Press This WordPress Community Podcast

"It's been about a year since WordPress 5.0 was launched which introduced the new block editor (Gutenberg) to the world. Despite much anxiety about the change, the release was successful and the Internet didn't blow up. Yay!With that being said, have you ACTUALLY been using the block editor to build more valuable sites for clients?In this episode of PressThis, we interview Travis McAshan of Glide Design as he discusses his experiences using the new block editor to empower client content strategies. Travis shares how he and his team drives value for clients by providing them a powerful WordPress digital experience that allows for agile content strategies.At the end of the day, brands hire agencies to grow. Supporting agile digital content strategies for your clients allows those brands to iterate on their message and drive growth faster, thus making your work more valuable.If you're looking for more ways to deliver joy and growth to your hard-earned freelance or agency 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

"Listen now to our monthly series ""Word Around the Campfire"" where we discuss the latest updates to WordPress itself as well as news from around the community.In this episode, we discuss a wide range of improvements in WordPress 5.3 as well as huge updates in the Gutenberg plugin which is a precursur to big changes yet to come in WordPress #core especially around how your themes might work.If you haven't had time to keep up on everything happening in the world of 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

"As many of us in the WordPress ecosystem know, finding the right talent located in your home town is often very difficult. In order to get around this, agencies and brands build remote teams filled with people from all around the world. While this gives us an advantage by allowing us to attract great talent, building a powerful culture with far flung team members is a huge challenge!In this episode of PressThis, we interview Joe Howard of WP Buffs around building a powerful remote workforce culture. Joe shares his thoughts on the strengths & weaknesses of remote teams, how to ensure you build a powerful culture, and what you can do as an individual if you find yourself on a remote team.Joe runs WPBuffs which is a WordPress services based business that helps business maintain and optimize their WordPress sites. The WPBuff's partially remote-workforce must run at maximum efficiency and collaboration in order to keep customers happy.Listen now to hear Joe's working-remote war stories and learn advice on building a powerful remote workforce culture!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/press-this-wordpress-community-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

"For those of us building and optimizing websites, we often fret over how we're going to convince visitors to take an action that drives value. We tweak designs and messages to get visitors to complete an ecommerce checkout, fill out a lead form, or view more pages to drive more ad revenue. Did you know that you can also drive substantial value by convincing vistors to do nothing at all?In this episode of PressThis we explore how you can embrace the concept of un-conversion rate optimization to reduce cancels, alieviate refund requests, reduce your support costs, and any number of other ways to encourage valuable inaction.If you're focusing all your time on the normal aspects of CRO, you're missing out on huge ways to grow. Quit leaving money on the table, and listen to this epiosode 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 of us who build WordPress sites often tout that we deliver amazing user experiences, but we often might not even know what that means. We'll use instinct or ""best practices"" to create what we believe to be a good user experience; however, those promises are often not based on a method and are thin in terms of delivery.In this episode of PressThis, we interview Jackie of UX All The Things about 10 usability heuristics you can use to build sites that are not only beautiful but a joy to use!Jackie shares her thoughts on the UX considerations you should take into account when building sites, and how you can incorporate those considerations into your process.If you're worried your UX promises are a bit empty, listen to this episode of PressThis and up your UX game 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 all the amazing happenings from WordCamp US 2019 including interesting updates from Matt's State of the Word talk, insights from the community, and other fun happenings in St. Louis.If you're still suffering from WordCamp FOMO, join us for this episode of PressThis for a recap of WordCamp US!"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 have a team of WordPress developers or if you're thinking about growing your team, creating a unified approach to your workflows can save time, increase stability, and help avoid profit and deadline zapping mistakes. In this episode of PressThis we interview Geoff Thibeau of Deep Fried about his thoughts on setting up an optimized workflow for teams.Geoff discusses considerations for the technology in your workflow stack, how to keep code/deploys organized across groups and people, and what you can do to make sure you not only have a solid foundation across your workflow, but one that helps you move FASTER!If you're lost in the world of cowboy coding and snowflaked (different) workflows across your team, learn how to give yourself peace of mind and listen to this episode of PressThis now!Also, check out this handy GitHub repo that Geoff uses to keep his non-org plugins automatically updated https://github.com/YahnisElsts/plugin-update-checker"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 or optimizing sites internally or for clients, chances are you need to have a good understanding of how those sites will drive and monetize traffic. In this episode, we interview the uber-smart Jason Barnard, 'The Brand SERP Guy' from Kalicube.pro, on his thoughts on how you can use the results that appear in Google when people search for the Brand name to help you optimize your strategy to drive growth.Jason shares his thoughts on how you should be analysing, measuring and tracking your Brand SERPS... and how doing so can help you improve your digital strategy, increase traffic and boost conversions.Whether you already analyse, measure and track your Brand SERPs or not, this episode of PressThis is a must-listen for anyone doing digital marketing for a brand!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 continue our discussion around using the new WordPress block editor (code named ""Gutenberg"") with an interview with Rob Stinson about the Block Lab solution for building custom Gutenberg blocks.Rob shares his thoughts over the potential of the block editor in general, the power of building custom blocks, challenges teams face learning to build blocks, and how he and the rest of the Block Lab team are addressing these challenges.If you're finding it hard to find the time to learn how to build your own custom blocks, 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 recent episodes of PressThis, we've been exploring strategies around using the new block-based editor in WordPress (Gutenberg). In this episode of PressThis, we interview the legendary Mike McAlister of Atomic Blocks about how he's using the new block-editor in WordPress to create groundbreaking experiences in his recently released Atomic Blocks 2.0.Atomic Blocks 2.0 introduces the notion of layouts and sections which provide powerful starting points for content creators, developers, and agencies.We discuss Mike's approach for Atomic Blocks 2.0 and how you can adopt similar approaches to speed up your workflow and delight your content creators.If you'd like to listen to a first hand view of how you can use the block editor in powerful ways in the sites you build, 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