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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 Builds255 – ‘XYZ’ is for disappointing series ending for the ‘A- Z of WordPress’
We could have tried to eke this one out. According to one online crossword solver there are 378 Words Starting With X, but I imagine X for xeroxed - how to…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #185
This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 8th November 2021 Another week, and we’re bringing you the latest WordPress news from the…
WP Builds254 – Automatic content creation with Bertha.ai
So perhaps you're really into writing. You live and breathe it. You wake up in the morning and can't wait to get out the laptop and start bashing away. The…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #184
This week's WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 1st November 2021
WP Builds253 – ‘W’ is for Writing
Writing is such a complex process. When we started to think about this topic, we thought that it would be really straightforward, but after some reflection, it…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #183
This week's WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 25th October 2021
WP Builds252 – Let someone else take care of your website policies
So... you build WordPress websites and you love it. You know what you don't love? Policies. Admit it, you don't do you? The last thing that you want to be…
WP Builds251 – ‘V’ is for Vulnerabilities
It was going to be V for Virus, but we have probably had enough of the word right now, and vulnerabilities perhaps better describes what we are really talking…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #182
This week's WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 4th October 2021
WP Builds250 – Automated website testing with Ghost Inspector
So you have a WordPress website and it's all built and handed over to the client. You're done! Hurrah! Wait a minute, you're not done are you? Chances are that…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #181
This week's WordPress news for the week commencing 27th September 2021
WP Builds249 – ‘U’ is for Undo
This is about common WordPress mistakes and how to get out of a pickle if things go wrong. With all the plugins, themes and community work in WordPress, it's…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #180
This week's WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 20th September 2021
WP Builds248 – How Gravity Hopper will take care of all your Gravity Forms
So on the podcast today we have Joshua Vandercar from Gravity Hopper which is a plug that allows you to have a central dashboard for all your Gravity Forms…
WP Builds247 – ‘T’ is for Themes
WordPress themes are crucial, you have to have one, but will they continue to be so in an era of Full Site Editing? We talk on the podcast today about the…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #178
This week's WordPress news for the week commencing 6th September 2021
WP Builds246 – Building your own social network with the Friends plugin
So you love Facebook and you hate Facebook, you love Twitter and you hate Twitter. You love... You get the idea! If you're anything like me you have at times…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #177
This week's WordPress news for the week commencing 30th August 2021
WP Builds245 – ‘S’ is for SEO
So today on the podcast David and Nathan talk about SEO. David certainly knows more about this than Nathan does, but neither of us claim to be experts! It's a…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #176
This week's WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 23rd August 2021
WP Builds244 – ‘R’ is for Resources
There are so many tools that you open up each day to do your job as a WordPress website builder or developer. In fact, I'd go as far as say that if you…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #175
This week's WordPress news for the week commencing 16th August 2021
WP Builds243 – A different way of doing hosting: Servebolt with Remkus de Vries
If I got you to list out all of the things that you'd like your WordPress websites to be, I'm pretty sure that the word "fast" would be pretty close to the top…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #174
This week's WordPress news for the week commencing 9th August 2021
WP Builds242 – ‘Q’ is for Quibbles
It’s another A-Z of WordPress. The series where we attempt to cover all the major aspects of building and maintaining sites with WordPress. Today is for Q for…
WP Builds241 – How FixRunner can take on the maintenance of your WordPress websites
WordPress website maintenance and care plans might be something that you like to do, but they also might get in the way of the actual building of your…
WP Builds240 – ‘P’ is for Plugins
WordPress plugins... there are so many to choose from, but it's perhaps the fact that they exist that makes WordPress the huge success that it is. So what's…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #173
This week's WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 19th July 2021
WP Builds239 – Use Patchstack to keep your WordPress website safe
So you might not have heard about the WordPress security company Patchstack before, but you will likely know about them! You see, until recently, they were…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #172
This week's WordPress news for the week commencing 12th July 2021
WP Builds238 – ‘0’ is for Open Source
If something is free then it's likely not very good. That's the generally accepted wisdom is most aspects of life, but not with WordPress! WordPress like many…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #171
This week's WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 5th July 2021
WP Builds237 – Why WS Form might be the form plugin you’ll try next
So your first thought might well be this "Why do I need to look at yet another form plugin? What I've already got works fine." Well... just put that sentiment…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #170
This week's WordPress news for the week commencing 28th June 2021
WP Builds236 – ‘N’ is for Numbers
WordPress is a huge and growing platform. But, just how huge is it? Well, today we answer this and many other utterly unrelated questions as we lift the lid on…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #169
This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing 21st June 2021 Another week, and we’re bringing you the latest WordPress news from the last…
WP Builds235 – Use Newsletter Glue to create great emails… with Blocks!
If you're creating newsletters for your content and you use WordPress, put that quill down and check out the podcast today. Newsletter Glue is a really great…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #168
This week's WordPress news for the week commencing 14th June 2021
WP Builds234 – ‘M’ is for Menus
Menus are really rather important, although really underrated. They are, after all, the way that we make our way around the websites that we visit. So how…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #167
This week's WordPress news for the week commencing 7th June 2021
WP Builds233 – Store your Media Library in the cloud with the Infinite Uploads plugin
Check out the new Infinite Uploads plugin on the WP Builds podcast today. I'm joined by co-founder, Josh Dailey, who explains what it's all about, which is…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #166
This week's WordPress news for the week commencing 31st May 2021
WP Builds232 – ‘L’ is for Loading
Today we talk about WordPress website page speed and why this is important, how you can measure it and some ideas about what you can do to improve it. There's…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #165
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 24th May 2021
WP Builds231 – One-click checkout in WooCommerce with PeachPay
PeachPay is a new 1-click-checkout option for your WooCommerce store. It aims to remove some of the friction of getting people to click the 'buy now' button by…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #164
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 17th May 2021
WP Builds230 – ‘K’ is for Killer Tips
In this episode of the podcast we asked you submit what you thought were some Killer Tips for creating your WordPress websites, and you did not disappoint! So…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #163
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 10th May 2021
WP Builds229 – Creating Custom Sales Funnels For WooCommerce with LaunchFlows
In today’s world there is no difference between “digital” and “physical” products insofar as the transactional engine of your website is concerned. While it…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #162
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 3rd May 2021
WP Builds228 – ‘J’ is for Jobs
This episode is about all the many, many, many jobs that you do each and every time you build a WordPress website for yourself or for a client. There really…
WP Builds227 – Building websites in a day with your team
I've often thought about building my WordPress websites on the one day model, it's got so much going for it. I've heard stories of quite a few people who are…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #160
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 19th April 2021
WP Builds226 – ‘I’ is for Images
The web is made up of Pictures and Words. Some of those pictures are moving (video), but it's basically just those two things. We have easy ways to deal with…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #159
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 12th April 2021
WP Builds225 – Send amazing curated newsletters with Curated
Having a newsletter is one of the best ways that you can communicate with an audience. In fact, I'd go as far as to say, that it's the best. There's no…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #158
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 5th April 2021
WP Builds224 – ‘H’ is for Health
Today on the WP Builds podcast we're talking about health. Not your health, but the health of the WordPress sites you build or manage. Turns out that there's a…
WP Builds223 – How we built the WP Buffs business
WP Buffs has been a company on the rise for several years now. I'm sure that you've seen some of their content and perhaps listened to their podcast or…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #156
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 22nd March 2021