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This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 15th April 2019: WordPress Core WordPress 5.2 Beta 3 Gutenberg 5.5 Adds New Group Block for Nesting Child Blocks Community WordCamp Europe Publishes 2019 Speaker Lineup, Contributor Day Registration is Now Open WordCamp for Publishers is Coming to Columbus, OH, August 7-9, Call for Speakers Now […]

In this episode David and I talk about the subject of pricing and in particular the thorny subject of putting prices up. We get started with a chat about what systems we use to actually receive payments from clients, PayPal, Stripe and good old fashioned bank transfers. We then move on to discuss what we\'ve done in the past to up our rates. It turns out that maybe we need your help with this as t...

This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 8th April 2019: WordPress Core WordPress 5.2 Beta 2 Gutenberg Team Publishes RFC Document on Widget-Block Interfaces Community WordSesh Returns May 22, 2019, Speaker Application Deadline is April 19 GoDaddy Acquires ThemeBeans, CoBlocks, Block Gallery, and Block Unit Tests Security SQL Injection in Advance Contact Form […]

Joe has been in the WordPress space for years and years. Working as a freelancer at the start, then as a member of a large agency. All of that is now behind him and he\'s got a whole heap of different things that he\'s doing. He\'s a podcaster, a creator of videos for himself and for third parties, but perhaps most importantly he\'s a creator of online courses in the WordPress space. If you want t...

This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 1st April 2019: WordPress Core WordPress 5.2 to Make Gutenberg Block Editor Use Mandatory for All WordPress Sites“Since its initial release in WordPress 5.0, WordPress fans have used the new Gutenberg block editor to publish billions of posts on millions of websites. Third-party developers have also […]

When you sell your WordPress websites to your clients, do you push the logical or the emotional? Do you talk about technical details or how easy and beautiful it will be? It\'s so easy to go down the route of the technical details, the SEO and caching that you\'ll put in place - this will all be good, but maybe your clients want to hear about cool it\'s going to look and how it\'s going to make pe...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 25th March 2019

Do you post your content to multiple social platforms? If you do, I\'m almost certain that this task is a little bit on the dull side. Is it isn\'t it? It takes time and is repetitive. Social Web Suite is a WordPress plugin that hooks into your social media accounts just waiting for your to publish something. As soon as you do, it gets to work making the social media posting nightmare evaporate -...

This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 18th March 2019: WordPress Core WordPress Ends Support for PHP 5.2 – 5.5, Bumps Minimum Required PHP Version to 5.6“WordPress has officially ended support for PHP 5.2 – 5.5 and bumped its minimum required PHP version to 5.6. The plan announced last December was to bump […]

If you\'re a WordPress user then you\'ve used heaps of plugins in the past. They enable WordPress to do anything don\'t they? That\'s WordPress\' greatest strength and it\'s largest curse! There are so many to choose from, and all that choice leads to plugin fatigue. You never quite know if the plugin that you\'re using is \'the best\' and so you\'re constantly on the look out for a newer, shinier...

This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 11th March 2019: WordPress Core WordPress 5.1.1 Patches Critical Vulnerability“WordPress 5.1.1 was released yesterday evening with an important security update for a critical cross-site scripting vulnerability found in 5.1 and prior versions. The release post credited Simon Scannell of RIPS Technologies for discovering and reporting the […]

Email marketing is usually the domain of expensive SaaS apps. Well, not any more. With the Groundhogg WordPress plugin you can automate all-the-things from inside your website! It\'s got lots of customisation options and works with a visual builder, just like the services that you\'re currently using. Adrian comes on to tell us about how it all got started and how the plugin works and what scenari...

This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 4th March 2019: WordPress Core Introducing the WordPress Triage Team“As WordPress has grown, the volume of tickets in Trac has naturally increased. While the number of open tickets on its own should never be the sole metric of software health, a large number of open tickets […]

There are so many ways you can get paid for building WordPress websites, and if you\'ve been in this industry for any length of time, then you\'ve perhaps tried a few out? Do you charge on-off fees or use a model which judges the value that you add to the client\'s business? Perhaps you perfer to work on the basis that the website is an ongoing cost and the recurring revenue is really where you sh...

WP Builds Newsletter #52 - Blocks management, image creation and free videos

It\'s all the rage isn\'t it? Set up an online course and teach the world about the things you know! You\'ve seen the Facebook ads. You\'ve sat down and thought about all the great content they you\'ll teach to your students, made some videos, created some handouts, even devised some tests that the students will have to complete to graduate. But then the daunting question arises... how do I actual...

WP Builds Newsletter #51 - WordPress 5.1 released, plugin updates and AI gets really scary

Do you glaze over when someone talks about internet security? Well, you\'re not alone - it\'s quite a difficult subject to understand. Thank heavens then that there\'s people like Oliver Sild who will understand it all for you. His company, WebARX has built a product which get all of your WordPress websites secured. They have one central dashboard which shows you all of the activity on your sites....

WP Builds Newsletter #50 - WordPress 5.1 RC, multiple vulnerabilities and AI gets scary

Are you the type of person who always does what your clients ask of you, or do you get angry with them? It\'s hardly a binary answer is it, but it certainly feels like it is sometimes! We\'ve all been there... you\'ve worked really hard on their WordPress website and you think that you\'ve done everything right, but then the client comes back to you with a difficult email and your serenity is blow...

WP Builds Newsletter #49 - New Gutenberg blocks, Wordfence Central and DuckDuckGo rising

Adam has been on the podcast before, but on that occasion he was talking about his life as a freelancer, not as the owner of a SaaS app! He\'s founded a company called \'Split Hero\' which is laser focussed upon one thing - split testing your WordPress website pages and gain meaningful data back about which one wins! Hang on a minute though... what is a \'split test\'? Well, I\'m glad you asked...

WP Builds Newsletter #48 - WordPress 5.1 Beta 3, Plugin updates and Google dominates

Should we be available on the phone to deal with client issues for our WordPress website business? I have had this conversation so many times in the past with so many people! We all know that, in the right hands, a phone can be one of the best ways to engage with your clients. But, in the wrong hands, the phone can be a scary thing that wastes your time and causes you stress and anxiety. See what...

WP Builds Newsletter #47 - WordPress 5.1, Gutenberg and Page Builder updates and new Google Search Console features