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WP Builds Newsletter #20 - WordPress 4.9.7 & 4.9.8 plus a spaceship going to the sun

Brizy Page Builder ... This episode feels like it's timed at right moment because, if like me, you are always hunting around WordPress communities for news, then you cannot have failed to hear about the new Page Builder on the block - Brizy . We've become used to Page Builders now haven't we? Well, many of us have anyway! They cut a huge amount of time and effort out of creating pages in your Word...

WP Builds Newsletter #19 - Acquisitions madness, flaw in WordPress Core and loads of Google stuff

One of the best things about doing this podcast is getting to meet people that I might not otherwise have had the chance to talk to. Often those people are doing amazing things in the WordPress space. Dan Maby is one such person. He’s doing really amazing things, and I loved chatting with him. Dan appears to be on a mission to set up WordPress meetups all over the UK, and this is no trivial task....

This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 18th June 2018: Matt Mullenweg Unveils Gutenberg Roadmap at WCEU, WordPress Agencies and Product Developers Sprint to PrepareLast week I mentioned the fact that Matt Mullenweg had spoken about Gutenberg at WCEU. What I forgot to mention was the timeline that he spelled out. I’m not […]

This week on the podcast we talk about something that is very dear to my heart… WordPress security! I have literally no idea why this subject fascinates me as much as it does, but for some reason, I cannot help myself, I just love it! I am interested in WordPress / internet security from the 10,000 mile high perspective. I’m not the kind of person to delve into the math of Elliptic Curves or Diffi...

WP Builds Newsletter #17 - State of the Word Address, Gutenberg Ramp and a spying football app

Ever heard of Gutenberg? Nah, nobody in the WordPress community has mentioned it at all this year have they?! It's the most talked about thing in WordPress right now, and for good reason. When WordPress 5.0 ships at some point in 2018, Gutenberg will be along for the ride too, and it's going to change WordPress in a pretty significant way. Now, I'm not too sure exactly what it will look like and e...

WP Builds Newsletter #16 - WordPress in 7kb, malware eating malware and an underwater datacenter

I really like Zac Gordon. He's one of those effervescent people who just exude warmth and thoughtfulness. I recently watched his talk at WordCamp London 2018 and he was such a great public speaker; able to chat to the room and not talk at them. His talk was about Gutenberg... because, well, you know... it's coming! He really knows his stuff too! What's that saying...? "If you can teach someone a s...

WP Builds Newsletter #15 - Massive Gutenberg tutorials, Yoast ruins SEO and the end of tablets

Quite a while ago now, we had a chat with Amir Helzer, the CEO of onTheGoSystems, the people behind the popular WPML and Toolset plugins. Well, time and tide wait for no website, and developers need to keep innovating and updating their products to keep them relevant. Amir is on the show this week to chat through some of the important updates that they've been busy with. We talk quite a lot about...

WP Builds Newsletter #14 - WordPress is 15, WP 4.9.6 updates anyone and Google is now "evil"

I don’t know much about design. I’m one of those people who knows what they like when they see it. So I’m basically your worst client! Luckily there are people out there who do understand design. They think about it deeply and understand why some combinations of colours and shapes work well (good designers) and others don’t (me and turnips). Piccia Neri is one such person; she’s good at design and...

WP Builds Newsletter #13 - WordPress major update? Hacking / Cryptomining and Google warnings

In this episode we get to chat to Sujay Pawar, somewhat of a rising star of the WordPress world. I think that it’s quite likely that you’ve heard of some of the products that his company (Brainstorm Force) have created over the years. Shall I just list them out for you, so that you can say, “Yes, I’ve heard of those,” at the end? The Astra Theme, Ultimate Addons for Beaver Builder, Ultimate Addons...

WP Builds Newsletter #12 - Free SEO course from Yoast, GDPR compliance and SEO renaissance

You discovered WordPress a while back and you thought, "this is great, but I need more fields". Admit it, that's exactly what you said isn't it? Well Elliot Condon heard your cry and went out and built ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) for you. It's about the most useful thing that you could add to WordPress other than, say, the Pro version of ACF, which is even better! You get heaps of new fields to p...

WP Builds Newsletter #11 - WordPress turns 15, Trusted Authors Program and WordPress Hacked by a Child

Way back in September 2017, we did an episode called " Build it out of love. The morality of GPL licenses ". In this episode David an I (as is our custom) spoke at great length with almost zero understand of the subject matter. I'm happy to say that most of you just tut and move on, but one or two of you are really, really listening and decide to question our proclamations! Jonathan Bossenger is s...

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