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197 – Multiple domains, one WordPress install, you need Landing Kit

17 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Marketers rejoice! WP Landing Kit is a plugin that you've wanted for ages and ages and now you have it! It allows you to point all of your domains at ...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #131 – Gutenberg 8.9 block-based widgets, plugin updates and fundo!

14 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 7th September 2020

196 – Coding v non-coding

10 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Should you code or just buy plugins, themes and blocks when building your WordPress website? Many people like to know all the code so that they can cr...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #130 – WordPress 5.5.1, The Page Builder Summit and Linux is 29

07 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 31st August 2020

195 – Translate your WordPress websites with Weglot

03 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

So this podcast episode is all about translations and how you can do that on your WordPress website. Perhaps you have a legal requirement to have mult...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #129 – PHP updates, plugin news and Apple want 30% of nothing

31 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 24th August 2020

194 – Static design v in-browser design

27 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week was debate whether it's better to design your WordPress websites with browser based tools like a Page Builder, or use dedicated apps like Fi...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #128 – WordPress 5.6 started, end of themes and something .new

24 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 17th August 2020

193 – Helping people to learn WordPress on YouTube

20 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever wanted to start a YouTube Channel related to WordPress content? You've seen other people out there making a great success of it and you ...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #127 – WordPress 5.5 released, Astra upset and Fortnite blocked

17 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 10th August 2020

192 – WordPress V other blogging platforms

13 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Is WordPress the best option for bloggers or do some of the rival services offer a better set of features and ease of use? This argument is not as sim...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #126 – WordPress 5.5 RC2, WordCamps cancelled and TikTok buyers wanted

10 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 3rd August 2020

191 – If you need maps on your WordPress website, MapsMarker has you covered

06 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

You need maps on a website like you need butter on toast. I really struggle to think of too many projects that I've built where the client did not wan...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #125 – WordPress 5.5 RC, WordCamp US cancelled and heaps of plugin news

03 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 27th July 2020

190 – Content first v content later

30 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

If you've been building WordPress websites for any length of time, then you know this debate inside out. Should you get all the content from the clien...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #124 – WordPress 5.5 news, JetPack CRM and machines learning faster

27 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 20th July 2020

189 – Let us take care of your WordPress websites so that you can keep building them

23 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I got into building WordPress websites because I like building websites. Now that is a breathtaking insight I know! But it's important to think about ...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #123 – WordPress 5.5 goodness, major security breach and redesigned Gmail

20 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 13th July 2020

188 – Headless v’s not headless

16 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the WP Builds Weekly WordPress Podcast we talk about the subject of static hosting. You've used hosting for years, you know how it works ...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #122 – Image manipulation, community news and hosting on a Raspberry Pi

13 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 6th July 2020

187 – Let’s Fix the Broken Web with WordPress, WordProof and Blockchain

09 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How can you prove that you own your website content. That you wrote it on this date? You can use the WordProof plugin which leverages blockchain techn...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #121 – jQuery updating, community news and nice Chrome CSS feature

06 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 29th June 2020

186 – Business liability insurance v’s none

02 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

If you run a WordPress website business then you'll likely have had a run in with a client. You need insurance to protect you... don't you? In this po...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #120 – Gutenberg 8.4, free WordPress training and YouTube takes on TikTok

29 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 22nd June 2020

185 – Why you should automate all-the-things with James Rose

25 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Do you want to remove boring tasks from your life? Those tasks that you know that you have to do, but just wish someone else would do. Well it's likel...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #119 – WordPress requiring PHP 7.2, Yoast acquires Duplicate Posts and Instagram is massive

22 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 15th June 2020

184 – Limited client access v’s full access

18 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Some WordPress freelancers and agencies give clients full admin access to WordPress. Some give another role, such as the Editor role. What works best ...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #118 – WordPress 5.4.2, PHP is 25 and so much spam

15 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 8th June 2020

183 – How I have evolved my Wallace Inline WordPress plugin

11 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

If you're the kind of person who likes to make sure that the website that you hand over to your clients is safe from their clumsy hands, then your mig...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #117 – All women release squad, Assistant plugin and lots of physics

08 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 1st June 2020

182 – Office v home working

04 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Are you a WordPress website builder or developer? If so you're likely working from one of two locations, home or an office. You might have tried out b...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #116 – WordPress is 17, Block Experiments and nearby Earth

01 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 25th May 2020:

181 – How to visually build your WordPress translations with TranslatePress

28 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Using WordPress and want to offer multiple languages? TranspatePress is a super simple, visual way to do that. Point, click, type, save, done! Easy as...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #115 – Gutenberg 8.1, plugin news and an old cave

25 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 18th May 2020

180 – WooCommerce v other options

21 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I don't do eCommerce! So when David suggested that we carry about a debate about WooCommerce v's other options, it was pretty clear which side of the ...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #114 – WordPress on the rise, accessibility event and a very large attack

