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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Oct 21, 2019 • 33min
WP Builds Newsletter #85 – WordPress 5.3 RC, Automattic wealth and new Google products
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 14th October 2019
Oct 17, 2019 • 55min
150 – 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 they started managed WordPress hosting was not the giant business that it was today. In those days we were still opting for shared hosting and VPS hosting. But with the advent of cloud platforms such as Amazon's AWS and Google Cloud, there came an opportunity for people with the skills to leverage those platforms and repurpose them as WordPress specific hosting solutions. Find out how Kinsta works and see if they are a good fit for your next WordPress project.
Oct 14, 2019 • 22min
WP Builds Newsletter #84 – WordPress 5.3 beta 3, accessibility and oasis on Mars
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 7th October 2019
Oct 10, 2019 • 46min
149 – 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 marketing funnels. Nevertheless we thought we would chat about this and why we might need to get better a digital marketing for ourselves and clients and where WordPress could help with that. What's different about this discussion is that really is an introduction to a series of discussions we will have based on a book called Watertight Marketing by Bryony Thomas. Listen to this episode to find out more...
Oct 7, 2019 • 27min
WP 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
Oct 3, 2019 • 56min
148 – 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 to get your WordPress website up and running on a cloud hosting provider - in fact just about anywhere. You login to their platform, fill out a few form fields and then go and grab a coffee. By the time that you're done your WordPress optimised server will be ready and just waiting to get WordPress installed on it. This all sounds so simple, but there is a very large amount of heavy lifting going on in the background, heavy lifting that you'd have to learn and do your self. If you've ever wanted to install WordPress on a cloud provider, then check this podcast out...
Sep 30, 2019 • 38min
WP Builds Newsletter #82 – WordPress 5.3, plugin news and a dancing robot
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 23rd September 2019
Sep 26, 2019 • 49min
147 – 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 no! What exactly do we mean by failure? Is it a measure of how much we earn, the kind of work that we are able to do? Perhaps it's the amount of free time that our work allows us to have at our disposal. Failure is not so easy to pin down. Can we prevent it and plan ahead, put cash aside for a rainy day. Maybe failure is out of our control - the bad boss or the slowing economy. We chat through this whole topic and see what it is that we strive for and how we've approached these problems in the past.
Sep 23, 2019 • 29min
WP Builds Newsletter #81 – Gutenberg 6.5, Automattic worth $3 billion and Google spying
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 16th September 2019
Sep 19, 2019 • 1h
146 – 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 Impact Media. They tell us about the tools that they use to make their agency as efficient as possible. Wireframes to video creation, image manipulation to automated testing we learn it all. We also chat about their preferred plugins for particular tasks. It's a great chat and will give you some insights into processes that, no doubt are part of your business, but perhaps you'll see a new way or a new tool that you might be able to use. Go have a listen on the WP Builds WordPress podcast...
