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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 BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #5 – Covering The Week Commencing 19th March 2018
WP Builds Newsletter #5 - Covering The Week Commencing 19th March 2018
WP Builds68 – “GeneratePress Sites” is going to speed up your site building with Tom Usborne and Paul Lacey
On the podcast this week we have not one, but two guests! They've come on to talk about the work that they've been doing to keep the amazingly popular…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #4 – Covering The Week Commencing 12th March 2018
WP Builds Newsletter #4 - Covering The Week Commencing 12th March 2018
WP Builds67 – Is being a digital nomad as fun as it appears to be with Clark Marshall
Two for the price of one! That's what this episode feels like, because not only do I get to interview Clark Marshall from Blue Dog Digital, but I also get to…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #3 – Covering The Week Commencing 5th March 2018
WP Builds Newsletter #3 - Covering The Week Commencing 5th March 2018
WP Builds66 – How to “Bad Ass Your Brand” with Pia Silva
In this episode of the WP Builds podcast we chat to Pia Silva from badassyourbrand.com. She's a New Yorker with a whole load of energy and is a lady on a…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #2 – Week Commencing 26th February 2018
WP Builds Newsletter #2 - Week Commencing 26th February 2018
WP Builds65 – A wonderfully frank interview with Troy Dean about what makes him tick!
This week we chat to the man who in the world of WordPress needs no introduction... Troy Dean. He's become an important figure in our community and is a great…
WP BuildsWP Builds Newsletter #1 – Week Commencing 19th February 2018
WP Builds Newsletter #1 - Week Commencing 19th February 2018
WP Builds64 – Beaver Funnels is going to make creating funnels so much better with Mike Killen
In this episode we are joined for the second time by Mike Killen who runs Sell Your Service. Last time he was on the WP Builds podcast, he talked about how to…
WP Builds63 – What’s new and coming for the Beaver Builder Page Builder with Robby McCullough
So many of you are now using a Page Builder, admit it! Honestly, why wouldn't you, they are such a great way to cut hours of time out of the development…
WP Builds62 – How to make sure that your site is really safe with Akshat Choudhary
Let's be clear, this is a great story about something that we'd all like to happen to us! So you're a developer and you come up with an idea that you decide…
WP Builds61 – Eric Hamm has built a cool new, self hosted IDE for you
It seems that Eric is one of those people who is always creating new things. I'm not exaggerating when I say that, I really do mean that every couple of months…
WP Builds60 – How to create great surveys for your clients with Mark Sinclair from SparkChart
Since the dawn of the internet, it was pretty obvious that if you wanted to do anything other than look at "stuff that other people had put there", you were…
WP Builds59 – Ben Pines, tell us about the future of the Elementor Page Builder – Part 2
The Elementor folk are thinking about the future and how the product is going to evolve over the coming year. The obvious question is how Elementor is going to…
WP Builds58 – Ben Pines, tell us about the Elementor Page Builder – Part 1
Well, this is going to be a nice treat for all of you folk that like a Page Builder, especially if that Page builder is called Elementor! Elementor has been…
WP Builds57 – Why I built an inline editor for Beaver Builder with Bradley Kirby
In this episode we get to meet Bradley Kirby who has a very cool little plugin for Beaver Builder called Wallace Inline. It's really rather cool, and allows…
WP Builds56 – A great way to think about writing copy with Regina Tuzzolino – Part 2
Last week we introduced you to Regina Tuzzolino and her remarkable approach to writing copy. Well, in this, the second part of the interview, Regina unpacks…
WP Builds55 – A great way to think about writing copy with Regina Tuzzolino – Part 1
So web copy is hard to do. Some of you might be experts, but most of us are not! We struggle to find a way to make copy that is engaging and innovative…
WP Builds54 – Why choose WP Engine with Edmund Turbin
In the episode we talk to Edmund Turbin about WP Engine and why you might consider it if you're in the game for a hosting provider. I'm sure that you've heard…
WP Builds53 – How to get paid more with Brent Weaver – Part 2
Discussion - David and Nathan discuss whether or not it's a good idea to automatically update your plugins. Interview - How to get paid more with Brent Weaver…
WP Builds52 – How to get paid more with Brent Weaver – Part 1
In this episode of the podcast we talk to Brent Weaver from uGurus. He's an exceptionally thoughtful mentor for people who would like to see an upturn in their…
WP Builds51 – What’s your design process?
