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Our special guest this week is John James Jacoby the joint presenter of WordPress Weekly podcast and the lead developer of both BuddyPress and bbPress since 2010. John has worked at Automattic on a wide variety of projects ranging from WordCamp.org to WordPress.com VIP.

Main Topic How To Us Affiliate Marketing Successfully To Grow Your Business In this week show we discuss affiliate marketing and we have a special guest Brian Jackson Chief Marketing Officer at Kinsta Wordpress Hosting https://kinsta.com/. Brian https://brianjackson.io/ also runs two successful WordPress plugin businesses with this brother Perfmatters https://perfmatters.io/ and WP-Coupons https:/...

This week, host Jonathan Denwood and co-host Kim Shivler discussed learning management systems including fully-hosted third party platforms like Thinkific and Kajabi and WordPress Learning Management System (LMS) plugins like LearnDash and LifterLMS.   In other show episodes, Jonathan and Kim have interviewed Justin Ferriman of LearnDash and Chris Badgett from LifterLMS to discuss their products....

On today’s roundtable, Sallie Goetsch and John Locke joined the show’s co-host Kim Shivler to share tips for making your websites mobile friendly along with recent news stories. While mobile responsive design has been around for many years, and you would think everyone was designing this way by now, we find that many people still ignore it. From large background videos that don’t load well on phon...

We Interview With Joint Founder & CEO of LifterLMS Chris Badgett Chris Badgett went from managing a dog sled tour company in Alaska to the joint creator of LifterLMS; a software company that allows users to have complete control over the creation of their online courses. He’s also the host of the LMSCast podcast and is dedicated to empowering people to generate more impact, and income, with on...

Bill Conrad Founder of National Association of Podcasters We Interview founder of National Association of Podcasters Bill Conrad who also was my co-host of the WP-Tonic show for its first 90 episodes. Bill is now the founder of the National Association of Podcasters and has done a number of presentations at WordCamps on how to use podcasting to build your business and reputation online. Also bill...

This Weeks WordPress New & Discussion Topics (first half of the show) 1 - Interview with Matt Mullenweg on the WordPress ecosystem https://poststatus.com/interview-matt-mullenweg-wordpress-ecosystem-draft-podcast/ 2 - WordPress 4.9 Released with Major Improvements to Customizer Workflow, Updated Code Editors, and New Core Gallery Widget https://wptavern.com/wordpress-4-9-released-with-major-im...

Chris Rogers is the Co-Organizer of WordCamp Las Vegas 2017 and 2014 and Co-Organizer & Frequent Speaker of the Vegas WP Meetup Group. He has a degree in MultiMedia from West Los Angeles College. Chris is a professional actor with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting & Minor in Voice from University of Louisville and started his dance training at the Louisville Ballet. Yesterday, he launched ...

#244: WP Tonic Show We Interview Adam Fout We Discuss The World of Online Content Marketing Does It Really Work? Adam Fout Blue Steele Solutions https://bluesteelesolutions.com/ This is Adam Fout, lead content writer for Blue Steele Solutions and an unabashed content marketing nerd. His articles have been featured on a variety industry sites, including PostFunnel and The Layout, and he'll be speak...

Main Topic “Does The Genesis Framework Have a Future in a World of Theme & Page Builders?” This Weeks New Stories 1 - Gutenberg Contributors Explore Alternative to Using iframes for Meta Boxes https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-contributors-explore-alternative-to-using-iframes-for-meta-boxes   2 - Provide plain language outline of project scope, direction, and goals for Gutenberg https://github.co...

We have a great round-table show here. Our main topic this week is “How Do You Write Great Content For Your WordPress Website?” which is a subject I personally have been focusing on in the last couple of months. We also have some great WordPress news stories which we discuss in the second half of the show.   Main Topic “How Do You Write Great Content For Your WordPress Website?” This Week’s News S...

This week on the WP-Tonic Podcast, host Jonathan Denwood interviewed Scott Bollinger of AppPresser. The two talked about Scott’s business, and the WordPress ecosystem. Scott got the idea for AppPresser ( https://apppresser.com/ ) when he went to WordCamp San Francisco and heard Matt Mullenweg talk about WordPress moving into the Aapp market. He thought of WordPress sites as mobile apps and set out...

