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WordPress website maintenance and care plans might be something that you like to do, but they also might get in the way of the actual building of your websites. FixRunner are here to help you with that. They will handle all of the dull management tasks for you so that you can focus upon your clients and their website build needs. They offer all the expected things like updates, fixes, backups, but...

WordPress plugins... there are so many to choose from, but it\'s perhaps the fact that they exist that makes WordPress the huge success that it is. So what\'s the point of a plugin and how do they differ from themes. Will blocks be a replacement in the future? We get into the subject of what are the \'essential\' plugins that we think every WordPress site needs and which ones we have earmarked as...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 19th July 2021

So you might not have heard about the WordPress security company Patchstack before, but you will likely know about them! You see, until recently, they were called WebARX, but they decided that this was a somewhat confusing, and hard to pronounce name, and so changed it to Patchstack. We talk today to founder Oliver Sild, and get to the bottom of why and how the re-branding went as well as what new...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing 12th July 2021

If something is free then it\'s likely not very good. That\'s the generally accepted wisdom is most aspects of life, but not with WordPress! WordPress like many other software platforms is free to use and free to modify. It\'s yours to use as you see fit, and you don\'t have to pay a penny for it. This is great, and it\'s all underpinned by a the \'philosophy\' of the Open Source. Today in the pod...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 5th July 2021

So your first thought might well be this \"Why do I need to look at yet another form plugin? What I\'ve already got works fine.\" Well... just put that sentiment on the shelf somewhere and have a look at WS Form. When you\'ve done that, and done it properly, tell me that you\'re not impressed with what it offers! Today I\'m chatting to the WS Form founder and developer Mark Westguard, and he\'s go...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing 28th June 2021

WordPress is a huge and growing platform. But, just how huge is it? Well, today we answer this and many other utterly unrelated questions as we lift the lid on the numbers in WordPress. How many plugins, how many WordCamps, number of plugins, which languages. It\'s all in this episode. When we were researching this, it was honestly amazing just how big some of the numbers get. So join us today as...

This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing 21st June 2021 Another week, and we’re bringing you the latest WordPress news from the last seven days, including… New data about how dominant WordPress is in the CMS marketplace Elementor by-the-numbers – just how big is it as a platform in a platform Are Blocks going […]

If you\'re creating newsletters for your content and you use WordPress, put that quill down and check out the podcast today. Newsletter Glue is a really great blocks product that I\'m sure many of you are going to love. TL;DR you can create all your blog posts and emails at-the-same-time in the WordPress Block Editor. It\'s a huge time saver. Write once, publish on the web and to your list at the...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing 14th June 2021

Menus are really rather important, although really underrated. They are, after all, the way that we make our way around the websites that we visit. So how should we think about them? At what point to they get discussed (if at all) in the website building process? There\'s more than you might think to this conversation... what type of menu works best, how do we add accessibility options into our me...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing 7th June 2021

Check out the new Infinite Uploads plugin on the WP Builds podcast today. I\'m joined by co-founder, Josh Dailey, who explains what it\'s all about, which is making your site faster. It sucks up your WordPress Media Library files and puts them in their cloud and serves them from +50 global points of presence... it all looks and behaves the same, it all happens in the background. We get into their...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing 31st May 2021

Today we talk about WordPress website page speed and why this is important, how you can measure it and some ideas about what you can do to improve it. There\'s quite a lot to say about this, and it\'s really timely with Google\'s Core Web Vitals (CWV) coming on-stream in the near future. We talk about what CWV is and what it\'s measuring, what WordPress loads out of the box, what tools you can use...

This week\'s WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 24th May 2021

PeachPay is a new 1-click-checkout option for your WooCommerce store. It aims to remove some of the friction of getting people to click the \'buy now\' button by removing multiple steps for people who\'ve used PeachPay before. We talk about how it works, debunk some myths, and discuss why you might want to think about add this to your WooCommerce website. If you build eCommerce websites for client...

This week\'s WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 17th May 2021

In this episode of the podcast we asked you submit what you thought were some Killer Tips for creating your WordPress websites, and you did not disappoint! So there\'s loads of useful little nuggets of information in here, many of them might be new to you. It never ceases to amaze me just how my processes differ from other people doing the exact same job, and how much I could learn from other Word...

This week\'s WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 10th May 2021

In today’s world there is no difference between “digital” and “physical” products insofar as the transactional engine of your website is concerned. While it may have been true in the past that certain products like EDD were focused on capabilities for those who sell digitally licensed subscription software, that is no longer a factor, as the capability exists for WooCommerce to do everything. Sinc...

This week\'s WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 3rd May 2021