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

It’s the third in our series of chats called the A-Z of WordPress, where we attempt to cover all the major aspects to building and maintaining sites with WordPress. Today, it’s the letter \'C\' for Caching (including server side caching, front end caching (plugins) and CDNs. However, we avoid getting too deeply into page load times and scores, which we cover separately on another podcast. So what...

This week\'s WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 18th January 2020

We all know that the WordCamps in 2020 got cancelled. This was a good idea because saving lives comes before attending online events, but I thought that it might be a good idea to get someone on the WP Builds podcast to have a chat with us about WordCamps nonetheless. Why, you might ask? Well, can you imagine what it would be like to be a part of a team who had worked extremely hard to get an even...

This week\'s WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 11th January 2021

I\'m sure that we\'ve all had experiences with our WordPress websites where things went wrong; the site was hacked, something got deleted. In most cases we can recover, but if the worst comes to the worst we need a backup to save us. As with all things in the WordPress space, we\'re spoiled in the number of backup options available to us. There\'s plugins backups, our hosting backups, 3rd party Sa...

This week\'s WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing Monday 4th January 2021

Writing is important. It\'s one of the greatest inventions in the history of humanity. In fact, it may very well be the most important. But we can all agree that not all writing is equal. Most of the writing that we create and read has nothing to do with prose. It\'s the news that we consume, the recipes we crib from, the information that we study and the emails / letters that we use to communicat...

So this is a new series called the \'A-Z of WordPress\' in which David and Nathan discuss a topic starting with the next letter of the alphabet. To kick us off, it\'s A is for Appointments. WordPress works as a great platform for allowing bookings and appointments. There\'s heaps of plugins which will allow you or your clients to sync their calendar, take payments etc. What are those plugins and a...

This week\'s WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing Monday 7th December 2020

If you have a product or service, it\'s critical that you have a mechanism for users to be able to offer their feedback. That could be comments, but perhaps more importantly you\'d like to offer your users a way to help you make the product better. Give them a way that they can suggest features and vote for the features that others have already suggested. Better yet, it\'d be nice to be able to di...

This week\'s WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 30th November 2020

So for those who don’t know what ClassicPress is we had better say... It\'s fork of WordPress 4.9 before the Gutenberg block editor was introduced and a reaction to the decision, it was started by a Laravel developer called Scott Bowler, a long term WordPress user who first campaigned for Gutenberg not to go into core (at least without being a majority support for it), and it started in August 201...

This week\'s WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 23rd November 2020

There are some companies in the WordPress space that are very much on the rise and today we\'re speaking to Shahjahan Jewel about his company WP Manage Ninja, and they certainly are rising! I heard about WP Manage Ninja about a year ago, when they did a lifetime deal sale on their WP Fluent Forms plugin. After some research, I hopped on the deal and I\"ve never looked back. It\'s become my go-to p...

This week\'s WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 16th November 2020

FOMO (fear of missing out) has become a really common tool in online sales and marketing of late. Wherever things are sold, this tool is used. Whether it\'s a clock ticking down, a stock counter or a lifetime deal that\'s never to be repeated, I\'m sure that we\'ve all seen this tactic and most likely fallen for it. So what\'s the point of using FOMO? Does it work and is it ethical? It feels like...

This week\'s WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 9th November 2020

Flipping domains can be a profitable business and today on the WP Builds WordPress podcast we\'re going to be hearing about how and why you might want to look into doing it. There\'s more than you might think! In it\'s simplest form, flipping is the process of buying (or selling) a domain. In the real world businesses are bought and sold all the time, there\'s nothing unusual about it at all, but...

This Week in WordPress #137 - Changes are coming and sucking in Black Friday - A WP Builds Podcast

Where should you go for support for WordPress plugins, themes and blocks? This debate was partly prompted by a WP Tavern article regarding what can be done about the WordPress.org forum being used to support premium versions of plugins which are not in the repository. There seems to be a lot of complexity to this due to the varying expectations of support and the vast difference in what plugin and...

This is one of those warm and fuzzy episodes! It\'s all about Wendie and her journey with WordPress. There\'s no product here, no tutorial, just a good, old fashioned chat about WordPress with a thoroughly lovely person! Wendie and I have been chatting on and off for years. It all started back in the day that both of us were going through the WP Elevation program and we decided to be accountabilit...

This week\'s WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 19th October 2020:

Nathan says \'Matte and Glossy\' sound like a Las Vegas cabaret act so David\'s down for a quick win on this one! This is a little bit of a sham debate as it is as silly as matte or gloss paper. But some designers have a preference for one over the other and all of us who make websites probably need to consider that visitors may have vastly different experiences depending on what they use. It\'s q...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 12th October 2020.