Press This WordPress Community Podcast

One of the fastest-growing niches in WordPress is the use of WordPress to power the growth engine for SaaS-based businesses. But how are SaaS companies specifically using a WordPress front-end to drive growth for a SaaS-based product on the back-end? In this episode of PressThis, Matthew Quirie and Larry Vollmer share their ideas about how SaaS companies can leverage WordPress as an engine of grow...

WordPress is used for a dizzying array of use-cases and has basically become the operating system for the open web. One of the biggest areas of WordPress's impact has been on eCommerce. More eCommerce sites are powered by WordPress than any other CMS on earth. But what about big stores with tons of transactions? Do they use WordPress and Woo? In this episode of PressThis, Jonathan Wold of Auto...

In this episode of PressThis, we cover news from around the WordPress community in our monthly series "Word Around the Campfire". In this episode of WATCF host David Vogelpohl and special guests Anthony Burchell and Doc Popular discuss recent plugin vulnerabilities, Hulu and WordPress breaking up, and an all new Gutenberg block directory by WordPress.org Advertising Inquiries: https://redc...

If you produce technology-focused webinars, events, podcasts, or other thought-leadership media, you may from time-to-time find yourself struggling to book a diverse lineup of speakers. You might also be wondering how you can make sure those that represent your company as thought leaders are a diverse and inclusive group. These are great goals of course, but how do you go about this in an effectiv...

Ahhh. Scraper websites. We all know these wonderful ~businesses that relentlessly crawl your website with mischievous bots to download your valuable content and repurpose it in ways that often harm your business or threaten your SEO. If you've ever gone to battle with scraper sites you know it can be a pain to process copyright claims and provide clear cut evidence that the content belongs to...

WordPress now represents more than 35% of all global websites and is growing more every day. A huge chunk of that growth is being generated in Australia and the greater APAC region, but you might be wondering how is that happening and who are the people behind supporting the community and driving that growth? In this episode of PressThis we interview Ricky Blacker of WP Engine about his volunteeri...

One of the main reasons sites become slower over time is that digital teams don't do the work that’s necessary to keep their websites performant, particularly as they add new experiences over time. It’s not that these teams are lazy or that they love slow websites. Site performance often slips because the ongoing optimization it requires can be a lot of work, especially as you make changes to...

In our monthly WATCF episode, we cover news from around the WordPress community in June 2020. Listen now to learn about important security updates in WordPress 5.4.2, acquisitions in the WordPress ecosystem, and tons of other happenings around WordPress. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

At the end of 2020 WordPress will receive a major update around “Full Site Editing” that will bring the block editor (Gutenberg) to all parts of a WordPress site. This change will also come with BIG changes in how themes are built. In this episode of PressThis, we discuss WP Engine’s strategy with Genesis since the acquisition and how Genesis is preparing for Full Site Editing within the suite of...

Many freelancers and agencies focus their clients to work around digital marketing & sales experiences for all the obvious reasons. Everyone wants to grow! While growth is super important to every kind of business, so is optimizing the operational engine that powers that business. If you're not helping your clients optimize their operations engine, you could be leaving money on the table!...

Many freelancers and agencies share the same dream of leveraging technology they've created for servicing agency clients as a springboard to launch their own products in WordPress or beyond. There are so many wonderful examples of products coming from within agency teams, but how do agencies go about this? What does success look like? And how the heck do you keep running your agency business w...

In this episode of PressThis, we cover news from around the WordPress community as part of our Word Around the Campfire series. This month we'll be covering WordPress 5.5, WordCamp Asia, and exciting new updates in the world of Gutenberg. If you don't have a tie to keep up with the WordPress community listen to the TLDR on this episode of PressThis now! Advertising Inquiries: https://redci...

If you're a WordPress developer and have wondered, "What does affiliate marketing have to do with me?", the answer might surprise you. Affiliate marketing entails a wide variety of technology strategies to help make sure your partners get credit for the customers they refer to and to help make sure the businesses you serve get the most value out of their program by avoiding fraud. In t...

"Offering a lot of services in your WordPress agency is a great way to attract lots of clients, but trying to be a Jack/Jill of all trades is super tough and could actually be LIMITING your success. In this episode of PressThis, we interview Rana Shahbaz about how focus helped his business find their sweet spot, deliver more value to those they serve, and provide success in their business in a...

When it comes to accessibility, most people anchor on fear. The rationale to include accessibility in the sites we build often follows logic along the lines of "If we're not accessible, we might get sued!". Of course, building accessible websites has much more value than simple risk avoidance. Building accessible websites has a mountain of benefits including SEO, code cleanliness, and...

In this episode of PressThis, we cover news from around the WordPress community as part of our Word Around the Campfire series. Q2 2020 has seen a ton of events and releases in the WordPress space including major updates to WordPress #Core, progress toward "Full Site Editing", a surge in virtual events, the WordPress community banding together to help others, product releases galore and mu...

If you're experienced at building and optimizing WordPress sites, chances are you've already learned that performance isn't a vanity metric, it's a growth metric! The better your site's performance the more joy you deliver to visitors and the better the chance those visitors will take actions that create value for your business or the business of those you serve. Put simply, fa...

Food and recipe blogs have exploded as a niche within the WordPress ecosystem over the last decade. As many bloggers (and the developers & agencies who serve them) have learned, WordPress makes a great platform for food blogging. But how do you optimize a food blog site for SEO? Is that different than how you might optimize any other blog? In this episode of PressThis, we interview one of the...

WooCommerce is a great tool for helping brands launch their e-commerce offerings, but what do brands do when it's time to find new avenues to help customers buy? If you agree with the phrase “Customer retention is the new conversion“… then this episode is for you! In this episode of PressThis, we interview David Bradley of QPilot ( https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoship-cloud/) about how autom...

In a recent episode of PressThis we explored how development, design, and SEO teams could work better together, but what are the benefits and drawbacks of mastering more than one discipline yourself? Is that really possible? In this episode of PressThis, we interview Shelly Fagin with Highly Searched about her journey starting as a developer and eventually mastering SEO. Shelly shares her thoughts...

In this episode of PressThis hosts David Vogelpohl and Anthony Burchell discuss one of the biggest changes ever coming to WordPress.. Full site editing with blocks. The reason this is one of the biggest changes in WordPress is that the way WordPress themes are built will totally change! Most development workflows and tools will drastically change under the new model. If you're unaware of what&...

"For many people, WordPress is a helpful tool, but not much else. Of course WordPress has a deep community of developers, agencies, and product makers which can provide tremendous value to all kinds of organizations who are willing to engage and contribute themselves. In this episode of PressThis, we interview Robert Jacobi about strategies you can use to engage in the WordPress community. Rob...

Why SEO, Design, & Dev Territory Wars are Holding You Back with Alan Bleiweiss. As digital professionals, we often lament when know-it-all folks from other disciplines poke their nose in our business. What does this SEO person know about making a website?! What does this developer know about growing traffic to a website?! In this episode of PressThis, we interview Alan Bleiweiss about how your...

Hustle Bragging is something that has become more prevalent and today's show revolves around that such subject. Do you post on social media bragging about your late-night binge working or compromises you're making in your personal life to accommodate your professional ambition? Is that who you really want to be? As this week's guest would say "That’s not exciting or interesting. An...

Modernizing a WordPress Site Without Ruining Online Sales with Rajavanya Subramaniyan. Did you know that 80% of the time in A/B tests that the B fails to beat the A? This means that there's a darn good chance that the next time you redesign or revamp an old WordPress site that you could actually be making sales WORSE. Yikes! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out...