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LevelTen is a Dallas based digital agency that specializes in large Drupal web projects that is now trying to developing relationships in the WordPress community. Ron Huber & Tom McCracken, the creators & founders of the IntelligenceWP Plugin are our special guests for the WP-Tonic Podcast. As Google Analytics experts, Ron Huber & Tom McCracken provided insight into how frequently people make basic mistakes when endeavoring in implementing Google Analytics. Ron & Tom shared examples on how marketers can go a lot farther with Google Analytics besides using the default settings. By configuring how content is scoring on a website and how well it is doing based on a variety of factors can give marketers better insights on what will generate value for them. https://getlevelten.com/ https://intelligencewp.com

Our Panel Sallie Goetsch: from WP Fangirl Jackie D’Elia: from Jackie D’Elia Design Jonathan Denwood: from WP-Tonic.com Morten Rand-Hendriksen: from LinedIn.com   Main Topic ” How To Managed Difficult WordPress Projects.” News Stories For This Week 1 - WordPress Abandons React due to Patents Clause, Gutenberg to be Rewritten with a Different Library https://wptavern.com/wordpress-abandons-react-due-to-patents-clause-gutenberg-to-be-rewritten-with-a-different-library 2 - Perspective on WordPress By Scott Bolinger http://scottbolinger.com/perspective-on-wordpress/

Justin has made a career as an e-learning consultant where he has implemented global training programs for Fortune 500 companies. Passionate about e-learning and WordPress, both Justin and LearnDash have been featured in multiple industry publications, including Forbes.com, ELearning! Magazine, Training Magazine, INTERCOM Magazine, EdTech Magazine, Chief Learning Officer, and Learning Technologies by the Association for Talent Development. Justin’s experience-based vision has helped make LearnDash the most trusted WordPress LMS plugin for major universities, continuing education providers, and entrepreneurs world-wide. Justin Ferriman https://www.learndash.com/about/ Kimberly Shivler Kim Shivler helps business owners master communications and technology in order to increase sales and improve customer service. Kim has worked as a writer, instructor, developer and serial entrepreneur for over 20 years. Her business experience includes computer network and database administration, technical training and writing, project management, web development, and work as an aesthetician and spa owner. She also worked for large corporations including Tivoli, an IBM company, where she was part of the worldwide technical sales and marketing team. Combining her experiences in business and technology with her Bachelor of Arts in English and Masters of Education, Kim provides workshops, strategies, and consulting services designed to help businesses succeed. https://twitter.com/KimShivler https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberlyshivler/ https://whiteglovewebtraining.com https://howtobuildanonlinecourse.com https://kimshivler.com Jonathan Denwood https://www.wp-tonic.com

We have a really special WP-Tonic round table show here which was recorded live at Sacramento WordCamp 2017 with have special panel of WordPress experts plus we did a joint podcast with Chris Badget the host of LMScast podcast. It was a really fun show and I got to say that the team that organized this years Sacramento WordCamp have done an amazing job.

We Interview Jake Goldman President & Founder of 10up and one of the main local supporters of the Sacramento WordCamp September 16-17th 2017.   10up is a full service digital agency focused on content management with a passionate team of 120+ full-time strategists, designers and engineers working around the globe. 10up makes content management simple with its premiere web design & development consulting services, by contributing thousands of hours and dollars every year to open platforms like WordPress, and by providing tools and products that make web publishing a cinch. 10up works with diverse clients, including household brands like ESPN, Microsoft, TechCrunch, Time Inc, and AARP. From beautiful pixels to beautiful code, the team constantly improves things around them, applying their passions to clients’ projects and goals. Whether you’re looking to hire a first class team of web experts, or want to become a part of that team, get in touch. To learn more visit: 10up.com.

227 WP-Tonic Round Table Show: Tips & Tricks On Setting Up Nameservers and DNS Record Type Main Topic Tips & Tricks On Setting Up Nameservers and DNS Record Types This Weeks News Stories 1 - Stop the Presses: Gutenberg is What WordPress Needs, but It Doesn’t Go Nearly Far Enough By Fred Meyer –Matt Mullenweg, “We Called it Gutenberg for a Reason” https://wpshout.com/stop-presses-gutenberg-wordpress-needs-doesnt-go-nearly-far-enough/   2 - For the love of God, please tell me what your company does By Kasper Kubica https://hackernoon.com/for-the-love-of-god-please-tell-me-what-your-company-does-c2

We talk about WordCamp Orlando 2017 November 11-12 A Hurricane Free Zone, plus what’s the local WordPress community like in Orlando. https://2017.orlando.wordcamp.org/

This week, Jonathan Denwood and his co-host Kim Shivler kicked off the show with coverage of the week’s news stories. Lee Jackson jumped in to round out our news story discussion and give great insight into our main topic, “How to Select a Theme for Your Project.” For our news stories, we covered the latest on Gutenberg including a post by Matt Mullenweg (https://ma.tt/2017/08/we-called-it-gutenberg-for-a-reason/) covered in WPTavern (https://wptavern.com/matt-mullenweg-addresses-concerns-about-gutenberg-confirms-new-editor-to-ship-with-wordpress-5-0). This topic continues to be a hot one in the WordPress community and promises to do so through its official release in WordPress 5.0

Mendel Kurland joined us to talk about being an evangelist and building community for GoDaddy. Mendel defines an evangelist as someone who not only promotes the platform or company he represents but befriends and truly understands the community he supports. His work includes supporting the WordPress community and other open source communities, like Drupal. As a supporter of WordPress both as a business providing upgraded WordPress managed hosting, and as a sponsor of WordPress events, GoDaddy is working to develop products that the WordPress community is delighted with. According to Mendel, one of the highlights of participating in WordCamps is that he sees an overall cooperative community. Since people are making money on WordPress, you might expect that there would be aggressive posturing and competition. He mainly experienced more cooperation than he has seen in other communities.

This week, the WP-Tonic Roundtable featured an almost full house. Morten Rand-Hendriksen, Sallie Goestch, Lee Jackson, Mendel Kurland, John Locke, Kim Shivler, and special guest Tom McCraken joined host Jonathan Denwood to discuss Morten’s article on the upcoming WordPress Gutenberg editor and learn more about what Google Analytics can tell us about our WordPress websites. The panel has discussed the upcoming Gutenberg editor several times. This week’s discussion was brought about based on an article written by Morten (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/gutenberg-morten-rand-hendriksen) that was then picked up by WPTavern (https://wptavern.com/morten-rand-hendriksen-on-what-gutenberg-means-for-the-future-of-wordpress), triggering a series of comments. Matt Mullenweg joined in on the WPTavern comments giving some good insight into his thoughts behind the new editor. Special Guest Tom McCracken was here to provide insight into our main topic, Understanding Behavior Flow in Google Analytics. Tom’s company has created the IntelligenceWP plugin designed to help http://www.intelligencewp.com/ companies make sense of their analytics. Tom shared some of the basic mistakes people make when configuring Google Analytics for their WordPress website along with how to go beyond the basic configuration to measure what people are actually doing on your site. Are they watching your videos, and if so how deep are they going in the video? Where are they spending time on the site and how are they interacting. When configured properly, you can set goals and measure these more meaningful interactions than just counting page views.