We have a great show here with our special guest John James Jacoby who helps us discuss how to setup and use WordPress Multisite. John over the years has been a WordPress core contributor and lead a developer for both the BuddyPress and bbPress projects plus he was Director of Web Engineering at 10up. John also recently has taken up being the co-host the popular weekly WordPress podcast WordPress...

In this episode, Justin Busa Lead Developer at Fast Line Media ( http://www.fastlinemedia.com/ ) the company that makes Beaver Builder, joined host Jonathan Denwood to discuss what’s in the works for Beaver Builder and Beaver Themer. Justin is co-founder of the company. Along with discussing the future of the company’s products, the talked about the fact that Beaver Builder will be four years old...

We have a great WP-Tonic Friday round-table show here with a great panel of WordPress experts we discuss this week's WordPress news stories and one main topic. For this week main discussion topic was “The Future of WordPress Page Builders Connected to WordPress.” With Gutenberg dominating the WordPress news over the last couple of months we thought it would be a good discussion topic for this week...

This week Benjamin Ilfeld from 10up.com joined Jonathan Denwood and his co-host Kim Shivler to discuss Google Analytics. Benjamin is the Lead Audience and Revenue Strategist at 10up. They focus on the audience and revenue side of the business for their customers. Benjamin explained that while Google Analytics is a tool to provide insights into traffic visiting your site, it’s like a Swiss Army Kni...

This week’s roundtable gathered to discuss Design Elements for your WordPress website including selecting a color scheme, and fonts. Sallie Goetsch, Adam Preiser, Kim Shivler, and special guest Amanda McCoy joined host Jonathan Denwood for a lively discussion with plenty of links to resources to help you with your own site. Amanda McCoy spoke at WordCamp Sacramento 2017 on color palette selection,...

We have Adam Preiser joining us as our special guest this week. The founder of WPCrafter one of the most popular YouTube channels around giving training and reviews connected to WordPress themes, plugins or anything else that's connected to WordPress. WPCrafter channel has over 30.000 subscribers!!!

Getting traffic to your site is great, but what happens once people arrive? This week, the group discusses conversion rates of site visitors to email subscribers and explores ways to improve conversions. Special thanks to our sponsor IntelligenceWP. IntelligenceWP is a WordPress plugin that extends the functionality of Google Analytics and provides real-world insights into your analytics right fro...

This week, Jonathan Denwood and Kim Shivler interviewed Nancy Lyons, CEO of Clockwork, an award winning, interactive design agency. Clockwork is known as one of the best places to work in Minneapolis, and Nancy shared insights on how to create a people-centered corporate culture, and why it's important to consider that different employees work and process in different ways and how allowing this in...

This week, the WP-Tonic Roundtable featured Sallie Goestch, Lee Jackson, John Locke, Kim Shivler, and special guest Larry Swanson along with host Jonathan Denwood to discuss WordCamp Seattle and WordPress Hooks: Actions and Filters. Larry, of EllesMedia ( https://ellessmedia.com/ ), is a content strategist who is co-organizer of WordCamp Seattle, so we kicked off our session with an peek at what t...

LevelTen is a Dallas based digital agency that specializes in large Drupal web projects that is now trying to developing relationships in the WordPress community. Ron Huber & Tom McCracken, the creators & founders of the IntelligenceWP Plugin are our special guests for the WP-Tonic Podcast. As Google Analytics experts, Ron Huber & Tom McCracken provided insight into how frequently peop...

Our Panel Sallie Goetsch: from WP Fangirl Jackie D’Elia: from Jackie D’Elia Design Jonathan Denwood: from WP-Tonic.com Morten Rand-Hendriksen: from LinedIn.com   Main Topic ” How To Managed Difficult WordPress Projects.” News Stories For This Week 1 - WordPress Abandons React due to Patents Clause, Gutenberg to be Rewritten with a Different Library https://wptavern.com/wordpress-abandons-react-due...

Justin has made a career as an e-learning consultant where he has implemented global training programs for Fortune 500 companies. Passionate about e-learning and WordPress, both Justin and LearnDash have been featured in multiple industry publications, including Forbes.com, ELearning! Magazine, Training Magazine, INTERCOM Magazine, EdTech Magazine, Chief Learning Officer, and Learning Technologies...

We have a really special WP-Tonic round table show here which was recorded live at Sacramento WordCamp 2017 with have special panel of WordPress experts plus we did a joint podcast with Chris Badget the host of LMScast podcast. It was a really fun show and I got to say that the team that organized this years Sacramento WordCamp have done an amazing job.