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WP Builds
Web site building with WordPress. In this podcast we follow the hopeless exploits of Nathan Wrigley as he tries, and fails, to understand WordPress. He knows that he loves building websites with WordPress, but the complexities of this awesome web building solution are always out of reach. Not only is he not clever enough, but he just does not try all that hard.
Episodes
WP Builds160 – Running contests in WordPress with RafflePress
Have you ever wanted to increase your email list? My guess is that in most cases, the answer is yes! It can be a hard thing to do though right? One way that's…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #94 – WordPress 5.3.2, 2019 reviews and NGINX raided
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 16th December 2019
WP Builds159 – My nephew makes websites too
What do you do when your WordPress website client says that they are talking to other people about the site that you're building... my girlfriend's nephew! How…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #93 – WordPress 5.3.1, plugin vulnerability and Compress or Die
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 9th December 2019
WP Builds158 – Keeping WordPress secure with Ryan Dewhurst from WPScan
Who wants a hacked website. Anyone... anyone... Bueller! No? It's something that nobody wants, to wake up to discover that your WordPress website(s) have been…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #92 – Gutenberg 7.0, Yoast ads and still the deals come!
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 2nd December 2019
WP Builds157 – Honey traps for website clients
How do your WordPress website clients 'try before they buy'? What can we do to trust our services and try them out before they part with their money. We share…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #91 – WP Tavern makeover, Core releases and website carbon footprint
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 25th November 2019
WP Builds156 – WordPress forms is a crowded space, so we launched WPForms
Some things are universal. Something about death and taxes. Another universal is that you will put some kind of contact form on every site that you build. You…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #90 – Gutenberg 6.9, are themes needed and who owns .org
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 18th November 2019
WP Builds155 – Are we boring?
This discussion is another based on the book Watertight Marketing by Bryony Thomas which gives us 13 areas where we (or our clients) could be leaking potential…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #89 – WordPress 5.3 released, Black Friday coming and no rights to YouTube
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 11th November 2019
WP Builds154 – Because online privacy matters, we need people like Heather Burns
Once in a while you attend an event and the speaker is so eloquent, so immersed in their talk, that you listen with an intensity that it out of the ordinary…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #88 – State of the Word, annual survey and a few deals
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 4th November 2019
WP Builds153 – Losing clients before you even get them
This is a little mini-series based upon the book 'Watertight Marketing' by Bryony Thomas. This is about that time in the client / project lifecycle when they…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #87 – WordPress 5.3 RC 3, plugin news and deals
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 28th October 2019
WP Builds152 – Riding a jolly long way for the WordPress community with Dan Maby and Carole Olinger
WordPress is a huge community, and in that community there are people who need help and support. WP and UP is a charity that I'm involved with which offers…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #86 – WordPress 5.3 RC2, AHrefs SEO and satellite WiFi coming soon
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 21st October 2019
WP Builds151 – Are we leaking clients?
This episode is really about keeping the WordPress clients that you already have. What's the old phrase? Don't leave money on the table? Well, that's certainly…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #85 – WordPress 5.3 RC, Automattic wealth and new Google products
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 14th October 2019
WP Builds150 – Kinsta hosting on Google’s Cloud with Brian Jackson
Today we have a chat with Brian Jackson from Kinsta. Kinsta are a managed WordPress hosting company who have grow rapidly since their inception in 2013. When…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #84 – WordPress 5.3 beta 3, accessibility and oasis on Mars
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 7th October 2019
WP Builds149 – Marketing funnels don’t exist!
This discussion is about marketing, and it has a very click-bait title! It’s probably safe to say that we are not experts in marketing and certainly not…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #83 – WordPress 5.3 Beta 2, WordCamp U.S. tickets and Facebook decryption
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 30th September 2019
WP Builds148 – Spinning up a WordPress optimised server in minutes with Spinup WP
This is a little bit different. Today we talk to Brad Touesnard from Delicious Brains about Spinup WP their new service which aims to make it trivially simple…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #82 – WordPress 5.3, plugin news and a dancing robot
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 23rd September 2019
WP Builds147 – What does it mean to fail?
Do you think that you're a success as a WordPress professional? Have you got everything sorted out and working just how you like it? Perhaps yes, but possibly…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #81 – Gutenberg 6.5, Automattic worth $3 billion and Google spying
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 16th September 2019
WP Builds146 – Refining our website building process with James and Martin Coates
What to know how a growing WordPress website agency manages their projects? Well this is the podcast for you. Today we hear from James and Martin Coates from…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #80 – Chrome kills Gutenberg, plugin updates, deals and no likes
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 9th September 2019
WP Builds145 – Should we use templates more?
