Press This WordPress Community Podcast

WordPress now represents more than 35% of all global websites and is growing more every day. A huge chunk of that growth is being generated in Australia and the greater APAC region, but you might be wondering how is that happening and who are the people behind supporting the community and driving that growth?In this episode of PressThis we interview Ricky Blacker of WP Engine about his volunteering and leadership work within the Australian and APAC WordPress communities. Ricky explains how organizing WordPress meetups and WordCamps in Australia works in a unique way to support organizer's Australia-wide and surprising observations on what's driving the growth of WordPress in APAC.If you're an Australian / APAC native and want to learn more, or if you've always wondered what the WordPress community is like in Australia or APAC, 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

One of the main reasons sites become slower over time is that digital teams don't do the work that’s necessary to keep their websites performant, particularly as they add new experiences over time. It’s not that these teams are lazy or that they love slow websites. Site performance often slips because the ongoing optimization it requires can be a lot of work, especially as you make changes to your site, but it doesn't have to be this way!In this episode of PressThis, we interview Shane Bishop of Ewww Image Optimizer and hear his thoughts on why teams have a hard time making their performance workflows faster and what they can do to improve the efficiency of performance optimization over time.Shane discusses how obsessing over every metric of a performance report can be infinitely distracting and might even be focusing your team’s attention on the wrong areas altogether. Shane also shares his favorite techniques for speeding up your workflow as you optimize performance over time.If you're looking to gain some momentum when it comes to making your website faster, 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 our monthly WATCF episode, we cover news from around the WordPress community in June 2020. Listen now to learn about important security updates in WordPress 5.4.2, acquisitions in the WordPress ecosystem, and tons of other happenings around WordPress.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

At the end of 2020 WordPress will receive a major update around “Full Site Editing” that will bring the block editor (Gutenberg) to all parts of a WordPress site. This change will also come with BIG changes in how themes are built.In this episode of PressThis, we discuss WP Engine’s strategy with Genesis since the acquisition and how Genesis is preparing for Full Site Editing within the suite of products in the Genesis universe.If you’re unaware of what full site editing is or how you’ll use it to build sites in the future, 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

Many freelancers and agencies focus their clients to work around digital marketing & sales experiences for all the obvious reasons. Everyone wants to grow! While growth is super important to every kind of business, so is optimizing the operational engine that powers that business. If you're not helping your clients optimize their operations engine, you could be leaving money on the table!In this episode of PressThis, we interview Ben Ramsden of GFChart as he shares his thoughts on how agencies can grow by building business operations systems for your clients. Ben shares his ideas around why agencies tend to focus on sales & marketing, examples of business systems you could be building for your clients, and ideas on how to add this valuable line of business to your offerings.If you're looking for new ways to get revenue from existing clients or new ways to attract new clients, 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

Many freelancers and agencies share the same dream of leveraging technology they've created for servicing agency clients as a springboard to launch their own products in WordPress or beyond.There are so many wonderful examples of products coming from within agency teams, but how do agencies go about this? What does success look like? And how the heck do you keep running your agency business while you make the transition?!?!In this episode of PressThis, we interview David Schmeltzle of Mai Themes about his journey building a product business from and around the technology his team built for their agency clients. David shares how he discovered his product sweet spot, what he did to realize his dream, and what challenges he faced along the way.If you've been wondering about how to add product revenue to the bottom-line of your agency business, 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 cover news from around the WordPress community as part of our Word Around the Campfire series.This month we'll be covering WordPress 5.5, WordCamp Asia, and exciting new updates in the world of Gutenberg.If you don't have a tie to keep up with the WordPress community listen to the TLDR on 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

If you're a WordPress developer and have wondered, "What does affiliate marketing have to do with me?", the answer might surprise you. Affiliate marketing entails a wide variety of technology strategies to help make sure your partners get credit for the customers they refer to and to help make sure the businesses you serve get the most value out of their program by avoiding fraud.In this episode of PressThis, we interview the infamous Adam Riemer of Adam Riemer Marketing about the technical strategies necessary to run a successful affiliate program. Adam shares his views on how to deal with 3rd party cookie restrictions in modern browsers, helping to sniff out fraud in your program, approaches you can take with your checkout pages to make sure you're properly attributing sales to the right affiliates, and often overlooked optimizations you can make to help your affiliate team generate the most revenue.Adam is one of the world's leading experts at affiliate fraud and technical affiliate marketing, and we're really excited to have him on the show.If you've been wondering "What does affiliate marketing have to do with me?", listen to this episode of PressThis now to learn more!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

"Offering a lot of services in your WordPress agency is a great way to attract lots of clients, but trying to be a Jack/Jill of all trades is super tough and could actually be LIMITING your success.In this episode of PressThis, we interview Rana Shahbaz about how focus helped his business find their sweet spot, deliver more value to those they serve, and provide success in their business in a way that doesn't drive them crazy.If you're spending endless hours trying to figure out how to be an expert at development, design, social media, SEO and every other manner of building and managing websites, 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

When it comes to accessibility, most people anchor on fear. The rationale to include accessibility in the sites we build often follows logic along the lines of "If we're not accessible, we might get sued!". Of course, building accessible websites has much more value than simple risk avoidance. Building accessible websites has a mountain of benefits including SEO, code cleanliness, and most of all helping to build your brand by being inclusive.In this episode of PressThis, we interview Refael Glantz of AccessiBe about his views on why building for accessibility is so much more than a compliance strategy.Refael gives his thoughts on why accessibility is important, where most development teams have problems adopting accessibility practices, and what you can do to make building accessible websites easier.If you're looking to supercharge your accessibility practice within your company or agency, 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