18 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 11th May 2020

179 – A little look at 10Web hosting

14 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

So today on the podcast we've got a new hosting provider for you, and that provider is 10Web. They are a platform that is hoping to take care of all o...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #113 – Gutenberg here to stay, Genesis Pro and lots of security news

11 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 4th May 2020

178 – Hosting clients v’s not hosting clients

07 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We are talking about website hosting. Email hosting seems like a whole other debate, so we're going to avoid that altogther. This is just about hostin...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #112 – WordPress 5.4.1, WordCamp Europe online open and more deals

04 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 27th April 2020

177 – Pro WaaS a.k.a. websites as a service with Michael Short

30 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

So a couple of years ago the concept of WaaS (website as a service) started up, and we covered it quite a bit, we talked about WP Ultimo and did some ...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #111 – Dashicons going, Gutenberg block builder and so many deals

27 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 20th April 2020

176 – Lifetime Deals v Subscriptions

23 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today, the podcast about whether we should make use of lifetime deals or be happy to pay a recurring subscription for our WordPress plugins. We shall ...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #110 – Gutenberg 7.9, lockdown and some new deals

20 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 13th April 2020

175 – Having a system for ‘Word of Mouth’ marketing with Jason Resnick

16 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today we chat with Jason Resnick, a seasoned WordPress pro, who has been working with WordPress and eCommerce pretty much when it all started out! We'...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #109 – WordPress 5.5 tickets, deals and GoDaddy buys domain registries

13 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 6th April 2020

174 – WordPress Page Builders V SaaS Page Builders

09 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This is the WordPress.org page builders i.e. Beaver Builder, Elementor, Divi, Oxygen, Brizy etc, against Wix, Weebly, Squarespace etc. In this debate ...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #108 – WordPress 5.4 released, remote working and community news

06 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 30th March 2020

173 – My WordPress journey with David Decker

02 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today is a little different from the episodes that we've been putting out of late. It's a story of one man and his journey with using WordPress. We ta...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #107 – WordPress 5.4 RC5, remote working and a cool toy

30 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 23rd March 2020

172 – Growth v staying small

26 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

There’s many types of businesses providing websites and marketing to many different client types. We have self-employed freelancers seeing it more a...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #106 – WordPress 5.4. RC3, COVID-19 impact and infinite light

23 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 16th March 2020

171 – How EmergencyWP can protect your online legacy

19 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Trigger warning - this episode touches up on the subject of bereavement and so, you may want to bear that in mind before you listen. So today I'm talk...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #105 – WordPress events cancelled and massive security week

16 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 9th March 2020

170 – Page Builders v The Block Editor a.k.a. Gutenberg

12 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

To avoid things getting stale we decided to mix it up for a while and challenge ourselves by arbitrarily taking one side each in some of the great deb...

WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #104 – WordPress 5.4 RC, COVID-19 events and mobile SERPs

09 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 2nd March 2020

169 – Advanced Custom Fields, the past, present and future

05 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Want to learn about Advanced Custom Fields for WordPress? Join founder Elliot Condon as we talk about the plugin... past, present and future. We talk ...

WP Builds Newsletter #103 – Full site editing blocks, high funding rounds and a few deals

02 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 24th February 2020

168 – Making an impact

27 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is all about trying to make some kind of impact... how you can actually get people to notice what it is that you're doing and make them w...

WP Builds Newsletter #102 – WordPress 5.4 beta 2, multiple security threats and Mac less safe than Windows

24 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 17th February 2020

167 – How I use Agile and WordPress to launch a minimal viable product with Marius Vetrici

20 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today we stray into waters that we don't often swim in. We're talking about Agile development and launching a Minimal Viable Product, and the person I...

WP Builds Newsletter #101 – WordPress 5.4 beta 1, WordCamp Asia cancelled and many phones kills Google maps

17 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 10th February 2020

166 – The when and who of marketing

13 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is looking at who we think our idea WordPress clients might be and where we might find them. There's more to this subject than meets the ...

WP Builds Newsletter #100 – Yes 100! I know! Gutenberg 7.4, CSS standards and deals

10 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 3rd February 2020

165 – Creating your own managed WordPress service, and keeping all the margin with Patrick Gallagher

06 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

On the WP Builds WordPress Podcast today with have Patrick Gallagher from Gridpane. We talk about their mission to save you time and hassle when you b...

WP Builds Newsletter #99 – Lazy Load images in Core, plugin news and deals too

03 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 27th January 2020

164 – The how and where of marketing

30 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

So many places to post your marketing messages and so many forms that they can take. What options are there and are any more useful than the others? W...

WP Builds Newsletter #98 – Gutenberg updates / compatible themes and new page builder

27 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 20th January 2020

163 – How to create content with WordPress that people really want to engage with

23 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Creating content on your WordPress website that attracts people can be hard if you don't have a plan. Miles Beckler has a system to create content tha...

