the WordPress space for ages and contributes in a whole variety of ways. I\'ve been wanting to get him on the show for ages, but our calendars kept colliding, until today! We talk about two, not related, subjects. The first is WebP images, and the second is canonical plugins. You might not have heard of WebP images, but they\'re all the ra...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 24th October 2022.

We all do maintenance for our WordPress website clients, right? But what do you cover and what does a client expect? That\'s the basis of the podcast today... There are many things that you \'could\' cover, but many things that perhaps don\'t want to. Perhaps you know that you\'re not a security expert, or that configuring your server is a little out of scope. So how do you decide what\'s in and w...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 17th October 2022.

It\'s no secret that the world is adopting the model of subscription pricing. If you\'re my age, then you remember a time when almost nothing was based upon subscriptions. The technology simply made it impractical; there were no credit cards, the internet did not exist, and you just didn\'t see examples around you. Fast forward (a few decades!), and now they\'re everywhere. The banking / payments...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 10th October 2022.

With all these no code options, do you find your clients are becoming experts and no longer needing you? We try (and fail) to talk about this today and end up going on about JAMStack instead! It\'s a serious point though. Page Builders and Gutenberg have opened up the website creation process to a whole new audience, and it brings into question what we do as WordPress web developers / builders tha...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 3rd October 2022.

So voice enabled home are now a thing. It\'s pretty likely that if you don\'t have a voice enabled device now, you will at some point in the near future. You speak, and they respond. It\'s pretty cool. But you might have noticed that there are limits to what they can do, and there are ways you learn to speak to these devices to get the best out of them. It\'s a bit like how you use Google. You don...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 26th September 2022.

What happens when your client suddenly has new staff members that you need to interact with? It might be a really smooth transition with nothing to worry about, but it might not. Old relationships may need to be rebuilt, and common understandings and goals about the website might need to be reworked. It\'s even possible that your communications were not written down and you suddenly need to think...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 19th September 2022.