Press This WordPress Community Podcast

If you're spending all your time building highly-functional WordPress sites for agency clients or stakeholders within your company, you might be thinking "Wait. What if I built a SaaS product business just for me?!".In this episode of PressThis, we interview Corey Maass of Gel form about his thoughts on why WordPress developers have skills they can use today to build their own SaaS business, the role of WordPress in SaaS-like builds, the types of SaaS builds you can consider, and powerful lessons he learned along the way doing the same.If you're wondering how you're going to drive recurring revenue in your agency business or are thinking of just starting a business from scratch, don't miss this episode of PressThis. Listen now!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In the fast-paced world of WordPress, many of us often wonder if we've done all we can to lockdown our WordPress builds to help keep them safe and secure. There's nothing worse than getting "that call", but what can you do to help make sure you've crossed your T's and dotted your I's?In this episode we interview Rob Cairns of Stunning Digital Marketing about his views on the best approaches for locking down the WordPress sites you build. Robert shares his thoughts on security through obscurity, considerations for passwords, timing your updates to WordPress & PHP, hosting considerations, and much more!If you're looking to sleep better at night by hardening your WordPress lockdown checklist, don't miss this episode of PressThis. Listen now!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

WooCommerce has long been an enabler for store owners and freelancers & agencies who help them build and optimize their eCommerce experiences. With Full Site Editing and the block editor in full swing in WordPress core, you might be wondering how you will leverage Gutenberg in the WooCommerce experiences you're building.In this episode, we interview Jamie Marsland of Pootlepress about his thoughts on when to create custom vs. core blocks, embracing customized & personalized blocks into your Woo builds, considerations for your eCommerce FSE themes, and more!If you've been wondering how your block strategy and your Woo strategy will combine to help you build even more functional sites for yourself or your clients, don't miss this episode of PressThis. Listen now!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We've all been there. We launched a beautiful, intricately functional, and elegant WordPress site only to have the burden of the technical debt we created in the build dragging down our team in the future, killing our time, and disrupting our future roadmaps.In this episode of PressThis we interview Jon Martin of Hallam about his thoughts on the impact of tech debt to WordPress development teams, how you can think about reducing tech debt on EVERY project, and why you have a responsibility to share tech debt considerations with your clients.If you're a bit tired of your old innovations hindering your future innovations, don't miss this episode of PressThis. Listen now!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

WooCommerce is a powerful open-source platform enabling both DIY site builders and advanced developers to create unique and custom eCommerce experiences quickly; however, people building WooCommerce stores often ask what parts of Woo should they keep or replace with something else in order to improve functionality, speed, and security.In this episode of PressThis, we interview James Rowland of Perfect Checkout about his thoughts on the value of offloading the WooCommerce checkout in terms of speed, security, and flexibility. If you've been wondering about offloading WooCommerce checkout or just want ideas for your next eCommerce build, don't miss this episode of PressThis. Listen now!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode of PressThis, we interview Atul Jinall of LoudGrowth.com about his journey optimizing an enterprise WordPress site for blazing fast speed, delightful search, and an optimized approach with Varnish. If you're looking for ideas for your next enterprise project or just want to learn some new approaches for WordPress optimization, don't miss this episode of PressThis. Listen now!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Many of us in the WordPress world will often throw caution to the wind and indulge a little wild west coding as we push changes to production without automated tests to make sure our changes don't introduce errors. We do this because it's faster and easier, but when things go wrong all those time savings can be evaporated instantly when the wrong breaking change ruins your day, week, or month. Of course, pushing changes that break things isn't good for your career or agency ambitions either!In this episode of PressThis, we interview Maciek Palmowski of Buddy. who works about the importance of CI/CD, his thoughts on why CI/CD is often overlooked in the WordPress world, and approachable options for adopting CI/CD.If you're worried you or your team's wild west coding will catch up with you or if you just want to have a rock-solid deploy process, don't miss this episode of PressThis. List now!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Lorem Ipsum is the rallying cry of WordPress builders all around the world when quickly filling out content areas of a new website, but content generation for mockups doesn't have to be random Latin gibberish, and content generation, in general, could be a whole lot faster.In this episode of PressThis, we interview Vito Peleg of Bertha.ai about a new WordPress-centric solution he's built that allows you to harness the power of people + robots to effortlessly create awesome content for your WordPress site in seconds!Vito shares his thoughts on the traditional flows for creating content for a new site vs. the use of AI assistive technologies that blend the automation of AI and the crafted eye of human authors.If you're staring off into space wondering how you'll come up with content for a site build or are just curious how advances in technology are transforming site content creation, don't miss this episode of PressThis. Listen now!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The WordPress community is a global force creating and maintaining more WordPress sites on the web than ANY other kind of site. But who exactly is the WordPress community, what's important to them, and what is the story they want to tell?In this episode of PressThis, we explore these topics by interviewing Topher DeRosia of HeroPress about his experience running HeroPress and the things he's learned about the common themes of backstories of people's journey learning WordPress, and how HeroPress' vast army of community contributors create amazing content to help the community grow and thrive.Don't miss this chance to learn more about the community you are a part of. Listen to this episode of PressThis now!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Headless WordPress has been growing quickly in popularity thanks to the tremendous speed and security benefits, but barriers to entry remain high even for advanced developers used to working quickly within the traditional WordPress development stack. Many of those barriers to entry are quickly eroding though thanks to improvements in supporting tools like themes, plugins, and frameworks specifically designed around headless WordPress.In this episode of PressThis, we interview Alexandra Spalato of Gatsby WP Themes about her thoughts on the value of headless WordPress, how WP developers are overcoming barriers to entry, and how her Gatsby WP Themes are playing a role.If you've been eyeing headless WordPress or are looking for new ideas for speeding up your current headless WordPress builds don't miss this episode of PressThis. Listen now!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy