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Robert DeVore is the owner and founder of WP Dispensary, one of the leading plugin and theme shops aimed at the cannabis dispensary industry. We discuss Robert's WordPress journey and what lead him to develop WP Dispensary. What have been the challenges? And what are the key things he has learned from the process?

Tim Smith is a designer and front-end developer from Saint Paul, MN. He’s worked on the web for a decade, working with different companies and clients. Tim loves passing on knowledge by speaking and giving workshops. In 2013, he created The Bold Report, a blog about design, development, technology, and most importantly, Star Wars. When away from his desk, he’s with partner-in-crime Kelly, eating brunch, watching movies, walking the mall, and other sappy-sounding couple stuff. Summary of our Interview with Tim Smith Tim Smith started his design career at the age of fifteen, and is an accomplished UX designer, talented front end developer, and noted podcaster. Today we talk with Tim about being a digital creator, and what he’s focusing on now. We also look at the state of the web industry, both from an agency employee’s view, and from a freelancer’s view. Lastly, Tim shares his advice on working in the web design industry and what it means to be a great collaborator. Links mentioned on the show: Tim’s website https://ttimsmith.com/ Tim Smith on Twitter @smithtimmytim on Twitter The East Wing (podcast archive on Player.fm) https://player.fm/series/the-east-wing-19230 The Bold Report https://theboldreport.net/ Tim’s YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1IRnf7JYYUkWqPO8wx_QNQ Bloc: Online Coding Bootcamp https://www.bloc.io/ The Pipeline Classic (archives w/ Dan Benjamin) http://5by5.tv/pipelineclassic Happy Monday Podcast (Sarah Parmenter and Josh Long) http://www.happymondaypodcast.com/ Sparkbox https://seesparkbox.com/ Ira Glass on Good Taste and Pushing Through to Become a Great Creator http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/309485-nobody-tells-this-to-people-who-are-beginners-i-wish  

We have a great discussion here on how to choose the right plugin connected to a WordPress project. When you been working with WordPress for a period, it becomes a lot easier to judge what’s a good quality and what a bad one however when starting outing out its a lot harder. In this round-table episode, the panel tries and give their collective support.

In this episode we discuss all things Ecommerce connected to what a consultant or developer taking on their first Ecommerce project should know to an owner who is trying to develop online site by themselves or understand what are the key elements they really need to understand to have a successful online store in 2017. This episode is just fill with great advice from our panel of WordPress community experts. We also have a number of WordPress news stories which we discuss at in the first half of the shows This Weeks WordPress News Stories 1 - WangGuard Plugin Author Shuts Down Splog Hunting Service Due to Trauma and Death Threats https://wptavern.com/wangguard-plugin-author-shuts-down-splog-hunting-service-due-to-trauma-and-death-threats 2 - WordPress.org Needs to Make Uninstall Options Compulsory http://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wordpress-uninstall-options 3 - Jesse Petersen, Founder of Genesis The.me Passes Away https://wptavern.com/jesse-petersen-founder-of-genesis-the-me-passes-away

Gutenberg is going to directly change one of leading factors at the core of WordPress backward comparability connected to that all core upgrades shouldn’t break people’ themes or plugins as long as they have been coded to agreed standards.

People generally feel you got to be a great developer type to really contribute to the WordPress community. However, nothing could be more wrong there’s loads of things you can do even if you not a developer type from helping out on the support forums to transcribing videos for WordPress TV. Then you got all the things that you help with connected to local WordPress meet ups and regional WordCamps events In the news section of the show we had a lively discussion about Gutenberg!

Kernl is a services that provides private plugin and theme updates for WordPress. This is best illustrated with an example. Lets say that you have a brand new plugin that you are selling. Since you are selling this plugin, you can't host it via WordPress.org because otherwise people could download it for free. Like any good developer, you want your plugin to be integrated with the automatic update functionlity of WordPress. Thats where Kernl comes into play. By simply adding a file to your plugin and shortcode snippet you'll be able to host your updates through Kernl instead of WordPress, therefore giving your users the best possible experience and timely updates.

We really have a great show this week folks, our panel discusses some of the latest news including the Gutenberg project which will really change the public face WordPress in a dramatic way. We then go on and discuss our main topic the importance of having a real understanding of the template structure WordPress plus what you can do with this knowledge is impressive. I was really impressed with the level of this weeks discussion and it just showed me how lucky we are connected to having such a strong panel of WordPress experts.

Founder and CEO of illuminea, a full-service WordPress development and online marketing agency. Also Founder & CEO of Strattic, a serverless publishing solution for WordPress websites that makes them more secure, faster and scalable. WordPress expert, technologically savvy. Previous experience in intellectual property. Interested in connecting with businesses seeking to improve their Internet presence for English-speaking markets.

in this weeks round-table show we have a great discussion on what were the blogs, books, videos and communities that have influenced us the most on our own personal journey connected web-design and WordPress.   Links Mentioned During the Show Smashing Magazine: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/ A List Apart: https://alistapart.com/ Responsive Web Design podcast: https://responsivewebdesign.com/podcast/ Tragic Design: http://www.tragicdesign.com/ Resilient Web Design: https://resilientwebdesign.com/ Webdesigner Depot: https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/ Webdesigner News: http://www.webdesignernews.com/ Rafal Tomal: http://rafaltomal.com/ Design Shack: https://designshack.net/ The Layout by Flywheel: https://getflywheel.com/layout/ Creative Bloq: http://www.creativebloq.com/ Designmodo: https://designmodo.com/ UX Booth: http://www.uxbooth.com/ UX Matters: http://www.uxmatters.com/ UX Planet: https://uxplanet.org/ Accessibility according to real people with disabilitieshttps://axesslab.com/accessibility-according-to-pw Boagworld: https://boagworld.com/ The Web Ahead: http://thewebahead.net/ Unfinished Business: http://www.unfinished.bz/ The Big Web Show http://5by5.tv/bigwebshow CoDrops: https://tympanus.net/codrops/ Responsive Design Podcast: https://responsivewebdesign.com/podcast/ Shop Talk Show: http://shoptalkshow.com/ Codepen: https://codepen.io/ CSS TRICKS: https://css-tricks.com What Screens Want (Frank Chimero): https://www.frankchimero.com/writing/what-screens-want/ The Web's Grain (Frank Chimero): https://www.frankchimero.com/writing/the-webs-grain/ Designing in the Borderlands: https://www.frankchimero.com/writing/designing-in-the-borderlands/ Back to the Cave: https://frankchimero.com/writing/back-to-the-cave/UIE: User Interface Engineering: https://www.uie.com/