WP Builds Newsletter #97 – Hosting pricing changes, security updates and free Windows 10 upgrade

20 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 13th January 2020

162 – Information Overload

16 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

You know how this goes... You have an inbox and it's overflowing. You have almost no time in the day to deal with nonsense, but you do read your email...

WP Builds Newsletter #96 – Gutenberg multi buttons, WordPress community news and internet literacy initiative

13 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 6th January 2020

161 – Why don’t you believe in us?

09 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Why should your WordPress website clients have any confidence in your ability to actually build and deploy their website? After all there are so many ...

WP Builds Newsletter #95 – 2019 reviews, Pods funding in doubt and Google in 3rd place

06 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 30th December 2019

160 – Running contests in WordPress with RafflePress

02 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever wanted to increase your email list? My guess is that in most cases, the answer is yes! It can be a hard thing to do though right? One wa...

WP Builds Newsletter #94 – WordPress 5.3.2, 2019 reviews and NGINX raided

23 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 16th December 2019

159 – My nephew makes websites too

19 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What do you do when your WordPress website client says that they are talking to other people about the site that you're building... my girlfriend's ne...

WP Builds Newsletter #93 – WordPress 5.3.1, plugin vulnerability and Compress or Die

16 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 9th December 2019

158 – Keeping WordPress secure with Ryan Dewhurst from WPScan

12 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Who wants a hacked website. Anyone... anyone... Bueller! No? It's something that nobody wants, to wake up to discover that your WordPress website(s) h...

WP Builds Newsletter #92 – Gutenberg 7.0, Yoast ads and still the deals come!

09 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 2nd December 2019

157 – Honey traps for website clients

05 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How do your WordPress website clients 'try before they buy'? What can we do to trust our services and try them out before they part with their money. ...

WP Builds Newsletter #91 – WP Tavern makeover, Core releases and website carbon footprint

02 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 25th November 2019

156 – WordPress forms is a crowded space, so we launched WPForms

28 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Some things are universal. Something about death and taxes. Another universal is that you will put some kind of contact form on every site that you bu...

WP Builds Newsletter #90 – Gutenberg 6.9, are themes needed and who owns .org

25 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 18th November 2019

155 – Are we boring?

21 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This discussion is another based on the book Watertight Marketing by Bryony Thomas which gives us 13 areas where we (or our clients) could be leaking ...

WP Builds Newsletter #89 – WordPress 5.3 released, Black Friday coming and no rights to YouTube

18 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 11th November 2019

154 – Because online privacy matters, we need people like Heather Burns

14 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Once in a while you attend an event and the speaker is so eloquent, so immersed in their talk, that you listen with an intensity that it out of the or...

WP Builds Newsletter #88 – State of the Word, annual survey and a few deals

11 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 4th November 2019

153 – Losing clients before you even get them

07 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This is a little mini-series based upon the book 'Watertight Marketing' by Bryony Thomas. This is about that time in the client / project lifecycle wh...

WP Builds Newsletter #87 – WordPress 5.3 RC 3, plugin news and deals

04 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 28th October 2019

152 – Riding a jolly long way for the WordPress community with Dan Maby and Carole Olinger

31 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

WordPress is a huge community, and in that community there are people who need help and support. WP and UP is a charity that I'm involved with which o...

WP Builds Newsletter #86 – WordPress 5.3 RC2, AHrefs SEO and satellite WiFi coming soon

28 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 21st October 2019

151 – Are we leaking clients?

24 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is really about keeping the WordPress clients that you already have. What's the old phrase? Don't leave money on the table? Well, that's ...

WP Builds Newsletter #85 – WordPress 5.3 RC, Automattic wealth and new Google products

21 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 14th October 2019

150 – Kinsta hosting on Google’s Cloud with Brian Jackson

17 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Today we have a chat with Brian Jackson from Kinsta. Kinsta are a managed WordPress hosting company who have grow rapidly since their inception in 201...

WP Builds Newsletter #84 – WordPress 5.3 beta 3, accessibility and oasis on Mars

14 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 7th October 2019

149 – Marketing funnels don’t exist!

10 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This discussion is about marketing, and it has a very click-bait title! It’s probably safe to say that we are not experts in marketing and certainly...

WP Builds Newsletter #83 – WordPress 5.3 Beta 2, WordCamp U.S. tickets and Facebook decryption

07 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 30th September 2019

148 – Spinning up a WordPress optimised server in minutes with Spinup WP

03 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This is a little bit different. Today we talk to Brad Touesnard from Delicious Brains about Spinup WP their new service which aims to make it triviall...

WP Builds Newsletter #82 – WordPress 5.3, plugin news and a dancing robot

30 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 23rd September 2019