Press This WordPress Community Podcast

When it comes to things like GDPR and CCPA digital teams often ask themselves "What do I HAVE to do?" and rarely ask themselves "What do my visitors want me to do?". In this episode of PressThis, we interview Bill Jones of Enlion to hear his thoughts on building a user centric privacy and data strategy. Bill shares his thoughts around data collection from the visitor's perspect...

Adopting a Block-First Theme Strategy using Genesis with Chris Baldelomar. The use of the new block editor (Gutenberg) has been steadily increasing since it's release in December 2018, but there are still lots of sites and developers who have yet to embrace the new capabilities. In this episode of PressThis we interview Chris Baldelomar of Web Plant Media about his journey adopting a block-fir...

Building a Community Mindset with Your Development Team with Per Esbensen of Codeable. Whether you're participating in developer communities yourself or building a community mindset within your team, embracing a spirit of community-focused professional growth can net immense benefits for your team and your business. In this episode of PressThis, we interview Per Esbensen the founder of Codeabl...

"Join us for our monthly installment of Word Around the Campfire where we explore news from around the WordPress community. In this installment of WATCF we discuss product launches from around WordPress, a $100M fundraising milestone by GiveWP, new WordCamps coming in 2020, some vulnerability fun with plugins, and new brands joining the WordPress space in 2020. If you're looking for a quic...

As website builders we often work hard at improving the visibility and brand loyalty of the companies we represent, but what do we do to promote our own personal brand or the personal brands behind the companies we serve? In this episode of PressThis, we interview Deepak Shukla of Pearl Lemon to hear his thoughts on why building a personal brand is important and what you can do to boost your own p...

In this episode of PressThis we interview Rachel Gogos with BrandID and Chris Badgett of LifterLMS about their recent product partnership to deliver one of the easiest ways to launch a WordPress course website. BrandID and LifterLMS worked in partnership on the Course Maker Pro theme which uses the Genesis "one click theme setup" feature to deliver a LifterLMS course website with beautiful...

"Accessibility Isn't Just a Compliance Strategy, It's a Growth Strategy - with Jeff White of Kula Partners Building a website following accessibility standards has always been a winning strategy, but recent updates in the world of accessibility illustrate the risks of non-compliance are increasing dramatically for brands and agencies. With all this increased compliance pressure and the...

"If you're running a freelance web development business or a small agency, you might be asking yourself how you can find bigger clients with bigger budgets. Taking on bigger clients can be a bit scary, but can also come with incredible professional and financial rewards. In this episode of PressThis, we interview Amber Hinds of Road Warrior Creative as she shares her journey of growing her...

"Many of us who build WordPress sites often tout that we deliver amazing user experiences, but we often might not even know what that means. We'll use instinct or ""best practices"" to create what we believe to be a good user experience; however, those promises are often not based on a method and are thin in terms of delivery. In this episode of PressThis, we interview Jack...

"One of the key powers of the WordPress ecosystem are the over 50,000 plugins you can use to build your next experience FASTER. In a sea of options though, how do you know which plugins are best and which plugin might cause you big headaches down the road? In this episode of PressThis, show host David Vogelpohl and WordPress engineer Judy Anderson discuss how you can go about picking the best...

"It's been about a year since WordPress 5.0 was launched which introduced the new block editor (Gutenberg) to the world. Despite much anxiety about the change, the release was successful and the Internet didn't blow up. Yay! With that being said, have you ACTUALLY been using the block editor to build more valuable sites for clients? In this episode of PressThis, we interview Travis McA...

"Listen now to our monthly series ""Word Around the Campfire"" where we discuss the latest updates to WordPress itself as well as news from around the community. In this episode, we discuss a wide range of improvements in WordPress 5.3 as well as huge updates in the Gutenberg plugin which is a precursur to big changes yet to come in WordPress #core especially around how your th...

