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WP Builds Newsletter #10 - SEO tweaks, Toolset pricing and a new browser from Opera

This week we have Daniel David on the show talking about his plugin, Smart Slider 3 . If you have not used a slider on any of your WordPress website projects, then it might be time to have another look, because, these things are pretty amazing these days. Smart Slider 3 does not just slide things in from one side of the screen to the other in fun ways, oh my goodness no, it does a whole lot more t...

WP Builds Newsletter #9 - Gutenberg \'off\', dead page builder and Chrome stops annoying videos

On the podcast today we’ve got Claudio Benvenuti from HardyPress, a company who do hosting your WordPress site a little differently. The normal hosting environment for WordPress usually involves a LAMP stack of some kind and that’s about it. It’s more complex as that as we all know, but that’s your basic level and it goes up from there. The amount of money that you spend buys you things like more...

WP Builds Newsletter #8 - Elementor updates / API, WooCommerce loves GDPR and Theme Review Changes

Let me introduce you to Bob Dunn (a.k.a. BobWP), ha, like that’s a sentence that you’re going to be able to say! We all know about Bob don’t we? We’ve read his many blogs and listened to his many podcasts and he’s taught us all a great deal. So this one was a great one for me to do as I have a huge amount of respect for Bob and all that he does for WordPress. What, I think, makes Bob unique is the...

WP Builds Newsletter #7 - Gutenberg, JetPack, WP Rocket updated and there\'s a tiny camera

The SaaS app that you use on the WP Builds website to enter the competitions is called Viral Loops and today we have Savvas Zortikis on to speak about it. The idea behind viral marketing is that you offer something that people want and you ask them for their email in return. Well, that\'s all pretty standard stuff that we\'ve all known about since 1995! The word \'viral\' is used here because of t...

WP Builds Newsletter #6 - It\'s all numbers - PHP 7, WordPress 4.9.5, BuddyPress 10, Elementor 2

In this episode of the WP Builds podcast we get to talk to a very generous man! He\'s called Barna Buxbaum and he\'s the man behind the wildly popular template pack for the Elementor Page Builder called Katka. I\'m always astonished by how people produce amazing things in the WordPress space and then just give them away for nothing! How cool is that? Barna\'s Katka is a huge library of over 170 (y...

WP Builds Newsletter #5 - Covering The Week Commencing 19th March 2018

On the podcast this week we have not one, but two guests! They\'ve come on to talk about the work that they\'ve been doing to keep the amazingly popular WordPress theme GeneratePress up to date and relevant. Those two people are Tom Usborne, the lead developer from GeneratePress, and Paul Lacey, a long time user of the theme who runs , a WordPress agency based in the UK. Tom thought that it was ti...

WP Builds Newsletter #4 - Covering The Week Commencing 12th March 2018

Two for the price of one! That\'s what this episode feels like, because not only do I get to interview Clark Marshall from Blue Dog Digital, but I also get to interview our very own David Waumsley, AT THE SAME TIME! The reason that we have them both on the show is that both Clark and David have made some very important decisions about how they would like their lives to pan out. They decided to bec...

WP Builds Newsletter #3 - Covering The Week Commencing 5th March 2018

In this episode of the WP Builds podcast we chat to Pia Silva from badassyourbrand.com. She\'s a New Yorker with a whole load of energy and is a lady on a mission to \"Bad Ass Your Brand\". It\'s the title of her book as well as her philosophy to create a brand for your company. It\'s definitely not about just growing your agency; more staff, more contracts more... everything. It\'s about cutting...

WP Builds Newsletter #2 - Week Commencing 26th February 2018

This week we chat to the man who in the world of WordPress needs no introduction... Troy Dean. He\'s become an important figure in our community and is a great podcast guest who has a lot of great advice. Of course, you\'ll know about Troy from his very successful projects such as WP Elevation and Rock Star Empires. His courses have inspired many people (me included) to really take a long look at...

WP Builds Newsletter #1 - Week Commencing 19th February 2018

In this episode we are joined for the second time by Mike Killen who runs Sell Your Service. Last time he was on the WP Builds podcast, he talked about how to create funnels to assist you with your marketing goals. He made the process seem to simple! Well, I think that his experience on the podcast went to his head, because soon after we\'d ended the call we started to talk about his new idea - Be...

So many of you are now using a Page Builder, admit it! Honestly, why wouldn\'t you, they are such a great way to cut hours of time out of the development process of your WordPress web site. Well, I\'m sure that you\'ve heard of Beaver Builder, one of the Page Builders that you really ought to be using. I could go into all the reasons, but suffice to say that it\'s polished, reliable, and as stable...

Let\'s be clear, this is a great story about something that we\'d all like to happen to us! So you\'re a developer and you come up with an idea that you decide you should build. You really don\'t think about whether or not there is a target market and how many potential customers you\'re going to have, you just build it because you have the ability to do it. Then, one day, more or less by chance y...

It seems that Eric is one of those people who is always creating new things. I\'m not exaggerating when I say that, I really do mean that every couple of months he\'s trying his hand at something new! Lucky for us, Eric is really rather good at actually delivering new things that are well made and useful, and Instant IDE is no exception. It\'s new, but is already a pretty robust product, with auto...

Since the dawn of the internet, it was pretty obvious that if you wanted to do anything other than look at \"stuff that other people had put there\", you were going to need forms. You can submit things to a web site and they can then parse that data, do fun things to it and then present it to you in a different way. So now there are forms everywhere! Mark Sinclair explains why SparkChart is a powe...

The Elementor folk are thinking about the future and how the product is going to evolve over the coming year. The obvious question is how Elementor is going to align with Gutenberg which is now only a few months away. Are Gutenberg and Elementor in opposition or are they going to work in harmony together? What are the plans to introduce an Elementor Theme Builder, and will it be a new product, or...