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This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 28th February 2022

WP Builds is all about the WordPress community, but we\'re not alone in that. There are many places that you can hang out to find out what\'s going on, news updates, product launches and stories about members of the community. HeroPress is one such place, and it\'s been putting out great content about members of the community for years. Today on the podcast we have Cate and Topher DeRosia, the fou...

To stay in business, you need to keep working. That usually means more clients. But where does this never ending conveyor belt of clients come from? What can you do to avoid gaps in your work roster? There\'s no magic bullet, and likely there\'s disappointment along the way. But you\'ll get into a pattern of gaining work at some point, but it\'s good to discuss some of the things that we\'ve tried...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 14th 2022

So today we\'re talking about security, but not what you might expect. This episode is not about the features which are in a WordPress security plugin. This is about the very nature of hacking and the issues that face us all online. What do people do hacking at all? It\'s a pretty reasonable question! It\'s now simply assumed that the internet can be a dangerous place; your details could be stolen...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 7th February 2022

Welcome to another in our Business Bootcamp series. It’s the series where we relearn everything we know about building WordPress sites, and running a web design business from start to finish. Presently, we are on Season 1 (where we look at what needs to happen) before the build. Have we set the right expectation? Nathan and David are taking different routes to get our invented businesses going and...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 31st January 2022

So this is one of those episodes where you might learn something completely new. Buddy Works (often just called Buddy) is a great tool for saving you some real time, and who does not want more time? Think Zapier, but for all-the-things related to web development. So there\'s a ton of different things that you do over and over again. No matter what business you\'re in, there\'s always going to be r...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing 24th January 2021

Welcome to another in our Business Bootcamp series. It’s the series where we relearn everything we know about building WordPress sites, and running a web design business from start to finish. Today we\'re thinking about the legal side of things... agreements / contracts and payments. How would you handle this as someone new to the industry. Do you even need a contract? Perhaps you\'re starting out...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 10th January 2022

The back story goes like this. I (Nathan) co-host the Page Builder Summit with my friend Anchen le Roux. We invite a range of speakers to come onto that podcast and create presentations which, it is hoped, the attendees will enjoy. We do not pay the speakers for their contributions. We make this very clear and communicate it in advance. There\'s an exchange here, but it\'s not the usual one of \'y...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 10th January 2022

Welcome to another in the WordPress Business Bootcamp series. It’s the series where we relearn everything we know about building WordPress sites and running a web design business from start to finish. Presently, we are on Season 01 (of the series which is looking at the things that need to happen) \'Before the Build\'. This is episode 03... \"Getting a brief and scoping the project\". So this is r...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing 3rd January 2022

Compress your images for a quick way to get a faster website with the EWWW plugin. See how it works on the podcast today with founder Shane Bishop. Go listen...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 13th December 2021

Welcome to another in the WP Business Bootcamp series. It’s the series where we relearn EVERYTHING we know about building WordPress sites and running a web design business from start to finish. The Premise of this series is that we have our first potential website client. All we know is that she is a lawyer in a large city. She asked a mutual friend who thought of us. We have few skills and no bus...

You use WooCommerce, because you need an eCommerce platform and you like WordPress. It\'s kind of the default isn\'t it? WordPress + eCommerce = WooCommerce. Well, on the show today we have Kelly Muro, who want you to rewrite that equation so that it reads like this: WordPress + eCommerce = North Commerce! But, I\'m guessing that you\'ve not heard of North Commerce. Well, neither had I until a few...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 29th November 2021

In this brand new, and huge series of podcast episodes we try to re-learn everything that we know about running a WordPress website business. We start from the idea that we\'ve got our first potential client, but we have no prior experience. So where do we start? What do we do? Where do we go to find inspiration? What methodologies could assist us towards becoming profitable? Join us on this journ...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing 22nd November 2021

One the more challenging things to do when creating a website is to write effective copy. In the era of Page Builders, getting the site to look good and work well is easier than ever... but getting effective and compelling copy on your site is as hard as it\'s ever been. In fact, with the competition out there, all trying to get the same SEO juice as you are, it might be harder than it\'s ever bee...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 15th November 2021