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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 Builds222 – ‘G’ is for Gutenberg
Gutenberg is here to stay, and love it or hate it, it's going to be a feature of WordPress for years to come. On the podcast today David and Nathan discuss…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #155
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 15th March 2021
WP Builds221 – Stream Live with WordPress and WP Livestream
So it might have passed you by, but now we can (and apparently do) all create our own T.V. channels! Services like YouTube, Facebook, Twitch and Vimeo make…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #154
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing Monday 8th March 2021
WP Builds220 – ‘F’ is for forms
It’s another of chats in the series called the A-Z of WordPress where we attempt to cover all the major aspects to building and maintaining sites with WP…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #153
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing Monday 1st March 2021
WP Builds219 – Create Alexa Skills right inside of WordPress with Shoutworks
So the podcast today might catch you a little off guard! It's not something that I've ever played with before. Today we're talking about Shoutworks, which is a…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #152
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 22nd February 2020
WP Builds218 – ‘E’ is for eCommerce
It’s another of our chats in the series called the 'A-Z of WordPress', where we attempt to cover all the major aspects to building and maintaining sites with…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #151
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 15th February 2020
WP Builds217 – Get your WordPress tasks in order with DocketWP
Today we're talking about the DocketWP WordPress plugin with Andre Gagnon and Kyle Van Deusen, the project founders. So, what does it do and why might you want…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #150
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 8th February 2021
WP Builds216 – ‘D’ is for Database
It’s the 4th in our series of chats called 'the A-Z of WordPress' where we attempt to cover all the major aspects of building and maintaining sites with…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #149
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 1st February 2021
WP Builds215 – Checkout CheckoutWC for a customised WooCommerce experience
So if you're a user of WooCommerce, then the podcast today will be of interest to you. It's all about creating the best checkout experience to increase…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #148
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 22nd February 2021
WP Builds214 – ‘C’ is for Caching
It’s the third in our series of chats called the A-Z of WordPress, where we attempt to cover all the major aspects to building and maintaining sites with…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #147
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 18th January 2020
WP Builds213 – What goes into organising and cancelling a live WordCamp?
We all know that the WordCamps in 2020 got cancelled. This was a good idea because saving lives comes before attending online events, but I thought that it…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #146
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 11th January 2021
WP Builds212 – ‘B’ is for Backups
I'm sure that we've all had experiences with our WordPress websites where things went wrong; the site was hacked, something got deleted. In most cases we can…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #145
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing Monday 4th January 2021
WP Builds211 – Its importent to get you’re grammer write; and ProWritingAid Will help with that,
Writing is important. It's one of the greatest inventions in the history of humanity. In fact, it may very well be the most important. But we can all agree…
WP Builds210 – ‘A’ is for Appointments
So this is a new series called the 'A-Z of WordPress' in which David and Nathan discuss a topic starting with the next letter of the alphabet. To kick us off…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #142
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing Monday 7th December 2020
WP Builds209 – Get meaningful feedback about your product or service
If you have a product or service, it's critical that you have a mechanism for users to be able to offer their feedback. That could be comments, but perhaps…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #141
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 30th November 2020
WP Builds208 – ClassicPress V WordPress
So for those who don’t know what ClassicPress is we had better say... It's fork of WordPress 4.9 before the Gutenberg block editor was introduced and a…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #140
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 23rd November 2020
WP Builds207 – Running a growing WordPress plugin company
There are some companies in the WordPress space that are very much on the rise and today we're speaking to Shahjahan Jewel about his company WP Manage Ninja…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #139
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 16th November 2020
WP Builds206 – FOMO V No FOMO
FOMO (fear of missing out) has become a really common tool in online sales and marketing of late. Wherever things are sold, this tool is used. Whether it's a…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #138
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 9th November 2020
WP Builds205 – Flipping websites with Blake Hutchison
Flipping domains can be a profitable business and today on the WP Builds WordPress podcast we're going to be hearing about how and why you might want to look…
WP BuildsThis Week in WordPress #137
This Week in WordPress #137 - Changes are coming and sucking in Black Friday - A WP Builds Podcast
WP Builds204 – Author Support V Community Support
Where should you go for support for WordPress plugins, themes and blocks? This debate was partly prompted by a WP Tavern article regarding what can be done…
WP Builds203 – The WordPress journey of Wendie Huis in t Veld
This is one of those warm and fuzzy episodes! It's all about Wendie and her journey with WordPress. There's no product here, no tutorial, just a good, old…
WP BuildsWP Builds Weekly WordPress News #135 – WordPress 5.6 beta 1, full site editing theme and moon telephones
This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 19th October 2020:
WP Builds202 – Matte v glossy screens
Nathan says 'Matte and Glossy' sound like a Las Vegas cabaret act so David's down for a quick win on this one! This is a little bit of a sham debate as it is…
WP BuildsWP Builds Weekly WordPress News #134 – Full site editing closer, plugin news and Google going all-in on mobile search
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 12th October 2020.