Times have changed... It used to be that creating websites was really tedious. It took hours to get anything to go where you wanted it. Along came WordPress…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #79 – WordPress 5.3, project governance and RSS readers
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 2nd September 2019
WP Builds144 – Get paid with likes… the Like Coin with Kin Ko
If you create content you know that it's nice to be rewarded for that. The Like Coin is a Block Chain idea which might make this possible. People click a…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #78 – Gutenberg 6.4, UX / UI Live audit live and PHP conference cancelled
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 26th August 2019
WP Builds143 – Only doing what you’re good at
So we all build websites. Perhaps we don't. Perhaps we're just involved with WordPress as a marketing expert, or a graphic designer. WordPress is useful to a…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #77 – WordPress 5.3, auto updating old sites and prevent tracking
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 19th August 2019
WP Builds142 – Easy life… store your layouts in the cloud with Andrew Palmer
You've been using a Page Builder to design your WordPress websites and life is great. But it could be better. The Page Builder Cloud plugin allows you to save…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #76 – Gutenberg improvements, riding a bike and plugin updates
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 12th August 2019
WP Builds141 – Feeling insecure about security (Part 2)
This is the second episode about WordPress security. In this podcast we talk about the range of security plugins that we've heard of. It's by no means an…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #75 – Core update debates, plugin updates and podcasts playable in SERPs
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 5th August 2019
WP Builds140 – Feeling insecure about security (Part 1)
This is the first in a two part podcast about WordPress and security. In this episode we go over all of the potential problems that you might encounter with…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #74 – Gutenberg nesting, community news and the death of flash
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 29th July 2019.
WP Builds139 – A better way to manage your media library with Stuart Brameld
If you've been using WordPress any length of time, you'll have run into the frustrations that the Media Library can present. It's a pretty decent UI, but it's…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #73 – Gutenberg test, WordCamps and Google Cloud
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 22nd July 2019
WP Builds138 – Are we happy with how we manage tasks?
Today, the podcast talks about tasks. Not so much the tasks themselves, but more the way that we approach them. We discuss the way that different people have…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #72 – PHP coding standards, kids in WordPress and Javascript SEO
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 15th July 2019
WP Builds137 – Make your WordPress website load faster with Jan Koch
Today we learn about how how to make your WordPress website load as fast as possible. On the face of it, this is easy to do, but there's quite a lot going on…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #71 – Gutenberg animations, Elementor icons and Google playing games
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 8th July 2019
WP Builds136 – Standing up to clients
In this episode David and I talk about the interactions which we have with clients. Most of the time (I hope) we have good relations with our clients. They…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #70 – Plugin updates, community news and Facebook outage
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 1st July 2019
WP Builds135 – How to run successful paid ad campaigns to increase conversions with Daniel Daines-Hutt
Have you ever wanted to get into paid ad campaigns using Facebook or Google, but did not know where start? This podcast episode explains how you can get…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #69 – Gutenberg 6.0, WP Engine growing and bye Jony, Ive loved your work
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 24th June 2019
WP Builds134 – What makes us trust WordPress software developers?
In this weeks episode of the WP Builds podcast we talk about the range of things that we consider when we buy a plugin or theme from a WordPress developer…
WP Builds133 – Helping coders run successful businesses with Hahna Kane Latonick
In this episode of the WP Builds WordPress podcast we chat to Hahna Kane Latonick. She has a background as a software engineer but decided some time ago that…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #67 – WordPress 5.2.2 RC1, WordCamp Europe and fake videos
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 10th June 2019
WP Builds132 – Working when there are other things to do
So this episode is a little bit of a departure for us, in that it's much more personal than usual, and has very little to do with WordPress, so forgive us!…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #66 – Gutenberg motion blocks, Joost steps down and Firefox privacy
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 3rd June 2019
WP Builds131 – Stroke and poke your clients to keep you sane with Hannah Smith
If you've work with WordPress websites for client you'll know that one of the hardest parts of the job is successfully communicating with clients. Today…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #65 – WordPress turns 16, average salaries and how Slack came to be
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 27th May 2019
WP Builds130 – Personality types – finding the right client for you
Have you ever thought about the fact that your personality has a direct impact upon how successful you are? Your personality type might make you better at some…