Press This WordPress Community Podcast

Did you know that 80% of B's in an A/B test fail to beat the original version? EIGHT times out of TEN when a marketer and designer sit down to purposefully increase a KPI with a new design, they FAIL. Welcome to the landing page failure paradox. In this episode of PressThis, we interview Lorraine Ball of Roundpeg about her thoughts on one of the most fundamental and important factors in helpin...

Did you know that 80% of B's in an A/B test fail to beat the original version? EIGHT times out of TEN when a marketer and designer sit down to purposefully increase a KPI with a new design, they FAIL. Welcome to the landing page failure paradox. In this episode of PressThis, we interview Lorraine Ball of Roundpeg about her thoughts on one of the most fundamental and important factors in helpin...

Are you an advanced developer looking to optimize your CI/CD workflow with WordPress? Are you still beefing up your dev chops and are wondering "What the heck is a CI/CD"? In either case, you need to listen to this episode of PressThis now! In this episode of PressThis, we interview the super-smart Peter Suhm of Branch CI about his thoughts on approaches and strategies for CI/CD for WordPr...

Are you an advanced developer looking to optimize your CI/CD workflow with WordPress? Are you still beefing up your dev chops and are wondering "What the heck is a CI/CD"? In either case, you need to listen to this episode of PressThis now! In this episode of PressThis, we interview the super-smart Peter Suhm of Branch CI about his thoughts on approaches and strategies for CI/CD for WordPr...

If you're running a WooCommerce store or building them for others, you generally have one mission. Convert visitors into paying customers! Of course, conversion rate optimization is super important to that journey, but it's not just the number of sales which are important, but also the size of your orders. In this episode of PressThis, we interview James Kemp of Iconic the makers of the Sa...

If you're running a WooCommerce store or building them for others, you generally have one mission. Convert visitors into paying customers! Of course, conversion rate optimization is super important to that journey, but it's not just the number of sales which are important, but also the size of your orders. In this episode of PressThis, we interview James Kemp of Iconic the makers of the Sa...

In this episode of PressThis, we do our monthly "Word Around the Campfire" episode where we review news and updates from the WordPress community. For our July 2019 update we cover updates from WCEU which was held in Berlin as well as huge changes happening in the WordPress ecosystem, like WP Engine's acquistion of Flywheel and much more. If you're looking to keep up with the latest...

In this episode of PressThis, we do our monthly "Word Around the Campfire" episode where we review news and updates from the WordPress community. For our July 2019 update we cover updates from WCEU which was held in Berlin as well as huge changes happening in the WordPress ecosystem, like WP Engine's acquistion of Flywheel and much more. If you're looking to keep up with the latest...

The digital world is changing. Fast. The next evolution of the web and WordPress will open up all new experiences you can use to delight and surprise your audience in ways that deliever more value to the visitor and the businesses that serve them than ever before. In this episode of PressThis, we interview WordPress futurist and owner of the advanced WordPress agnecy Pragmatic David Lockie about W...

The digital world is changing. Fast. The next evolution of the web and WordPress will open up all new experiences you can use to delight and surprise your audience in ways that deliever more value to the visitor and the businesses that serve them than ever before. In this episode of PressThis, we interview WordPress futurist and owner of the advanced WordPress agnecy Pragmatic David Lockie about W...

Do you maintain or plan on creating a public WordPress-focused product like a plugin or theme? Do you create your own private-use plugins or themes? One of the key ways to grow the user base of any product or brand is to support multiple languages. This can be a great way to increase your total addressable market without having to come up with new features or products. Of course, that's not to...

Do you maintain or plan on creating a public WordPress-focused product like a plugin or theme? Do you create your own private-use plugins or themes? One of the key ways to grow the user base of any product or brand is to support multiple languages. This can be a great way to increase your total addressable market without having to come up with new features or products. Of course, that's not to...

