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Today we talk about how to keep your WordPress website running smoothly, whether that\'s one month or one year after you launched it. So we all know that having a website is more work than most people think. There\'s a ton of things that need to go on in the background to ensure that it\'s up and running, performing well and getting you leads. As WordPress web professionals, we take much of this f...

So, you\'re a WordPress website creator. You sell your websites to clients far and wide, or at least that\'s the hope. We all know though that the reality is that finding new clients can be hard and keeping them can be harder. The question in this episode of the podcast is, what\'s the best approach for attracting new clients. Should you go for anyone and everyone, or are you best targeting your e...

Today we hear all about Kadence Blocks, the Kadence Theme and Kadence Membership from the creator, Benjamin Ritner. This suite of WordPress tools has been growing in popularity at an amazing rate. Wherever I seem to go, it\'s being mentioned, and in a very positive light. He\'s built out a broad set of tools which will enable you to build just about any WordPress website that you could imagine. He...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 21st September 2020

This debate will never die, but we keep hearing more about it each year. The traditional model is to charge your client a fee that is made clear on your website. You charge a fixed fee for the services that your provide. But now we\'ve got value pricing which says charge the client based upon the value that you bring to their business. More profit for you. But is this easy to pull off, or does it...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 14th September 2020

Marketers rejoice! WP Landing Kit is a plugin that you\'ve wanted for ages and ages and now you have it! It allows you to point all of your domains at one WordPress install! You can then control all of your landing pages from one WordPress install, meaning that you save time on updating it and you can use successful page templates with ease. You might not immediatley see the utility of a plugin li...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 7th September 2020

Should you code or just buy plugins, themes and blocks when building your WordPress website? Many people like to know all the code so that they can create sites that so exactly what they want with zero bloat. That\'s fine if you\'ve got the time and clients who are willing to pay for all that, but these days there\'s so many great tools that will enable non-coders to build fantastic WordPress webs...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 31st August 2020

So this podcast episode is all about translations and how you can do that on your WordPress website. Perhaps you have a legal requirement to have multiple languages on your site, or perhaps you just want to further your reach into different parts of the world. Whatever the reason, doing this stuff manually would be really time consuming. Far better to have a nice, helpful WordPress plugin at hand...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 24th August 2020

This week was debate whether it\'s better to design your WordPress websites with browser based tools like a Page Builder, or use dedicated apps like Figma, Adobe XD or Sketch. Years ago this question was completely absurd. Not only did the tools not exist, but there was almost no conception that the browser might even be capable of image manipulation on the scale that would be needed. Fast forward...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 17th August 2020

Have you ever wanted to start a YouTube Channel related to WordPress content? You\'ve seen other people out there making a great success of it and you think that it\'s really easy. Paul Charlton is on the WP Builds Podcast today to chat about what it\'s really like. It\'s a slog at times and you need to keep the content fresh and of a high quality. Paul focusses on Elementor, Brizy, ACF and JetEng...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 10th August 2020

Is WordPress the best option for bloggers or do some of the rival services offer a better set of features and ease of use? This argument is not as simple as you might think. I know that we\'re all into WordPress, but perhaps we need to get some distance and see what the competition is actually doing. Perhaps they have some unique options that WordPress does not have? Perhaps the simplicity is what...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 3rd August 2020

You need maps on a website like you need butter on toast. I really struggle to think of too many projects that I\'ve built where the client did not want a maps show there business location. It might be that you can get away with a simple Google maps embed, but what if you want something more complex? Well, there\'s a plugin for that called MapsMarker and it\'s the topic of the podcast today. Rober...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 27th July 2020

If you\'ve been building WordPress websites for any length of time, then you know this debate inside out. Should you get all the content from the client before you start the project? The answer is not as simple as you think. There are so many factors at play. Clients who just don\'t know what they want until they see it. Clients who don\'t understand your processes. Perhaps you even prefer to iter...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 20th July 2020

I got into building WordPress websites because I like building websites. Now that is a breathtaking insight I know! But it\'s important to think about this for a minute. I have no metrics on this, but I know for certain that I spend quite a but of my week just patching up and maintaining websites that I\'ve already built. This is covered by my care plans but I\'m not all that sure how profitable m...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 13th July 2020

This week on the WP Builds Weekly WordPress Podcast we talk about the subject of static hosting. You\'ve used hosting for years, you know how it works and how to make it work. You\'re happy. And then people start talking about a clever new way of hosting - static hosting and you\'ve got to throw most of that knowledge out of the window! So... why...? Because it\'s fast, secure and new, that\'s why...