Press This WordPress Community Podcast

If you're building WooCommerce stores for agency clients or just for yourself, you may be wondering about the best strategies for building dropshipping-based WooCommerce stores.In this episode of PressThis, we interview Jared Goetz of Zendrop about his thoughts on the strategies when building a successful dropshipping-based Woo store. Jared discusses key considerations when building your store, choosing your dropshipping vendors, and when and where dropshipping makes the most sense.Don't miss this chance to learn about the best strategies for building powerful dropshipping-based WooCommerce sites. 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

WordPress is a great framework for marrying the ease of content creation with the flexibility of custom-designed and engineered experiences for creating and displaying content, but how should development teams think about investing in the usability and scalability of the experiences they create?In this episode of PressThis, we interview Nuna Freitas and Elad Hefetz of Airfleet about their thoughts on what creating systems with scaleable & bullet-proof design means and how they use Gutenberg blocks / ACF / PHP templates to create scaleable and profitable design and content systems for the brands they serve.If you're interested in expanding the value of the sites you build by creating more usable and scaleable systems that drive growth, 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

If you've built websites for any length of time, you likely know that strategies and technical debt build-up within a website over time can make your job as a builder harder, your sites slower, and vastly slow down your ability to drive digital growth. Thinking outside the box and questioning past strategies is critical to keeping your WordPress sites performing over time, but how do you jettison the weight of the past as you forge ahead into the future?The answer is simple. You BREAK the heck out of your website!In this episode of PressThis, we interview Jacob Warren of Warren Research about his thoughts on how you can safely deconstruct the sites you manage and re-form them into a stronger and better engine for driving digital growth. If years of tech debt and legacy strategies are weighing you down, don't miss this chance to get inspired on how to break the heck out of your website and build something even better. 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

Does your site or do your clients' sites have way too many plugins that are slowing your site down? What if we told you, you could have your cake and eat it too when it comes to using the plugins you love AND keeping your site FAST?In this episode of PressThis, we interview Craig Allen of Plugin Optimizer about his thoughts on the role of plugins in making WordPress sites successful, how plugins contribute to poor performance and the approach you can use to keep the plugins you love while delivering a delightfully fast experience for your visitors.If you're tired of the age-old advice of "just use fewer plugins" and are ready for more progressive ways of looking at the tools you use to deliver value on your sites, 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 special Thanksgiving episode of PressThis, show host David Vogelpohl interviews himself about all the things, people, and experiences he's thankful for in the WordPress ecosystem.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 dominates the eCommerce landscape with more stores than any other platform or framework, but what does the future of eCommerce hold for WordPress and Woo?In this episode of PressThis, we interview Gyles Seward of Elementary Digital about his thoughts on where WooCommerce wins over closed source platforms like Shopify, the cost of ownership of open vs. closed platforms, and why WooCommerce is unintuitively becoming the enterprise eCommerce platform of choice.If you're wondering about the road ahead for WooCommerce and WordPress eCommerce in general, don't miss the chance to hear Gyles' thoughts and insights. 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

Listen to this episode of PressThis to hear news from around the WordPress community including updates on WordPress 5.9, exciting news about in-person WordCamps, a live conversation with a WordPress AI content bot, and much more. Don't miss out on what's happening in WordPress. 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

In this episode of PressThis, we’re thrilled to interview Brian Gardner of Genesis fame and now leading WordPress developer relations at WP Engine to talk about his journey following the StudioPress acquisition in 2018 through today, what he has planned for the future, and his thoughts on the future of WordPress in general. Brian has always been a huge influencer over how WordPress has evolved so we unpack what Brian has been up to and his thoughts on the future.Don’t miss this incredibly interesting and insightful 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

"Are you thinking of starting a premium plugin & theme business, but don't know where to start for billing, licensing & digital rights management (DRM), analytics, and marketing tools?In this episode of PressThis, we interview Vova Feldman of the popular Plugin and Theme business platform Freemius. Vova shares his thoughts on the common business models plugin & theme businesses use, licensing strategies, options for billing & DRM, and how you can go about tracking & marketing plugin & theme sales.If you're thinking about starting a plugin or theme business or you already have and need some advice, 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

If you’re building and managing WordPress sites the thought of managing over a million of them might sound a bit daunting, but imagine what you could learn from folks who do!In this episode of PressThis, we interview Liz Ketcham and Cliff Aultman of WP Engine about how they and their teams help keep over 1 million WordPress sites happy and healthy. Liz and Cliff share their experiences managing millions of WordPress upgrades, hitting elite service level objectives, deploying freeze strategies, and much much more.If you’re wondering what lessons you can learn from folks helping WordPress site owners at scale, 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