WP Builds
Nathan Wrigley
Web site building with WordPress. In this podcast we follow the hopeless exploits of David Waumsley and Nathan Wrigley as they try, and fail, to understand WordPress.
They know that they love building websites with WordPress, but the complexities of this awesome web building solution are always out of reach.
Not only are they not clever enough, but they just don't try all that hard
They know that they love building websites with WordPress, but the complexities of this awesome web building solution are always out of reach.
Not only are they not clever enough, but they just don't try all that hard
Episodes
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Jan 6, 2020 • 28min
WP Builds Newsletter #95 – 2019 reviews, Pods funding in doubt and Google in 3rd place
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 30th December 2019
Jan 2, 2020 • 49min
160 – 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 becoming popular is to offer some kind of prize(s) and raffle them off. The intention is to incentivise your audience to share the contest far and wide and create some kind of viral loop in which people keep coming back and adding new entrants to the contest through their (not your) endeavours. It's a simple but highly effective idea if the conditions are right... the prize, the audience, the perceived value etc. Many SaaS platforms exist to do these kind of contests, but RafflePress is different in that it's all happening in your WordPress website, and it's got a mighty set of features too! Join the founder of the plugin, John Turner, as we talk about how to use RafflePress and what makes it the unique.
Dec 23, 2019 • 24min
WP Builds Newsletter #94 – WordPress 5.3.2, 2019 reviews and NGINX raided
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 16th December 2019
Dec 19, 2019 • 46min
159 – 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 do we manage this?
Do you just roll with the punches and assume that all will be well. Perhaps you need to ask who these people and what makes them qualified to offer their opinions. You could also put processes in place to make sure that the client has clear boundaries about who can suggest what.
In this episode of the WP Builds WordPress podcast we talk this through. Guided by the Watertight Marketing book by Bryony Thomas. I'm sure that you've been through situations like this yourself, perhaps our ideas align with yours? Anyway, it's a fascinating subject which is the cause of so much wasted time and energy!
Dec 16, 2019 • 28min
WP Builds Newsletter #93 – WordPress 5.3.1, plugin vulnerability and Compress or Die
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 9th December 2019
Dec 12, 2019 • 55min
158 – 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 breached and that unexpected things are now happening. Perhaps it's benign, but it might be serious. Data has been downloaded and you've got to spend time ameliorating the situation. Ryan Dewhurst is on the podcast today to chat through the WordPress security landscape. What people hack, what they gain and how the good guys are fighting back and trying to provide useful information to help us all stay safe. Ryan is behind WPScan, the WPScan Vulnerability Database and WPScan.io, all tools which enable you to stay up-to-date with the latest information about WordPress security. It's been a labour of love for a long time, and he's dedicated many, many hours so that you and I can sleep well at night. Great guy and a great episode...
Dec 9, 2019 • 31min
WP Builds Newsletter #92 – Gutenberg 7.0, Yoast ads and still the deals come!
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 2nd December 2019
Dec 5, 2019 • 59min
157 – 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 some ideas about that. Because, in the real world, we want to try out all-the-things before we buy them. Shoes, clothes, phones... most things. But was can't allow customers to try out the finished website before they are to sign the contract... we'd be broke. But perhaps there are some other ways that we can build up the trust that they need to have in us, ways that won't break the bank for us, but offer meaningful value to the clients and slowly, but surely edge them closer to the ultimate goal... the building of their new WordPress website. Join David and Nathan as they discuss what might be possible...
Dec 2, 2019 • 30min
WP Builds Newsletter #91 – WP Tavern makeover, Core releases and website carbon footprint
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 25th November 2019
Nov 28, 2019 • 55min
156 – 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 will though, won't you?
WP Forms entered a crowded marketplace a few years ago with a simple idea... can we make it faster for users to create their forms, and I think that the answer is a yes!
Join Jared Atchison, the founder of WP Forms, as we discuss what makes WP Forms different, how they got started, and where they are headed.
Even if you're entirely happy with your current WordPress forms solution, this is still worth a listen to see how you can enter a saturated market, and still make an impact.
