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Phil Singleton is one of those guys who seems to do 15 things all at once, and doing them really well. His background, like many of us is not web design and development. He started in finance and insurance and hated it. Now he\'s an SEO specialist with a projects under his belt. We chat about the fact that SEO has changed over the years and what strategies you can employ with your WordPress websit...

WP Builds Newsletter #46 - Automattic announces Newspack, WordPress 5.1 feature and Gutenberg layouts

In this discussion episode with David and I, we discuss an idea called \"The Magic Email\". It\'s a really simple email that you can send to get something... anything back from a client who has gone AWOL. Simply, the email is designed to be deployed with the minimum of effort from you, but in return you\'ll get clarity if the email is replied to as well as if the email is not replied to! It\'s 17...

WP Builds Newsletter #45 - WordPress 5.0.3, we\'re no longer bloggers and free GitHub

Today we have not one but two people on the podcast. Baptiste Debever and Francois Forest are WordPress plugin and theme developers based in France. During this podcast we discuss two of their products, a WordPress theme called WOffice and a SaaS app called Feedier. They both do completely different things, one is a WordPress intranet and the other is a feedback SaaS app... so let\'s get started.....

WP Builds Newsletter #44 - WordPress marketing, image optimisation and a super detailed image

Happy New Year 2019! In this episode of the WP Builds WordPress podcast we take a bit of a look back at some of the things that we thought we important in 2018. Now I don\'t mean to imply that David and myself have any special insight here, it\'s just what occurred to us as important for 2018 and the way that we use WordPress. Some of this might not seem all that important to you, and undoubtedly...

Today we have an episode that deals with something very dear to my heart, writing blog posts - like this one! One of the problems that I have is that I write a post like this in WordPress and then publish it. It goes onto the website and I hope that people like you will read it and listen to the podcast episode. However, we\'re all busy people these days and it might be that you miss this post. I...

This episode is a little bit of a departure for us as it was inspired by the people in the WP Builds Facebook group (which you should join BTW). It is all based upon a in which David asked the simple question, \"What\'s the one thing you love about building client websites?\" Well, I think that both of us thought that this might get one or two comments, but in fact they poured in - 119 of them at...

WP Builds Newsletter #43 - Updates WordPress 5 already, PHP updates and social media is news

This week we have Mor Cohen on from Washington State in America and she\'s with us because she has a new course that she\'s launching called \"The GeneratePress and Elementor Design Course\". This course is designed for people like me, and when I say that it\'s unlikely that you need this course as much as I do because I have the design skills of a peanut! I can see what makes a design good, and I...

WP Builds Newsletter #42 - WordPress 5.0 is out, nobody dies and Google stepping into WordPress

This is a little bit of a departure for us today because we take a deep dive into the life of our guest - Rebecca Gill. Typically on the podcast we chat about plugins and themes and talk to developers about their ideas and their code. Not today, well not just that today! Today we listen to the story of how life has shaped Rebecca, and I can tell you that so much has happened to her that it\'s amaz...

WP Builds Newsletter #41 - WordPress 5.0 RC2, Plugin vulnerabilities and FBI takes down ad fraud network

We talk to Paul Lacey and discuss with him what UI is. Both David and I work as independent freelancers and this means that we have a process that has worked for us over time. Paul however is part of a growing agency called DickieBirds and this means that he has to think about all this more than we do. It\'s a wide ranging discussion which might resonate with you if you are working with WordPress...

WP Builds Newsletter #40 - WordPress Release Candidate 5.0, new blocks creator and VSCode course

This week on the podcast we have a man that I have no doubt that you\'ve seen before? He\'s got a very popular YouTube channel called WP Crafter. It\'s a channel in which Adam creates videos explaining how WordPress plugins and themes work. It\'s really popular, like really popular. Okay so that\'s why you\'ve heard of him, but it\'s not why he\'s on the podcast today. The reason that he\'s on is...

WP Builds Newsletter #39 - WordPress 5.0 beta 5, GDPR plugin hack and comments in Google SERPs

We all have things in our lives that we want to quit, but we\'re limiting this conversation to your work as a WordPress professional and the moments in the day when you start to do things that you know that you shouldn\'t! Perhaps it\'s too much Facebook. You\'ve set up email notifications to appear, and appear they do, with alarming regularity. Several time an hour you get pinged and go to read w...

WP Builds Newsletter #38 - WordPress 5.0 update delayed, multiple security concerns and do you earn enough?

Today we welcome Matt Mullenweg on to the WP Builds podcast. Matt has been using WordPress as long as anyone else, with one exception! He is the co-founder of WordPress along with Mike Little, so he knows a thing or two. We talk about Gutenberg, why Matt thinks that we need it, and why we need it now. We go on to chat about how it\'s divided the WordPress community, especially from the perspective...

WP Builds Newsletter #37 - Gutenberg accessibility updates, PHP 5 dead and Red Hat bought

In this LIVE Webinar we celebrate the 100th episode of the WP Builds podcast! It was a bit of a technological disaster! David Waumsley and I both got kicked out of the webinar before it had started and then we in a webinar all alone for 28 minutes as the webinar tech support worked out what went wrong. Jim and David McCan held the fort until we returned - very cool! We discussed what we think are...

WP Builds Newsletter #36 - WordPress 5.0 Beta, getting bored with WordPress and video news

Today, we get to meet Laura Elizabeth. She’s a designer turned plugin creator that has some good ideas for you! Like I say, she’s a designer and her latest product, Client Portal, is a great way to help you and your clients to stay on the same page. If you build WordPress websites for clients, then I think that you’ll know this problem… you get out of sync with your clients and all the communicati...