In this episode we talk a lot at the beginning about the fact that we're going to be making some changes to the podcast over the coming weeks. We also talk…
WP Builds50 – Getting more sales with Chris Mason from WooCurve
This week we chat to Chris Mason, the founder of a few plugins which extend WooCommerce. Making sales on the internet can be hard, and it’s made more difficult…
WP Builds49 – WordPress and where it’s headed with Matt Medeiros
So you’ve heard of Matt Medeiros before, you know that you have. He’s the guy that does The Matt Report, a podcast that delivers great content to business…
WP Builds48 – Ladies and gentlemen, Lee Jackson
In this episode of the WP Builds we talk to the one and only Lee Jackson. If you’ve not heard of Lee before, then, frankly, it’s high time that you did! In…
WP Builds47 – Taking online payments, simply, with Phil Derksen from WP Simple Pay
If you’ve been using the internet lately (ha!), you’ll know that people use it to buy and sell things! Wow, amazing! Turns out that taking payments online is a…
WP Builds46 – Being awesome with WordPress without coding with Kim Doyal
Today we have Kim Doyal, aka The WordPress Chick, on the podcast. I don’t think that it’s entirely possible that you’ve not heard of her before if you’ve been…
WP Builds45 – Running multiple successful WordPress businesses with Gin McInneny from WP Elevation
Today we talk Gin McInneny, an Aussie who is well worth listening to. I’m sure that you’ll have heard of some of the projects that she’s working on. Gin is a…
WP Builds44 – How and why to Podcast by Craig Hewitt from Seriously Simple Podcasting
Today we’ve got Craig Hewitt on from Seriously Simple Podcasting. Now this is something that I can really relate to, and if you have (or have ambitions to…
WP Builds43 – Running a large Facebook group with Dave Toomey
This week we get to meet the man behind the Beaver Builder Facebook group - Dave Toomey. Many of you will know that there is a 8,000 strong group out there…
WP Builds42 – Build it out of love. The morality of GPL licenses.
In this episode Nathan and David talk about GPL (General Public License). This is the license that allowed the work that was done webblog tool B2 to be used to…
WP Builds41 – Andre Gagnon from Project Huddle
In this episode we talk to Andre Gagnon from Project Huddle. Andre has been wrestling with the issue that we all face of trying to gain meaningful comments…
WP Builds40 – Puneet Sahalot from the Power Pack addon for Beaver Builder
In today's episode we talk to Puneet Sahalot. He is probably best known as the man behind Power Pack, a Beaver Builder addon pack over at wpbeaveraddons.com…
WP Builds39 – Adam Hempenstall from Better Proposals
In this episode we interview Adam Hempenstall from BetterProposals.io, a company on a mission to make the dull job of writing proposal for your client work as…
WP Builds38 – How not to talk to WordPress clients
In this weeks episode we discuss the thorny issue of how we communicate with clients; how we communicate our value to clients in the face of stiff competition…
WP Builds37 – Evaluating WordPress software for website building businesses
We’re always in groups talking about WordPress software, but rarely do we talk about how we evaluate it. That’s what this episode is about. Do we: Test…
WP Builds36 – Marketing Funnels and WordPress with Mike Killen
Whatever I do on the internet these days, I seem to be being followed about by Mike Killen, the guest for this week. I see his face everywhere, posting here…
WP Builds35 – Styling your CSS in WordPress with Sebastian Webb from Microthemer
If you’re anything like me you don’t really like styling sites. Well, enter Sebastian web from Microthemer who has a pretty nice way of speeding things up for…
WP Builds34 – Why Pods and Beaver Themer are jolly good together, with Bernhard Gronau
Today we are talking about Pods and Beaver Themer with Bernhard Gronau. Where to start? Pod is a free open source plugin available on the WP repository that…
WP Builds33 – Getting content from your client with James Rose
In this episode of the WP Builds podcast we have a slightly different take from the usual WP related content, because this week, we’re talking to James Rose…
WP Builds32 – Tom Usborne from GeneratePress
This is an episode that I really wanted to do. Generate Press is a WordPress theme that I’ve been using for quite a while now, and it’s my theme of choice. The…
WP Builds31 – What the heck are WooCommerce doing?
