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252 – Let someone else take care of your website policies

28 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

So... you build WordPress websites and you love it. You know what you don't love? Policies. Admit it, you don't do you? The last thing that you want t...

251 – ‘V’ is for Vulnerabilities

14 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It was going to be V for Virus, but we have probably had enough of the word right now, and vulnerabilities perhaps better describes what we are really...

This Week in WordPress #182

12 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 4th October 2021

250 – Automated website testing with Ghost Inspector

07 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

So you have a WordPress website and it's all built and handed over to the client. You're done! Hurrah! Wait a minute, you're not done are you? Chances...

This Week in WordPress #181

05 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news for the week commencing 27th September 2021

249 – ‘U’ is for Undo

30 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is about common WordPress mistakes and how to get out of a pickle if things go wrong. With all the plugins, themes and community work in WordPres...

This Week in WordPress #180

28 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 20th September 2021

248 – How Gravity Hopper will take care of all your Gravity Forms

23 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

So on the podcast today we have Joshua Vandercar from Gravity Hopper which is a plug that allows you to have a central dashboard for all your Gravity ...

247 – ‘T’ is for Themes

16 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

WordPress themes are crucial, you have to have one, but will they continue to be so in an era of Full Site Editing? We talk on the podcast today about...

This Week in WordPress #178

14 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news for the week commencing 6th September 2021

246 – Building your own social network with the Friends plugin

09 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

So you love Facebook and you hate Facebook, you love Twitter and you hate Twitter. You love... You get the idea! If you're anything like me you have a...

This Week in WordPress #177

07 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news for the week commencing 30th August 2021

245 – ‘S’ is for SEO

02 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

So today on the podcast David and Nathan talk about SEO. David certainly knows more about this than Nathan does, but neither of us claim to be experts...

This Week in WordPress #176

31 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 23rd August 2021

244 – ‘R’ is for Resources

26 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

There are so many tools that you open up each day to do your job as a WordPress website builder or developer. In fact, I'd go as far as say that if yo...

This Week in WordPress #175

24 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news for the week commencing 16th August 2021

243 – A different way of doing hosting: Servebolt with Remkus de Vries

19 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If I got you to list out all of the things that you'd like your WordPress websites to be, I'm pretty sure that the word "fast" would be pretty close t...

This Week in WordPress #174

17 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news for the week commencing 9th August 2021

242 – ‘Q’ is for Quibbles

12 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s another A-Z of WordPress. The series where we attempt to cover all the major aspects of building and maintaining sites with WordPress. Today i...

241 – How FixRunner can take on the maintenance of your WordPress websites

05 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

WordPress website maintenance and care plans might be something that you like to do, but they also might get in the way of the actual building of your...

240 – ‘P’ is for Plugins

29 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

WordPress plugins... there are so many to choose from, but it's perhaps the fact that they exist that makes WordPress the huge success that it is. So ...

This Week in WordPress #173

27 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 19th July 2021

239 – Use Patchstack to keep your WordPress website safe

22 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

So you might not have heard about the WordPress security company Patchstack before, but you will likely know about them! You see, until recently, they...

This Week in WordPress #172

20 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news for the week commencing 12th July 2021

238 – ‘0’ is for Open Source

15 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If something is free then it's likely not very good. That's the generally accepted wisdom is most aspects of life, but not with WordPress! WordPress l...

This Week in WordPress #171

13 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 5th July 2021

237 – Why WS Form might be the form plugin you’ll try next

08 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

So your first thought might well be this "Why do I need to look at yet another form plugin? What I've already got works fine." Well... just put that s...

This Week in WordPress #170

06 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news for the week commencing 28th June 2021

236 – ‘N’ is for Numbers

01 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

WordPress is a huge and growing platform. But, just how huge is it? Well, today we answer this and many other utterly unrelated questions as we lift t...

This Week in WordPress #169

29 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing 21st June 2021 Another week, and we’re bringing you the latest WordPress news from the ...

235 – Use Newsletter Glue to create great emails… with Blocks!

24 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If you're creating newsletters for your content and you use WordPress, put that quill down and check out the podcast today. Newsletter Glue is a reall...

This Week in WordPress #168

22 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news for the week commencing 14th June 2021

234 – ‘M’ is for Menus

17 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Menus are really rather important, although really underrated. They are, after all, the way that we make our way around the websites that we visit. So...

