WP Builds

This episode is about all the many, many, many jobs that you do each and every time you build a WordPress website for yourself or for a client. There really are so many! I\'m not too sure that I do quite as much as David does, because, as you\'ll hear, he\'s does rather a lot. From setting hosting and email, from forms to security, this episode could have gone on for a long time. Maybe you treat e...

I\'ve often thought about building my WordPress websites on the one day model, it\'s got so much going for it. I\'ve heard stories of quite a few people who are managing this very effectively. However, it\'s always been something that I\'ve associated with a single freelancer. I\'d always assumed that the margins were pretty tight, and therefore most likely to work with one person. Well, Candy Phe...

This week\'s WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 19th April 2021

The web is made up of Pictures and Words. Some of those pictures are moving (video), but it\'s basically just those two things. We have easy ways to deal with putting photos and other kinds of images onto our WordPress websites with the features that are baked in, but there\'s so much more to this topic. What kind of images are the best to use? How many thumbnail sizes should we be storing? Should...

This week\'s WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 12th April 2021

Having a newsletter is one of the best ways that you can communicate with an audience. In fact, I\'d go as far as to say, that it\'s the best. There\'s no third-party platform involved. You are communicating with people who have signed up, and therefore really want to get your content. But, it can be a dull job keeping the content flowing. Today we learn about a SaaS platform which might just make...

This week\'s WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 5th April 2021

Today on the WP Builds podcast we\'re talking about health. Not your health, but the health of the WordPress sites you build or manage. Turns out that there\'s a boatload of things that need to be done regularly to keep your sites fighting fit. From backing them up to monitoring their uptime. Checking that they\'re okay after updates to keeping up with the latest SEO trends. I could go on for a lo...

WP Buffs has been a company on the rise for several years now. I\'m sure that you\'ve seen some of their content and perhaps listened to their podcast or attended their WPMMR summit? The podcast today is all about how you can grow a \'side gig\' business into a thriving business by creating engaging content around the subjects that your target audience really want to know about. So WP Buffs is rea...

This week\'s WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 22nd March 2021

Gutenberg is here to stay, and love it or hate it, it\'s going to be a feature of WordPress for years to come. On the podcast today David and Nathan discuss Gutenberg and what they think of it. It\'s certainly getting better over time, and as a pure text editing tool, it\'s now pretty great. However, it\'s got ambitions to become a Full Site Editing (FSE) tool in the near future and that path coll...

This week\'s WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 15th March 2021

So it might have passed you by, but now we can (and apparently do) all create our own T.V. channels! Services like YouTube, Facebook, Twitch and Vimeo make this process pretty much painless, but pretty much painless is not completely painless; and that\'s the subject of the podcast today. A WordPress plugin called WP Livestream which makes this as simple as possible to get your livestream on your...

This week\'s WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing Monday 8th March 2021

It’s another of chats in the series called the A-Z of WordPress where we attempt to cover all the major aspects to building and maintaining sites with WP. Today is F for... Forms. We expect most sites to have a contact form. Something that does not require the visitor to launch an email client, but there\'s so many other things that forms plugins have brought under their control. Payments, user re...

This week\'s WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing Monday 1st March 2021

So the podcast today might catch you a little off guard! It\'s not something that I\'ve ever played with before. Today we\'re talking about Shoutworks, which is a WordPress plugin that lets you boost your voice SEO by creating an Amazon Alexa skill in one click right from inside WordPress. Wait... What! Is this even a thing? Why would I ever want to do that? Well, the short version is that you can...

This week\'s WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 22nd February 2020

It’s another of our chats in the series called the \'A-Z of WordPress\', where we attempt to cover all the major aspects to building and maintaining sites with WP. Today is \'E\' for... Ecommerce. There\'s just so much to say here because WordPress and Ecommerce are growing at a phenomenal rate. With so much activity, you\'d think that there might be a \'best\' way to build an online shop. But as...

This week\'s WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 15th February 2020

Today we\'re talking about the DocketWP WordPress plugin with Andre Gagnon and Kyle Van Deusen, the project founders. So, what does it do and why might you want it? It\'s a plugin that provides you with an easy to access to-do list right inside of your WordPress dashboard. You can sync this list in the cloud so that you, or your team are always doing the tasks that are needed. You also get pre-wri...

This week\'s WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 8th February 2021

It’s the 4th in our series of chats called \'the A-Z of WordPress\' where we attempt to cover all the major aspects of building and maintaining sites with WordPress. Today, we are really going set pulses racing with the letter \'D\' for Database! The word alone sounds incredibly dull, and for years I pretended it did not exist. Even now I do anything to avoid directly interacting with it. But I do...

This week\'s WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 1st February 2021

So if you\'re a user of WooCommerce, then the podcast today will be of interest to you. It\'s all about creating the best checkout experience to increase conversions with the CheckoutWC plugin. The checkout process of WooCommerce \'out-of-the-box\' is okay, but it\'s not all that great. Yes, it works, but you know that you\'ve seen better workflows; better ways of guiding you through the final sta...