WP Builds201 – How to make your WordPress website run smoothly (even after a year) with Alexandru Covtun
Today we talk about how to keep your WordPress website running smoothly, whether that's one month or one year after you launched it. So we all know that having…
WP Builds200 – To niche or not to niche
So, you're a WordPress website creator. You sell your websites to clients far and wide, or at least that's the hope. We all know though that the reality is…
WP Builds199 – Benjamin Ritner speaks with Kadence
Today we hear all about Kadence Blocks, the Kadence Theme and Kadence Membership from the creator, Benjamin Ritner. This suite of WordPress tools has been…
WP BuildsWP Builds Weekly WordPress News #133 – New Twenty Twenty One Theme, WordPress dual license and Facebook quitting Europe
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 21st September 2020
WP Builds198 – Value pricing v fixed rate
This debate will never die, but we keep hearing more about it each year. The traditional model is to charge your client a fee that is made clear on your…
WP BuildsWP Builds Weekly WordPress News #132 – Gutenberg 9.0, SkyVerge joins GoDaddy and The Ig-Nobel prize
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 14th September 2020
WP Builds197 – Multiple domains, one WordPress install, you need Landing Kit
Marketers rejoice! WP Landing Kit is a plugin that you've wanted for ages and ages and now you have it! It allows you to point all of your domains at one…
WP BuildsWP Builds Weekly WordPress News #131 – Gutenberg 8.9 block-based widgets, plugin updates and fundo!
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 7th September 2020
WP Builds196 – Coding v non-coding
Should you code or just buy plugins, themes and blocks when building your WordPress website? Many people like to know all the code so that they can create…
WP BuildsWP Builds Weekly WordPress News #130 – WordPress 5.5.1, The Page Builder Summit and Linux is 29
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 31st August 2020
WP Builds195 – Translate your WordPress websites with Weglot
So this podcast episode is all about translations and how you can do that on your WordPress website. Perhaps you have a legal requirement to have multiple…
WP BuildsWP Builds Weekly WordPress News #129 – PHP updates, plugin news and Apple want 30% of nothing
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 24th August 2020
WP Builds194 – Static design v in-browser design
This week was debate whether it's better to design your WordPress websites with browser based tools like a Page Builder, or use dedicated apps like Figma…
WP BuildsWP Builds Weekly WordPress News #128 – WordPress 5.6 started, end of themes and something .new
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 17th August 2020
WP Builds193 – Helping people to learn WordPress on YouTube
Have you ever wanted to start a YouTube Channel related to WordPress content? You've seen other people out there making a great success of it and you think…
WP BuildsWP Builds Weekly WordPress News #127 – WordPress 5.5 released, Astra upset and Fortnite blocked
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 10th August 2020
WP Builds192 – WordPress V other blogging platforms
Is WordPress the best option for bloggers or do some of the rival services offer a better set of features and ease of use? This argument is not as simple as…
WP BuildsWP Builds Weekly WordPress News #126 – WordPress 5.5 RC2, WordCamps cancelled and TikTok buyers wanted
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 3rd August 2020
WP Builds191 – If you need maps on your WordPress website, MapsMarker has you covered
You need maps on a website like you need butter on toast. I really struggle to think of too many projects that I've built where the client did not want a maps…
WP BuildsWP Builds Weekly WordPress News #125 – WordPress 5.5 RC, WordCamp US cancelled and heaps of plugin news
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 27th July 2020