Dustin Hartzler

Your Website Engineer

Technology EN ↓ 551 episodes

Join us for an entertaining and informative look at creating a high quality website for your business or personal blog by using WordPress. If you already have a website, this podcast can help you create a high quality site. A website doesn't have to be the hardest part of owning a small business. With this show, I will show you how you can take charge of keeping your website maintained and always up to date. This show focuses on WordPress and how it is the best solution for small businesses looking to create a website.

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Dustin Hartzler

Episodes

126 - Take Your Website Mobile with WPtouch 30.04.2013 35:58

Sometimes responsive design isn't the way to go. In today's episode we talk to the co-founder of WPTouch.

125 - Make Your Site Compatible with Pinterest 23.04.2013 35:27

I am pleased to have Cynthia Sanchez, a Pinterest expert, to share how we can make sure our sites are Pinterest friendly.

124 - WordPress Brute Force Attack 16.04.2013 24:28

In this week's episode, I share about the recent Brute Force Attack on over 90,000 IP addresses

123 - How to Interpret What a Client Wants 09.04.2013 27:01

In this episode, I share the details of how I get information from a client before starting their project.

122 - Help Someone Start an Inexpensive Website 02.04.2013 18:02

In today's episode I'll teach you how to help a friend out by building a WordPress website but not have to charge them a lot of money.

121 - More Great Places for WordPress Images 26.03.2013 28:23

This week we expand on last week's discussion about where you can find high quality images for your WordPress site.

120 - How and Where to Find Images for Your WordPress Site 19.03.2013 25:43

Today we take a look at the different options for adding high quality images to your blog posts

119 - The Easiest Way to Add a Shopping Cart 12.03.2013 28:15

In this weeks episode, learn how to create correct sized images, my webinar service and how to quickly and easily create a shopping cart on your website!

118 - A Practical Guide to Picking Out Plugins 28.02.2013 25:46

With over 22,000 free plugins in the WordPress repository, it can be difficult to find the perfect one. Learn my step by step approach!

117 - 6 Reasons to Learn How to Code 26.02.2013 28:35

The world is in desperate need of more programmers. In this episode learn six reasons to start coding today!

116 - Keep Your WordPress Database Lean & Mean 20.02.2013 16:27

Join us today as we take a look into how to remove some of the bloat from our WordPress database.

115 - Become a More Efficient WordPress Developer 12.02.2013 22:28

You can become a more efficient WordPress Developer by implementing these 11 steps.

114 - Is Your WordPress Site Accessible 05.02.2013 28:27

Join me today for a chat with my friend Wade Wingler about the benefits of having a accessible site. If you haven't thought about this before, it's time to now!

113 - The Power of Adding a CDN to Your Website 29.01.2013 28:05

Join me today with special guest Justin Dorfman from MaxCDN to explain the importance of using a content delivery network to help speed up your website.

112 - How to Work Through Theme or Plugin Conflicts 22.01.2013 23:03

In today's episode, learn to paste blog posts without formatting, extend your gravity forms plugin and properly troubleshoot theme or plugin issues.

111 - The Importance of Conferences 15.01.2013 35:34

Join me as I share my reason for attending live conferences, plus hear from four other attendees!

110 - Is WordPress.com the Solution for Hosting 04.01.2013 40:40

In this episode, I talk with Sean and Randy from beAutomated about the value of looking at wordpress.com to host their company website.

109 - Important Things to Focus on in 2013 01.01.2013 16:43

In this episode, I share the top things that WordPress website owners and WordPress developers should focus on learning / doing in 2013.

108 - The Dangers of the functions.php File 21.12.2012 25:17

In this interview with Dave Clements, we talk about the dangers of putting custom code in the functions.php file.

107 - Five Reasons Your Site Loads Slowly 18.12.2012 25:38

In today's episode, I share a resource for checking how quickly your website loads and point out five different things that cause some websites to load slower than they should.

106 - How to Teach Someone WordPress 11.12.2012 26:05

Learn about the brand new version of WordPress along with new plugin favorites area, plus I share how I teach my clients to use WordPress.

105 - How to Charge for Maintenance of a WordPress Website 04.12.2012 22:34

In today's episode, learn how to charge your customers for the maintenance of their WordPress websites. I also spend time talking about my week of being disconnected from the grid.

104 - Become a Full-Time Freelance Developer 21.11.2012 25:03

This week, I have an inspiring story to share. Join us to hear Chad Warner is slowly phasing out of his "real job" into a full-time freelancer.

103 - A Website Developers Nightmare - Passwords 20.11.2012 18:03

In today's episode, I share two new tools and my strategy for setting up new accounts for your friends or website clients.

102 - WordPress Custom Post Types 13.11.2012 20:07

Hear my reviews on the WordPress iPad app, understand the benefit of using Google Libraries and see the benefits of using custom post types.