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In this episode of the WP Builds podcast we have a slightly different take from the usual WP related content, because this week, we’re talking to James Rose form Content Snare, which has no connection to WordPress at all! However, fear not, all is not lost because this has a great deal to do with your web design and development business.

This is an episode that I really wanted to do. Generate Press is a WordPress theme that I’ve been using for quite a while now, and it’s my theme of choice. The options that it presents are powerful and yet the theme itself if very lightweight. Hooks galore, tasteful defaults, in short a great WordPress theme.

Today we had a carefully considered and mature debate about the removal of the 50% yearly discount on Woocommerce extensions. We also recorded today\'s podcast which ... erm... is not entirely like that. LISTENER DISCRETION IS STRONGLY ADVISED. That’s not because we use rude words… Nah, it\'s simply that no-one can resist a warning and we don\'t have an interesting guest for you this week.

Today we have the hugely talented, young and successful Jack McConnell from Made with Fuel on the show. Made with Fuel is one-man WordPress web design and development agency based in Bath in the UK that focus on Websites, Online Stores and Membership Sites. He also makes plugins like Better Notifications for WordPress among others. In this episode he shares his experience of that.

How do we introduce Jim Galiano? Galiano (you need to say that like you’re Robert De Niro), New Yorker accent, grandfather in the boxing business, connections with entertainers. We know what you’re thinking… mafia support... Jim is an online consultant and author who started years ago and has loads to share.

This theme then transitioned into the very popular Dynamik Website Builder (a customizable Child theme for the Genesis Framework) and Genesis Extender (a tool to help customize other Genesis Child theme). \"Yeah dude now we\'re talking... Frameworks are cosmic!\". Years of blissful happiness ensued.

Today we rejoice! We have that nice Paul Lacey with us! We are in the WordPress Community! Let\'s hold hands and sing and dance around the podcasty campfire... Ah, no, no wait, that\'s too disturbing! In truth, this episode is about Paul\'s 10 plus year journey working with WordPress.

Chantal, from 1daywebs, turned her website design business away from the tedium long drawn out projects to the heart fluttering thrills of one day web builds. She’s never looked back. D\'ya fancy some of that too?

Today we welcome back Robby and Justin from Beaver Builder. The last time they joined us was for our Christmas special. This time it just feels like Christmas. If you didn’t know already the Beaver Builder team have just released their Beaver Themer extension.

This week we talk to not one, but two lovely developers (Nathan Tyler and Natalie MacLees) from California who have a really interesting take on launching their plugin. Their new plugin, Simply Schedule Appointments is launching BEFORE it’s ready!

Today we talked about the price of using WordPress. No, it\'s not a long sob story about how the wife and kid left us! Those trailer park days are behind us now! The topic came out of a Facebook discussion around a plugin release. It got us thinking about our expectations as \"professional\" builders of websites.

In this episode (drum roll please) we had the great honor of talking to Amir Helzer. Amir is the CEO of OnTheGoSystems known for WP-Types\' Toolset, the WPML multilanguage plugin and also ICanLocalize. Yes, indeed, how did we manage that? More to the point, how did he manage that?

We hate to say it, but DIY website building solutions are getting more attractive all the time. They offer an empowering solution to the \"I want a website\" problem. Are we facing extinction?

My oh my! Software licenses. What a knotty subject that it. It seems we both came to WordPress seeing software primarily as the tools we use to build websites. I mean who asks a plumber what spanner he (sometimes she) uses to fix a boiler? Okay, maybe Nathan might, but that’s not the point!

Today we ask ourselves what skills do we need to offer a full web design service. That sounded like a great topic. It turns out it\'s a bit slippery this one. Is a webdesigner like a graphic designer for the web or someone who designs business solutions that are realised on the web?

In what can only be described as a bizarre coincidence today is \"World day of making a podcast about WordCamps\". Even more freakily (is that really a word?) we have both just recently attended our first WordCamps. I know, you\'re right - it’s almost unbelievable!

No guests this week. Just Nathan and David. Two guys in their middle youth chatting about stuff we love. Ok, there maybe little bit of venting, but actually this is quite a nice topic. Happy “Knowledge Base” day ;-)

Today we talk about multiple income streams with Davinder Singh Kainth. Many will know Davinder from his ProBeaver site, weekly newsletter and tireless support in the Beaver Builder Facebook Group.

In this episode we are joined by Adam Lacey from penguinmedia.co.uk. We chat about coping when enthusiastic clients want to exercise their creativity. We ask how much we restrict their role both during and after the website build?

Today we are joined by Doug Belchamber for a chat about the development of page builders. Naturally, we’re huge Beaver Builder fans so this episode is very much inspired by the Alpha release of \"Beaver Themer\".

In this, episode 13 of the WP Builds podcast, we take a slightly different direction! We have Hani Mourra on, telling us about his experiences building a WordPress plugin in the podcasting space.

This week David Waumsley and Nathan Wrigley discuss the 5 tools that they could not live without. This is not supposed to be some sensationalist list that makes you want to go out and buy things! Rather, it’s just the tools that we’ve settled upon after trying out quite a few over the years.

In this episode of the WP Builds podcast Nathan Wrigley and David Waumsley talk about the feast / famine cycle of being a freelancer. Of course, we don\'t have the answers, but we we are experimenting with approaches.

In this episode of the WP Builds podcast, David Waumsley and Nathan Wrigley discuss the subject of work / life balance. What time of the day do you start work, and what time do you stop? Perhaps you work around your family commitments, or do the family have to work around you?

In this, episode 9 of the WPBuilds podcast, David Waumsley and Nathan Wrigley discuss the topic of promoting a web design business. Being the non-experts that they both are, they do some of the things that they talk about. Most of the ideas are things that they’ve heard about, but don’t do!