"As many of us in the WordPress ecosystem know, finding the right talent located in your home town is often very difficult. In order to get around this, agencies and brands build remote teams filled with people from all around the world. While this gives us an advantage by allowing us to attract great talent, building a powerful culture with far flung team members is a huge challenge! In this...

"For those of us building and optimizing websites, we often fret over how we're going to convince visitors to take an action that drives value. We tweak designs and messages to get visitors to complete an ecommerce checkout, fill out a lead form, or view more pages to drive more ad revenue. Did you know that you can also drive substantial value by convincing vistors to do nothing at all? I...

"Many of us who build WordPress sites often tout that we deliver amazing user experiences, but we often might not even know what that means. We'll use instinct or ""best practices"" to create what we believe to be a good user experience; however, those promises are often not based on a method and are thin in terms of delivery. In this episode of PressThis, we interview Jack...

"In this episode of PressThis, we cover all the amazing happenings from WordCamp US 2019 including interesting updates from Matt's State of the Word talk, insights from the community, and other fun happenings in St. Louis. If you're still suffering from WordCamp FOMO, join us for this episode of PressThis for a recap of WordCamp US!" Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/bra...

"If you have a team of WordPress developers or if you're thinking about growing your team, creating a unified approach to your workflows can save time, increase stability, and help avoid profit and deadline zapping mistakes. In this episode of PressThis we interview Geoff Thibeau of Deep Fried about his thoughts on setting up an optimized workflow for teams. Geoff discusses considerations...

If you're building or optimizing sites internally or for clients, chances are you need to have a good understanding of how those sites will drive and monetize traffic. In this episode, we interview the uber-smart Jason Barnard, 'The Brand SERP Guy' from Kalicube.pro, on his thoughts on how you can use the results that appear in Google when people search for the Brand name to help you o...

"In this episode of PressThis, we continue our discussion around using the new WordPress block editor (code named ""Gutenberg"") with an interview with Rob Stinson about the Block Lab solution for building custom Gutenberg blocks. Rob shares his thoughts over the potential of the block editor in general, the power of building custom blocks, challenges teams face learning to bui...

"In recent episodes of PressThis, we've been exploring strategies around using the new block-based editor in WordPress (Gutenberg). In this episode of PressThis, we interview the legendary Mike McAlister of Atomic Blocks about how he's using the new block-editor in WordPress to create groundbreaking experiences in his recently released Atomic Blocks 2.0. Atomic Blocks 2.0 introduces th...

In this episode of PressThis we cover news from around the WordPress community covering Automattic's $300M investment by Salesforce Ventures, WordPress 5.2.3, OpenGraph data being added to Genesis, Gatsby & WordPress, and lots of other exciting updates from the WordPress community in September 2019. If you're looking to keep up to date with all things WordPress, listen to this episode...

If you're running a freelancer or small agency business, you're always under the gun to get work done quickly and deliver against higher and higher client expectations. In this episode of PressThis, we interview Ryan Murray of 3200 Creative about his journey freelancing with WordPress, and his process of design, development, and consulting. Ryan also shares what technology is most importan...

"In our last few episodes of PressThis we've been discussing the role of the new block editor in WordPress and ""how brands & agencies are winning with Gutenberg"". In this episode, we build on that topic with an interview with Mark Atli of digital production agency Dreamers of Day about how they use block-based approaches when building highly-customizable and growth-fo...

"The new WordPress block editor (codenamed "Gutenberg) has introduced a world capability for developers and content creators. As brands and agencies adopt these new capabilities inside of WordPress #core, they are starting to realize that empowering the relationship between the developer and content creator unlocks incredible operational agility. Ideas move faster than ever before. Using b...

"The new WordPress block editor (codenamed "Gutenberg) has introduced a world capability for developers and content creators. As brands and agencies adopt these new capabilities inside of WordPress #core, they are starting to realize that empowering the relationship between the developer and content creator unlocks incredible operational agility. Ideas move faster than ever before. Using b...