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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Aug 12, 2019 • 26min
WP Builds Newsletter #75 – Core update debates, plugin updates and podcasts playable in SERPs
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 5th August 2019
Aug 8, 2019 • 51min
140 – Feeling insecure about security (Part 1)
This is the first in a two part podcast about WordPress and security. In this episode we go over all of the potential problems that you might encounter with your WordPress website. There's the usual things such as uptime monitoring, backups and implementing a firewall, but there's also some other, more unusual topics. Do you make sure that you're keeping your client data safe? Are you expunging backups and SSH keys that you no longer require in case your system is compromised...
Aug 5, 2019 • 30min
WP Builds Newsletter #74 – Gutenberg nesting, community news and the death of flash
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 29th July 2019.
Aug 1, 2019 • 47min
139 – A better way to manage your media library with Stuart Brameld
If you've been using WordPress any length of time, you'll have run into the frustrations that the Media Library can present. It's a pretty decent UI, but it's not as good as services that we're using such as Google Drive or Dropbox. WP Media Manager aims to fix that. Not only does it look great but it stores all of your assets in Amazon S3 or Microsoft Azure with all of the benefits that this brings... highly scalable, secure, permissions based. I think that this plugin is certainly worth a look... PS... Sorry about the poor audio this week!
Jul 29, 2019 • 31min
WP Builds Newsletter #73 – Gutenberg test, WordCamps and Google Cloud
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 22nd July 2019
Jul 25, 2019 • 53min
138 – Are we happy with how we manage tasks?
Today, the podcast talks about tasks. Not so much the tasks themselves, but more the way that we approach them. We discuss the way that different people have the ability to move happily from task to task, whilst other people need to complete one task before they can move onto another one. I guess that there's no 'right' way to accomplish tasks, but it's interesting to see whether or not we think that other people's approaches are batter than our own. It's a fun episode for sure!
Jul 22, 2019 • 22min
WP Builds Newsletter #72 – PHP coding standards, kids in WordPress and Javascript SEO
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 15th July 2019
Jul 18, 2019 • 56min
137 – Make your WordPress website load faster with Jan Koch
Today we learn about how how to make your WordPress website load as fast as possible. On the face of it, this is easy to do, but there's quite a lot going on when a website loads, and so there are many steps that you need to take a look at if you want to squeeze every ounce of speed out of it. Jan Koch talks us through the work that he's done trying to do all of that. There's likely some new content in here even if you're a seasoned optimiser, so stay tuned and I hope that you enjoy this episode.
Jul 15, 2019 • 22min
WP Builds Newsletter #71 – Gutenberg animations, Elementor icons and Google playing games
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 8th July 2019
Jul 11, 2019 • 44min
136 – Standing up to clients
In this episode David and I talk about the interactions which we have with clients. Most of the time (I hope) we have good relations with our clients. They want to work with you and you want to work with them... but this does not mean that you're always going to see eye to eye with them. From time to time you're going to have to face up to a client who is not wanting to work with your processes and it not willing to be flexible. What do we do...?
