WP Builds

So if you\'ve kept up with the latest developments in WordPress then you\'ll have heard the words / phrases \'Gutenberg\', \'FSE\', \'Block Themes\', \'Blocks\' and a lot more. You\'ll also likely have heard of our guest on the podcast today, Rich Tabor. He\'s been in the WordPress space for many years working in the theme space, but now he\'s shifted over to all the \'new things\', and is making...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 12th September 2022.

Welcome to another in the Business Bootcamp series where we relearn everything we know about building WordPress sites, and running a web design business from start to finish. We are on Season 4 which is a short season looking at training clients. Today we are talking about website documentation and support. When we hand over a website, are we obliged to support it into the future, or can we just h...

If you\'ve used WordPress for any length of time and use plugins, it\'s highly likely that you\'ve seen notifications in the backend which you did not expect. Perhaps they were ads, or upsells for things which are already installed. WordPress notifications serve a purpose. They are there for a very good reason, to notify you of things that you ought to be aware of. You just published a post. Somet...

Welcome to another in the Business Bootcamp series where we relearn everything we know about building WordPress sites, and running a web design business from start to finish. We are taking contrasting approaches to getting our new businesses running and our first client’s site built. Today we\'re talking about what you, or don\'t do when handing over the site in terms of training. Do you prepare r...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 15th August 2022.

On the podcast today we have WPCodeBox plugin developer Ovidiu Maghetiu, and he\'s here to explain how it works and what it can do, and it can do... a lot! WPCodeBox is turning out to be one of those plugins that you know that you\'re going to use for years to come. What I really like about this plugin is that it\'s a conduit for your imagination. Many plugins offer you a pathway for achieving a p...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 8th August 2022.

So the moment has arrived. You\'ve busted a jut and got the website finished. It\'s 100% ready to roll. Now what? Well, you\'ve got to launch it and let the world see the great work that you\'ve done! So what\'s involved in that? What do you typically need to do to make that happen? This is the subject that we explore on the podcast today and it\'s one where David and Nathan have different approac...

On the podcast today we have Raitis Sevelis from Visual Composer, and he\'s here today to talk about the how you should use your WordPress page builder with pride and explain to your clients the many benefits that it brings to your workflow. There was a time when page builders first came around that they were somewhat spurned in the community. Not by all, and not for long. They were doing things i...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 25th July 2022.

Welcome to another in the Business Bootcamp series where we relearn everything we know about building WordPress sites and running a web design business from start to finish. And today we are discussing \'Legal stuff\'. So this is about what we know (which is coming from our perspective, not that of a lawyer) about what responsibilities we have as the builders of WordPress websites for clients. Som...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 18th July 2022.

So on the podcast today we have Amber Hinds and she\'s here to use her expertise to explain how and why WordPress websites need to be accessible. It\'s a really important topic at the moment. There seems to be a groundswell of understanding that the web really does need to be made available to all, and that means thinking about all the people who might be visiting your site. So that\'s people who...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 11th July 2022.

There\'s a WordPress plugin solution for almost every possible scenario. Booking - done. Commerce - done. Learning management - done. Done, done and done. In fact in many cases, there\'s many different plugins available with slightly differing features! We\'re spoilt for choice frankly. By are there times when it\'s better for you or your client to think outside of WordPress plugins and consider a...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 4th July 2022.

This episode is like no other we\'ve ever put out, because it\'s not really about WordPress, more about a lifestyle that working with WordPress might allow you to have. Alex is on the podcast today to talk about the decisions that he\'s made to be a digital nomad. Now, when I think about the phrase digital nomad, it conjures up images of people who are constantly on the move. Moving from place to...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 27th July 2022.

Welcome to another in the Business Bootcamp series where we relearn everything we know about building WP sites and running a web design business from start to finish.  We are on the third episode of Season 3 where we are looking at The Technical Build. And today we are discussing \'Performance testing during the build\'. Here we are primarily thinking about front and back end technical performance...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 20th June 2022.

So I\'m going to keep this brief, as this podcast was a little bit of a scoop, which we don\'t often get! Last week it was announced that Elementor (the page builder) had bought Strattic (the headless hosting company). I thought that this was an interesting purchase and I wanted to know more. Very quickly I was able to get hold of the co-founder of Strattic, Miriam Schwab, and Amitai Gat, the prod...

The web designer’s tech stack. We last talked about the website building platform we might use for this project. Here we are widening this and look at the basic essential hardware and software we might need to start our business. So it\'s all the \'stuff\' that you have around you, both physical objects like a computer and a phone, as well as the software that you might be using. When you get into...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 6th June 2022.

DEAL ALERT - there\'s a deal mentioned in the podcast - do NOT miss out on this one, as it\'s truly fabulous, not only in what you get, but in the way that you get it! It\'s running until 23rd June 2022. So this plugin (If-So) is such a powerhouse, I don\'t even know where to start. It\'s a WordPress plugin designed to allow you to create content on your site which will display based upon a whole...