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We going to have a guest “Patrick Rauland” it’s also my Birthday. I'm dedicate this show to the memory of my father “Captain Douglas Denwood,” My father “Captain Douglas Denwood” of the Grenadier Guards who fought at Dunkirk, The Battle of Britain (defending Hornchurch Aerodrome) he also fought at the British people’s glories victory at ‘El Alamein’ and at D-Day. holder of the French medal “Croix de Guerre” he gave his first spot back home at Dunkirk to a serious wounded French solider without the knowledge that he would be offered a second opportunity to get back to England. Also the holder of the (MC) Military Cross he was awarded this honor because when his tank was semi destroyed and on fire hit from a shell from a German/Nazi Tiger tank and suffering from a serous injured leg he decided to go back into the burning tank to recuse his driver. This Weeks Stories 1 - From Humble Beginnings to Internet Dominance: The Rise of WordPress https://pagely.com/blog/wordpress-internet-dominance/ 2 - Facebook says it will not extend GDPR privacy protections beyond EU https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/3/17194504/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-gdpr-privacy-protections-europe 3 - The Truth About GoDaddy WordPress Hosting: It's Not What You Think https://wpsmackdown.com/godaddy-wordpress-hosting-review 4 - 14 Common Technical SEO Mistakes and How to Fix Them https://imfromthefuture.com/technical-seo-issues/ 5 - Do podcasters really need to beg for ratings and review https://blog.pacific-content.com/do-podcasts-really-need-to-beg-for-ratings-and-reviews-d162564007dd 6 - The Impact Of The AI On The Education In The Future https://torquemag.io/2018/03/impact-ai-education-future/ 7 - Lead Generation Leaders: Rand Fishkin on User Acquisition  

Nate Wright crafts unapologetically human emails for a living. Since bootstrapping Small Biz Triage 9-years ago, he and his small team have delivered thousands of successful campaigns across nearly every industry vertical, generating tens of millions in sales for their clients. In 2018, Nate created Inbox Attack, a business writing ‘gym’ and series of bootcamps to apply concepts of mental fitness to the art and craft of sales & marketing. His training & work has been featured by Pitch Anything, The Arts Alliance and MailChimp. In our Interivew we going to discuss these main subjects * Email marketing * Unapologetically human business * Passive vs. active training in digital media * Building LMS (Learning Management Systems) * WordPress form plugins https://inboxattack.com/bootcamp/ Get any Inbox Attack live training products for 25% Off using coupon code: WPTONIC20 https://www.smallbiztriage.com/  

Listen to this week's hard-hitting WP-Tonic Round-table show we discuss the most interesting WordPress and web stories of the week. This Weeks Stories 1 - Using Ethics In Web Design https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/03/using-ethics-in-web-design/ 2 -WordPress Design and Development Pricing, Structure, and Services Survey Results https://serverpilot.io/blog/2018/02/26/wordpress-design-and-development-pricing-survey-results.html 3 - European MPs are pushing for an even more extreme ‘link tax’ https://thenextweb.com/contributors/2018/03/28/european-mps-pushing-even-extreme-link-tax/ 4 - Call for Speakers ( WPCampus) https://2018.wpcampus.org/call-for-speakers/ 5- WPForms Turns 2 Years Old – What’s New & What’s Coming Next https://wpforms.com/wpforms-turns-2-years-old-whats-new-whats-coming-next/ 6 - What I Learned Interviewing 10 WordPress Security Experts https://wpshout.com/wordpress-security-experts/

Carrie Dils joined Jonathan Denwood and Kim Shivler for Episode 279 of the WP-Tonic Podcast. A long-time, successful WordPress freelancer, Carrie has launched a platform to help other freelancers find success in business. In this episode, Carrie shares her top tips for creating a successful freelancing business including Small Business Administration Resources and using clarity.fm to charge for consulting phone calls. Carrie Dils began working at Starbucks. She had a vision open her own coffee shop, and thought why not learn the ins and outs of how to make coffee and get paid to do it. But soon, she realized she didn’t want to depend on others for success. Not that her team wasn’t great, but she was done trading hours for dollars. For her birthday, Carrie’s dad signed her up for an annual subscription to Lynda. She started taking classes taught by Morten Rand-Hendriksen which is where her career started rolling as a freelance web developer. Now, she’s been consulting and educating for 3-4 years. Working for Lynda, she travels to California to record lessons around 3 times a year. She began blogging tutorials on her website as a way to give back to the community. The WordPress community is very generous with learning, and the positive affirmations and people she is able to help through teaching are strong motivators for her. https://carriedils.com/ https://twitter.com/cdils https://www.lynda.com/Carrie-Dils/965233-1.html