This Week in WordPress #167

15 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news for the week commencing 7th June 2021

233 – Store your Media Library in the cloud with the Infinite Uploads plugin

10 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the new Infinite Uploads plugin on the WP Builds podcast today. I'm joined by co-founder, Josh Dailey, who explains what it's all about, whi...

This Week in WordPress #166

08 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news for the week commencing 31st May 2021

232 – ‘L’ is for Loading

03 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today we talk about WordPress website page speed and why this is important, how you can measure it and some ideas about what you can do to improve it....

This Week in WordPress #165

01 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 24th May 2021

231 – One-click checkout in WooCommerce with PeachPay

27 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

PeachPay is a new 1-click-checkout option for your WooCommerce store. It aims to remove some of the friction of getting people to click the 'buy now' ...

This Week in WordPress #164

25 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 17th May 2021

230 – ‘K’ is for Killer Tips

20 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the podcast we asked you submit what you thought were some Killer Tips for creating your WordPress websites, and you did not disapp...

This Week in WordPress #163

18 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 10th May 2021

229 – Creating Custom Sales Funnels For WooCommerce with LaunchFlows

13 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In today’s world there is no difference between “digital” and “physical” products insofar as the transactional engine of your website is con...

This Week in WordPress #162

11 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 3rd May 2021

228 – ‘J’ is for Jobs

06 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is about all the many, many, many jobs that you do each and every time you build a WordPress website for yourself or for a client. There ...

227 – Building websites in a day with your team

29 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I've often thought about building my WordPress websites on the one day model, it's got so much going for it. I've heard stories of quite a few people ...

This Week in WordPress #160

27 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 19th April 2021

226 – ‘I’ is for Images

22 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The web is made up of Pictures and Words. Some of those pictures are moving (video), but it's basically just those two things. We have easy ways to de...

This Week in WordPress #159

20 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 12th April 2021

225 – Send amazing curated newsletters with Curated

15 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Having a newsletter is one of the best ways that you can communicate with an audience. In fact, I'd go as far as to say, that it's the best. There's n...

This Week in WordPress #158

13 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 5th April 2021

224 – ‘H’ is for Health

08 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today on the WP Builds podcast we're talking about health. Not your health, but the health of the WordPress sites you build or manage. Turns out that ...

223 – How we built the WP Buffs business

01 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

WP Buffs has been a company on the rise for several years now. I'm sure that you've seen some of their content and perhaps listened to their podcast o...

This Week in WordPress #156

30 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 22nd March 2021

222 – ‘G’ is for Gutenberg

25 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Gutenberg is here to stay, and love it or hate it, it's going to be a feature of WordPress for years to come. On the podcast today David and Nathan di...

This Week in WordPress #155

23 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 15th March 2021

221 – Stream Live with WordPress and WP Livestream

18 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

So it might have passed you by, but now we can (and apparently do) all create our own T.V. channels! Services like YouTube, Facebook, Twitch and Vimeo...

This Week in WordPress #154

16 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing Monday 8th March 2021

220 – ‘F’ is for forms

11 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s another of chats in the series called the A-Z of WordPress where we attempt to cover all the major aspects to building and maintaining sites wi...

This Week in WordPress #153

09 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing Monday 1st March 2021

219 – Create Alexa Skills right inside of WordPress with Shoutworks

04 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

So the podcast today might catch you a little off guard! It's not something that I've ever played with before. Today we're talking about Shoutworks, w...

This Week in WordPress #152

02 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 22nd February 2020

218 – ‘E’ is for eCommerce

25 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s another of our chats in the series called the 'A-Z of WordPress', where we attempt to cover all the major aspects to building and maintaining s...

This Week in WordPress #151

23 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 15th February 2020

217 – Get your WordPress tasks in order with DocketWP

18 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're talking about the DocketWP WordPress plugin with Andre Gagnon and Kyle Van Deusen, the project founders. So, what does it do and why might...

This Week in WordPress #150

16 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 8th February 2021

216 – ‘D’ is for Database

11 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the 4th in our series of chats called 'the A-Z of WordPress' where we attempt to cover all the major aspects of building and maintaining sites ...