Today we had a carefully considered and mature debate about the removal of the 50% yearly discount on Woocommerce extensions. We also recorded today's podcast…
WP Builds30 – Jack McConnell from Made with Fuel
Today we have the hugely talented, young and successful Jack McConnell from Made with Fuel on the show. Made with Fuel is one-man WordPress web design and…
WP Builds29 – Being an online marketing consultant with Jim Galiano
How do we introduce Jim Galiano? Galiano (you need to say that like you’re Robert De Niro), New Yorker accent, grandfather in the boxing business, connections…
WP Builds28 – How to stay relevant in WordPress with Eric Hamm
This theme then transitioned into the very popular Dynamik Website Builder (a customizable Child theme for the Genesis Framework) and Genesis Extender (a tool…
WP Builds27 – The WP community with Paul Lacey
Today we rejoice! We have that nice Paul Lacey with us! We are in the WordPress Community! Let's hold hands and sing and dance around the podcasty campfire…
WP Builds26 – Turning your web design business around with Chantal Edouard-Betsy
Chantal, from 1daywebs, turned her website design business away from the tedium long drawn out projects to the heart fluttering thrills of one day web builds…
WP Builds25 – Beaver Themer with Justin Busa and Robby McCullough
Today we welcome back Robby and Justin from Beaver Builder. The last time they joined us was for our Christmas special. This time it just feels like Christmas…
WP Builds24 – We have a plugin idea, how do we get customers?
This week we talk to not one, but two lovely developers (Nathan Tyler and Natalie MacLees) from California who have a really interesting take on launching…
WP Builds23 – The price of using WordPress
Today we talked about the price of using WordPress. No, it's not a long sob story about how the wife and kid left us! Those trailer park days are behind us…
WP Builds22 – Amir Helzer, CEO of Toolset and WPML
In this episode (drum roll please) we had the great honor of talking to Amir Helzer. Amir is the CEO of OnTheGoSystems known for WP-Types' Toolset, the WPML…
WP Builds21 – Can we compete with Wix Weebly SquareSpace and Shopify?
We hate to say it, but DIY website building solutions are getting more attractive all the time. They offer an empowering solution to the "I want a website"…
WP Builds20 – What do clients need to know about web software licenses?
My oh my! Software licenses. What a knotty subject that it. It seems we both came to WordPress seeing software primarily as the tools we use to build websites…
WP Builds19 – What do you need to know to offer a full web design service
Today we ask ourselves what skills do we need to offer a full web design service. That sounded like a great topic. It turns out it's a bit slippery this one.Is…
WP Builds18 – What’s so great about WordCamp?
In what can only be described as a bizarre coincidence today is "World day of making a podcast about WordCamps". Even more freakily (is that really a word?) we…
WP Builds17 – What should we expect from WP support?
No guests this week. Just Nathan and David. Two guys in their middle youth chatting about stuff we love. Ok, there maybe little bit of venting, but actually…
WP Builds16 – Alternative revenue streams for freelancers with Davinder Singh Kainth
Today we talk about multiple income streams with Davinder Singh Kainth. Many will know Davinder from his ProBeaver site, weekly newsletter and tireless support…
WP Builds15 – How to stop clients ruining your work with Adam Lacey
In this episode we are joined by Adam Lacey from penguinmedia.co.uk. We chat about coping when enthusiastic clients want to exercise their creativity. We ask…
WP Builds14 – The development of Page Builders with Doug Belchamber
Today we are joined by Doug Belchamber for a chat about the development of page builders. Naturally, we’re huge Beaver Builder fans so this episode is very…