Sallie Goetsch, John Locke, Morten Rand-Hendriksen, Chris Badgett, Mendel Kurland, John Locke, Adam Preiser and Tom McKraken joined host Jonathan Denwood for episode 278 of the WP-Tonic roundtable March 23, 2018 This show is brought to you by our sponsor IntelligenceWP. IntelligenceWP is a plugin that helps you make actionable sense from the information Google analytics provides. 1st: Story Is “If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product” (John Locke) a fair statement? Should your data be collected and used without your knowledge or approval? Should privacy be a given or should the user expect their data to be used elsewhere? Listen in to the discussion for pointed discussion on both sides of the argument. 2nd: Story Google analytics getting data to help your business – conversion tracking Ninja forms. Is this necessary? Is this useful? Does A.I. really know what you need/want before you do? 3rd: Story Does your site look good on all devices? According to Adam Preiser your site should be updated every 2 years. Listen in for the latest on mobile responsive websites and discussion regarding algorithms. This Weeks Discussion Stories 1 - A Plea For Plugin Developers to Stop Supporting Legacy PHP Versions https://wptavern.com/a-plea-for-plugin-developers-to-stop-supporting-legacy-php-versions 2- Facebook Fallout Scott Galloway, NYU Stern School of Business, discusses what Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg should be doing as a leader in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. Mark Zuckerberg Sheryl Sandberg Cambridge Analytica https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/03/20/nyu-professor-facebook-scandal-is-a-textbook-case-study-of-how-not-to-handle-a-crisis.html 3 - Preparing Your WordPress Site for the Upcoming Google Mobile-First Index https://kinsta.com/blog/google-mobile-first-index/ 4 - Let’s Encrypt Wildcard Certificates Are Now Available https://wptavern.com/lets-encrypt-wildcard-certificates-are-now-available 5 - How BBC Interactive Content Works Across AMP, Apps, And The Web https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/03/bbc-interactive-content-amp-apps-web/

This week on the WP-Tonic podcast, our guest had to reschedule because she was sick, so Jonathan Denwood and Kim Shivler spoke about Membership Websites. In the past, the two broke down requirements for planning and implementing a WordPress Learning Management System. In this episode, they applies the same format to discuss requirements for planning and implementing a WordPress Membership Website. The discussion covered several popular WordPress membership plugins including MemberPress and Paid Memberships Pro pointing out the features of the different plugins and focused on the importance of proper planning to make sure you select the right plugin for your requirements. Would you also please add the following before the transcript portion of the blog post: Clarification During the show, Kim warned about issues with moving from one membership plugin to another, and said you can’t migrate subscriptions. To clarify, there are times when migration is possible for users and subscriptions between plugins depending on the plugins and the specific subscription configurations. In the cases she sited, this was not possible.

Every Friday at 8:30am PST we have a live round-table show where we discuss some of the most interesting articles and posts that deal with WordPress and the internet in general which, we have found during the week. The show is normally around hour in length plus we have a regular panel “see the list of our regular panel below, of great WordPress experts that try and join us every week. You can watch the show live every week on our Facebook Page WP-Tonic Show https://www.facebook.com/wptonic   This Weeks Main Discussion Stories 1 - Stack Overflow Survey Respondents Still Rank WordPress Among the Most Dreadful Platforms https://wptavern.com/stack-overflow-survey-respondents-still-rank-wordpress-among-the-most-dreadful-platforms 2 - It’s time to address the elephant in the room: Influencers don’t really influence anything or anyone! https://medium.com/21st-century-marketing/its-time-to-address-the-elephant-in-the-room-influencers-don-t-really-influence-anything-or-ee036b4abbb 3 - How To Prevent Common WordPress Theme Mistakes https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/03/prevent-common-wordpress-theme-mistakes/ 4 - How to Diagnose Decline in Rankings (Craziest SEO Issue We’ve Seen) https://kinsta.com/blog/decline-seo-rankings/ 5 - Thrive Ultimatum Review: Scarcity Marketing At It’s Best, Or Is It? https://www.wpsuperstars.net/thrive-ultimatum-review/

Patrick Rauland is obsessed with eCommerce. He's built sites for clients, he was on the WooThemes support team, he was on the WooCommerce development team, and then he was Product Manager for WooCommerce and lead three releases. Now he creates online courses for LinkedIn Learning & writes books telling people how they can rock the world with eCommerce & WooCommerce

This week, co-host Kim Shivler filled in for Jonathan Denwood to lead the discussion with the round table. She was joined by Sallie Goestch, John Locke, Chris Badgett, and Mendel Kurland.    The group discussed some recent WordPress news much of it concerning Gutenberg.   Story 1 - How Will Gutenberg Affect the Enterprise https://crowdfavorite.com/wordpress-gutenberg-enterprise/   Story 2 - Getting Ready for Gutenberg - from the WordPress Theme Review Team https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2018/03/07/getting-ready-for-gutenberg/   Story 3 - 4500 Plugins Need Your Help in Testing for Gutenberg https://wptavern.com/4500-plugins-need-your-help-in-determining-gutenberg-compatibility   Top Takeaways this Week:   Mendel wants us to position Gutenberg as a positive advancement with our customers. Many of this team agree that a large reason for the pushback and negativity about Gutenberg has been caused by a lack of communication about the project. One key to working with Enterprise Customers is that they are risk averse. They aren’t necessarily wrapped up in the technology. They just want to make sure it works.  One thing noted about Enterprise Customers is that they tend to have in-house teams or budgets to manage implementations and testing of software updates. There are 4500 top plugins that need help with testing. Though this is a small fraction of what’s in the repository, these are the most popular. The team agreed that those who contribute are normally not the same as those complaining. While it’s a great idea to crowdsource this type of testing, they did point out that there is a significant barrier of entry to those who are not technical.

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