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We could have tried to eke this one out. According to one online crossword solver there are 378 Words Starting With X, but I imagine X for xeroxed - how to copy your WP website, might be going too far! So we just decided to end with a pathetic whimper! (We should have had a Family Fortunes styled game show thing. \"Let’s see if it’s on the board! You said, flush your permalinks. Our survey of 100...

This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 8th November 2021 Another week, and we’re bringing you the latest WordPress news from the last seven days, including… Pagely has been bought by GoDaddy – what does this mean? WP Builds has released a silly version of the WordPress Awards for 2021, please donate to […]

So perhaps you\'re really into writing. You live and breathe it. You wake up in the morning and can\'t wait to get out the laptop and start bashing away. The ideas flow out of you all the time; never ending. You\'re like a tap fully turned on. Mmm. This is not you though is it. It\'s more likely that you need to write, have to write, are required to write, but sometimes the ideas just don\'t come...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 1st November 2021

Writing is such a complex process. When we started to think about this topic, we thought that it would be really straightforward, but after some reflection, it turns out that there\'s a lot to say. Are you writing for yourself, for prose, for business, for a third party? Your relationship with that writing will be dramatically altered by the \'why\' of the writing. What about this interface? Do yo...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 25th October 2021

So... you build WordPress websites and you love it. You know what you don\'t love? Policies. Admit it, you don\'t do you? The last thing that you want to be spending your time on is ensuring that you\'ve got all your websites, and those of your clients, up-to-date with the latest policies. The reason for this is pretty obvious. You\'re the website building expert, but you\'re not a legal expert......

It was going to be V for Virus, but we have probably had enough of the word right now, and vulnerabilities perhaps better describes what we are really talking about here - WordPress security. This is where we are different and roles are reversed. Nathan listens to podcasts on IT security and sees the worst that can happen. David remains relatively clueless and feel invincible! He\'s fixed about 7...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 4th October 2021

So you have a WordPress website and it\'s all built and handed over to the client. You\'re done! Hurrah! Wait a minute, you\'re not done are you? Chances are that you\'ve used some simple tools for uptime monitoring. You know what I mean. The kind of tools that periodically ping your website and report back if the site is still alive. You might even have gone a step further and employed a tool tha...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing 27th September 2021

This is about common WordPress mistakes and how to get out of a pickle if things go wrong. With all the plugins, themes and community work in WordPress, it\'s often surprising that any of it hangs together, and that WordPress websites even work at all... (even more so since the Gutenberg Project says David!). Yet, despite that, neither of us have really had any issues over the years. How can this...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 20th September 2021

So on the podcast today we have Joshua Vandercar from Gravity Hopper which is a plug that allows you to have a central dashboard for all your Gravity Forms. Joshua is employed by Rocket Genius, the developers of Gravity Forms, so he knows a thing or two about how it all works! The idea is that you create a standalone install of WordPress is put the Gravity Hopper plugin on there and from that mome...

WordPress themes are crucial, you have to have one, but will they continue to be so in an era of Full Site Editing? We talk on the podcast today about the WordPress themes that we\'ve used over the years. Starting out by being beguiled by themes which could do all-the-things, then moving towards theme frameworks and minimal themes which allowed some basic styling, but then got out of the way of ou...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing 6th September 2021

So you love Facebook and you hate Facebook, you love Twitter and you hate Twitter. You love... You get the idea! If you\'re anything like me you have at times questioned how much time you\'ve spent trawling through social media. You may even be worried about how much data they\'ve been gathering about you, or perhaps thinking about whether or not we\'re even able to escape from it all. On the podc...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing 30th August 2021

So today on the podcast David and Nathan talk about SEO. David certainly knows more about this than Nathan does, but neither of us claim to be experts! It\'s a hard subject to ever feel happy about as there\'s never an end to it all. Google keeps changing what you need to do and you\'re always under a barrage of new information from all over the internet. So in this episode, we just say it as we s...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 23rd August 2021

There are so many tools that you open up each day to do your job as a WordPress website builder or developer. In fact, I\'d go as far as say that if you actually counted up the tools that you use each month, it\'s going to be way more that you think. There\'s graphics to create, template to conjure up, themes and plugins to discover and implement, emails to send, ways of getting client content......

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing 16th August 2021

If I got you to list out all of the things that you\'d like your WordPress websites to be, I\'m pretty sure that the word \"fast\" would be pretty close to the top of that list. It\'s super important for your website to be fast. Good hosting is crucial to your website\'s speed and today on the podcast we\'ve got Remkus de Vries from Servebolt to explain why they think that they\'re fast, like real...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing 9th August 2021

It’s another A-Z of WordPress. The series where we attempt to cover all the major aspects of building and maintaining sites with WordPress. Today is for Q for Quibble, which is a slight objection or criticism about a trivial matter and here we are looking at those objections and criticism from both outside the WordPress community and from within. There\'s so many little things that we wish we coul...