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Today we have a chat with Brian Jackson from Kinsta. Kinsta are a managed WordPress hosting company who have grow rapidly since their inception in 2013. When they started managed WordPress hosting was not the giant business that it was today. In those days we were still opting for shared hosting and VPS hosting. But with the advent of cloud platforms such as Amazon\'s AWS and Google Cloud, there c...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 7th October 2019

This discussion is about marketing, and it has a very click-bait title! It’s probably safe to say that we are not experts in marketing and certainly not marketing funnels. Nevertheless we thought we would chat about this and why we might need to get better a digital marketing for ourselves and clients and where WordPress could help with that. What\'s different about this discussion is that really...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 30th September 2019

This is a little bit different. Today we talk to Brad Touesnard from Delicious Brains about Spinup WP their new service which aims to make it trivially simple to get your WordPress website up and running on a cloud hosting provider - in fact just about anywhere. You login to their platform, fill out a few form fields and then go and grab a coffee. By the time that you\'re done your WordPress optim...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 23rd September 2019

Do you think that you\'re a success as a WordPress professional? Have you got everything sorted out and working just how you like it? Perhaps yes, but possibly no! What exactly do we mean by failure? Is it a measure of how much we earn, the kind of work that we are able to do? Perhaps it\'s the amount of free time that our work allows us to have at our disposal. Failure is not so easy to pin down....

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 16th September 2019

What to know how a growing WordPress website agency manages their projects? Well this is the podcast for you. Today we hear from James and Martin Coates from Impact Media. They tell us about the tools that they use to make their agency as efficient as possible. Wireframes to video creation, image manipulation to automated testing we learn it all. We also chat about their preferred plugins for part...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 9th September 2019

Times have changed... It used to be that creating websites was really tedious. It took hours to get anything to go where you wanted it. Along came WordPress themes and life got a little easier, well sometimes, and then we got Page Builders with their rows and modules. Now you can get templates for just about anything and can have sites built in a matter of hours, but should we do it this way? Shou...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 2nd September 2019

If you create content you know that it\'s nice to be rewarded for that. The Like Coin is a Block Chain idea which might make this possible. People click a button, you get paid! The internet came along and suddenly everything was free, free news, free magazines, free books. But authors of content need to get paid and paywalls, donations are not working. What if you could click a button and pay some...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 26th August 2019

So we all build websites. Perhaps we don\'t. Perhaps we\'re just involved with WordPress as a marketing expert, or a graphic designer. WordPress is useful to a whole slew of different job types which is great, but can also be a burden. What I mean by that is that there are so many hats that you can wear in the WordPress space, so many jobs that are needed to get a website up, running and maintaine...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 19th August 2019

You\'ve been using a Page Builder to design your WordPress websites and life is great. But it could be better. The Page Builder Cloud plugin allows you to save your layouts to the cloud and reuse them on whatever website you want. So you can start to build your own library of layouts and they\'re right there, waiting to be deployed and save you a heap of time. The plugin is also going to be able t...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 12th August 2019

This is the second episode about WordPress security. In this podcast we talk about the range of security plugins that we\'ve heard of. It\'s by no means an exhaustive list, bit we cover some of the main options that you\'ve heard of. We discuss these WordPress security plugins; what options do they offer, do we understand what they\'re doing and how do we pass on the responsibility for security to...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 5th August 2019

This is the first in a two part podcast about WordPress and security. In this episode we go over all of the potential problems that you might encounter with your WordPress website. There\'s the usual things such as uptime monitoring, backups and implementing a firewall, but there\'s also some other, more unusual topics. Do you make sure that you\'re keeping your client data safe? Are you expunging...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 29th July 2019.

If you\'ve been using WordPress any length of time, you\'ll have run into the frustrations that the Media Library can present. It\'s a pretty decent UI, but it\'s not as good as services that we\'re using such as Google Drive or Dropbox. WP Media Manager aims to fix that. Not only does it look great but it stores all of your assets in Amazon S3 or Microsoft Azure with all of the benefits that this...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 22nd July 2019

Today, the podcast talks about tasks. Not so much the tasks themselves, but more the way that we approach them. We discuss the way that different people have the ability to move happily from task to task, whilst other people need to complete one task before they can move onto another one. I guess that there\'s no \'right\' way to accomplish tasks, but it\'s interesting to see whether or not we thi...