Have you considered building your own WordPress plugin or theme as a driver for your business? In this episode of PressThis, we interview the super-smart Raitis Sevelis of the uber-popular Visual Composer about strategies for selling your WordPress product on your own site vs. leveraging marketplaces. Raitis does a deep dive into the factors you should consider including marketplace fees, support,...

Have you considered building your own WordPress plugin or theme as a driver for your business? In this episode of PressThis, we interview the super-smart Raitis Sevelis of the uber-popular Visual Composer about strategies for selling your WordPress product on your own site vs. leveraging marketplaces. Raitis does a deep dive into the factors you should consider including marketplace fees, support,...

Each and every one of us who build websites with WordPress have one over-arching mission. To drive growth. Each design we create, line of code we labor over, and call-to-action we craft is designed to generate visitors, revenue, donations, or attention for your or your clients' brands. We pride ourselves on our eye-popping designs, well oiled funnels, and diligent SEO. Despite all those fine-t...

Each and every one of us who build websites with WordPress have one over-arching mission. To drive growth. Each design we create, line of code we labor over, and call-to-action we craft is designed to generate visitors, revenue, donations, or attention for your or your clients' brands. We pride ourselves on our eye-popping designs, well oiled funnels, and diligent SEO. Despite all those fine-t...

I'm sure you've heard someone give a "why WordPress" or "how to pitch WordPress" talk before, but those talks or interviews are often given my crusty-old veterans of WordPress far-removed from the actual personal decision of choosing WordPress.. or NOT!In this episode of PressThis, we interview digital veteran Eric Sharp of ProtoFuse as he discusses his recent decision proc...

I'm sure you've heard someone give a "why WordPress" or "how to pitch WordPress" talk before, but those talks or interviews are often given my crusty-old veterans of WordPress far-removed from the actual personal decision of choosing WordPress.. or NOT!In this episode of PressThis, we interview digital veteran Eric Sharp of ProtoFuse as he discusses his recent decision proc...

Does WordPress play a valuable role in your business? Have you thought about contributing to WordPress #core or the WordPress community, but don't know how to do that in a meaningful way? In this episode of PressThis, we interview often-host of PressThis and WordPress #core committer Anthony Burchell. Anthony shares the details of how to contribute code to #core, strategies for picking the rig...

Does WordPress play a valuable role in your business? Have you thought about contributing to WordPress #core or the WordPress community, but don't know how to do that in a meaningful way? In this episode of PressThis, we interview often-host of PressThis and WordPress #core committer Anthony Burchell. Anthony shares the details of how to contribute code to #core, strategies for picking the rig...

In this episode of PressThis we explore news from around the WordPress ecosystem for the month of May 2019 as part of our ongoing series "Word Around the Campfire". We explore the release of WordPress 5.2, the upcoming WordCamp EU, schema updates by Yoast, accssability WordPress core, and much more! If you're too busy to keep up with all the happenings in the WordPress community, liste...

In this episode of PressThis we explore news from around the WordPress ecosystem for the month of May 2019 as part of our ongoing series "Word Around the Campfire". We explore the release of WordPress 5.2, the upcoming WordCamp EU, schema updates by Yoast, accssability WordPress core, and much more! If you're too busy to keep up with all the happenings in the WordPress community, liste...

If you're an agency, freelancer, or work on an internal digital team, getting accurate and meaningful feedback from your clients can mean the difference between a comfortable life filled with happy customers and an endless quagmire of confusion resulting in you doing and and then redoing your work... over.. and... over... again... Arghhh! We've all been there or are even there right now. I...

If you're an agency, freelancer, or work on an internal digital team, getting accurate and meaningful feedback from your clients can mean the difference between a comfortable life filled with happy customers and an endless quagmire of confusion resulting in you doing and and then redoing your work... over.. and... over... again... Arghhh! We've all been there or are even there right now. I...

Web developers often think of SEO as a linear exercise of trying to be the top ranked website on a search result for a particular keyword; however, with search personalization and a variety of search result layouts the notion of "what is the top rank?" can mean vastly different things. In this episode of PressThis, we interview the super-smart Dave Davies of Beanstalk IM as he unpacks the...