This Week in WordPress #149

09 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 1st February 2021

215 – Checkout CheckoutWC for a customised WooCommerce experience

04 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

So if you're a user of WooCommerce, then the podcast today will be of interest to you. It's all about creating the best checkout experience to increas...

This Week in WordPress #148

02 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 22nd February 2021

214 – ‘C’ is for Caching

28 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the third in our series of chats called the A-Z of WordPress, where we attempt to cover all the major aspects to building and maintaining sites...

This Week in WordPress #147

26 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 18th January 2020

213 – What goes into organising and cancelling a live WordCamp?

21 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We all know that the WordCamps in 2020 got cancelled. This was a good idea because saving lives comes before attending online events, but I thought th...

This Week in WordPress #146

19 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 11th January 2021

212 – ‘B’ is for Backups

14 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I'm sure that we've all had experiences with our WordPress websites where things went wrong; the site was hacked, something got deleted. In most cases...

This Week in WordPress #145

12 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing Monday 4th January 2021

211 – Its importent to get you’re grammer write; and ProWritingAid Will help with that,

07 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Writing is important. It's one of the greatest inventions in the history of humanity. In fact, it may very well be the most important. But we can all ...

210 – ‘A’ is for Appointments

17 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

So this is a new series called the 'A-Z of WordPress' in which David and Nathan discuss a topic starting with the next letter of the alphabet. To kick...

This Week in WordPress #142

15 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing Monday 7th December 2020

209 – Get meaningful feedback about your product or service

10 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

If you have a product or service, it's critical that you have a mechanism for users to be able to offer their feedback. That could be comments, but pe...

This Week in WordPress #141

08 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 30th November 2020

208 – ClassicPress V WordPress

03 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

So for those who don’t know what ClassicPress is we had better say... It's fork of WordPress 4.9 before the Gutenberg block editor was introduced an...

This Week in WordPress #140

01 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 23rd November 2020

207 – Running a growing WordPress plugin company

26 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

There are some companies in the WordPress space that are very much on the rise and today we're speaking to Shahjahan Jewel about his company WP Manage...

This Week in WordPress #139

24 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 16th November 2020

206 – FOMO V No FOMO

19 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

FOMO (fear of missing out) has become a really common tool in online sales and marketing of late. Wherever things are sold, this tool is used. Whether...

This Week in WordPress #138

18 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 9th November 2020

205 – Flipping websites with Blake Hutchison

12 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Flipping domains can be a profitable business and today on the WP Builds WordPress podcast we're going to be hearing about how and why you might want ...

This Week in WordPress #137

10 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This Week in WordPress #137 - Changes are coming and sucking in Black Friday - A WP Builds Podcast

204 – Author Support V Community Support

05 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Where should you go for support for WordPress plugins, themes and blocks? This debate was partly prompted by a WP Tavern article regarding what can be...

203 – The WordPress journey of Wendie Huis in t Veld

29 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This is one of those warm and fuzzy episodes! It's all about Wendie and her journey with WordPress. There's no product here, no tutorial, just a good,...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #135 – WordPress 5.6 beta 1, full site editing theme and moon telephones

26 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 19th October 2020:

202 – Matte v glossy screens

22 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Nathan says 'Matte and Glossy' sound like a Las Vegas cabaret act so David's down for a quick win on this one! This is a little bit of a sham debate a...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #134 – Full site editing closer, plugin news and Google going all-in on mobile search

19 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 12th October 2020.

201 – How to make your WordPress website run smoothly (even after a year) with Alexandru Covtun

15 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today we talk about how to keep your WordPress website running smoothly, whether that's one month or one year after you launched it. So we all know th...

200 – To niche or not to niche

08 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

So, you're a WordPress website creator. You sell your websites to clients far and wide, or at least that's the hope. We all know though that the reali...

199 – Benjamin Ritner speaks with Kadence

01 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today we hear all about Kadence Blocks, the Kadence Theme and Kadence Membership from the creator, Benjamin Ritner. This suite of WordPress tools has ...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #133 – New Twenty Twenty One Theme, WordPress dual license and Facebook quitting Europe

28 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 21st September 2020

198 – Value pricing v fixed rate

24 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This debate will never die, but we keep hearing more about it each year. The traditional model is to charge your client a fee that is made clear on yo...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #132 – Gutenberg 9.0, SkyVerge joins GoDaddy and The Ig-Nobel prize

21 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 14th September 2020